Well, I missed the deadline.

However, I think the NAE (Not An Entry) I was doing actually works even better with just a summary of the idea, leaving the image to be created in the mind of the viewer.

Le Cirque Du Beaucoup De Coucou Dans Les Nuages*

Le Cirque Du Coucouville-les-Nuées !

The interior of a big top, with all the spotlights on the central ring. The audience, all of whom are birds of various types, can be dimly seen. Within the central ring is a huge birdcage, inside which is a rooster in gaudy attire, cock-a-doodle-dooing, strutting his stuff cockerel fashion and, with the aid of various kitchen utensils, goading the three trained (but not pleased) Colonel Sanders lookalikes to act like chickens. And you can see from their eyes that they're thinking "Mmmm ! Spicy rooster drumsticks..."

*I've probably got my de/du all wrong - it's supposed to be "The Circus Of Much Cuckoo In The Clouds" in French. You know, Le Cirque Du Soleil. Cloud Cuckoo Land. Aristophanes. Edit -m just found that the French translation is usually "Coucouville-les-Nuées" !

There is also a script within Cinema4D which will open the file automatically without having to go to the temporary folder to locate file and import as an FBX. I lean't about this when I reinstalled Central and my previous problems seemed to have been ironed out there as well.

Good to know!

Install Manager has more options and facilities, it is a super-set of Central as I understand it.

ok, many thanks!

Lemme try that again.

Hi Richard,

could you please point me to a proper installation guide for MeasureMetrix or tell me how to install it?

I'm sitting here and get always the same message for (DS4_MeasureMetrics_1.6.1.118_Win64.exe)  "can't find the installation path for Daz Studio 4.12 (64bit) setup is closing"

I installed the FigureMetrix with no problems because I could tell where to install it but, that does not work for MeasureMetrix.

Or, which of those (DS4_MeasureMetrics_1.6.1.118_Win64.exe / 16684_FigureMetricsforDAZStudio46Win_1.4_ds.exe / IM00016684-21_FigureMetricsforDAZStudio46Content) is the bloody plugin of which the script in Daz studio is talking about when I try to run it?

I know about the serial number, so yeah that should be no problem.

I installed the content via Daz Central.

I installed the "FigureMetrics" manual.

I just can't figure out what to do with the "MeasureMetrics.exe"

so yeah, any idea what I'm missing here?

thanks

Thank you everyone. My sister from Jacksonville FaceTimed her at 3pm this afternoon (Central, so almost two hours ago) and they chatted for 15 minutes. The nurses have a tablet just for the COVID unit so the families can chat. Mom was very upbeat and said the nurses were wonderful. So she had a good day, not crying and depressed. :)  

That is good to hear. Is she feeling pretty OK then? Not too many symptoms?

Thank you everyone. My sister from Jacksonville FaceTimed her at 3pm this afternoon (Central, so almost two hours ago) and they chatted for 15 minutes. The nurses have a tablet just for the COVID unit so the families can chat. Mom was very upbeat and said the nurses were wonderful. So she had a good day, not crying and depressed. :)  

Install Manager has more options and facilities, it is a super-set of Central as I understand it.

Having another go at this - am I right in thinking Daz Central and Daz Install manager enable you to do the same thing?

(ie optionally download daz products)

I'm not sure which to use?

There is also a script within Cinema4D which will open the file automatically without having to go to the temporary folder to locate file and import as an FBX. I lean't about this when I reinstalled Central and my previous problems seemed to have been ironed out there as well.

Terra Nova has no download links in Product Library

Anybody else seeing this

Terra Nova install types is still marked as Daz Central only. This needs to be fixed.

The "OPEN" button in Daz Central seems to be broken. I can't even open Daz Studios... 

yeah, I used DIM but my point is should be a download for Daz studio available on-site, but download Daz studio page has you download Daz central first, then use that to download Daz studio.

Don't see the sense of that, allow people the choice of downloading Daz studio directly from the site or use DIM or use Daz Central.

variety of options is a great thing, especially since Daz central doesn't appear to be very popular, not something I plan to ever use.

@RangerRick, thanks for the alert. I just took Terra Nova out of my cart. No way I am going near Daz Central, nor wait for it to get fixed. Added the expression pack in the cart to make the 4 add-ons. Lower price now too.

@memcneil70. I didn't mean to imply it's supposed to be that way. I believe it's a mistake that will be fixed. It's in my cart and I'll check again after I get back from buying groceries. :-)

@RangerRick, thanks for the alert. I just took Terra Nova out of my cart. No way I am going near Daz Central, nor wait for it to get fixed. Added the expression pack in the cart to make the 4 add-ons. Lower price now too.

Terra Nova has no download links in Product Library

Anybody else seeing this

It looks like another goof up of only listing Daz Central for Install Types. At least I hope it's a mistake. 

It's always a mistake. For some reason the system lists Daz Central if the install files aren't there. If the files were there DIM and Central use the same files, so anything Daz Central can download, DIM can too.

Terra Nova has no download links in Product Library

Anybody else seeing this

It looks like another goof up of only listing Daz Central for Install Types. At least I hope it's a mistake. 

I found one thing that I might have done wrong (or maybe not ideal). Some of the content I installed directly into the DAZ Library path rather than my local library. Sorry, I'm not sure of the DAZ terms for these. I have two directories:

1. c:\Daz 3D\Applications\data\DAZ 3D\My DAZ 3D Library\
2. c:\user\michael\Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Library\

All of the stuff DIM installs goes into the first. I extracted some of the zip files into the first also, but now I'm wondering if I should have put it in the second instead. 

Also, either DIM or Daz Central will continuously create shortcuts on my desktop. Do these programs attempt to validate the install and could deleting the desktop shortcut trigger a reinstall? I just now found the checkbox in DIM to disable that, so maybe that part will go away now.

So recently had some issues with my computer which led to me having to reinstall everything Daz related, not too big a thing, as setting up a fresh Daz every now and again isn't a bad thing to do.

However, I come to the site and find that there is no direct link for downloading Daz studio? like what the hell?

I assume I have not missed a direct link somewhere?

I go to the page to download Daz and told to download Daz Central.........nope, no interest in that, am happy with Daz Install Manager. I just want to download daz studio, then install DIM and so forth. 

It appears like you trying to force Daz Central on to people but when I tried it, it kept going to 79% when downloading Daz Studio, then jump back to 71% every time it hit 79%, seemed the program downloaded but wasn't on my main drive, which is where I wanted to install it.

As this saying goes, if it's not broke, don't fix it, Daz install manager is fine.

Overall point, please keep a direct download link for Daz Studio without having to download Daz Central, not everyone is going want to download Central.

Hi guys, 

I'm new to Daz Studio and I'm trying to install Genesis 3 female. I thought I should install the "Genesis 3 Starter Essentials" from Daz Central but after doing that I can see that I only have the Genesis 3 Male figure but not the female.

Do you know if I am doing something wrong or if I should install some other package?

Thanks

Gianni