SnowSultan said:

How and where do you download a specific build? Github is perhaps one of the most confusing places to upload or download files from.

There is actually two ways with our GitHub. 
If you are looking for the stable version, (The one you can install on Install Manager or Daz Central) You can choose one of the releases. In this example, it is 4.0.0.
https://github.com/daz3d/DazToRuntime/releases/tag/4.0.0
Download the builds and you will find the Daz side and Unreal side for (4.25 and 4.26)
If you are looking for the unstable (untested) version you can find it by clicking the green button in the link shared and clicking download zip. 
This is a manual process and is recommended when you are looking for another version or having issues downloading directly from our site.
Hope it helps!

Connect is the only way that Studio can install missing parts, but is is not the only way to install. In fact, you say you have installed everything, so allowing Connect to install the missing parts will not solve the problem, and will install another copy of the same product in a different location. If you keep doing that, you could potentially install everything twice, and the Connect version will have precedence over the same products installed with DIM or Central.

Did you re-install to the same location as originally? Did you change any configuration options in DIM (Package Archive, Manifest Archive, Content Path (aka Library))? Did you configure the Content Directory Manager in Studio to use the same Library folders for DAZ Studio Format (and Poser Format) as before, and do they match what you are using now?

contedesfees said:

Could some one please verify (or deny) that the various Genesis Starter Essential packs are installed automatically with an installation of the latest version of DAZ Studio?

They are not included with the base program itself, but they will be part of the whole installation procedure. If you grab Daz Central or DIM then that will allow you to download Daz Studio as well as some default contents for your library, amongst that default contents are the basic Genesis figures for all generations.

I went to the website to download Daz Studio and it led me to install Daz Central and then opened up DAZ 4.15. After loading a Gen 8 character and working on it the program completely crashed, didn't freeze. It continues to crash consistantly after attempting to model a few different characters, about 1 minute after working on it. I have Windows 10 Home 64 bit. Can someone help?

Richard Haseltine said:

oconnordavid16 said:

marksinister_0f3a44cacc said:

And that folks is why I don't use Daz Central!

There another way to instraff stuff without it?  

There is Install Manager, which exposes more settings to the user. However, I think the comment was ttoally irrelevant to your issue which could have affected a stand-alone installer too.

Ah ok  

Connect installs in a very different way than DIM so some scripts and plug-in cannot be installed with.  Central is a dumbed down version of DIM and IMO DAZ needs to drop it and put out a good instruction sheet for using DIM for new users.

oconnordavid16 said:

marksinister_0f3a44cacc said:

And that folks is why I don't use Daz Central!

There another way to instraff stuff without it?  

There is Install Manager, which exposes more settings to the user. However, I think the comment was ttoally irrelevant to your issue which could have affected a stand-alone installer too.

origionally i installed it from Central, as i do with everything so far. It's only when it didnt work that i started trying other methods. there is a very technical 'manual' method that I'm not even gonna look at twice. I'll just continue learning what I've already got then might look into fluidos 2 in the future. Thanks for all the tips I've received.

stay safe.

marksinister_0f3a44cacc said:

And that folks is why I don't use Daz Central!

There another way to instraff stuff without it?  

It's the incomplete download issue. The download fron the DAZ server fails partway through. If you download manually usually you can attempt to resume a failed download in your browser (not all browsers are smart enough for that). But that only can get you version 2.5.2.109. The latest version 2.5.2.137 is only available through the download managers. DIM shows you when a download failed and you can retry and it will resume. DAZ Central is not smart enough/is too simplified.

Thanks. I looked for Hexagon. It's not installed.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Hexagon via DAZ Central. The reinstall gets to 50%. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling DAZ Central. Still no Hexagon, but now I get 'install' instead of 'open'.

Same problem. DAZ Central shows 'open' for Hexagon but opens DAZ Studio instead.

I downloaded and installed DAZ Central. It installed Studio just fine but didn't install Hexagon.

Hexagon gives option to open, but opens Studio instead.

Thrilled with this solution Thank You all.

