If I install a product through Daz Central for Daz Studio, the product will always appear as installed in Daz Connect, but never the other way around.

That is, if I install a product in Daz Connect, that same product appears as uninstalled in Daz Central, although I have no problems using it in Daz Studio.

How can I sync my Daz Connect installations with Daz Central so that if I install a product in Daz Connect, it'll appear as Installed in Daz Central as well?

If I Install that same product (already installed in Daz Connect) but currently appearing as uninstalled in Daz Central, will I then get 2 copies of the same product listed in Content Library and take up twice the amount of space?

simarpalkalsi said:

I wanted to install the daz2unreal plugin and you have to do it through Daz Central however daz central refuses to open. As soon as a start the application it stops responding and I get stuck with a white screen. I tried installing the plugin through DIM and it installed on unreal engine but not on daz. There is no manual download and install option for this plugin so that will not work. I hate DazCetnral, its making a simple task like draging and dropping some .dll files in the coresponding folders so difficult. 

Daz Install Manager is still available, it's just that Central has a simplified workflow aimed at new users and so is the most prominently presented. Install Manager is here https://www.daz3d.com/get_install_manager/

joegerardi said:

I've given up on DAZ Central and went back to installing everything manually. First and most important: it's much faster than waiting for DC to tell me there's an update every time I go into, have that update fail EVERY SINGLE TIME, start to install a product, time out while installing - maybe several times - and taking up to an hour to install a single product. I can download and install a product in about 4 minutes, which includes opeing all the folders necessary.

 

Second: see above post. It's like "let the games begin" to find out where it decides to install something...

 

As a broker of products, DAZ is excellent (well, except for those inane "buy one get X" sales) but as a company that tries to create a fully functional application, no: they're pretty much third-rate.

 

Oh, and because this post is critical of them, expect it to be deleted.

Nonsense. However, in theory we would have to delete it because of your saying we would delete it. Please don't indulge in coat trailing.

 

..Joe

zabihassan02 said:

Hello! Id appreciate support regarding the tool. It was installed by Daz Central and it seems to be opening just fine. The problem is that it doesnt affect the Genesis 8 and 8.1 model at all. On preview mode/edit/render doesnt matter, just doesnt change anything on the model.
Thanks,

Z

You do have the 200 Plus morphs installed too?

Hello! Id appreciate support regarding the tool. It was installed by Daz Central and it seems to be opening just fine. The problem is that it doesnt affect the Genesis 8 and 8.1 model at all. On preview mode/edit/render doesnt matter, just doesnt change anything on the model.
Thanks,

Z

I've given up on DAZ Central and went back to installing everything manually. First and most important: it's much faster than waiting for DC to tell me there's an update every time I go into, have that update fail EVERY SINGLE TIME, start to install a product, time out while installing - maybe several times - and taking up to an hour to install a single product. I can download and install a product in about 4 minutes, which includes opeing all the folders necessary.

 

Second: see above post. It's like "let the games begin" to find out where it decides to install something...

 

As a broker of products, DAZ is excellent (well, except for those inane "buy one get X" sales) but as a company that tries to create a fully functional application, no: they're pretty much third-rate.

 

Oh, and because this post is critical of them, expect it to be deleted.

 

..Joe

You're better off using Daz Connect or DIM, there are too many bugs with Central, such as not installing to the correct location. Every item for Daz does not have to be installed with Central, there must be something on your download page that mentions DIM or Connect. Please check again to see if this is true. I also know it's very important you check to make sure you have the right path in these install helpers. I can't give more information then that since I only ever manually install everything.

Also are you getting any errors popping up, cause they will need to know that in order to help you. I think they also ask for the log file if you know how to get that.

This is what she told me happened that lead to her getting the Jordan Hair...

"Thank You  I am seeking how I can solve this poking and not fitting .Shaniquah they pull her out of the sale . it supposed to have braided hair but it is problem putting on her  head( this time is not my problem, but creator), so I decided to use Jordon hair"

And the image below is what happens when she tries to use the Jordan Hair.

I can't help her with the Daz Central and locations due to I only ever manually install anything, including the program itself. As such I can't explain what she needs to do to check on the locations.

Do you have a link to a thread she can check to see about the loaction of files, perhaps something with images to help explain what is being said.

I wanted to install the daz2unreal plugin and you have to do it through Daz Central however daz central refuses to open. As soon as a start the application it stops responding and I get stuck with a white screen. I tried installing the plugin through DIM and it installed on unreal engine but not on daz. There is no manual download and install option for this plugin so that will not work. I hate DazCetnral, its making a simple task like draging and dropping some .dll files in the coresponding folders so difficult. 

Could be that the Daz Central and Daz Studio content locations don't match, assuming the image with the block hair was current.

She used Daz Central to install and she just informed me she sent in a ticket. It's possible she was expecting answers as quickly as I was giving them, as were were talking real time on discord. Not quite the same here lol

She is probably going to need explanations how to to find where things are installed and how to fix any problems founds. I was using images to help.

