daveso's troubles came after trying the new DAZ Central. That's a known problem for many people. DIM & Smart Content are good ideas. But the excecution failed. DAZ created utilities/features that require data programming skills to cope with them. Maybe DAZ forgot that many of us just want to make art?!

This is rather an overstatement - the only thing you need to do is to tell DS/Dime where you content should go, and make sure you have told them the same thing. Even the Daz Central/DIM thing seems to boil down to that.

daveso, I wish you the best of luck.

 

Hmmm, I don't have Daz Central installed and no plans of doing so especially after talking to many people (including PA's) about the issues.  So if I don't have Daz Central I can not install or use Stonemason's new set?  If this is the case, then that's a sales lost, I don't need it that badly.  Sorry, I like having choices without it being forced upon me. 

there are several products in this new batch of new ones that say DAZCentral for insall...nothing else. 
I too had the file structure mess up with DAZ Central ... it didnlt work, and uninstalled it. This might be it if they continue doing DAZ Central only installs. 

nemesis10, you're right. I don't want DAZ Central. I'm just waiting to see if they get their act together concerning DAZ Central.

I should have checked the forums first, but I also filed a report.

Funny thing tho, content states it is only available through daz central, but the mandatory supportticket-form has no drop down selection for Daz Central

Did you check under sales or under Tech Support?   it does show under Tech Support.

Thanks, nemesis10. That's about what I thought. It's too long for me. My iMac's 1GB video card is not good enough for iRay. I've seen the messages in the log files. I've actually accepted the fact that I need to get a PC just so I can easily handle iRay. And I will ignore DAZ Central as long as humanly possible.

I only come back here to see if DAZ finally got over the DAZ Central Identity crisis. Is it still a Beta version? Why does the announcement say DAZ Central is for everyone, when it is not?

You know you don't really want Daz Central... it is really for newbies who don't rearrange their stuff.  I am puzzled by those people who are already using DIM (which is pretty robust when you sit down to use it), DAZ Connect which is more than fine for some of us, or those who install manually.  The image above took a bit longer because it has all the bells and whistles (DOF, a large emmisive surface as the background, figure, geoshells etc...)

Except Stonemason's new Frontier Outpost is ONLY available to download with Daz Central. I have no interest in installing or using Daz Central but now I have to because I bought Frontier Outpost. I hope this isn't a trend.

It's broken, the files aren't there fr Daz Central either.

https://www.daz3d.com/frontier-outpost The only installation type is DazCentral. Is this an error, or is this intentional? :-o

 

https://www.daz3d.com/frontier-outpost The only installation type is DazCentral. Is this an error, or is this intentional? :-o

Same for https://www.daz3d.com/shaders--skin-shaders-community-workshop

Hopefully not since Daz Central is still only on Windows as far as I know. Sending an inquiry.

Thanks, Cris.  Having bought "Frontier Outpost" without noticing it only lists DazCentral I can confirm that the order download page only offers DazCentral for downloading and the manual download page doesn't have links to download ZIP files.

If this was intentional then I'll be requesting a refund.

Edited to add:  Just checked and "Frontier Outpost" does NOT show up in DIM while the free Stonemason item obtained with the coupon does show up.

I just bought Frontier Outpost as well & would like it in DIM to be saved & backed up in the same OS FS location as all the other products I've bought at DAZ 3D and downloaded via DIM. We were told DAZ Central was in addition to DIM not in place of DIM.

I stick to manual downloads as I want control over where and what download to which directory and library. I'm not installing Central. We went through this a couple of years ago. That particular attempt at least had a time limit. One year after purchase all links including manual were made available at purchase. I took my money elsewhere then because I won't be dictated to how and where I download or install products. I'll do again. The Outpost product is nice but I don't need it that badly. I have other similar sets that can work just as well.

Yeh, I returned Daisy 8 and some other stuff in protest.

All products from the Daisy 8 Pro bundle have manual links. I haven't checkedcked the other purchases I've made but I will.

Be aware that you can only download by way of Daz Central. And even that is not working right now.

This seems to be an error in set up, and also in reporting that Daz Central is available despite the set-up issue

@MeneerWolfman

Did you not read Stonemason's message? 

But from what I can see Stonemason was replying to the fact that it wasn't appearing in DAZ Central. Hope he meant he was going to try and get it added to DIM too.

I should have checked the forums first, but I also filed a report.

