Daz central has been reported by several users to be having issues on the Mac. Fortunately most report that Install Manager is stable https://www.daz3d.com/get_install_manager/ Daz is aware of the issues people are having.

Hello all, new to Daz. Game dev of 25+ years, Max user since v1, but working on a project and need quick characters/anims so was about to repurchase Poser and saw Daz and thought I would give it a whirl. Features look great but having a heck of a time getting things to work. Seems very buggy. I can't even get Daz central to work as it crashes/hangs soon after launching it. Using a Macbook Pro 2019 Intel. Anyhoo, I want to test the pipeline and was trying to export an anim to my Unity project but ... I can't download the bridge since I can't get central to run. So my question is...
Is there a way to download the Unity Bridge installer directly, without having to use DAZcentral? (or is there a way to get DAZ central to run?)
Thx

I would like 2-factor authentication in the browser, DAZ Studio, DAZ Central, & DIM as a simple matter of standard modern customer account protection. I liked the cart changes I saw today but it's still very slow site.

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LOL, and as if on queue at the publishing of my request, because the criminals are on queue and at the command of their bosses, I get an email telling me that someone is trying to break into another account of mine (but can't because it's 2 factor authenticated and locked and the email was just dumb Port 25 Telnet spam style nonsense). 

I am asking this for other customers of DAZ 3D as they might be more upset or have much more damage done by such criminals than I am bothered by them.

margrave said:

jjoyner said:

Thanks for your clarification.  The last item in my PDF file was for Expressions for Little Ones which was installed via DIM.  The expressions are available for the Little Ones characters but the icon for Expressions for Little Ones ae grey in the Install tab and in Smart Content.  Trying to figure out Daz Studio’s file installation and organization schemes (Install tab; Smart Content; Content Library mapped folders, files and Products; Connect; DIM; Daz Central) can be frustrating.

It's only frustrating if you let it be frustrating.

By which I mean, use DIM and ignore everything else.  

And... DO NOT LOG IN TO DS. 

jjoyner said:

Thanks for your clarification.  The last item in my PDF file was for Expressions for Little Ones which was installed via DIM.  The expressions are available for the Little Ones characters but the icon for Expressions for Little Ones ae grey in the Install tab and in Smart Content.  Trying to figure out Daz Studio’s file installation and organization schemes (Install tab; Smart Content; Content Library mapped folders, files and Products; Connect; DIM; Daz Central) can be frustrating.

It's only frustrating if you let it be frustrating.

By which I mean, use DIM and ignore everything else.  

Richard Haseltine said:

Grey means not installed at all. Coloured but with the circled triangle means installed by a method other than using Daz Studio itself.

Thanks for your clarification.  The last item in my PDF file was for Expressions for Little Ones which was installed via DIM.  The expressions are available for the Little Ones characters but the icon for Expressions for Little Ones ae grey in the Install tab and in Smart Content.  Trying to figure out Daz Studio’s file installation and organization schemes (Install tab; Smart Content; Content Library mapped folders, files and Products; Connect; DIM; Daz Central) can be frustrating.

solarview said:

Richard Haseltine said:

There is also a link at the foot of every product Library page in your account that is for a DIM-installed item.

Thanks, Richard.

Any thoughts on what's up with DAZ Central?

It's Daz Central, no other thoughts required.

I am admittedly biased against it.

Central is the simplified (dumbed down) version of DIM, Connect is the installer integrated in to DAZ Studio through Smart(not!) Content.  Never use either Connect or Central.

Hi, IDK really if this is a bug or what, but has anyone have had problems with Daz Central? I mean on the DAZ website, the minimal system requirement is: OS 10.7 and above ( I'm talking about MAC ) 
I'm running 10.10 and still, it gives me the message that the minimum requirement is 10-12 :-( :-( fist of all it wouldn't be fair, secondly ... WHY the discrepancies? And I can't link to my account when I open the app :-( 
Does anyone have any hint? 

Thank you in advance for any help ^_^ 
Ren

It's also possible that you had, inadvertently, installed via Connect (through Daz Studio) and then removed the files, so the system was failing to find those (which it will always use, if declared to be present, rather than a manual or Install Manager/Central install).

You should not have switched.  Central is a dumbed down version of DIM so in this case newer is not better.

bigbottombass_ced49d1fa8 said:

Man, I have to finally admit, Daz Central is a complete waste of time. I have an M1 machine as well and it's crashing like crazy. Not only that but it actually makes you click on everything to install. There's no select all anywhere and I've looked. If anybody knows of one let me know. in the meantime I'm going back to using DIM

While I am sure that Daz is aware that some M1 users, at least, have had crashing issues it may be worth opening a ticket to add another bit of information.

However, you are right that for batch installing and other features Install Manager remains the better choice. Daz Central is designed to provide a simpler experience for new users, but that does come at the expense of fewer options for those who whish them - which is why both continue to be developed.

