The plugin in Daz central is meant for Unreal 4.25. It doesn't work with 4.26 (yet).

Same here after installing with daz central the plugin does not show up in Unreal 4.26 which the update was intended....

I also installed with install Manager and also does not show up in unreal.

UPDATE

in the daz central i had the correct directory mapped ( IE - Unreal 4.26 ) however the plug in did not go to the plugin folder - it went to the root folder I did not think it had to specificially map to the plugin folder.( because in the past it was not a problem and it got installed correctly ) so after moving the files to the correct folder it is now showing up in Unreal 4.26

OK after much confusion daz central shows a new version 4 which is supposed to be compatable with 4.26 but daz central is still installing the 4.25 version so I am not sure what is correct anymore - I am just going to buy the version on the unreal market place that currently supports 4.26 and let daz play catchup when and if they do

This is from the daz plugin update page: 

Daz to Unreal Update

• Environment Support
  • Daz to Unreal Environment Transfer
• Fix Bone Rotations
  • Daz to Unreal Fix Bone Rotations
• Basic Support for Genesis 8.1
  • Basic PBRSkin Material
• Fixed the morph list when exporting clothing items separate from the character. This is done by generating the morph list from the character down, rather than just from the clothing item.
• Support for 4.26
• View full list in FAQ
• FAQ: 
• 1. Environment Support -Daz to Unreal Environment Transfer
  2. Added a new animation blueprint to deal with conversion from Quaternion to Euler rotations.
  3. Fix Bone Rotations -Daz to 4. Unreal Fix Bone Rotations
  5. Basic Support for Genesis 8.1
  6. Basic PBRSkin Material
  7. Fixed the morph list when exporting clothing items separate from the character. This is done by generating the morph list from the character down, rather than just from the clothing item.
  8. Support for 4.26
  9. Fix morph preset in Daz Exporter
  10. Allow morph curves to be exported in animations

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

Daz Central is the trike and DIM is the racing bike.  Quickly:

Daz Central limits where things install; DIM lets you install where you want

Daz Central has minimal customization; DIM is highly customizable

DIM is wonderful for offline installations: download a manual zip, place it in DIM's download folder and install...  

By the way, to give you an idea of how versatile G1 is, the central female figure's outfit is kitbashed from 3 Genesis outfits (Wolf King, Caput Caseum, and Alruna), and her hair is two freebies combined, 3Dream's Boy Hair for V4 and AprilYSH's Horsetail for V4; the central male is wearing Luthbel's High Elves for M3 and IIRC V5 Elite Ponytail.  Several of the other figures are wearing V3 and V4 hair, and one of them is wearing the thoroughly modern Jersey Dress Outfit by Dogz, retextured to fit in.  The skins are a mix of Genesis, V4 and M4 skins; the morphs are a lot of Evolution Muscularity, with some Measure Metrics, Creature Creator, Young Teen Julie, and Olivia.  The metal objects are retextured with DzFire's Real Metals.

Daz Central is DIM with most of the options stripped away for simplicity.  DIM can uninstall anything installed with Daz Central, and can queue multiple items for uninstall/download/install.  In DS you can go to Database Maintenance and reset the database.

I see people rooting for DIM, but isn't that the same installation method as Daz Central with a different skin? 

Downloading 100s of Gigabytes over and over is no fun, but I guess that's where this is going.

1. How do I uninstall everything installed by Central?

2. Just to be safe, I'd like to completely wipe any metadata, detabese, indexing whatever DS is doing to keep it's content in check. Like if I've never had anything Daz related. How do I do that?

I uninstalled Daz IM, I went into the registry and cleaned out all Daz files.  When I reinstall Daz Im it still hold all of my previous settings.  Daz Control central is useless in tems of installing the application.  It gets to 86% and quits. Absolutely useless.

Back to IM.  No matter which path I choose to install Daz 4.x I get an install failed error.  

I want to install Daz 4.x on my C: drive put I want my content on an external drive because it is eating my 2TB drive alive.

This would be so simple if I could uninstall DIM which I can via the Control panel but where is it getting the install paths?  I can't get rid of them.  driving me crazy.

PerttiA said:

If you are using DAZ Connect and DAZ Central or DIM, you are asking for trouble, since DAZ Connect installs everything to non-standard locations, so you will end up having the same content installed multiple times => Problems.

If there is a Connect install any DIM/Daz Central files for the same product will be ignored.

Another vote for DIM, its as easy as downloading it, logging in and selecting what you want to install. Sofar it's the best way to do it, since Central and Connect can be lackluster with their results.

If you are using DAZ Connect and DAZ Central or DIM, you are asking for trouble, since DAZ Connect installs everything to non-standard locations, so you will end up having the same content installed multiple times => Problems.

Daz has the Central only for those looking for an easier way. I still use DIM and Daz is still supporting it.

jbowler said:

 

Mine is dated 1/6/2021 (US format; month first).  If you are using DIM you can deinstall and reinstall the general release package.  That should fix problems with missing files in Program Files.

Smart clue! thanks. I find it.

I installed DS by DIM.  Since 4.14 Beta, my DStudio is no more in Program Files in hard disk C, however (useless) folders remain. It used the old folder for daz central to install 4.14 beta and of course 4.15 general release. The weird thing is that I had uninstalled DAZ (nightmare) Central because was a pain. Now DazStudio 4.15  resources lives in external disk U  in \Applications\64-bit\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\resources\, the old and abandoned custom folder for my erased daz central.

Case closed.

May I suggest that you use DIMif Daz Central isn't serving your needs: https://www.daz3d.com/install-manager-info/   DIM does install V4 and her content.  Install it from the official link.  Open the program, configure where things should download and go by clicking on the gear and choosing locations.  Login as you would for the DAZ3d site, and download and install your content.  There is a button to tell it to delete installers when it is done.  You can also manually install using it by going to the order/ account pages of your acount, downloading the manual install zips, place them in the folder, Install Manager > Downloads,  and opening DIM, trigger the little Refresh pinwheel near the top, and hit install.  

