Yeah, don't get confused with different ways to install stuff, if you're using DIM or Daz Central then you do not want to mess around with Connect because if you do then you risk installing the same material twice.

As for smart contents...  the keyword is metadata. In order to add a file to the smart contents pane you need to categorize it, and add this metadata which will determine what kind of file you're adding. In order to do this you need to use the content library pane, right click the folder which contains the file(s) which you want to add and then use the option "Edit metadata...". There you can set the type of the file you're adding. So....  actor/character for figures, preset/material for.. materials. etc. After you set that up things will become accessible in smart contents.

second_technician_rimmer_9571136c47 said:

DoctorJellybean, yes, I,am on this version. I can't import previously saved layouts from my good saves, nor create one and get it back after restarting DS.

Please try again and post a full log.

DoctorJellybean, yes, I,am on this version. I can't import previously saved layouts from my good saves, nor create one and get it back after restarting DS.

Is there a way to select a single toolbar and export/import just that one, or is the entire set of toolbars always exported/imported?

MadHammer said:

@DoctorJellybean

This may not be true for all beta users, I for one am on 4.20.0.3 and cannot save toolbars or even import toolbars.

Also re: 4.20.0.3 functionality of the Hexagon Bridge has been removed. When I send back to DAZ from Hexagon I can only name a morph, overwright a morph and put it in a category, all other options are missing. It could be just me, but just because DAZ says it is fixed doesn't seem to mean that it is fixed for everyone.

With all the complaints here, I am not going to go as far as 'DAZ Devs don't test', but will go so far as saying that it is apparent that their testing (at least their regression testing) needs a process overhaul.

Please try saving\importing a toolbar again and post the full log.

MadHammer said:

@DoctorJellybean

This may not be true for all beta users, I for one am on 4.20.0.3 and cannot save toolbars or even import toolbars.

Also re: 4.20.0.3 functionality of the Hexagon Bridge has been removed. When I send back to DAZ from Hexagon I can only name a morph, overwright a morph and put it in a category, all other options are missing. It could be just me, but just because DAZ says it is fixed doesn't seem to mean that it is fixed for everyone.

With all the complaints here, I am not going to go as far as 'DAZ Devs don't test', but will go so far as saying that it is apparent that their testing (at least their regression testing) needs a process overhaul.

Check in the options (press F2 on your keyboard) in the last tab called Bridges if you have the Advanced mode activated.

@DoctorJellybean

This may not be true for all beta users, I for one am on 4.20.0.3 and cannot save toolbars or even import toolbars.

Also re: 4.20.0.3 functionality of the Hexagon Bridge has been removed. When I send back to DAZ from Hexagon I can only name a morph, overwright a morph and put it in a category, all other options are missing. It could be just me, but just because DAZ says it is fixed doesn't seem to mean that it is fixed for everyone.

With all the complaints here, I am not going to go as far as 'DAZ Devs don't test', but will go so far as saying that it is apparent that their testing (at least their regression testing) needs a process overhaul.

My take: learn how this stuff works because you can fully customize and set up everything. You're right: smart contents does make using DS a lot easier, and the best part is that you can easily add 3rd party contents yourself.

Thing to realize / know: it's all about the metadata. In specific you need to provide a file with a category as well as an item type to make it 'work'. Next there's also the compatibility base which associates items (think about hair or props + their material, stuff like that).

So, what to do...  find the Blum outfit in your content library (pane). Does it have a type indicator in the upper right corner indicating what it is?  Right click on it, use "categorize" to see where it should be located in the smart contents hierarchy.

You can also right click on the folder it's in (when using the content library pane of course) and use the option "Edit metadata...", this gives you access to look into and/or change the meta data that's added to certain files. 

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maybe if that is their attitude people should start returning faulty  products because I believe that overrides any 30 day limit in most countries. I know the ACCC in Australia would consider faulty goods worthy of a full refund, I believe Paypal has recourse fot that too because if they refuse to provide a working build for products they sold you after removing functionality they have in effect sold you faulty products.

I did save a backup and have multiple builds but honestly how many people do that for every software they use, imagine if Adobe removed the ability to import jpg for example because they claimed it was a bug they shouldn't have had  how people would react.

Are you finding the bridge option in D/S? I don't know how much they have changed what, concerning the bridge {'cause I gave up on that}, but all that bridge thing used to do was make a file ready to be brought into Blender. Then one opened Blender and using the add-on one browsed to and loaded in their usual fashion, imported in the object.

It used to only work for G8 but I think they made it to work on more items now. Anyhow, you know I trust that you can simply export out .obj files from D/S; and then of course, import those into Blender. On the export settings there is reference to Blender.