I am forced to write this discussion. I have been a member of DAZ since 2014 and thought I had found my interest and growing talent.  I purchased assets and watched videos to learn this craft. I was so inspired by DAZ that I went to Art Institute of Technology and got a B.S. in Game Art and Design. Daz and Second Life was my inspiration. I enjoyed many opportunities to see and use other designer works. Creating renders became a passion. I hungered for more skills. I upgrade my PC and laptops to support my desires and honor the upgrades to DAZ that up until 2020 made sense. 

I am a front line medical worker that got thrown into the Pandemic of Covid working tirelessly to do my job. My only escape was DAZ. But what I am seeing and dealing with causes me to believe that you need to be a Tech Support, Software Developer, Photographer and more in order to just get a render. I have spent countless money on hardware to support Daz changes and have over 5,000 assets I have purchased. 

What I am experiencing now is DAZ is eating up 2-4Trilibite of memory, not giving me assets that represent Genesis/Genesis 2 without Software skills of re-mapping. New Genesis 8.1 Models that are clearly made for Animation that require you to wait on supporting assets: Clothing, Poses, Animation to utilize because...Well! Sorry! there is just no crossover built in yet for Genesis 8 to Genesis 8.1. As if I needed a newer version when I have an extensive library of Genesis 8/3/2. I was happy using version 4.12 Pro but when I got a new laptop or PC was forced to download 4.15. In walks Filament to make my day even more challenging when all I wanted to do was graduate to animating my already existing models. I thought being able to use the Simulation feature for Dforce was such an accomplishment, never mind I had to wait based on software/hardware 3mins for the hem of a dress to fall in place. I thought I was keeping up. Still feeling proud I had found DAZ. 

Really! it is now getting ridiculous to use this product. I am reading the discussion in the forum and it sounds like I am not the only one having issues. But the advice provided is starting to read like coding. I wonder if I am the only one getting lost in DAZ, losing that creative edge and excitement when my Genesis 3 Characters look like x-rays on 4.15 until I discovered I have to switch to "Textured Shaded" to see their skin is realistic normal. I must play with NVDIA Iray render lighting often because designers are adding their own lighting. Or dare I say Filament is best. I just want to understand why we are being forced to use some upgraded features and why we are doing our own mapping of older products. Has everyone exhausted all the features of 4.12 Pro except me. Am I so behind that I need to go back to school for a different type of degree? My B.S is my second degree and yet who needs storage when math may be that class that helps you with nodes/pixels. 

I'm sorry you had to read this but who else would understand outside of DAZ why my downtime from the Hospital is stressing me more. I will now go back to trying to find out why my Daz Central is not loading my newly bought assets into version 4.15 on my new purchased Desktop and then find out why the mapping is off on my 4.12 version of Daz on my 1 year old laptop for assets purchased from 2016-2018. Hopefully, I will have the opportunity to create some animations before Filament becomes obsolete. Wish! me Luck! I am just trying to keep up. 

Se usi DAZ Central fa come dice il tizio dalle orecchie a punta , cerca Genesis 8 Starter Essentials e clicca sulla freccina posta sulla destra del tastino verde con scritto "open", ti compare "unisitall", ci clicchi sopra e ti disitalla Genesis 8 (sia maschetto che femminuccia, credo). Poi reinstalla tutto e vedi come butta

Venomisbeauty said:

Silvhe said:

Venomisbeauty said:

Niente, ho appena provato e nessuna delle soluzioni funziona, e le ciglia non sono presenti nemmeno in modalità wireframe :( A sto punto devo divertirmi a reinstallare tutto a quanto pare....la volta scorsa ho dovuto disinstallare manualmente i circa 900 items che ho da DAZ Central.... Esiste un modo più veloce per disinstallare gli items senza doverli cliccare uno ad uno? Ditemi di sì...

Ma ti da qualche errore quando carichi le ciglia? Se carich le ciglia sole, senza alcun personaggio, che succede?

E comunque perché vuoi disinstallare tutto? Se il problema è con G8 disinstalla solo quello

Perchè fondamentalmente non ci capisco una mazza) Ho iniziato da poco ed onestamente non saprei come disinstallare solo G8...

E' il problema che si ha ad usare accrocchi colorati come Central...

Io l'ho usato per quaranta secondi, poi viste le assurde limitazione che ha, l'ho disinstallato. Non lo conosco per cui non posso aiutarti, ma immagino che abbia perlomeno un tasto "Disinstalla" nella pagina di G8. Il pacchetto si chiama "Genesis 8 X Starter Essentials" dove la X sta per Male o Female.

Con il DIM puoi installare, disinstallare, aggiornare e ritrovare tutto in un attimo e in batch, ti consiglio di scaricartelo e reinstallare G8 da lì.