By the way I struggled with this for years so just put up with objects coming back from Hexagon in many pieces that tended to inherit lots of unneeded material zones. These I parented in groups - messy but worked.
Happy to say I found this thread and as per Varsel's method I just fixed 3 huge models together and have them on a fraction of the material zones for no quality loss in Daz. NO UV mapping messed up, added some to parts I added that I wanted to control the UV map in Hexagon. Also they now have a nice simple central point of rotation as a single entity.

The objects also make great increamental saves in case one or the other software happen to crash.

...when I'm working and rendering in Daz,I have nothing else open. I even set my AV to silent mode as I'm no online (I don't use Connect or Daz Central). The other matter is there are system utilities that need to keep funning which take up both CPU and memory resources.

So I did a little experiment:

Without anything else (but Task Manager and GPUZ) open CPU usage is down to 0% and memory usage about 9% (out of 24GB) With Daz open and idle that doesn't change CPU load. There was a momentary "spike" on three of the threads when opening the programme as indicated  the performance tab. Loading a scene (2 G3 figures with HDRI) caused the CPU load to again momentarily increase to around 50% but once the scene finished loading, it dropped to 0% (not bothering with memory consumption as both the Daz programme and scene take up system memory) . However during the render process, CPU load varies form 25% ot around 53% and all threads are active even though I am rendering on the GPU (12 GB available). CPU is not checked in the Render settings.  During the render process, GPUZ indicated that about 2.8 GB of VRAM was in use (the scene itself taking a little less as the displays with Daz and the render window open takes up a small amount of VRAM).

So not sure why all the threads of the CPU remained active after the scene loaded to the GPU's VRAM..

Running the 4.12.0.47 Beta on Windows 7 Pro, GPU:  Maxwell Titan-X,. CPU: Xeon 6 core/12 thread X5660 (Westmere). Memory 24 GB GSKill Ripjaws DDR3 1333 6 x 4GB in tri channel mode.

Installing via DAZ Studio (Connect) is probably not a good idea, since Studio is running when you do that, and it overrides other installation methods. Uninstall from Studio (and everywhere else), and try from DIM or Central with Studio closed.

Check out other threads about Fluidos (version 1 threads are still available) for some leads on installation problems. I know it was a problem for some, but there are too many posts to just browse through to pinpoint an answer:

[Updated to V1.3 - now MacOS support] FLUIDOS: a fluids simulator plugin for Daz Studio (commercial)

and probably several others from users.

For research on V2:

FLUIDOS II for Daz Studio - update 2.1 [commercial]

Thanks for your input. I've tried every way I can think of to install it but nothing has added the plug-in. I've used DIM, daz central and direct from studio. I uninstalled the C++ and got fluidos to install without any errors referring to C++ but it still wouldn't show a plug-in. I've contacted Daz store to try and get a refund as the provided installer and docs don't give me a fit for purpose app. It was in a sale and there is a new version out. Will have to lick my wounds before considering the version 2 though.

mechengineer97 said:

Thanks for the reply.  It's 4.15.0.2.  Crap, I should have tried saving one of the faces when it was still the trial version and Daz Central wasn't installed yet to help narrow things down.

I've just done a fresh install today on a new PC build (4.15.0.2).  I've installed everything from Daz Central (installed Studio from Inside Central) as I was having crashing issues with downloading things via Daz Connect (I've always just double clicked from inside Daz Studio to install things).

Not very helpful but Face Transfer working fine for me (I just went in and added my keys to the plugins for my addons inc Face Transfer).  I've just generated and Saved a Male and Female.

NorthOf45 said:

Does Fluidos show in the Help -> About Installed Plugins... dialog? If so, did you enter your serial no.?

There isn't any reference to fliudos in the 'About Installed Plugins' for me to enter the serial code. I have a code from Daz Central though. 

I have checked the manuals and watched the provided vid clip but it seems to assume i have the option to create 'new fluidos domain'

thanks.

Riverted back to a previous version of Daz and when I click generate face it automatically goes to save face and Daz crashes.  I try opening any previous project, including ones with no avatars, Daz crashes during the loading.  I managed to deactivate the Face Transfer serial and the face generates fine.  Daz crashes when I try using up one of the free trial save slots.  Re-entered the serial, face generates fine, but crashes when I try to save.

Uninstalled Daz Central and used install manager to update to the latest version of Daz.  Same thing.  Daz crashes and burns attempting to save a face.