assuming you are doing things correctly, and from what I read it seems you did (well maybe except adding the same content to more then one place, that is not really an error but still useless and redundant - and more important the Connect folder is only for content installed using Daz Studio itself, the feature called Daz Connect, one of the many way to install official resources, others are Daz Central and DIM), once tyou start DS ot hit the refresh button you need to go to Content library tab and browse until you find the hair..

I have those free dforce hairs and they're are for Genesis 8 Female, so you need to double click folders until you reach them.. something like

Default Library/People/Genesis 8 Female/Hair/zoro_d/French Twist Hair

the first item is the hair model, stuffs in subfolder are presets and colors to apply to the hair.. you'll find many other things into those folders (the default resources installed for the genesis figures, at least)

Your product library page within your account should have downloads, and links for Install Manager and Central

I haven't been here in about six years so I do not have the latest version. When I go to download, it asks me for my first and last name and then I put in my login and password. I click on
"download now" and it takes me to my account page. The only thing that is downloadable on my account page is "Daz central"  I do not know what that means. This has happened at least
four times in a row. I click on download now and it keeps sending me to my account page. I would like to download it again but it seems hard to do.  Thanks.

In your product library it should be here https://www.daz3d.com/downloader/customer/files#prod_39625 . You should also be able to find the installers in Daz Central/Daz Install Manager/The Install pane of Daz Studio is the application is on-line. If it's not showing, have you received the email confirming the order?

Because DAZ Central is "designed for new inexperienced users" and it forces the default install paths for everything. If you want control over your content use DIM or Manual Install.

I'm trying to install DAZ Studio and DAZ Central on my second machine.  I bought a nice little hard drive (D:) just for DAZ stuff.

The problem is... DAZ is a control freak.  It tells me I don't have DAZ studio installed.  It is wrong.  I do.  It's install on D: drive.  But, it won't recognize it.

Not problem I thought.  I'm uninstall it and install it through DAZ Central.

DAZ Central installs DAZ Studio on C: and sets up everything to be loaded on C:.

I don't want C: drive.  I want D: drive.  Why won't it let me tell it to do things on D: drive?

Thanks a lot, I was just searching for that ! 

Just wish for once they had a crew that could make the software actually flawless. Something in DAZ is always dying out or breaking

I mean I download and now I can't even have no more than one window of DAZ open, the vignetting dont even work anymore either. I use to be able to have multiple Daz windows open So if one is rendering an image, I can be working on another image in another window of DAZ. But not anymore...I also noticed the lighting is all dimmed and dark as hell too for 4.11 in the preview. So I can barely see anything. I dont mean when I hit "render" I'm talking just the preview window

when I load a scene or a figure, it's dark/dim. Even when I brighten my screen. So I had no choice but to go back to 4.12 again through the Daz Central method

And I hate it because I can't even have multiple windows open anymore like in other versions of DAZ..It just seems like no one really knows what their doing with this program. A lot of stuff just feels disabled, and the beta version is still the same as the full version when the full version is suppose to be better than the beta.

One can still create instances by using the script posted at the end of this post:

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5112696/#Comment_5112696

As for the dark scene, did you check the Render Settings? If you set it to Defaults, it should be fine.

I made the same mistake , it did not worked messed up everything , uninstall it and use DIM  for the real instalation , you will have 80% less problems , I did works better , but as you said, Not being able to have multiple DAZ windows open is already a disappointment

but there is a script for I believe , but why make easy stuff difficult , they must have a reason .

Just wish for once they had a crew that could make the software actually flawless or close to it in some way. Something in DAZ is always dying out or breaking

I mean I downloaded to 4.12 from DAZ CENTRAL and now I can't even have no more than one window of DAZ open, the vignetting dont even work anymore either (not that I was using it a lot). I use to be able to have multiple Daz windows open. So if one is rendering an image, I can be working on another image in another window of DAZ. But not anymore...I cant even completely close the program down unless I do it through the Task Manager...It just seems like no one really knows what their doing with this program because there is always something wrong with it. A lot of stuff just feels disabled or non-working, and the beta versions are always the complete version when the complete version is suppose to be better than the beta. Which means all the issues with the beta is going to be in the "complete/finished" version...Not being able to have multiple DAZ windows open is already a disappointment...

Just wish for once they had a crew that could make the software actually flawless. Something in DAZ is always dying out or breaking

I mean I download and now I can't even have no more than one window of DAZ open, the vignetting dont even work anymore either. I use to be able to have multiple Daz windows open So if one is rendering an image, I can be working on another image in another window of DAZ. But not anymore...I also noticed the lighting is all dimmed and dark as hell too for 4.11 in the preview. So I can barely see anything. I dont mean when I hit "render" I'm talking just the preview window

when I load a scene or a figure, it's dark/dim. Even when I brighten my screen. So I had no choice but to go back to 4.12 again through the Daz Central method

And I hate it because I can't even have multiple windows open anymore like in other versions of DAZ..It just seems like no one really knows what their doing with this program. A lot of stuff just feels disabled, and the beta version is still the same as the full version when the full version is suppose to be better than the beta.

