That isn't Daz Cionnect (which is aprt of daz Studio). It's the helper application that Install manager launches for anything that needs to be installed with elevated privileges (applications, plug-ins, and some others). You shouldn't be trying to run it directly. If you get that Daz Central (on the line below) then try its suggestion of uninstalling and reisntalling; if it still fails are you getting any errors while it is installing? What is your security software?

Yes, that is where I checked, I couldn't locate the dials. I currently have Genesis 8 Male loaded and there aren't any dials. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Ethnicity through Daz Central, but nothing has changed.

It's in order to avoid confusing new uers that Install Manager's Basic Settings and Daz Central takes only a single base location setting and palces everything relative to that.

Hey There! Looking to install Daz to Unreal but there are no bridges showing in Daz Central, anyone know why?

 

 

Hello DAZ - I have the same problem or a very similar one as the OP. I can log onto the website but cannot log onto DAZ Central (not sure yet about IM). The first strange thing is that DAZ Central was even logged out. In the past it has remained logged onto my account between sessions. I opened it earlier this morning and it requested that I logon. When I entered my email and password, DAZ Central indicated that the email / pw combo did not match DAZ's records. The credentials are correct and valid. I am logged in to the website right now using firefox to post. So, there is an issue here. It is with the DAZ Central / IM authentication process and not with any given user's account. If someone inside of DAZ is monitoring this thread, they should consider alerting support. It appears that there is some issue with the software authentication process which is affecting quite a few users at this point. -- cheers spiritofrabbit

Sorry you had to go through that! I am trying to set things up to avoid that, and it surprises me how little documented it is (much documentation refers to older versions with different options). Daz haven't got a web page guide anywhere talking a new user through how to set it up so that you can reinstall Windows, or move your D: data to a new PC, and have the fresh install of DS find and use the asset data exactly as before (to save you downloading and installing it again).

And for a new user it's quite bewildering: there are manifests, cms, downloaded zips, thumbnails, and the installed content; possibly settings; saved presets; and, if you want a kind of browsable guide that has preview images and text descriptions of bought products, that will be more folders (and you have to do that manually). Plus you can't just install and use Daz Studio, you have to also install Daz Central or DIM (even if you don't want to use those). And there are apparently four ways of installing things, all different, all leading to different procedures for saving, backing up and restoring everything (DC, manual, DIM, Daz Connect within DS).

I'm trying to make a list of foolproof instructions for making sure my assets can survive a Windows reinstall but it is tricky, involving pulling pieces of information from other places (and, unfortunately, using other support options, but sometimes that can take a month before a reply). Glad you got yours sorted!

...I'm fine with my custom set-up.,  I don't mind working with directory (folder) tree structures, have used them for years. I don't have to depend on an automated  database that can become corrupted (and it has).  I also don't care for files ending up in the C:/documents folder (which Connect and Central default to for storing certain data) because I use a small boot drive just for the "necessities".  I also have a fair amount of content from other stores as well as a large collection of  freebies, neither of which have metadata associated with them.  Easier to just put them where they need to go at install rather than try to create metadata for them. 

Barbult, I have only tried to buy the accelerator as my first plugin. There is simply no manual download button in the product download page. And surprise, surprise, the Dim download buttons do exactly nothing on Android. Two weeks after finding that out, I am awaiting an intelligent response to my refund request. On Tuesday I got the first response (day 11) which was a question from someone called Gunnar, asking if DAZ Central would download it. On Android. When I had already stated it wouldn't in my refund request. I was so pleased to see Gunnar had bothered to read my whole refund request. I am getting a bit narked about it, to be honest. If this drags on much more, I'm opening a PayPal dispute.

Mark_e593e0a5 said:

barbult said:

richardandtracy said:

That looks really magnificent. I do have a problem though - it involves the word 'Plug-in'. I have discovered that manual downloads are impossible on plug-ins, and with an Android tablet as my internet connection, that's all I can do. DAZ's policy of making DIM/DAZ Central the only download method puts plug-ins out of reach for me. It's a shame, as the backgrounds look as fantastic as every other US component.

