Habatchii said:

My problem is the renderr seems to contain bugs. When the renderer function is selected, the save file menu window pops up. If a location is selected, the renderer will run its complete cycle, but the rendered file is not written. It seems as if the DAZ Central source version is corrupt. I needed to know about memory and the Render Library; is there a tab for adjusting memory allocation?

What are your Render Settings, in the General section under the Editor tab? What are you selecting as the save location?

I find Daz Central subpar, which is why I use Daz Install Manager instead. So it's possible you have a corrupt install, in which case I'd recommend uninstalling and using DIM instead.

Before you do that, what does your log file say? It's under the Help menu, under Troubleshooting, IIRC.

My problem is the renderr seems to contain bugs. When the renderer function is selected, the save file menu window pops up. If a location is selected, the renderer will run its complete cycle, but the rendered file is not written. It seems as if the DAZ Central source version is corrupt. I needed to know about memory and the Render Library; is there a tab for adjusting memory allocation?

Content Wizard needs to be installed via DIM,  It fails to work when installed by Daz Central or Daz Connect.  RiversoftArt is aware of this but as of yet hasn't found a solution

Thank you for the tip with Daz Install Manager. I'll give it a try!

As for the screen, it launches on the secondary screen. I don't know why, because I start it from the primary screen and Central is running on the primary. Now it will start on the primary screen as expected but the pop ups are still on the secondary screen (like the rendering pop up).

edit: I tried to install it on a second system (also 2 monitors) but this time with install manager. This time, I didn't have any of the issues that I had the first time with central. Perhaps the issues came from central not from studio? This time, I could choose the install location before studio installed and it opened on the main screen. There also was no issue with the layout (blank screen). Looks like install manager is the way to go. Additionally, I could preselect assets that I then didn't need to download from within studio. Like the genesis assets.

Richard Haseltine said:

barbult said:

Richard Haseltine said:

Central should let you set the base path before installing.

Daz Studio and Central do not share settings, as far as I know DS uses the promat display on first launch.

That doesn't usually happen on first install, and the location of the configuration files is not in the Central install folder 9they go in AppData) so I'm not sure why you would have had this additional issue

Sadly Cloudflare time-outs like this are quite frequent, I agree that it is annoying.

promat?

Primary, would you believe?

Your typos are usually pretty easy to decipher, but this one stumped me. Thanks for the clarification. I'm sure it will help people understand your intent.

barbult said:

Richard Haseltine said:

Central should let you set the base path before installing.

Daz Studio and Central do not share settings, as far as I know DS uses the promat display on first launch.

That doesn't usually happen on first install, and the location of the configuration files is not in the Central install folder 9they go in AppData) so I'm not sure why you would have had this additional issue

Sadly Cloudflare time-outs like this are quite frequent, I agree that it is annoying.

promat?

Primary, would you believe?

Omniflux said:

It looks like you have mixed DAZ Connect content and standard install content. Many (all?) scripts have issues with Connect. Try uninstalling Contant Wizard (and other scripts with issues) through Connect, and reinstall them with DIM, Central, or manually.

There is no absolute problem between scripts adn Connect, I have for example used  http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/file_io/file_find/start to replace a defective read-me launcher in some Connect installs and it works fine. The script does have to be written in a way that allows for the content not being in the root content folder, however, and some scripts need to walk the content directory looking for other installed products which can be a bit trickier to implement if it needs to be open-ended.

can someone help me?

daz studio install gets stuck at 84%

i tried it 10 times.. same every time

i uninstalled daz central and installed it again 2 times,, nothing fixed

have anyone has found a solution?

Richard Haseltine said:

Central should let you set the base path before installing.

Daz Studio and Central do not share settings, as far as I know DS uses the promat display on first launch.

That doesn't usually happen on first install, and the location of the configuration files is not in the Central install folder 9they go in AppData) so I'm not sure why you would have had this additional issue

Sadly Cloudflare time-outs like this are quite frequent, I agree that it is annoying.

promat?

Central should let you set the base path before installing.

Daz Studio and Central do not share settings, as far as I know DS uses the primary display on first launch.

That doesn't usually happen on first install, and the location of the configuration files is not in the Central install folder 9they go in AppData) so I'm not sure why you would have had this additional issue

Sadly Cloudflare time-outs like this are quite frequent, I agree that it is annoying.

Edit fix indecipherable typo

It looks like you have mixed DAZ Connect content and standard install content. Many (all?) scripts have issues with Connect. Try uninstalling Contant Wizard (and other scripts with issues) through Connect, and reinstall them with DIM, Central, or manually.

thenoobducky said:

The quick and dirty way is just to copy over all files and set up the base directories correctly. Easiest if you put them back at the exact some location. If you use DIM/Central also copy over the install manifests or DIM will think those are not installed （You also need to fix the path in install manifest if you put the files at different location). 

