Richard Haseltine said:

[...] in the log-in dialogue you must check Update Metadata or you can use the same command in the Connect menu [...]

I suppose it means it will remove all the fixes I made on metadata for products from the Daz store?

I buy a lot from there (among other sites). 

1) Check the format (not everything FBX will import into Daz)

2) Double check whether or not it has UVs (Think outer skin) and Textures. Many items will have materials created by the rendering engine and not have actual textures you can use.

3) Quality Control is hit or miss. Some items will be "game-ready" and work just fine. Others will NOT be optimized and freeze your machine. (look for reviews). Some DO NOT look good close up.

4) Sort by price both ways- so you can see the full range. Some 4-dollar items will work better than the 50-dollar items.

5) Beware of items from video games, Manga, anime and such. There's tons of products based on established IPs. Always google the name and read the description very carefully.

6) Organize your purchases from the start. I save all files in a folder with the exact name of the item and save copies of the promo art in the folder itself and the general directory.

7) Characters/figures are NOT RIGGED for daz Studio. So they will not move or take poses. What I have done- is broken a product up into peices and glued them into place on top of a Daz figure as a workaround.

8) Once you import, you'll need to check the scale. Sometimes you can't see the item because it is so small, other times you can't see an imported item because it's so big. Either re-import or adjust scale yourself.

9) You may need to go to the surfaces tab and adjust opacity for some imports.

10) For items that do work and have doors, latches and any kind of mobility, you may be able to use Blender to Export the items in pieces and use a Null (to attach items and control their centerpoints) to make them swivel, turn, open and close as you see fit.

nabob21 said:

Thanks for the reply, Richard. I managed to find everything I was looking for and then install it. One more question, if you don't mind. Once I connect to Daz Studio Premier online, I am able to then work offline for a period of time before I have to reconnect online again. During those periods when I am working offline, are these exclusive characters still available to me?

They are.  Just login roughly once every week and a half or two weeks to keep them authorized; you can logout as soon as the metadata updates.

Those must be installed through Daz Studio, they don't have DIM/manual installation options. You need to let DS connect to your account, Connect>Log-in, and in the log-in dialogue you must check Update Metadata or you can use the same command in the Connect menu. Once you have done that you should be able to find the products in the Install pane, or the All or Available install state filters at the bottom of the Products tab of Smart Content, or listed alphabetically after the entries for installed products in the Content Library pane under products. Just double-clck on the product entry to install it (the files go to the location set for the daz Connect Data Drectory in Edt>Preferences>Content tab, Content Directory Manager)

Make sure the bone layer is not hidden which is seperate from be ing hidden in the View Layer where things are normally hidden and unhidden. This happens from time to time. "Properties Editor > Armature Tab (green running guy) > Bone Collections " Usually its under custom or somethign like that.
Outside of that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ try an import on a fresh G9 with nothing dialed in to see what happens and compare. 

ok so the photo was corrupted and at 0kb which was after that daz crash, i had to copy the image and replace it as well as deleting Rosita via install manager and then reinstall it and then reimport the meta data and it finally worked (i double checked just to now and the image is still there no broken corrupted issues) it was just really stressful though 

update-thought it worked but then again when i open the daz today the image broke again untill i re-import metadata for it :( 

I'm trying to export a G9 model with Dicktator to blender using diffeomorphic and everything works fine expect for the rig, when I import to Blender there's no rig on dicktator, I'm using Blender 5.0 with everything updated as far as I know so I don't know what's the problem. I checked everything, global settings, import settings and nothing. It's not hidden either.  

Ati said:

That's an odd product. Doesn't even have a readme, for some reason. I assume the issue is with the product itself (ie: we don't have data about it for some reason, most likely related to it being strangely set up). I'll take a look at that if I don't forget.

Daz's metadata is not always comprehensive; there are quite a few products without a ReadMe, particularly the bundles (some even had their ReadMe deleted when Daz rejigged their composition), some very old ones and also newer products such as SYA Mariko and Malice for Genesis 9. [EDIT] Now Fixed [/EDIT]

As I mentioned, that particular product was not the best example as it is a Daz+ Freebie, so it is unlikely that anyone would have set up a notification for it; which I guess is how products are added to your database; although as far as I can tell it is a standard product set up, it appears the same as other products in the Free 3D Models listing of older products.

I'll keep an eye out and if I come across others I will update you.

memcneil70 said:

I have rarely found a wishlist item in either QG or the Outlet. That might be due to purchasing like crazy over the past ten years the items I wanted without restraint. The only items I have found to buy have been highlighted by others in the G2 thread or other threads, or I have been searching for something and double-checked a PA's products again. 

Premiere or not to. I chose not to. I have watched the characters that have been released and I think there was one I did wish I could have it. One. But there is no way I would log in D|S and allow that handshake to destroy my metadata and thumbnails again. Never again. Yes, members get better financial deals than DAZ+ but it is not worth the destruction of my database. I can live without Premiere.

G9 vs G8/G8.1 or G3 - each time there was a change over I felt a kick in the pants. But I went with the flow. Some products have never caught up for G9 from the PAs.

I am more worried about how many much loved scripts/plug-ins will fall to the side when DS6 is the go to program and DS4 is kicked to the curb.

I have been on Premiere since not long after it started and I have not let Daz log in in years. The only missing things are the premier-only characters (largely add-on shapes to the main characters) and I think some utilities. All the benefits I was interested in - the extra tokens, sale discounts, free bundles - don't involve logging in on Daz itself. 