It makes no sense to me that Daz will not let you download and install plugins manually. I have beta tested multiple plugins for multiple PAs. For testing, all were installed manually, simply by putting the dll file in the plugins folder in Windows. There doesn't seem to be any technical reason for disallowing manual installation.

I fully agree, but quite some things DAZ does does not really make sense, at least to me. A DLL or dylib (mac) sould be self-contained. so ther should be no need to run DIM on it.

I wonder where you would stand if you purchased the plugin, then got hold of someone else's package file from DIM and then did a manual install with that (if possible)?

barbult said:

richardandtracy said:

That looks really magnificent. I do have a problem though - it involves the word 'Plug-in'. I have discovered that manual downloads are impossible on plug-ins, and with an Android tablet as my internet connection, that's all I can do. DAZ's policy of making DIM/DAZ Central the only download method puts plug-ins out of reach for me. It's a shame, as the backgrounds look as fantastic as every other US component.

It makes no sense to me that Daz will not let you download and install plugins manually. I have beta tested multiple plugins for multiple PAs. For testing, all were installed manually, simply by putting the dll file in the plugins folder in Windows. There doesn't seem to be any technical reason for disallowing manual installation.

I fully agree, but quite some things DAZ does does not really make sense, at least to me. A DLL or dylib (mac) sould be self-contained. so ther should be no need to run DIM on it.

richardandtracy said:

That looks really magnificent. I do have a problem though - it involves the word 'Plug-in'. I have discovered that manual downloads are impossible on plug-ins, and with an Android tablet as my internet connection, that's all I can do. DAZ's policy of making DIM/DAZ Central the only download method puts plug-ins out of reach for me. It's a shame, as the backgrounds look as fantastic as every other US component.

It makes no sense to me that Daz will not let you download and install plugins manually. I have beta tested multiple plugins for multiple PAs. For testing, all were installed manually, simply by putting the dll file in the plugins folder in Windows. There doesn't seem to be any technical reason for disallowing manual installation.

Daz Central does allow you to set a base path, and it should have been enough to reisntall through DIM with the application path set as desired.

I have been playing around with Daz for about 3 days. I have already spent a decent amount of money at the store, got the PC + membership. So far, it all looks good. For the first time in my life, I can create actual art outside of taking screenshots from video game photo mods.
However, I am thinking, what is the story in general. I have been researching 3D art creation, and names like Blender, Cinema 4D and Maya keep popping up. Also, when I look at other stores (Daz store is great, and I find the convenience of Daz Studio and Daz Central extremely super cool) like Sketchfab, the formats are 'OBJ' and the available ready to use converters are for unity or Blender or Cinema 4D or Maya.

I have gone through a few forum discussions, external tutorials videos. The general impression I get is, the OBJ and FBX formats do work, but after a fashion. There are some quirks and things may not always as expected. Ultimately, nothing will be as smooth as getting stuff from the DAZ Store.

So far, the DAZ Store is so massive (and prices incredibly reasonabe for the kind of work I am planning to do), I might never exhaust myself out of the depth provided by DAZ.

Still, I am curious. Say, 2 years from now, if I am still in the 3D art hobby/business, should I migrate over to Blender or Cinema 3D or Maya? Is DAZ essentially a subset of what these full fledged 3D apps do?
If Blender was the Animal Kingdom with all its animals, is DAZ a focussed part of it, like a pride of lions. I start using DAZ to learn how to study lions, and then, if I am enjoying it, I upgrade myself to Blender or Cinema 4D and study the entire full set of animals?

HowieFarkes said:

richardandtracy said:

That looks really magnificent. I do have a problem though - it involves the word 'Plug-in'. I have discovered that manual downloads are impossible on plug-ins, and with an Android tablet as my internet connection, that's all I can do. DAZ's policy of making DIM/DAZ Central the only download method puts plug-ins out of reach for me. It's a shame, as the backgrounds look as fantastic as every other US component.