Funny thing tho, content states it is only available through daz central, but the mandatory supportticket-form has no drop down selection for Daz Central

I stick to manual downloads as I want control over where and what download to which directory and library. I'm not installing Central. We went through this a couple of years ago. That particular attempt at least had a time limit. One year after purchase all links including manual were made available at purchase. I took my money elsewhere then because I won't be dictated to how and where I download or install products. I'll do again. The Outpost product is nice but I don't need it that badly. I have other similar sets that can work just as well.

Yeh, I returned Daisy 8 and some other stuff in protest.

I stick to manual downloads as I want control over where and what download to which directory and library. I'm not installing Central. We went through this a couple of years ago. That particular attempt at least had a time limit. One year after purchase all links including manual were made available at purchase. I took my money elsewhere then because I won't be dictated to how and where I download or install products. I'll do again. The Outpost product is nice but I don't need it that badly. I have other similar sets that can work just as well.

Thanks, nemesis10. That's about what I thought. It's too long for me. My iMac's 1GB video card is not good enough for iRay. I've seen the messages in the log files. I've actually accepted the fact that I need to get a PC just so I can easily handle iRay. And I will ignore DAZ Central as long as humanly possible.

I only come back here to see if DAZ finally got over the DAZ Central Identity crisis. Is it still a Beta version? Why does the announcement say DAZ Central is for everyone, when it is not?

You know you don't really want Daz Central... it is really for newbies who don't rearrange their stuff.  I am puzzled by those people who are already using DIM (which is pretty robust when you sit down to use it), DAZ Connect which is more than fine for some of us, or those who install manually.  The image above took a bit longer because it has all the bells and whistles (DOF, a large emmisive surface as the background, figure, geoshells etc...)

Except Stonemason's new Frontier Outpost is ONLY available to download with Daz Central. I have no interest in installing or using Daz Central but now I have to because I bought Frontier Outpost. I hope this isn't a trend.

DAZ Central isn't being forced on anyone. This is just a distribution screwup and it will be fixed before the day is out. It will be in your Catalog and available once the issue is fixed. DAZ does care about the customers. 

I just bought Stonemasons Frontier Outpost (and added a free one with the coupon).

The free one appeared in my content, the Frontier Outpost did not.

I already filed a ticket, but for the last one DAZ took nearly seven weeks to answer ...
And again they are forcing a new buggy software on the users, since the new content only is downloadable through DAZ Central.
But what does DAZ care? they have my money and obviously anyway see no obligation to deliver the content bought or see that it works.

 

If it's ike the other product listing only Daz Central I think it will not work with anything, it's just that the Daz Central tag appears to be generated in a different way from the others and so appears in the absence of files to download.

DIM disappears, so do I.

I trust DIM to do what it says. I have al sorts of reservations about Smart Content, and now DazCentral.

DIM, as an acronym works; it's meaning is succinct - and it does manage my installs.

Daz Central sounds (and behaves) like big brother.

Studio 4.9 felt like Daz was trying to force something down my throat; this feels the same.

Daz Central is DIM with a simplified interface and option tree, for the benefit of new users.

It quite clearly isn't, when you consider all the reports and issues folks are having. Not to mention (ok I have) all the blatant dislike.

Dislike has nothing to do with whether it is the same under the hood, the issues people have been having mostly relate to paths - the fact that Daz Central appears to overwrite custom DIM paths with the defaults is in fact evidence that it is the same code at heart.

There seems to be noting simple about it.

I don't get it; Dim presents the products I haven't downloaded; those I have but haven't installed; and, those installed. That is simple.

I can't help thinking (taking at face-value, Daz's reasons), that Daz are using a software solution to fix a communication problem - or lack of communication in the form of viable instructions. Not that DIM requires many.

Documentation doesn't stop people from being confused, sadly - it just gives the people who try to help them a reference (and, sadly, a manual for others to tell the confused to read - with added adjectives)

If you can't figure out DIM, how the hell are you going to figure out how to render anything.

 

We have sent in a query on the apparently Central-only items, as it is certainly my understanding that it uses the same fiels as DIM - in fact I was going to ask iif anyone had purchased and  been able to download at alll, so thanks for reporting on that. I suspect it's as glitch in the way the install type list is generated, and the products have not in fact been uplaoded, but we will see what Daz says.

Be aware that you can only download by way of Daz Central. And even that is not working right now.