Ah ok. Yeah I hope I hadn't tried to install very much through Central. If I remember right Central kept losing my internet connection while trying to download and install content. I installed studio but after that it just kept breaking.

Mark_e593e0a5 said:

Richard Haseltine said:

jjoyner said:

NorthOf45 said:

jjoyner said:

DAZ_Rawb said:

Expect to see a lot of product metadata updates in Daz Connect.

What about DAZ Install Manager and  DAZ Central?

It better not. They were not affected, and there is no real "update" to the metadata, just to what Connect was using.

I almost exclusively install content using DIM except when I manually install content (such as freebies from Renderosity) or when DAZ Studio doesn't recognize content as being installed unless installed via Connect.  I don't use Connect because I don't have the flexibility (as far as I know) of choosing where content is installed  when using Connect and the rather bizarre folder and naming protocols used by Connect.  I still have many missing thumbnails though.

Did DS go online? It was that that allowed the thumbnails to be lost, not instalaltion.

I also have sometimes missing thumbnails  when installing products via DIM. I had filed tickest, the only feedback I got, unfortunately, was that the metadata has been fixed and I should set Studio online....

Latest examples:

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-kristin-dress-for-genesis-8-females

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-seasons-magus-for-genesis-8-male

https://www.daz3d.com/social-distance-restaurant

 

Seasons Magus currently doesn't have a thumbnail pic in the zip file, unless it has been updated very recently. Social Distance Restaurant has a full-blown promo pic at 1000 x 1300 px as the installed thumbnail. If I remember correctly, the DIM thumbnail was missing, the one you get in the tooltip when you hover over it. Don't know about Kristin Dress. 

Richard Haseltine said:

jjoyner said:

NorthOf45 said:

jjoyner said:

DAZ_Rawb said:

Expect to see a lot of product metadata updates in Daz Connect.

What about DAZ Install Manager and  DAZ Central?

It better not. They were not affected, and there is no real "update" to the metadata, just to what Connect was using.

I almost exclusively install content using DIM except when I manually install content (such as freebies from Renderosity) or when DAZ Studio doesn't recognize content as being installed unless installed via Connect.  I don't use Connect because I don't have the flexibility (as far as I know) of choosing where content is installed  when using Connect and the rather bizarre folder and naming protocols used by Connect.  I still have many missing thumbnails though.

Did DS go online? It was that that allowed the thumbnails to be lost, not instalaltion.

I also have sometimes missing thumbnails  when installing products via DIM. I had filed tickest, the only feedback I got, unfortunately, was that the metadata has been fixed and I should set Studio online....

Latest examples:

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-kristin-dress-for-genesis-8-females

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-seasons-magus-for-genesis-8-male

https://www.daz3d.com/social-distance-restaurant

Lasciare said:

Categories by region and by period would be nice:

By region:

North america

Central and south america

Western europe

Eastern europe and Russia

Africa

Australia

Middle-east

India

Asia

Australia

Indonesia

By period:

Prehistory

Antiquity

Middle ages

Renaissance

16th and 17th

18th and 19th

20th

21th

Futuristic

 

 

I don't think you can fathom the size of the absolutely massive flamestorm this would ignite...

jjoyner said:

NorthOf45 said:

jjoyner said:

DAZ_Rawb said:

Expect to see a lot of product metadata updates in Daz Connect.

What about DAZ Install Manager and  DAZ Central?

It better not. They were not affected, and there is no real "update" to the metadata, just to what Connect was using.

I almost exclusively install content using DIM except when I manually install content (such as freebies from Renderosity) or when DAZ Studio doesn't recognize content as being installed unless installed via Connect.  I don't use Connect because I don't have the flexibility (as far as I know) of choosing where content is installed  when using Connect and the rather bizarre folder and naming protocols used by Connect.  I still have many missing thumbnails though.

Did DS go online? It was that that allowed the thumbnails to be lost, not instalaltion.

Hera said:

Leana said:

Hera said:

Hello!

When I render Victoria 8.1 out of the box she's colourless. Regardless of light. 
Only way to get rid of this is to reset the texture and start over with basic Iray or select another set of textures. 
What is wrong? What must I do?
I use DAZ 4.14

Victoria 8.1 uses the new PBR shader, which requires DS4.15.x

So where does one find 4.15?  The download studio link is broken these days and so are my automatic updates...

Download a fresh copy through DIM/Daz Central and install it, with DS closed. You can also use the Public Build (beta) which will leave the geenral release alone - that has to be installed through DIM.

NorthOf45 said:

jjoyner said:

DAZ_Rawb said:

Expect to see a lot of product metadata updates in Daz Connect.

What about DAZ Install Manager and  DAZ Central?

It better not. They were not affected, and there is no real "update" to the metadata, just to what Connect was using.

I almost exclusively install content using DIM except when I manually install content (such as freebies from Renderosity) or when DAZ Studio doesn't recognize content as being installed unless installed via Connect.  I don't use Connect because I don't have the flexibility (as far as I know) of choosing where content is installed  when using Connect and the rather bizarre folder and naming protocols used by Connect.  I still have many missing thumbnails though.

Hi Padone, thanks for getting back to me. I'm using the "DAZ to Blender" script (the top one) inside DAZ Studio and then select "Subdivision Level 0" and "Include animation data", plus "Include minimal morphs". Everything seems to export normally. I then just click the import button inside Blender, before the errors pop up.

I have installed everything on my notebook as well by the way and the entire process runs without any problems. But that doesn't help me on my main machine :-D I've uninstalled and re-installed both Blender and DAZ a bunch of times today, now even using the DAZ Installation Manager instead of DAZ Central, but the results are still the same. I'm really stumped as to what the problem is here.

jjoyner said:

DAZ_Rawb said:

Expect to see a lot of product metadata updates in Daz Connect.

