Yeah... now the cart price went to $25.65 (I also had another new item (the Quad) in my cart.)

The activity of blacksmithing is engaging enough for games and animations. A blacksmith would have to be muscular in real life, it's not like they are at a keyboard eating chips. I know there are still blacksmiths that ply their trade but not many and for most it amounts to a few strikes as a gang of tourist come through.

Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven had a blacksmith as the central figure, played by Orlando Bloom, which seemed kind of dumb. It's not about Orlando's skill as an actor as much as it was his body mass.

Now, if it were Russell "Fightin' 'round the world" Crowe, another Ridley Scott guy, then it would have been a little more believable than Orlando Bloom.

barbult, thank you so much for explaining this!  I recently found out that I have double installed all of my content with both DIM and DAZ Connect.  My husband had been griping with me over filling up my new hard drive so fast, and now I know why!

I did an experiment with one of the double installed products.  I uninstalled from within DAZ with DAZ Connect, exited DAZ, started DAZ again and the product was not in Smart Content / All, but it was in Smart Content / Available.  DIM said it was installed, so I exited DAZ, uninstalled with DIM, installed with DIM and the product was again available in Smart Content / All. (with the very tempting swirly icon... must....not....click....)

This will be a very tedious process with all of my content.  Can I just delete the items in the /cloud directory?  or will that completely break everything? 

Thank you very much for your wonderful information!

First you need to realize that there are at least 4 ways to install Daz content products:

1. Daz Install Manager (DIM), a standalone application that can install Daz Studio, plugins, and content. It installs the content into your Content Library. 
2. Daz Central, a graphic oriented, stripped down and simplified version of DIM, designed for new users who aren't familiar enough with Daz to know how to use DIM. It installs into a default locations (as I understand it). If you already use DIM, these Daz Central location might be different and reconfigure your DIM settings without you being aware of it. If you are comfortable with DIM already, don't try Daz Central, until they fix that problem anyway.
3. Manual installation, where you download the product from your account Product Library, unzip the download and copy the files and folders to the correct place in your Content Library.
4. Daz Connect, which is what you are using when you install a product from inside Daz Studio. This installs the products into a completely different location and folder structure than DIM uses. Everything installed by Daz Connect falls under a "cloud" folder, which isn't in the cloud, but is on your own computer. The name "cloud" is a continuing source of customer confusion. Daz Connect was originally designed to be required in order to install encrypted products. After a few months, Daz gave up on encrypting product downloads, but never explained why. Encryption was supposed to combat piracy, but it caused a lot of customer outrage and anger about suspected "DRM" issues. If you install a product with DIM and then install it with from inside Daz Studio with Daz Connect, you will end up with the product installed twice in two different places. Daz Studio will always use the Daz Connect version in that case. Any  updates to that product installed with DIM after that will be ignored.

Some products cannot be installed by all 4 methods. For example, some script products and plugin products don't work properly when installed with Daz Connect. I'm not aware of any products that can ONLY be installed with Daz Connect, but it is possible that you found some. I doubt it, though.It is more likely that the product is tagged incorrectly in DIM or that you have download filtering configured to hide those products. 

Beta can onlt be installed with DIM or Central (hurck pooie).

Daz Central is not for betas (I guess as part of the simplified experience for new users aspect)

Beta can onlt be installed with DIM or Central (hurck pooie).

in DAZ Central but that was all so I figured pointing to my C4D directory will be good but it wasn't

I have run into several issues with DAZ Central.

1. The length of time for DAZ Central to load takes hours and I have very high speed internet connection over 400MB.

2. DAZ Central wanted me to Install a new version of DAZ Studio. This is a problem because I have DAZ folders across multiple drives and all of my custom settings were replaced with everything on the "C" drive. My library fills several drives that are more than 4TB.

3. The single install for DAZ Studio or the Install Manager are no longer available on the DAZ web site. 

Is anyone else having similar problems?

nemmeno sapevo esistessero aggiornamenti di G8.

Se non lo sai, sallo! (cit.)

Si, ci sono stati aggiornamenti per G8 e tutte le altre figure. Non so immaginare come tu non possa essertene accorto, nella lista del DIM e in Connect vengono messi bene in evidenza. Solo quel fracassone di central non sembra fare quella notifica.

Ti linko uno screenshot della mia lista, è quella che racchiude tutti i morph su G8 che ho installati, dalla dimensione del cursore puoi capire grossomodo se la mia è più piccola o più grande della tua.
Ci ho messo quattro secondi esatti stavolta a caricare la figura.

4 secondi per caricare una figura G8 con migliaia di morph installati?! Che stregoneria è mai questa?!

E come dovrei fare per provare la versione vecchia di G8?

nemmeno sapevo esistessero aggiornamenti di G8.

Se non lo sai, sallo! (cit.)

Si, ci sono stati aggiornamenti per G8 e tutte le altre figure. Non so immaginare come tu non possa essertene accorto, nella lista del DIM e in Connect vengono messi bene in evidenza. Solo quel fracassone di central non sembra fare quella notifica.

Ti linko uno screenshot della mia lista, è quella che racchiude tutti i morph su G8 che ho installati, dalla dimensione del cursore puoi capire grossomodo se la mia è più piccola o più grande della tua.
Ci ho messo quattro secondi esatti stavolta a caricare la figura.

Don't use Daz Central.  Use DIM.  Installed the new DS beta with no issues.

so I want to download the latest level of Studio and install it.