One can still create instances by using the script posted at the end of this post:

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/5112696/#Comment_5112696

As for the dark scene, did you check the Render Settings? If you set it to Defaults, it should be fine.

Just wish for once they had a crew that could make the software actually flawless or close to it in some way. Something in DAZ is always dying out or breaking

I mean I downloaded to 4.12 from DAZ CENTRAL and now I can't even have no more than one window of DAZ open, the vignetting dont even work anymore either (not that I was using it a lot). I use to be able to have multiple Daz windows open. So if one is rendering an image, I can be working on another image in another window of DAZ. But not anymore...I cant even completely close the program down unless I do it through the Task Manager...It just seems like no one really knows what their doing with this program because there is always something wrong with it. A lot of stuff just feels disabled or non-working, and the beta versions are always the complete version when the complete version is suppose to be better than the beta. Which means all the issues with the beta is going to be in the "complete/finished" version...Not being able to have multiple DAZ windows open is already a disappointment...

The other objects in the scene impede the HDRI light from reaching your central figures. You'll need to place other lights (photometric spotlights, mesh lights, etc.) into the scene to get additional lighting where you want it. One such light correctly placed may be enough. Remember to switch to "Dome and Scene" in the render lighting settings if you do this.

You could also try to remove parts of the set that are blocking the light from the HDRI from reaching your figures - set them to invisible, turn their surface opacity to 0, flat out delete them from the scene, etc.

There are also tricks you can do with visibility panes (I'm not getting the term quite right here) that change how scenery is accounted for in the render that might help, but I've never used them, someone else would have to provide that info.

Pease ink to the product page not the library page - the latter links don't work for non-buyers https://www.daz3d.com/easy-feet-for-genesis-8-female-s

It lists all install types as available, so I'm not sure why you are not seeing anything to download. I think you need to open a support ticket in case it's an acccount issue.

Sorry, thanks, wrong link I guess. Anyway yes the button for the Install Manager is there, but clicking it does literally nothing. There's also no button for Daz Central on the page. Anyway I managed to just manually install the content. I still don't know why I don't have the Install Manager on my system. It's why I assumed Daz Central had taken it over since that's new to me.

According to the readme you should find the files here once installed:

You can find new icons for loading this product in the following DAZ Studio Folders:

• “People:Genesis 8 Female:Shapes:SF-Design”
• “People:Genesis 8 Female:Shapes:SF-Design:Easy Feet”

You can find new icons for this product in the following DAZ Studio Categories:”

• “Utilities:Scripts”

You don't understand. I can't find the Install Manager anywhere, and Easy Feet does not even appear in Daz Central after purchase. The product's page has no downloads for the Install Manager or Central available other than the manual instalaltion one.

The product said I just needed DazCentral, turns out the creator forgot to mention that they didn't supply an actual integrated download for it. It's a manual download... and I don't know if this is correct or what. If so, could someone please help me make it work with DazCentral some how?

https://www.daz3d.com/downloader/customer/files/prod/45409/

EDIT: I only just now learned that Install Manager is no longer used, therefor rendering the download for it useless. So my question now is, can someone please guide me on how to make this DazCentral compatible i.e. turning it into a compatible file or something so that it sits neatly in my Central database?

• Cut and Paste Keyframes!

 

Already available - you need to select the actual keys on the properties in the Timeline to do this (but bear in mind that the Timeline iss till being worked on)

Thanks!

• Why are there still non-animatable properties?  I want to hide an item until frame x, and then show it using the timeline.  I want to chage the emission properties of an Iray shader when the character turns the light switch on.

Some of this is accessible through using scripting to create aninmatable proxy properties- see http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/start#elements

Yeah - I would need to know what events I can hook into, how to access the Object model in the scene, and find/alter the certain properties I am looking for.  When it should just be that ANY property can be animated.

• Easily create aniblocks for ANY character.  Save them.  Share them.  Make a library of them.  Aniblocks are a greaet idea.  Pity they only work on like 2 characters.

DS includes only AniMate Lite - buy the full version.

Not too sure what the full version offers, but if I can create and re-use aniblocks, let me get the crowbar to pry open my wallet!

• Particle emitters.  Smoke, fire, water, hornets, a hail of gunfire.
• Single-sided polygons:  When I create a stage set, I use polygons only visible from the inside of the set.  So I can break the 4th wall with my camera and still see what's going on inside.  No more super-wide angle lenses needed with a camera crammed 1/100th of an inch from the wall.  Not every set is the Taj Mahal.

For this particular use case, Create>New Iray Section Plane and turn Clip Lights on in its properties. More generally, it is possible to use a custom shader created in Shader Mixer to give a surface different properties on front and back.

I have never seen one of these before.  Will read up on it.

• EASILY IMPORT ZIP FILES.  You should be able to drag/drop a zip file into your DAZ, and have it instantly added to your library.  No more fussing about with folders in folders in folders.

Use Connect or use DIM to install properly-formatted zips

Of course.  Will look at this.