I have always received a response within 24 hours but weekends could be longer, if you state exactly what the issue is and what is or maybe be required to fix the problem the issue will be shorted out in 2 or 3 days max, i have tested everything, refunds to store credit and back to original source of account.. there have been a few items in have purchased in the past that either did not work or turned out not suitable for my needs so i have always been delt with within 2 or 3 working days. any technical issues like not all files are being installed from the manual file through the file manager systems like daz central or install manager you may need to report in detail if you want those issued fixed, but then again i have reported those issues before & they fixed them then the next update undid the fix so some files may need a total manual installation to work fully and bypass there silly updates because it will install to another file area where it wont auto update via the manager system, that installation will install to another location in daz3d and not effect the product lists or catagories in that particular area of the editor, you'll install to the Mydaz3d library instead which links to that product content installed via the manager.

Silvhe said:

Venomisbeauty said:

Niente, ho appena provato e nessuna delle soluzioni funziona, e le ciglia non sono presenti nemmeno in modalità wireframe :( A sto punto devo divertirmi a reinstallare tutto a quanto pare....la volta scorsa ho dovuto disinstallare manualmente i circa 900 items che ho da DAZ Central.... Esiste un modo più veloce per disinstallare gli items senza doverli cliccare uno ad uno? Ditemi di sì...

Ma ti da qualche errore quando carichi le ciglia? Se carich le ciglia sole, senza alcun personaggio, che succede?

E comunque perché vuoi disinstallare tutto? Se il problema è con G8 disinstalla solo quello

Perchè fondamentalmente non ci capisco una mazza) Ho iniziato da poco ed onestamente non saprei come disinstallare solo G8...

Venomisbeauty said:

Niente, ho appena provato e nessuna delle soluzioni funziona, e le ciglia non sono presenti nemmeno in modalità wireframe :( A sto punto devo divertirmi a reinstallare tutto a quanto pare....la volta scorsa ho dovuto disinstallare manualmente i circa 900 items che ho da DAZ Central.... Esiste un modo più veloce per disinstallare gli items senza doverli cliccare uno ad uno? Ditemi di sì...

Ma ti da qualche errore quando carichi le ciglia? Se carich le ciglia sole, senza alcun personaggio, che succede?

E comunque perché vuoi disinstallare tutto? Se il problema è con G8 disinstalla solo quello

Niente, ho appena provato e nessuna delle soluzioni funziona, e le ciglia non sono presenti nemmeno in modalità wireframe :( A sto punto devo divertirmi a reinstallare tutto a quanto pare....la volta scorsa ho dovuto disinstallare manualmente i circa 900 items che ho da DAZ Central.... Esiste un modo più veloce per disinstallare gli items senza doverli cliccare uno ad uno? Ditemi di sì...

skiman44 said:

Does anyone know what folder I'm supposed to install Headshop 13 to?  It doesn't show up in the Daz Central app to install. Thanks! - Ski

When you download the product [should be in your Product Library available for manual download AFAIK], there should be a .pdf or some type of readme file explaining what to run to where and where to place manually any addition files provided [depends how he set up]. 

 

grafkdesigner said:

A little over a year ago (12/2019 to be exact) I made the horrible mistake of installing a Studio 4.14 upgrade into my then-existing 4.12 through Install Manager. Studio 4.14 wouldn't open, and if it did, would shut down within a matter of seconds. Tech Support instructed me to install the 4.14 beta. To do that I had to change IM's download and installation protocols. Those changes were irreversible; from that moment Install Manager completely ignored all the items I've been installing since around 2013. So, if I wanted to remove something from my library I had to do it all manually, a very time-consuming prospect. And instructions I received from Tech Support did not help fix the problem.

It sounds as if the paths you were using were non-default and were reset to the defaults - which should be simple to fix - or possibly as if you had nested content directories (one inside another) which might have led to the relative paths in saved files having a spurious extra folder (which can be fixed with a text editor, working on a  copy of the files)

But the purpose for my entry is I'm stll shell-shocked, so to speak, about installing upgraded Daz Studio software (4.15 to be exact) and thus be free of the beta 4.14. How can I be guaranteed that all the work I've done for the past 17 months (character development and creation specifically) will still be there and accessible? How can I be guaranteed that history won't repeat itself and this updated 4.15 will work fine?

I can't offer guarantees, and you should not have had the issues you did have, but if it was an issue with the content directories then I would certainly not think it likely to recur. You could try using another system as a test, or save a scene using the base content and see if another person can get it to open correctly.

As it did turn out, some of the resource files of 4.12 were corrupted by the 4.14 upgrade, which caused the problems I was experiencing.

Which resource files?

And the last question, which I raised 17 months ago but never received a satisfactory answer - why can't the exe file for 4.15 (or any other version prior to that) be available for download by the artist for him/her to install as it used to be? Why does it have to be downloaded and installed only through Install Manager or even Daz Central? It was this, as mentioned earlier, that caused all of the problems I had, as well as caused the corruption of my Install Manager. 

The general release does have a stand-alone installer.