Richard Haseltine said:

MKDAWUSS said:

For some weird reason it (DC) doesn't recognize a number of installed assets as installed.

Assets it had installed? Single assets or parts of a product bundle - some things, such as Daz Studiio itself, get bundled into a single group in Daz Central and it will show that bundled group as needing updating fior any one item that isn't installed/requires an update.

They were installed by the DIM. I had to move (and backup) hard drives, leading me to utilize DC.
It's there in DS ready to use, though!

MKDAWUSS said:

For some weird reason it (DC) doesn't recognize a number of installed assets as installed.

Assets it had installed? Single assets or parts of a product bundle - some things, such as Daz Studiio itself, get bundled into a single group in Daz Central and it will show that bundled group as needing updating fior any one item that isn't installed/requires an update.

Hello Richard, all well I trust. Thank you for your response.

I only use DIM. Central became one of my casualties in my quest to find space. I am aware of the changes that can be made via the gear icon but thought that the process would be overwhelming given my personal level of computer savvy. What I mean by 'choice of drive' is as with many software applications, when a person chooses to download software  there is the facility to direct that software to a drive of one's choice. 

I will certainly revisit the choices presented via the gear icon and have a go. If I screw up I always have the choice of a re-install.

Best wishes.

That is already possible. Which install method are you using? Daz Central has only a single, base path option but Daz Install manager allows separate configuration of all paths, including that of the Download Archive, via the gear icon at top-right.

I've just had to reimstall all my content (on a new PC), using DAZ Central; the only sorting option that works is alpabetical!

Actually looking closely at the models and especially the front bar, it looks like there should be one central pole that would go between a pair of horses and other straps from the harness would be attached to the vertical knobs on on the fron bars.

Please try the Public Build and see if that will start https://www.daz3d.com/daz-studio-beta - it has to be installed through Install Manager, Daz Central doesn't handle betas.

IceCrMn said:

bhfineartist_2d42f5137d said:

GREAT thanks a lot just downloaded something that I thought was the daz studio program without daz central but it is not and now I have no idea how to remove it. Thank you so damn much.

 

Charlie Judge said:

Older versions of DS are not available for download anymore. If you have a backup of the install files you can reinstall the older version manually, otherwise you can try opening a support request to see if Daz support can provide you with them.

DAZ Studio 4.5 is still available as part of the DAZ Studio 4.5+ SDK which can be 'purchased' for free: https://www.daz3d.com/daz-studio-4-5-sdk

Edit to add: This version was before iRay rendering was available.

That post is from 2019, and the first sentence of the SDK product page says "The DAZ Studio SDK is a free C++ software development platform..."

The installer you are looking for should be listed on your account page under "Product Library"

https://www.daz3d.com/downloader/customer/files#prod_13176

If not, here is the link to the store page.

https://www.daz3d.com/daz-studio-4-pro

It's free but you may need to "buy" it so it gets added to your library, just like the other free items.

 

The products you linked to are for the current version of DAZ Studio. However, If you "purchase" the free SDK kit one of  of the downloads that are available with it is for DAZ Studio 4.5 

ETA: I own the SDK kit and I just checked the available downloads under the product. DS 4.5 is still there in both 32 and 64 bit versions.

bhfineartist_2d42f5137d said:

GREAT thanks a lot just downloaded something that I thought was the daz studio program without daz central but it is not and now I have no idea how to remove it. Thank you so damn much.

 

Charlie Judge said:

Older versions of DS are not available for download anymore. If you have a backup of the install files you can reinstall the older version manually, otherwise you can try opening a support request to see if Daz support can provide you with them.

DAZ Studio 4.5 is still available as part of the DAZ Studio 4.5+ SDK which can be 'purchased' for free: https://www.daz3d.com/daz-studio-4-5-sdk

Edit to add: This version was before iRay rendering was available.

That post is from 2019, and the first sentence of the SDK product page says "The DAZ Studio SDK is a free C++ software development platform..."

The installer you are looking for should be listed on your account page under "Product Library"

https://www.daz3d.com/downloader/customer/files#prod_13176

If not, here is the link to the store page.

https://www.daz3d.com/daz-studio-4-pro

It's free but you may need to "buy" it so it gets added to your library, just like the other free items.

Richard Haseltine said:

If you go to

%AppData%/daz 3d/studio4/log.txt

how does the log file end?

It hasn't recorded any data from any of my attempts to open it. The last entry is from this morning just after I updated, when I tried opening 4.12 as normal to make sure it still worked. It was able to open without issue, so I closed it. After that, nothing, not even any activity in the Task Manager. At the time, I thought there were two different executables each shortcut was linking to.

Edit:

Tried opening through DAZ Central, still nothing. Uninstalling and reinstalling 4.15 did nothing.

GREAT thanks a lot just downloaded something that I thought was the daz studio program without daz central but it is not and now I have no idea how to remove it. Thank you so damn much.

 

Charlie Judge said:

Older versions of DS are not available for download anymore. If you have a backup of the install files you can reinstall the older version manually, otherwise you can try opening a support request to see if Daz support can provide you with them.

DAZ Studio 4.5 is still available as part of the DAZ Studio 4.5+ SDK which can be 'purchased' for free: https://www.daz3d.com/daz-studio-4-5-sdk

Edit to add: This version was before iRay rendering was available.