 

• Integrate Daz Connect!  Unity did it.  You can too.

What do you mean? Daz Connect is integrated.

I see it's kinda integrated through Daz Central.

• Catalog every item in Daz connect as to what figures it will and will not work with,  I'm sick of loading in shoes, pants, etc that CANNOT IN A MILLION YEARS be made to fit my figure.  If it doesn't work with Genesis 1, then SAY SO,  and don't ever offer it as in "Smart" Content if it's not compatible.

Turn on Filter By Context at bottom-left of the Smart Content pane

The filter will tell you what it's made for, not what it's compatible with.  Some items (particularly rigged hair and shoes) cannot be made to work with some figures.  So for instance, a hair is made for Gen3, and it works for Gen3 and 8 but cannot be made to work with gen1.

• Oh yeah and nice trick where you can't use IRAY without a NVidia card.  Except that 100% of the time, my weak card can't handle it, so the CPU does all the rendering.  Therefore NVidia cards are completely NOT required for IRay renders.  If it's a licensing issue I understand, but then I'd urge you to get a divorce from NVidia and find a better renderer.

What do you mean? It has always been made clear that an nVidia card is required for GPU acceleration, but most featrues are available rendering on CPU.

When I tried to use IRAY on a non NVidia card PC, it would not allow it.  I had to use 3Dlite.  Now I have a NVidia GeForce GTX 750Ti, and when I try to restrict the render settings to force it to use my card, I get an all black image in about 1 second.  When I tell it to fail over to CPU, it renders, though exceedingly slowly.

I have tried to put a folder inside of Presets>Character, Presets>Material, etc. This is in my content Library. i do not use Smart Content, Connect, or  DAZ Central. They do not appear in the respective folders. They do appear in Presets>Character, Presets, Material etc. A minor thing perhaos, just trying to understand. I have not been creating presets like this very often, rather just saving a new scene or a scene subset.

I can save scenes and scene subsets into folders I have created within the Scenes and Scene Subset root folders.

I was looking for new the DS version, then the button pop up, stuff opened and so I got the bad stuff lol. I was informed yesterday about my mistake already

well I started my 5 years old Gigabyte PC, I put one of my Titan X card inside (it have dedicated graphic card ) ( it don't have 24 lanes processor so can't handle all the cards or enough RAM   , installed the new DS version via DIM and boom, it working , I can even move fast without issues in the preview, no drag or anything like I never left my prime PC , how surprising , I could never do that with just 1 card like that before , the final test render was 12 second , compared to 2 seconds with the 4 xTitans , but it is still fine , I can finish my projects and when have to render a lot of previews my old workstation would be already and  fine again , problem solved,  happy again .

I was for too long out in the bushes, lol  time to catch up on new stuff , that including Zbrush, PS and DS , too many goddies to explore 

Cath

My power. supply just giving up on me yesterday, my workstation in stand still until Wednesday 

maybe I switch to my oldie one for a while , so can finish some work in packing stuff 

Everything started with DAZ Central and last DS version , and now it Is death, not enough volate to my Vcore , it getting bellow 0.900v and shut down everything .

Oh, dear!

Though it might just be a blessing in disguise… DazCentral was designed for newbies, essentially for those people who find DIM intimidating.

If you have been using DIM without issue, there really is no reason to change to DazCentral, and folks who have been using DIM and then tried DazCentral found it caused issues with their custom paths and such.

However, I suspect the power supply was just waiting for an inopportune moment to "cry havoc and let slip…,"  not exactly dogs, but defintely "war!"

(I think you're going to love the new DS…!)

My power. supply just giving up on me yesterday, my workstation in stand still until Wednesday 

maybe I switch to my oldie one for a while , so can finish some work in packing stuff 

Everything started with DAZ Central and last DS version , and now it Is death, not enough volate to my Vcore , it getting bellow 0.900v and shut down everything .

Oh, dear!

Though it might just be a blessing in disguise… DazCentral was designed for newbies, essentially for those people who find DIM intimidating.

If you have been using DIM without issue, there really is no reason to change to DazCentral, and folks who have been using DIM and then tried DazCentral found it caused issues with their custom paths and such.

However, I suspect the power supply was just waiting for an inopportune moment to "cry havoc and let slip…,"  not exactly dogs, but defintely "war!"

(I think you're going to love the new DS…!)

My power. supply just giving up on me yesterday, my workstation in stand still until Wednesday 

maybe I switch to my oldie one for a while , so can finish some work in packing stuff 

Everything started with DAZ Central and last DS version , and now it Is death, not enough volate to my Vcore , it getting bellow 0.900v and shut down everything .

So the studio and DIM can both work if the site isn't running, correct?  (I don't use Smart Content, only Content Library)

Correct. AFAIK, you only need to log into DIM if you want to download new purchases or check for updated purchases. You only need to log into Daz Studio if you want to install/update products with Daz Connect or receive updated metadata for products. (Products installed by both Daz Connect and DIM receive available metadata updates when you log into Daz Studio. I don't know about Daz Central, because I won't touch that, based on so many trouble reports.).