Man, I have to finally admit, Daz Central is a complete waste of time. I have an M1 machine as well and it's crashing like crazy. Not only that but it actually makes you click on everything to install. There's no select all anywhere and I've looked. If anybody knows of one let me know. in the meantime I'm going back to using DIM

Central Business District for Carrara

Which are the version of Carrara requirements for this ??
_ thanx

https://www.daz3d.com/central-business-district-for-carrara

PerttiA said:

Zed6 said:

Richard Haseltine said:

How did you install? If through Install Manager, Daz Central, or manually did you redownload the Genesis 8 Starter essentials zips to make sure you have the current version? If through Daz Studio itself it's possible the files did not install correctly (and if that is the case, manual or Install manager/Central installs will not help) - try right-clicking on the product and seelcting Browse to product Location, or right-click on a file and Browse to File Location, then check through to see if theer are any 0 byte .part files. You coudl also look at the end of Help>Troubleshooting>View Log File after getting that message to se if there are any helpful messages saying what files it thinks are missing.

Hey! I've tired all, through Daz Central, DIM and manually, yet still having the issue. Now when pressing install, it starts then disappears instantly as it obviously notices it has it installed already. I'm really not sure what to do, it's messing with my render queues.

I recently reinstalled Daz and have custom Daz folders, but all are added a directories and I even tried to clean install Daz earlier and reinstall it fresh. Any idea which folders I should check specifically?  

Since you get this inside DS and you allow the installation, it means that you have also installed the starter essentials inside DS which renders all the other installation methods non-relevant.

Whatever is installed within DS, is being installed to a completely different location and gets priority over all the other installation methods, even when the installation gets botched which it often does.

Inside DS, go to 'Smart' Content, locate the product and try to uninstall, close DS, wait a while and start again - Can you load G8/G8.1 characters without warnings?

In the future do not log in to DS, but use it in offline mode.

I uninstalled it and pressed work offline, restarted and and loaded up a scene file I've been getting the pop up in and still got it (but now it's greyed out rather than blue). Beyond frustrating - how do I log out permanently?  I've never really used install manager, I like to keep my directories tidy so install manually, I'm guessing the problem has been caused from here somewhere. It's just this one issue I'm having, but need to fix it so it doesn't stop my render queue from running over night.

I can load a Gen8 character fine, but not surprised as I've installed this into each five of my directories manually so I doubt they'd be an issue. It's frustrating as it's clearly installed. Any suggestions? Thanks for the input btw!

Zed6 said:

Richard Haseltine said:

How did you install? If through Install Manager, Daz Central, or manually did you redownload the Genesis 8 Starter essentials zips to make sure you have the current version? If through Daz Studio itself it's possible the files did not install correctly (and if that is the case, manual or Install manager/Central installs will not help) - try right-clicking on the product and seelcting Browse to product Location, or right-click on a file and Browse to File Location, then check through to see if theer are any 0 byte .part files. You coudl also look at the end of Help>Troubleshooting>View Log File after getting that message to se if there are any helpful messages saying what files it thinks are missing.

Hey! I've tired all, through Daz Central, DIM and manually, yet still having the issue. Now when pressing install, it starts then disappears instantly as it obviously notices it has it installed already. I'm really not sure what to do, it's messing with my render queues.

I recently reinstalled Daz and have custom Daz folders, but all are added a directories and I even tried to clean install Daz earlier and reinstall it fresh. Any idea which folders I should check specifically?  

Since you get this inside DS and you allow the installation, it means that you have also installed the starter essentials inside DS which renders all the other installation methods non-relevant.

Whatever is installed within DS, is being installed to a completely different location and gets priority over all the other installation methods, even when the installation gets botched which it often does.

Inside DS, go to 'Smart' Content, locate the product and try to uninstall, close DS, wait a while and start again - Can you load G8/G8.1 characters without warnings?

In the future do not log in to DS, but use it in offline mode.

Richard Haseltine said:

How did you install? If through Install Manager, Daz Central, or manually did you redownload the Genesis 8 Starter essentials zips to make sure you have the current version? If through Daz Studio itself it's possible the files did not install correctly (and if that is the case, manual or Install manager/Central installs will not help) - try right-clicking on the product and seelcting Browse to product Location, or right-click on a file and Browse to File Location, then check through to see if theer are any 0 byte .part files. You coudl also look at the end of Help>Troubleshooting>View Log File after getting that message to se if there are any helpful messages saying what files it thinks are missing.

Hey! I've tired all, through Daz Central, DIM and manually, yet still having the issue. Now when pressing install, it starts then disappears instantly as it obviously notices it has it installed already. I'm really not sure what to do, it's messing with my render queues.

I recently reinstalled Daz and have custom Daz folders, but all are added a directories and I even tried to clean install Daz earlier and reinstall it fresh. Any idea which folders I should check specifically?  

I install via Daz Central and I use Daz Studio 4.15 Pro