If you are rebuilding your content folder from scratch and would like to know which items you need then something like 

https://www.daz3d.com/content-gatherer

or this script can do it one file at a time: http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/metadata/list_products_used/start

or my program might be able to help (not tested for win 7 and it says win10+ but it is for a different functionality than finding files).

 

As for how to physically copy files over, could you unplug the drives from old computer and plug into the new one either internally or externally?

Thank you. Your last option seems the best right now. Get the old HDD into the new machine. Just never done that! What an adventure! Ha. 

richardandtracy said:

Easiest Way?

Surely that's take the HDD out of the old PC, put it in the new & then copy the files internally within the new machine - if you even feel the need to do that at all. If you don't, just add the correct place on the old drive as a second content directory for DS. Does rely on NOT having ever used something like DAZ Central which puts stuff in odd places, though. It's the sort of thing I'm planning on doing when my machine eventually gives up the ghost.

Regards,

Richard

Thank you. Never installed an old HDD into a new PC. Does the new PC just concider it an external storage drive, regardless of operating system, etc.? 

thenoobducky said:

The quick and dirty way is just to copy over all files and set up the base directories correctly. Easiest if you put them back at the exact some location. If you use DIM/Central also copy over the install manifests or DIM will think those are not installed （You also need to fix the path in install manifest if you put the files at different location). 

If you are rebuilding your content folder from scratch and would like to know which items you need then something like 

https://www.daz3d.com/content-gatherer

or this script can do it one file at a time: http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/metadata/list_products_used/start

or my program might be able to help (not tested for win 7 and it says win10+ but it is for a different functionality than finding files).

 

As for how to physically copy files over, could you unplug the drives from old computer and plug into the new one either internally or externally?

Thank you 

Easiest Way?

Surely that's take the HDD out of the old PC, put it in the new & then copy the files internally within the new machine - if you even feel the need to do that at all. If you don't, just add the correct place on the old drive as a second content directory for DS. Does rely on NOT having ever used something like DAZ Central which puts stuff in odd places, though. It's the sort of thing I'm planning on doing when my machine eventually gives up the ghost.

Regards,

Richard

Noah LGP said:

Floppy disk, CD, DVD, USB key, USB drive... and now cloud drive.

Soon download files will be outdated, everything will be used from the servers.

 

Next level : Daz Studio Cloud service (best graphic cards and no DIM/Daz Connect/Daz Central)

...that's when I'm done here.

Already crossed Octane off my list because it went subscription.

Connect speed, and for some, download limits, will be the bottleneck, not the hardware.

I'll just plod along with my Daz 4.12.0.47. what I have in my library, along with whatever and Rendo and CGTrader still put out as wel las what I can model in Blender.

Torquinox said:

I suppose there is something to the notion of image size and disc space storage. Certainly, my RAW photos from pictures I've taken occupy an enormous amount of disc space. Music and video take up plenty, too. And let's not start about the size of our Daz content libraries. But there is also software bloat. It's routine for new versions of older software to have ever-higher hardware demands to keep the procurement treadmill spinning at maximum rpms. Supposedly, we're getting greater output from that increase, and maybe we are. But eventually we'll get kicked off the treadmill.

...+1. 

The one nice thing about painting was the only time you needed to purchase something was if you ran out of canvas, paints, watercolour paper, or a brush wore out.  There was no "tech curve" to force it.

The quick and dirty way is just to copy over all files and set up the base directories correctly. Easiest if you put them back at the exact some location. If you use DIM/Central also copy over the install manifests or DIM will think those are not installed （You also need to fix the path in install manifest if you put the files at different location). 

If you are rebuilding your content folder from scratch and would like to know which items you need then something like 

https://www.daz3d.com/content-gatherer

or this script can do it one file at a time: http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/metadata/list_products_used/start

or my program might be able to help (not tested for win 7 and it says win10+ but it is for a different functionality than finding files).

As for how to physically copy files over, could you unplug the drives from old computer and plug into the new one either internally or externally?

Floppy disk, CD, DVD, USB key, USB drive... and now cloud drive.

Soon download files will be outdated, everything will be used from the servers.

Next level : Daz Studio Cloud service (best graphic cards and no DIM/Daz Connect/Daz Central)

I am getting a glitch where some prop objects I purchased do not have any sufrace or UV information and just look like basic gray shapes.I have used Daz Central, DIM and manual installtion on the packages and the error still happens. It just seems to be happening with two purchases made in the last two days. Any suggestions are appreciated.