WHen I launched Daz Central today, it automatically updated DazStudio. However, after installation was complete, I tried to launch DazStudio, and it just kept crashing. Is DazStudio not compatible with Mac OS Big Sur, yet?

Thanks in advance.

I've been wanting to clean out my Daz Studio for awhile now; barnicles since 3.x I think.  Been out of town for awhile & seemed like a good time to do that.

I uninstalled via the Win10 Apps manager then deleted left over folders, but didn't go after the C:\ remnants.

If you really want to start from scratch, seems that starting at the Daz3D page would be a logical start. Yet when you & click Download Studio, it takes you to Daz Central and no other option. I'm hesitant to use that frankly from some mentions of issues with it in various forums.

But I was able to find the .exe files for both Studio & Install Manager:

DAZ3DIM_1.4.0.67_Win64.exe
DAZStudio_4.15.0.2_Win64.exe

If you install Dim First, there's no separate Windows App Installer. So, I tried installing DS as well. It runs showing just the basic items as would be expected.

I exit DS & Run DIM again, and DIM still shows all of my account files ready for D/L and I get this message panel:

I select those & install (even though I just saw them in DS). I've set paths based on my working Laptop install to equivalent D:\ paths on the Desktop. Yet no matter what, a selected item in DIM shows getting installed, but then next time DIM is launched, it shows everything I just installed as right back in the Ready to Install & none Installed.  I just Exit.

I did go ahead & let it install ALL ready for download, (fiber optic is nice in such situations).  Sure enough, ALL is in the Ready to Install column, none in the Installed.

Yet launch DS & it shows most in Smart Content with 70 or so items in Lost & Found.

What am I missing here with DIM?

I woke up this morning and had to reset my windows 10 computer cause for some reason my computer wouldnt start and instead gave me the blue screen of death. when i resetted it, i tried to instal daz central and it gave me this:

tried downloading DIM and it gave me this:

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tried installing daz standalone and it gave me this

:

So right now im at a loss at what to do at this point

PostgreSQL is the database used by the Content Management System, which is used for Smart Content, the Presets tabs in proeprty panes, and Cataegories and products in the Content Library pane. If you installed using Install manager or Daz Central your content should still be accessible through the Content Library pane under Daz Studio formats (or Poser formats for some, mostly older, items). Lack of the CMS can cause a few other issues but you shouldn't be totally locked out.

Is postgreSQL still installed? Does it start? If you open task manager by right-click on the Task Bar, enbale More Details, and look at the list of background processes under the list of running applications there will usually be several postgresql entries. Does it run when Daz Studio is running? If you do chnage the port number in Edit>Preferencs>CMS Settings and restart Daz Studio does the change persist or does it revert to the original setting?

Don't use Central, it simply does not give the user enough control.  DIM is still available at https://www.daz3d.com/get_install_manager/

killerwolf666 said:

hi,

hoping for some installation help.

Had Daz on my machine ages ago and uninstalled it. so i thought, was a lot of Daz stuff left despite WIn10 telling me it had been removed, it seems this is a known issue, from a quick google.

anyway, i zaped what i could, website says now to get Dez central which will get the daz product. all seemed fine, i clicked in DC to get Daz Studio, and it said intalling, then the percentage kept dropping etc, at it appeared it was trawling through a lot of my assets and downloading them too. killed it, wiped everyting, tried under a new email, but somehow DC still picks up the downloads/purchases from my other email account.

simply, how do i get a clean install of DS?

TIA
 

This is the process I followed to re-install Daz Studio and DIM onto my Windows 7 machine last year (and wrote it all down to remember) -- keep in mind that your versions may be different than mine and I don't know if Windows 8/10 or Mac work differently and of course you may be installing in different drives and folders than me:

1) install DAZ PostgreSQL CMS_9.3.4.exe (success -- no hanging) (your version may be different)