Pre DS 4.15 I was using only Daz Connect (the build in thing in Daz Stuido) to install all my assets. I know it can't install V4 but whatever. Problem was there were some packages that just won't install correctly even after multiple re-installations. So that and V4 I couldn't get my entire library installed.

Come DS 4.15, Daz has been pushing us to use Daz Central, I don't like it, I don't get the point of it since installing things from inside DS is way more convenient, but I thought they've been pushing this for a while, probably have some long term plan for it, might aswell jump on the wagon. So I uninstalled everything from Daz Connect and Started over with Daz Central.

Frist terror - there's no install all, I had to individually click "Install" for 2000+ packages. Don't ask.

Finally done, everything installed with Daz Central, open Daz Studio about 350 packages are marked grey. Double check with Central, they're installed, check files on HDD - Yep, present. DS just won't recognize them as installed. Let it scan for content and what not. Same thing. Fine, install the "missing" ones via Daz Connect.

Start doing stuff with DS, I notice some files show errors...

So my question is how (after 4 installation methods) do I properly install all my content, without duplicate and busted files. I really would love it to work as intended. 

"As far as I have understood, PA:s have nothing to do with Metadata, that's done by DAZ."

Okay, but metadata problems generated by Daz itself are just as bad, or maybe worse, than if the PAs make the mistakes and Daz either fails to notice and correct them, or just doesn't care about them.  The central point is that the end user gets a product with problems that should have been detected with minor QC efforts, and those problems should be corrected for the item goes on sale.

The Brig said:

Consider yourselves lucky to even have that. I've tried installing through DIM and Daz Central and I can't find it anywhere, even using the paths HoMart's shown.

I've you install through DIM just go to the "installed" tab and let it display the installed files to see their location on your system.

Consider yourselves lucky to even have that. I've tried installing through DIM and Daz Central and I can't find it anywhere, even using the paths HoMart's shown.

tiffanie_gray_aceaa3bc71 said:

I noticed that about the dual file.
anyway, I shut everything down, cleared the log, then opened DS up.
I opened CW
I repopulated it with the proper files (no dup)
I repopulated the image icon and the names, et. al.
I Unzipped the folders
I then clicked Analyze
Got the same thing.
So, here is the Daz log
 

RiverSoftArt said:

tiffanie_gray_aceaa3bc71 said:

And to make matters stranger, I just tried it using a Renderosity product, and after figuring out that I had to unzip the original file into 2 zips, it worked fine.
The Hivewire files don't have hidden zips, so I don't know what the issue is. and why it didn't work.

I don't think you posted the entire Daz log (not the log in the dialog).  I would expect to see more messages.  Can you check again?  And make sure you run CW twice.  Daz Studio has a tendency to not show the last 3 or 4 log messages until something else gets written to the log.

The one thing I see strange is that there are 2 zip #4s.  

Extracting files from I:\3D Content Backup\Zip files for 3D Content\All HiveWire 3D Content\Dawn\Characters\10915-dawn-special-edition-textures-ds-psr-4of4.zip...

16:01:10 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time): Extracting files from I:\3D Content Backup\Zip files for 3D Content\All HiveWire 3D Content\Dawn\Characters\10915-dawn-special-edition-textures-ds-psr-4of4(1).zip...

I am wondering if maybe the collision between two exact zips would cause a problem?  It shouldn't, but I will need to think about it.  

Ok, this was helpful.  The script crashed:

2021-01-25 20:34:11.843 WARNING: Script Error: Line 2081
2021-01-25 20:34:11.843 WARNING: TypeError: Result of expression 'compat2' [undefined] is not an object.

The problem is that your version is older than mine and that line is no longer the same for me.  Can you PM me your email address so I can send you the latest?

tiffanie_gray_aceaa3bc71 said:

I noticed that about the dual file.
anyway, I shut everything down, cleared the log, then opened DS up.
I opened CW
I repopulated it with the proper files (no dup)
I repopulated the image icon and the names, et. al.
I Unzipped the folders
I then clicked Analyze
Got the same thing.
So, here is the Daz log
 

RiverSoftArt said:

tiffanie_gray_aceaa3bc71 said:

And to make matters stranger, I just tried it using a Renderosity product, and after figuring out that I had to unzip the original file into 2 zips, it worked fine.
The Hivewire files don't have hidden zips, so I don't know what the issue is. and why it didn't work.

I don't think you posted the entire Daz log (not the log in the dialog).  I would expect to see more messages.  Can you check again?  And make sure you run CW twice.  Daz Studio has a tendency to not show the last 3 or 4 log messages until something else gets written to the log.

The one thing I see strange is that there are 2 zip #4s.  

Extracting files from I:\3D Content Backup\Zip files for 3D Content\All HiveWire 3D Content\Dawn\Characters\10915-dawn-special-edition-textures-ds-psr-4of4.zip...

16:01:10 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time): Extracting files from I:\3D Content Backup\Zip files for 3D Content\All HiveWire 3D Content\Dawn\Characters\10915-dawn-special-edition-textures-ds-psr-4of4(1).zip...

I am wondering if maybe the collision between two exact zips would cause a problem?  It shouldn't, but I will need to think about it.  

Ok, this was helpful.  The script crashed:

2021-01-25 20:34:11.843 WARNING: Script Error: Line 2081
2021-01-25 20:34:11.843 WARNING: TypeError: Result of expression 'compat2' [undefined] is not an object.

The problem is that your version is older than mine and that line is no longer the same for me.  Can you PM me your email address so I can send you the latest?