Due to performance reasons this pretty much has to be a plugin. I tried doing this a couple years ago in the script API and it was taking 20 minutes do the erosion calculations on a 256x256 terrain. With the plugin it does this in under a second. The terrain in the picture is 1024x1024 and takes about 5 seconds to generate (depends on settings though)

That's a shame, but understandable. I do wish DAZ would change its policy & make zip file installation possible for plug-ins. Then it'd mean offline machines could also take advantage of such things.

Ah well. In the mean time, I'll think of their policy as an armour belt around my wallet protecting from certain depradations.

Regards,

Richard

richardandtracy said:

That looks really magnificent. I do have a problem though - it involves the word 'Plug-in'. I have discovered that manual downloads are impossible on plug-ins, and with an Android tablet as my internet connection, that's all I can do. DAZ's policy of making DIM/DAZ Central the only download method puts plug-ins out of reach for me. It's a shame, as the backgrounds look as fantastic as every other US component.

Due to performance reasons this pretty much has to be a plugin. I tried doing this a couple years ago in the script API and it was taking 20 minutes do the erosion calculations on a 256x256 terrain. With the plugin it does this in under a second. The terrain in the picture is 1024x1024 and takes about 5 seconds to generate (depends on settings though)

That looks really magnificent. I do have a problem though - it involves the word 'Plug-in'. I have discovered that manual downloads are impossible on plug-ins, and with an Android tablet as my internet connection, that's all I can do. DAZ's policy of making DIM/DAZ Central the only download method puts plug-ins out of reach for me. It's a shame, as the backgrounds look as fantastic as every other US component.

Does install manager or Daz Central seem able to communicate, if you use either of those?

I wiped my computer to re-install Windows; my content is on a secondary drive (Drive E).

After installing DC and DS, I set in DC my E:/DAZ folder for the content, and in DS I set all the libraries links from C location to my E:/DAZ location.

Although when I run DS and DC, no content is found. I installed as test something from DC, and it was downlioaded and installed, but if I click on open, even with DS open, I get an error (resource error: could not find the "81506" product).

Why is happening? Do I need to download about 80-100 GB of assets every time I re-install the app? That would be quite inconvenient.

MickF said:

Serene Night said:

I have discovered a fix for the 11th generation processor incompatibility  issue here:

11th Gen Intel CPU users - Launching/Crashing Issue – Survios (zendesk.com)

So far, I have not experienced a crash while implementing this solution and I am now able to use the default installation of studio and dim without it quitting, I am not sure it will work for others, but it seems to work for me, to do this, then reboot. 

Thank you you so much for this link. I have been pulling my hair out, installing/uninstalling, reaching out to Dell and Daz support (still haven’t heard back from them). The link you posted has the fix I needed to get DIM and Daz Central working as well as Studio. Currently downloading remainder of my library/store purchases. RTX 3060 rendered a scene in 2 min 7 seconds that took 27 minutes on old machine. Thank you again for the link to the solution.

You are welcome!  I have the same card, and the same manufacturer, so it makes sense. It also had the happy result of fixing problems I was having with crashing in other apps dude to the same issue. Glad it worked.

Serene Night said:

I have discovered a fix for the 11th generation processor incompatibility  issue here:

11th Gen Intel CPU users - Launching/Crashing Issue – Survios (zendesk.com)

So far, I have not experienced a crash while implementing this solution and I am now able to use the default installation of studio and dim without it quitting, I am not sure it will work for others, but it seems to work for me, to do this, then reboot. 

Thank you you so much for this link. I have been pulling my hair out, installing/uninstalling, reaching out to Dell and Daz support (still haven’t heard back from them). The link you posted has the fix I needed to get DIM and Daz Central working as well as Studio. Currently downloading remainder of my library/store purchases. RTX 3060 rendered a scene in 2 min 7 seconds that took 27 minutes on old machine. Thank you again for the link to the solution.