2) install Daz Studio 4.10.0.123 (your version may be different)
   - set program directory to C:\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4 (yours may be different)
   - set content directory to E:\DAZ Studio Assets (yours may be different)
   - open DAZ Studio and check "Work Offline" in the first dialog box so you can set preferences before it downloads anything
     - check "do not show again" box
   - enter serial number in next dialog box
   - enter name and web address (optional) in next box
   - uncheck everything in "import metadata" box
   - check "do not show again" on HOME box
   - close Daz Studio
   - open Daz Studio again
   - reset Content Directories to:
     - DAZ Connect Data: E:\DAZ Studio Assets\Daz 3D Content - Daz Connect (yours may be different)
     - DAZ Studio Formats: E:\DAZ Studio Assets\Daz 3D Content (yours may be different)
       - ADD: E:\DAZ Studio Assets\DAZ STUDIO LIBRARY\Studio\My Library (yours may be different)
     - Poser Formats: E:\DAZ Studio Assets\Daz 3D Content - Poser Formats (yours may be different)
     - Other Import Formats: E:\DAZ Studio Assets\Daz 3D Content - Other Formats (yours may be different)
   - add Hexagon location to Bridge preference (if you own Hexagon)
   - Products list is completed by right-clicking ContentLibrary tab, run Content DB Maintenance > Re-Import Metadata (don't need to login) [15+ minute process]  (your time may be different)

3) install Daz Install Manager (updated to 1.4.0.58) (your version may be different)
   - don't login yet
   - set to Work Offline, enter email address and set up settings
   - should process what is already in PC (few minutes)
   - 5700+ items ready to install (yours may be different)
     - check all and go through list to make sure to uncheck anything I don't want to install yet (video tutorials, photoshop brushes, etc.)
     - takes a while [around 8 hours] to "install" everything (your time may be different)
       - admin access is needed if admin user
       - Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 ReDist 14.14.26429 will ask for permission to install 
         - fails because another version exists (0x80070666 error)
   - login to DIM to check for new downloads and updates and reset items to hidden that you don't wish to install (32bit items, tutorials, etc.)
     - sometimes the system may get stuck (so check on it once in a while)
     - some items will ask to be installed (usually plugins)

   - REBOOT

4) re-open Daz Studio
   - add necessary serial numbers for plugins
   - close/re-open DAZ Studio
   - have to enter login info to update metadata on items that are missing details (like thumbnails)
   - there are lots of empty items and blank thumbnails -- blanks that are duplicates can be deleted

Hope this helps someone with a re-install.

ALWAYS KEEP EVERY VERSION OF DAZ STUDIO YOU DOWNLOAD. You never know when an update is going to be bad.

ALWAYS KEEP ALL YOUR DAZ DOWNLOADS OR DAZ INSTALLED PRODUCTS. Otherwise you'll have to download everything all over again and that sucks when you have 1000's of products like me.

Spent all day with the new update 2.31...Install from Daz Central..and Installs in Blender 2.9...But you can't activate it as Blender doesn't know it has been installed. No sign of a zip file anywhere...
Made up a new zip from the DBT folder Central installed in Blender 2.9 and was able to activate it...first try to import Daz Character ended in this error...

The database is the driver for the Content Management System, without it Smart Content and the Presets tabs of proeprty panes will be empty, as will Categories and Products in the Content Library pane. Some other features also use the CMS. Is the content visible in the Content Library, in the Daz Studio Formats list? That (aside from the daz Connect virtual folder) does not depend on the Content Management System.

How did you install? Did you in fact install PostgreSQL (if you are just updating an older version of DS you might conceivably have only the Valentina database engine, which is no longer used at all). If you are sure you have PostgreSQL installed, does it run when Daz Central, Daz Install Manager, or Daz Studio are running - check Task Manager (right-click on Task Bar), enabling Show More and then looking in the list of processes that appears below the main application list.

Daz Central and Install manager are the same for this purpose (theya re the same code under the hood/bonnet).

It sounds as if your DS paths do not match those being used by Daz Central - did you install Daz Studio itself using Daz central or another method? Did you chnage the base path after installing DS?

I have UE4.25 and UE4.26 both installed.

Daz central has not informed me of the new update for the Daz to UE4.26 bridge. And whenever I try to install it via Daz central or the Daz Install manager, it always defaults to the UE4.25

So I downloaded the Zip from GitHub and manually installed (copied the files) to the UE4.26 plugins folder. and intermediate folder. Is this correct? When I launch UE4.26 the plugin is there. It imports a character. When I follow the process on the video on the product page, the character runs like they have been hit by a bus, The legs are crazy and FUBAR. I have tried numerous times, with both Genesis 8 and 8.1 male.Ssame deal.

What am I doing wrong, or missing? Ive tried checking fix bone rotations as mentioned on the developers site. 

Please can we have updated info, and get rid of any obsolete info.

Logging in has never worked for me, ever. But Daz Studio runs fine even if you're working offline.

You can't use Daz Central, but based on the numerous forum posts about how buggy it is ATM, that's probably a blessing in disguise.

You're using Daz Central.

Using the Install Manager seems to be the most stable way of installing content at the moment.