When tryng to apply the different colors to the Mythic Long Hair, it errors out saying the operation cannot be performed, check log.

This is what the log says:

2026-02-13 20:36:38.192 [INFO] :: Prepare asset load (merge): /People/Genesis 9/Hair/Daz Originals/Mythic Long Hair/Materials/Mythic Long Hair Blonde.duf

2026-02-13 20:36:38.192 [INFO] :: Locking viewport redraw...

2026-02-13 20:36:38.192 [INFO] :: Viewport redraw locked.

2026-02-13 20:36:38.351 [VERBOSE] :: Native format content directories: 2

2026-02-13 20:36:38.351 [VERBOSE] :: Poser format content directories: 28

2026-02-13 20:36:38.351 [VERBOSE] :: Other import format content directories: 0

2026-02-13 20:36:38.351 [INFO] :: Begin asset load (merge): /People/Genesis 9/Hair/Daz Originals/Mythic Long Hair/Materials/Mythic Long Hair Blonde.duf

2026-02-13 20:36:38.367 [INFO] :: Determining missing assets...

2026-02-13 20:36:48.811 [WARNING] :: Invalid hierarchy for selected node(s) and "preset_hierarchical_material" type; no root(s) found.

2026-02-13 20:36:48.811 [WARNING] :: Error loading asset: C:/Users/ddw/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Library/people/genesis 9/hair/daz originals/mythic long hair/materials/mythic long hair blonde.duf

Operation failed

Any ideas what's causing it?

I'm running version 4.24, and had this proplem before the last update

Read Objects needs to be checked in the import options dialogue, and they do need to be set that way in the OBJ (but if they import separately into other applications they probably are).

Richard Haseltine said:

DS can now import separate items.

Well going by the OPs post that's not happening, so I guess it only works on OBJ created with specific programs, which means 99% of the existing OBJ probably wont work with it either.

I have rarely found a wishlist item in either QG or the Outlet. That might be due to purchasing like crazy over the past ten years the items I wanted without restraint. The only items I have found to buy have been highlighted by others in the G2 thread or other threads, or I have been searching for something and double-checked a PA's products again. 

Premiere or not to. I chose not to. I have watched the characters that have been released and I think there was one I did wish I could have it. One. But there is no way I would log in D|S and allow that handshake to destroy my metadata and thumbnails again. Never again. Yes, members get better financial deals than DAZ+ but it is not worth the destruction of my database. I can live without Premiere.

G9 vs G8/G8.1 or G3 - each time there was a change over I felt a kick in the pants. But I went with the flow. Some products have never caught up for G9 from the PAs.

I am more worried about how many much loved scripts/plug-ins will fall to the side when DS6 is the go to program and DS4 is kicked to the curb.

I found one of the shaders that I liked, so I used it to trigger the sale of my wishlist. And of course MartinJFrost's daffodils were perfect for the spring also dropped further in price. My wishlist is only dated back to those items released in June 2025, but I am clearing out some hairs and eight Fabiana's older products brought over (yeah, metadata but I will phase them in slowly). Amazing how items not going over $3.00 or $4.00 can add up when totalled. The shaders were the only item not affected by my tokens. 

I thought this was a 'store-wide' wishlist sale?

OK, and by File Manager you mean the file dialogue for Save, Open, Import, Export and so on? If so I don't think it can be  customised by script or editing config files.

Add button or menu to the fm dialog for easier directory access if I have to jump around, e.g. import-export activity. Not favorites in terms of Daz favorite items.

i installed it via the DIM, i tried uninstalling and reinstalling and it still persists, it seems to be temporary fixed if i re import meta data from the content db maintenance 

HELP I NEED ASSISTANCE I RECENTALLY BOUGHT A NEW FIGURE Rosita for Genesis 8 and 8.1 Female everything was ok UNTIL A RANDOM CRASH Occured on the daz, and now The product is still working fine But the product image itself Is replaced by a permanent broken image, I tried eveything, I Tried updating metadata i tried uninstalling and reinstalling this and Still the Image is broken on the product page but everything else works fine PLEASE SOMEONE HELP I DONT WANT TO HAVE TO END UP REFUNDING THIS heres an image to show what i mean

Bejaymac said:

Wavefront OBJ is set to contain one mesh, all objects are set as mesh groups, and that is how DS imports them, one mesh with lots of mesh groups, as a result you only get one item in the scene tab.

DS can now import separate items.

Studio's handling of the MTL file seems to change with the build, any changes to the Poser Importer (which the OBJ importer is part of) can cause pathing issues, safest way to get around this to make sure the pathways in the MTL are the absolute pathways to where the textures are stored on your system (including the drive letter).

I've found no issue with both DS 2025 Alpha and 2026 Alpha when importing OBJ + MTL files. Diffuse texture maps are shown correctly in Viewport... There should be no change in OBJ Importer of DS 2026.... not sure why DS 2026 failed you. 

As for grouping, starting from DS 2025 Alpha, OBJ Importer gives a new option of Read Objects, which can read OBJ file that contains Separate Objects. It now works well with my Blender workflow i.e. I save multiple items as an OBJ file with exporting materials in Blender, then DS 2025/2026 can import the OBJ file as multiple objects with assigned texture maps + correct surface names, so far so good ~

But I know nothing about SketchUp... not sure if it can save an OBJ file with data of separate objects ...