I'm a pretty novice programmer, and doing a search with various match co-efficients is within my capability (done it for a spell checker, and it's directly applicable for searches), so I find it impossible to believe that programmers as good as those who come up with DS can't come up with a better one. Getting the budget and time to do so is an entirely different matter.

Regards

Richard

In the town of Colchester in Essex there is a zoo that's somewhat notorious for accidentally giving zoo animals their freedom. In 2012 there was another full scale emergency about an escaped male lion that had been seen in the town. It had happened frequently enough that helicopters, police vans, the lot, were scrambled before even contacting the zoo. Nothing was found, and the zoo (when finally contacted) said all lions were accounted for. It's thought a ginger Maine Coon with a Lion Cut for summer had been spotted. Here's the article from the UK national Newspaper 'The Daily Mail':  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2193984/Essex-Lion-picture-revealed-police-search-admit-probably-large-domestic-cat.html  And a Maine Coon's not even as big as a Savannah cat.

Regards,

Richard

I find that often the Daz search engine is like internet searches back in the day... if you confuse it, it gives you random skimpsear.

You can also do the tried and true google search tagging site:www.daz3d.com/shop in the search. There are other ways to search using google as well.

nonesuch00 said:

Exactly why I won't dump my humongous and unweildy wishlist. I'd never find that material again if I had to rely on the store search.

^^^ This. It's not so much a wishlist as a repository for things I might someday in the far future need and don't want to spend three hours trying to locate.

Exactly why I won't dump my humongous and unweildy wishlist. I'd never find that material again if I had to rely on the store search.

They could sort in order of match.

Today when you search you get a total mix.

@ati or whoever happens to know the answer. I am brand new to Daz Deals; just learned about it yesterday and added a monthly pro sub today to check out all features. One thing that is not clear to me: do my hidden items and comments sync across multiple browsers? To be more specific, I switch frequently between a Mac and PC (using Brave on both). I already did a lot of customizing on the Mac. If synchronizing comments and hidden flags between the two computers is possible, I have not yet discerned how to do that. I suspect this has been asked and answered before, but could not find an answer just by browsing through the forum. Please advise, and thanks!

It took me awhile to catch onto Genesis 8. But when I did it was because I saw an abundance of clothing for males. Also I delighted at the sight of so many mature characters, hair, etc.

So that's a major let down from Genesis 8 to Genesis 9.

Oh, and I don't search for anything. I select available options from drop down menus. Last time I looked, there is no option to select male clothes.

It's a known (and annoying) issue. If your search term gets an exact match, it doesn't return anything else.

There are at least half a dozen products in the store with "everyday" in the name. Mostly G8 but even G9. Yet when I search for them I get this:

It may be less prevalent, but 'none' is definitely ... a bit off.

I did a search for 'suit' limited to Genesis 9 and got at least 7 clearly masculine-oriented modern outfits, plus a few more that have feminine promos but could easily adapt to masculine. (Plus scifi and fantasy stuff, of course)

It would be nice if it was easier to filter for mostly masculine or feminine items, though.

Ron Knights said:

Why should I pay anyone to find deals at DAZ?! Why does DAZ make things so hard?!

Guess that's why I haven't shopped here for a long time.

Personally, I don't find it hard to navigate and shop here. I look at products, if something interests me, I wishlist it if not on sale. If on sale I add to the cart and checkout, it's pretty straigtforward IMO. I do use the free version of Daz Deals, have for years., The search option isn't as accurate as I would like, but I can usally find what I want with the right keyword. 

There are various converter products to go between different generations (clothes, hair, characters, etc). For example: https://www.daz3d.com/clothing-converter-from-genesis-8-female-to-genesis-3-female and https://daz3d.com/clothing-converter-from-genesis-8-male-to-genesis-3-male convert clothes from Genesis 8 to 3 (female and male, respectively).

A store search for 'converter' throws up 4 pages to sift through if you want pose/hair-converters too.

Lighting - not sure. I tend to use HDRI or emissive surfaces rather than Daz default lights. Perhaps someone with more expertise there can weigh in.

A lot is going to depend on your computer and graphics card, the older they are, the longer they take. You will also hear things along the lines of optimization, which can reduce the load on your computer and on Daz, making it faster.

As for tutorials, there are many. If you check the store for animations, many of them come with tutorials that can give you a starting point idea of how things work.

When on youtube do a search for DAZ3D animation, that should give you a pretty good starter list. Depending on if youtube behaves, you might get a lot of older video's, which is frustrating. One person to look up is WPGuru, he has a few video's on animation.

Crossposted from Daz+ forum.

The Priestess

New items used: FN Eleanor for G9, TF Mystic Moon Tiara, Gothic Lace Shaders, SY Magic Portals (partially invisible because of all the postwork ), and Ron's Antique Glass Plate Textures (partially responsible for the amount of postwork). Other items and original render for comparison in the gallery.

milliethegreat said:

crosswind said:

If you exported assets to UE with Daz official DTU plugin, better firstly try with the ones from here - https://github.com/David-Vodhanel/DazToUnreal or https://github.com/daz3d/DazToUnreal/releases

I have no idea how "crippled" the imported figure looks... better post a screen shot.

how to post a screenshot on daz forum ????

Image uploading seems to be broken on the forums right now, but you could host it somewhere else like imgur and embed/link it from there.

I just downloaded the latest bridge from GitHub and it sent a G8 to Unreal without issue. Try a G8 to see if that works better, and maybe the problem is just G9. If the G8 is also munched, then the problem is something else.

crosswind said:

If you exported assets to UE with Daz official DTU plugin, better firstly try with the ones from here - https://github.com/David-Vodhanel/DazToUnreal or https://github.com/daz3d/DazToUnreal/releases

I have no idea how "crippled" the imported figure looks... better post a screen shot.

how to post a screenshot on daz forum ????

Sorry, I have found it. I did a search of my DIM. It is a product no longer shown on DAZ3D.com. It's Aviatrix for Genesis 8.1 Females.