What about DAZ Install Manager and  DAZ Central?

It better not. They were not affected, and there is no real "update" to the metadata, just to what Connect was using.

Categories by region and by period would be nice:

By region:

North america

Central and south america

Western europe

Eastern europe and Russia

Africa

Australia

Middle-east

India

Asia

Australia

Indonesia

By period:

Prehistory

Antiquity

Middle ages

Renaissance

16th and 17th

18th and 19th

20th

21th

Futuristic

DAZ_Rawb said:

Expect to see a lot of product metadata updates in Daz Connect.

What about DAZ Install Manager and  DAZ Central?

While I have used 'Vendor' sort option at the top of the store frequently, I don't remember using the other choices offered before. I just tried out 'Places and Things' and 'Resources and Add-ons' and noticed that they could be then filtered by program and then below further filtered by the categories we are being asked to offer suggestions for. I even found a set of Asian vases I had missed and have wishlisted them. This sort option should be more prominently displayed.

Two weeks ago, I went on a search for things Medieval/Dark Ages/Viking/Weapons/Clothing/Hairs that I might need to add to fill in gaps for a series of renders I was going to work on. It was frustrating to a degree and took a couple days and my wishlist grew. And then, Daz put most of those items into the $3.99 March Madness sale. So it was worth the time for me. But, it would have helped to have an easier search. Also, I was searching on my iMac, using Google Chrome and I was not seeing Required Items. I had to search for that and check to see if I had it or not. And I have Ati's add-on as well.

But I also in my own files recognize that the Greco-Roman architecture spread across Northern Africa, the Middle East, and up into Europe and England, just as Arabic architecture influenced Spanish, Italian, and later the Southwest United States, Central and South American architechture. Or the Japanese esthetic has influenced the Pacific NorthWest. And Africa is more than mud huts and colonies that went away when I was still in school in the 1960s. There is some vibrant growth there that puts America to shame. 

And when I saw the word 'Indian' I wasn't sure if you meant South Asian or First Nation Peoples.

If you install Daz Central after DIM it should preserve DIM's settings - installing it on a clean machine, however, will have it use its default behaviour of just selecting a base location with everything else going in a sub-folder.

Ah! Thanks, that helps.

mikethe3dguy said:

Richard Haseltine said:

Use Install Manager raOkayther than Daz Central if you want to customise https://www.daz3d.com/get_install_manager/

Okay, thanks Richard. I used to use DIM but when Daz Central was released I thought it was replacing DIM so I switched. I used Daz Central before my Windows re-install too, and somehow got it to install to the correct location. I guess I'm not clear on why there are multiple software tools for this.

If you install Daz Central after DIM it should preserve DIM's settings - installing it on a clean machine, however, will have it use its default behaviour of just selecting a base location with everything else going in a sub-folder.

Richard Haseltine said:

Use Install Manager raOkayther than Daz Central if you want to customise https://www.daz3d.com/get_install_manager/

Okay, thanks Richard. I used to use DIM but when Daz Central was released I thought it was replacing DIM so I switched. I used Daz Central before my Windows re-install too, and somehow got it to install to the correct location. I guess I'm not clear on why there are multiple software tools for this.

Use Install Manager rather than Daz Central if you want to customise https://www.daz3d.com/get_install_manager/

I had to do a clean Windows re-install a week or so ago, which also necessitated re-installing all programs and applications. Since then, Daz Central insisted on creating a new folder path for Daz content, and I need to:

1) Merge the new content installed into my original content file path

2) Get Daz Central to install new content to my original content file path

My content (and most data) is and has always been stored on a separate data drive (D:), so was not changed or deleted during my Windows re-install. I've attached a screen shot of my settings in Daz Central. Thanks for any help!

Correct content file path: D:\My DAZ 3D Library

New content file path created by Daz Central: D:\My DAZ 3D Library\Applications\Data\DAZ 3D\My DAZ 3D Library

Central is a simplified version of DIM and uses the same zip files from the same servers as DIM so I don't see how it can be faster.

Okay, I know this issue has been raised many times before and I have combed through as many of those threads as I could find. I have tried every solution that I have found in those threads. I have reimported meta-data several times, I have looked in the folders to make sure that the thumbnail images are actually there and they are I have uninstalled and reinstalled Daz Studio the PostGRE database, reset the database, tried importing any qued meta-data that might have been there and everything else that has worked in the past that I can think of but this time around I have had no results with any of it. I even tried uninstalling Daz Studio, going through the hidden locations, and getting rid of any trace of it that I could find, uninstalling the database and then reinstalling, reimporting meta-data, and all of the usual fixes but nothing seems to work this time around. I am on Daz Studio 4.15.0.2 the latest release version, so what gives anyone have any solutions out there that could work? Oh, and when I mean missing thumbnails I don't mean just one or two or even 15-20 or 40-50 I mean practically all of the thumbnails of several years worth of collected content gone with only a few showing up, of products that I have bought in recent weeks. I have never seen Daz Studio produce this many missing thumbnails. Oh, and I have tried downloading through DIM, Daz Central, and Daz Connect with the same results. Thanks in advance folks.

carmen_ae44c38127 said:

jestmart said:

Use DIM instead.

https://www.daz3d.com/get_install_manager/

Does that mean the Daz Connect doesn't work? Or is DIM a better tool for installing Daz Studio and your content?

For the record, Daz Central and Daz Connect are not the same thing. Connect is install directly from DS.

Daz Central is intended for people who have a simple setup. If you have a complex setup with multiple content directories then using DIM will fit your needs better.