I used the method shown in this video first 

Then I simplified it by just loading the Genesis 8.1 figure and applying the head morph for Ichigo, which yeilds the same results as the image attached above. 

Also I have uninstalled and reinstalled the products. Tried to install the products through DAZ Central and smart content. Still have the same issues. 

For me the messed up effects come up the moment the morph is loaded on, so there is no normal =[.

It is weird because most other face morphs work normally. The problem is seen from products created from Crocodile Liu. I have sent a ticket in to let DAZ know about it. 

I am having similar issues converting other characters faces from Crocodile Liu:

https://www.daz3d.com/rera-and-rera-hair-for-genesis-8-females

https://www.daz3d.com/co-reine-and-co-reine-hair-for-genesis-8-females

https://www.daz3d.com/acicia-bundle-for-genesis-8-females

https://www.daz3d.com/ruyun-and-ruyun-hair-for-genesis-8-female-s

https://www.daz3d.com/ruo-xi-collection-for-genesis-8-females

WTF is daz central? I had it downloaded a while ago have no use for it had to delete daz studio because I was having problems didn't have the old install file, reinstalled old daz central and still have no daz studio. I want daz studio and only daz studio what the hell is this daz central crap is this to try to control how we use the figures and props?

...I'm still using the 4.12 Beta (W7 as well) and it clocks in at 245 MB after startup with nothing loaded in the viewport. and that's split among two displays with several tabs permanently open and no active links to the Daz site (don't use Connect or Central). 

Sounds like even on W7 4.15, is a bit of a resource hog.

Ive completely wiped the prebuilt pc and installed a different version of windows but still cant connect to my account through studio or DIM. Ive searched the logs and the only thing i can see that would be a problem is with DAZ’s cloud data. It’s almost as if somewhere it has saved my old IP address for my old computer and since I’m on my new computer it will not connect to thier server. Ive swapped out the dll files. Ive done everything i could think of and went through these forums for people having the same issues and tried everything they have suggested. This is extremely frustrating, have spent a good amount of money with them, and cant even get a response back from thier tech support. Ive have no antivirus software installed, Ive turned off the firewall, allowed acces for studio, DIM, and DAZ central through the firewall. Probably best if i take a step back from it before i lose my mind. Thank you guys again for your suggestions and help

I recently purchased DT-Felicia, DT-Luna, and DT-Farah and I am having a kind of weird issue, I can install DT- Felicia just fine with install manager or Daz Central just fine, When I install DT- Luna I have to install her twice it seems to have her where I can access her in smart content in Daz Studio, in other words, she stays a black and white image that is not installed, DT- Farah who is my favorite of the three doesn't even show up in smart content to install, she does show up in Daz Central and in DIM to install but when I install her with Daz Central she still doesn't show up in smart content in Daz Studio, I just checked and all three figures show up in the content library. I did database maintenance and reimported all meta-data and now Felicia and Farah show up as installed in Smart Content but there is no sign of Luna even though she is installed in Daz Central. I have no clue what is going on here, seems like the products are conflicting with one another in some way, 

benniewoodell said:

Ghosty12 said:

Well just watched this Unreal 5 video and it does look impressive, also it says at the end of the video that an early pre release version of UE5 is now available..

Can't wait to start learning UnReal, and then after that, Houdini. I tried to get the bridge working yesterday and start working on tutorials but I couldn't get the script to port Daz assets to UnReal to show up in the script tab. I tried DIM and Daz Central. I need to get this figured out but the tutorials I watched looked good. 

Yeah it certainly does look good, the problem at the moment is the landscape is just a desert/arid biome..  Would love to see what they do with forests and so on, and of course cities, towns and villages..

Ghosty12 said:

Well just watched this Unreal 5 video and it does look impressive, also it says at the end of the video that an early pre release version of UE5 is now available..

Can't wait to start learning UnReal, and then after that, Houdini. I tried to get the bridge working yesterday and start working on tutorials but I couldn't get the script to port Daz assets to UnReal to show up in the script tab. I tried DIM and Daz Central. I need to get this figured out but the tutorials I watched looked good. 

So, I decided to organize my .duf files in the "scenes" folder....Man, I wish I never did! Every sice I organzied everything all my different project characters into their respective folders, my Daz is ruined. Mainly just when trying to use the shaping tool. For instance if I were to change the shape of a figure's mouth, normally I would go to "shaping" and click mouth, and all the options would appear. Now there is nothing there. And all I can do is go to "all options" but that takes forever and I enjoyed having the filter know I was looking for everything that fell under the catatorgy for "mouth." I uninstalled everything. Daz central, install manager, and daz studio. Reninstalled, and the issue remained. What can I do to get my Daz studio to function in a way that is optimal and again?
In the attached photo you can see what I mean. There is no longer any option inside of the shaping tool. Every other tool works just fine, only shaping is broken, what can I do?

Had to uninstall Sci-Fi Retro space suit for G8f because of texture problems with the male opposite. Now i can't reinstall with dim. Everything looks ok in dim, but in studio the product icon is grey and only install through Central. Any suggestions? Also in Dim log i get a lot of "Remote Name Collision: " today...

Another info: in Log file after installation there are several lines with: "2021-05-26 09:43:58.111 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\dzpostgresqlobjectdatabase.cpp(37): db fetch error: Attempt to convert null to long long"