I have the Daz3D Unreal Bridge & says its installed in central but doesn't show up when i use the daz3d editor, it's not in menu list like you would see Hexagon , Bryce or Blender, i did some research it said i needed two bridges one from unreal & daz so looked it up sure enough one from unreal on the unreal market place, i have both bridges now including the one from Unreal but seems the daz side of the union isn't working because i have enabled the daz3d bridge in unreal then go to finish the install only for the bridge not to show up in daz3d, it tells me to copy a dll file to a location i do this and still i don't see a daz to unreal bridge in 4.15 appear, Why isn't the bridge showing up in DAZ3d menu after i have installed the dll in the plug infile?

If anyone could enlighten on how to get this Daz to Unreal bridge to work me that would be helpful, Thank You.

P.S seems the Unreal plugin does work, i didn't have to install the DLL file i just didn't notice that you use the send too function at the bottom of the menu, i thought it would be an option in the menu like the other export functions, This problem is solved but they won't let me remove the post.

Alright, I am extremely new to Daz3d and, well, no idea what I am doing.
I have Daz Studio 4.15

I have the Content Manager, Daz Central
I open Daz Central, and I have a bunch of products installed.  Let's take Genesis 8.1 Essentials.
It says I have that, and it is installed.
I open Daz Studio. Products. Figures Genesis 8 Starter Essentials.
Then I go to Figures.  Everything has an exclamation point. Nothing is installed.  Nothing can be found.
I double click on anything there and it says, "Could not open file. File does not exist"
What the hell am I doing wrong?

Mystiarra said:

dinner is a milano cookie and a cuppa barry tea.  wrapping my hands round the heat of the tea.

spent the last 7 hours trying to learn my way around the pbr channels.  height, roughness, metallic, albedo, ao, 

working on my thrones collection.  the ice princess throne, dark fantasy throne. counting the electric chair as a throne. looks like they pulled it, no link to the store. 

my eyelids are crashing.  wanted to convert zombie and the power pixie tnite. i'm demoralized by failure with the steel plate shader.

...zombie power, that was one of the central platforms of the Verrmin Supreme campaign. 

https://commonplacefacts.wordpress.com/2019/06/03/meet-vermin-supreme/

I am having a very strange problem with Landis Hair for Genesis 3 and 8 Males. I've had it for almost two years and the data is suddenly mising. The thumbnails are still there but I can't actuallly load it. It's not appearing in my Daz Central library. Initially the Documentation Center was saying something like "this prioduct hasn't been released yet" but as I was writing this, that changed and now the proper page is appearing. I've tried installing via DIM, updating metadata, closing and reopening the program, no luck. So I went through all the same steps, but this time manually installing, same result. Now, here's where it gets wierd. If it try to load a scene where a chracter is already using the hair, everything loads no problem. No messages saying "this scene contains products that have not been installed" no grey block where the heir should be (indicating missing data), no bald character, and it's listed in the scene tab. I can even use the included movement and style morphs, but I can't change the texture or anything like that. Another wierd thing is, when I try to add it into a scen,e before the "data does not exist" message, I get a message asking if I'd like to save the current scene, as if im trying to open a new or prexisting scene rather than just add hair to a character. Does anyone have any idea what's going on? Or, more importantly, how to fix it? I really don't feel like re-buing a product I've already paid for once, and there's no guarantee that would even work anyway.

EDIT: After 3 days the documentation page is gone again. I'm adding thescreenshot below to see if that gives anyoen any insight. 

EDIT 2: Well, I feel foolish. It was a simple matter of opening the products tab in Daz Studio itself, right clicking on the hair, clicking "uninstall" then reinstalling the product by clicking on the thumbnail. Still odd that it doesnt appear in my Daz Central, but at least it works now.

The Mainfests are how Install Manager and Central track what they have installed, so certainly wanted.

I'm in need of some assistance. Tonight I was working on a few models, I closed out of Daz and headed to the daz store to pick up some HDRI's. I installed the HDRI's via Daz Central and loaded back into Daz. Loaded up my model and the lower jaw / chin looked like the first image you see attached :(. I tried other models that are based off the same reference due to thinking maybe I saved after I screwed something up by accident, but they all look like this. Any ideas?

Although it does double as a try not to laugh challenge since it looks so dang derpy :'(

The second image I attached is what the model is suppose to look like.

Miss Bad Wolfie said:

Its my birthday!

...congratulations on completing your most recent trip around our central G class main sequence stallar primary  

As far as I know those have been updated - redownload (in Daz central/Daz Install Manager or from your product library) and reinstall.