1. i'm logged in

2. I already have Central installed on my machine

3. I had a lower level of studio but i've uninstalled it

The webpage couldn't tell I was already logged in, it forced me to 'login' again.

then

i can't just download studio, i have to REDOWNLOAD AND INSTALL central, the same version I already have installed, to get studio?

what?

seriously?

someone fix the (snip) website!

OK, that seems to have worked after trying it with one install, thank you!

Next question...

Is there a quick way to select and install everything, as with the old install manager?

Or do I have to click each asset in turn?

uhm.. as I said I don't use Central but I remeber reading someone reporting that as an issue.. but it was some time ago, maybe in the meantime they added that option somewhere.. 

if not it would be quickly to go to your browser, account, orders and click the green Download & Install for each full order

Uninstall everything including Central.  Go to your Product Library and select just about any product.  At the bottom of the product page will be a link to downlooad DIM.  Install DIM and run it in Offline mode the first time so you can set the preferences (click the cog icon) to your liking.

you need to change the default library path from daz central.. I don't use it but the FAQ in https://www.daz3d.com/dazcentral say:

How do I change my installation paths in DazCentral?

Click on the gear icon in the top right corner and you will be able to change your installation path under Base Path Location

I had a complete train wreck crash in windows 10, and need to reinstall everythinf.

I want to be sure that my Daz content is NOT on the C: drive, which is a small but fast SSD.

I installed the main program to a different drive, but I did not spot the option to set the content drive when Daz Studio was installed by Daz Central. I found the content directory manager, but I don't understand how to direct everything to a bigger drive. Can someone point me at a more detailed explanation please?

How do I totally diable DS from looking for the database?

It is just an annoyance while booting that I would prefer to avoid. ( this is not critical as it does not impede anything...just like to let DS boot without having to wait for then dismiss that missing DB errror )

I cannot use it anyway in my setup.

I have 4 machines on network one of which is a server for content for the other three. One machine is my production machine while two others serve as render engines.  Using the database simply does not work for my multi PC environment with a central server that does NOT run DAZ only serves files.

 

 

@paul_ae567ab9 Forgive me if I have misunderstood what you are trying to do.

If I remember correctly while I was getting DS to run under Linux, the Postgres DB is literally just a plain vanilla Postgres DB. Did you try running it on your server, and having the production/render machines point to it? We always seem to configure the connection string as localhost or the same IP as the computer using it, but I see no reason why it wouldn't work with the IP of your server instead.

Something is broken on the Daz side. Purchase I made today won't download with DIM, Daz Central or Manual Download. Went back and tried a few past purchases and all of those files worked fine for Manual Download. Not file size related, tried some smaller files and larger files with no issue.

That prsumably means you installed manually? The folders from the Content folder in the zip are the ones that need to go into your Content Directory, not the Content older itself (it's there as a placeholder for the actual content directory). If you are using Windows you can just select everything from the Content folder and paste it into the Content Dierctrory (e.g. My Library or My daz 3D Library), or you can use Install Manager, Daz central, or Daz Studio itself to install.

Anyone know how to remove symbolic links without removing the original file/directory? I installed DIM in a new wine prefix, but it links to my Documents folder (in Linux) and I don't want it to. I want this WINEPREFIX to have its own My Documents, Downloads, Pictures, etc, so I want to delete those links and make new folders before I start installing content.

I've searched for explanations, but they're all pretty much the same and they don't tell me exactly which command I should be using; rm, unlink or what?

Just remove the link. Delete in a File Manager or using rm in the terminal.

Careful you don't remove the target, just the link.

The wine prefix actually sets the link to /home/[username]/Documents (the target) in [WinePREFIX]/drive_c/users/[username]/'My Documents' (the link).

The Windows paradigm that results in 'My Documents' storing all user files is a little annoying right enough. (In Unix especially, historically,) everything is considered a file, but not all files are 'documents', is a litte annoying and messy.

You can delete the 'My Documents' link to $HOME/Documents without concern. Removing a link does not affect the target, one may have as many soft links to a target as one likes.

Then you can create a new folder in $HOME to house your content, and create a new link 'My Documents' in the prefix pointing to the new folder (>$ man ln at the cli will help - it's 'ln -s' you want for a Soft Link*). Then, as far as that prefix is concerned, wherever 'My Documents' points is your documents, and other prefixes, should you have any, will still point at $HOME/'Documents'. This is the best method, as far as Windows is concerned, nothing has changed from the default setup.

DIM stores the downloaded archives in drive_c/users/Public/Documents/'DAZ 3d'/'Install Manager'/Downloads - if you keep the archives and don't delete after install, you might want to link from 'DAZ 3D' to a central location if you are going to use DIM on more than one prefix or want a nice large drive to store the archives as backup.

You could use a file manager, but between Gnome, Dolphin, pcman-fm and others, they all deal with symlink creation a little differently, it's damn confusing.

How do I totally diable DS from looking for the database?

It is just an annoyance while booting that I would prefer to avoid. ( this is not critical as it does not impede anything...just like to let DS boot without having to wait for then dismiss that missing DB errror )

I cannot use it anyway in my setup.

I have 4 machines on network one of which is a server for content for the other three. One machine is my production machine while two others serve as render engines.  Using the database simply does not work for my multi PC environment with a central server that does NOT run DAZ only serves files.

Hi, I just purchased iBL Master and installed it through DAZ Central.

I can't find it in DAZ Studio!

The .pdf Manual says that the file should be located in "My Library / Props / Parris / IBL Master". There is no "Props" sub-directory under "My Library".

In DAZ Central, when I click on "Open" next to "iBL Master for Daz Studio" I am brought to my oppened window of DAZ Studio but that's it... no indication as to where iBL Master has been installed.