For 3D printing, might want to uncheck "groups" so the obj will be one piece.

You could export to blender, use shrinkwrap, adjust a bit, then import back to daz studio as a dress morph.

Hi, Im new to using Daz3d characters inside of Blender. 

Ive tried using the bridge but its too much trouble and wont work so I decided to export OBJ from Daz3d and import into Blender manually. 

I started off with System 46 for Genesis Female 3 inside Daz3d, please see image 1. I wanted to change the clothes, which I did by adding new material to Geo Shell and changed to a metallic shell, see image 2. 

I then exported the obj with correct settings into blender. 

When I import into Blender the shell is not correct. See image 3. Its the orginal white shell, not the shell I desired, the metallic one.

Can anyone please help, it would be very much appreciated, thanks. Maybe I;ve got incorrect export/import settings.

MelanieL said:

memcneil70 said:

I sent in a feedback report to Customer Service with a copy of a PDF I printed before the change and one printed after. And included how I have used the PDF in the past and why this new format negates that. But one thing I found yesterday, is when the images go extremely wide, and you try to print them off, critical details like the SKU don't print off. I think I had five items from the Mega Bundle from yesterday that I had to open back up to hunt down the SKU. 

But what really gets me, the PAs take all their time to produce a product and either they or someone else create images to show their products off and this new format destroys all that work. 

Ah, so I'm not the only one annoyed by the printing thing!

I've always printed off product pages for everything I've bought as a record of what it was (in case it disappears from the store in the future) and to use on my (offline) rendering PC. Since the black pages were inflicted on me (just a few days ago, later than many forumites) I've been using an Incognito browser to get the old page format, which up to now is working for me, but presumably this won't last.

I wish there was a store funtion to print a store page that produced a print-friendIy version. I can see one day I'll need to make do with a set of screenshots and glue them together into a PDF using Libreoffice!

I actually have been thinking that might be what I would have to do also. And when you buy a large bundle or a lot from a great sale, that is a huge chore. I tried going Incognito but have not seen a difference. And just trying to look at today's offerings was such a chore, I gave up after I looked at a deep sale item. It said I owned it, The Stash Bundle! Curious I opened it up, but could not find any indication of what I owned or didn't. No greyed out image or anything. I just closed down the sales page and after skimming the forums, will turn away from Daz's website and watch the news and continue to add/fix metadata on owned products.

Does the item come with materials? Is it a daz product, and did you install in a way thata dded it to the Content Management System (through Daz Studio, Install manager, or Daz Central or manually and then import metadata)?

Well, the first question would be, how did you install the products?

Lot's of things can go wrong when packaging something for distribution.

So here are a couple basic things.

If they are there, and this is content you bought from Daz.Then most likely it was installed with both Connect and either Central or DIM.

That usually makes install stir fry and you'll need to do a little work getting it sorted out.

I suggest using only DIM and never logging in inside Studio so Connect won't fiddle with the metadata.You only need to login inside Studio if you are using Connect.

If they aren't there you need to look inside the zip folder the product came in to find out where it was supposed to go.

Posting a screen shot of the popup, or copy/pasting the error it shows to your forum post would make things easier to diagnose :)

If you can find it in the library, then don't use smart content, I never do. You can load everything from the content library if you need. In my understanding the main reason content doesn't show in smart content is down to the metadata missing or being corrupted

Seems they are not installed correctly since I never have that happen when I load normal content from the store. That only happens to me when I import OBJs from outside of DS

IceCrMn said:

In my non-programer point of view.

I would think it simpler to add a button on the DIM UI that says "Roll back to Previous Version" (applicable to the general release version only beta class software is a different discussion) and next to that button(or under it) would be text that displayed what version that would be installed.

Under the hood, that install package and all of it's dependencies(if any) could be moved to a folder in the download directory.

Seems like it would be easy to do with few if any problems within DIM.

Does DIM have a plugin framework to allow for a PA to make such things?

PA's don't do anything in regards to DIM. All we do is package our products and Daz takes over creating the metadata, tags, categorization and building the DIM package.

Yesterday, it took me hours to figure out what was in the sale and what was not. I had bought the Teen Kola 8.1 Bundle the day before, but because of the design of the page, it took me a bit to see that line that said the items I already owned would be 'discounted'. I tested the items I wanted, then the Mega Bundle and yes, the Mega was cheaper. But I waited to see if a flash sale would pop up during the day with something I wanted. Nope, old hairs. So I finally bought it. And that spent my March budget.

But as I printed the promo pages as .pdfs I found that the SKUs weren't being printed on all the pages, and what I dispise is the wasted space on what was produced. I use those pages to give me information on usage (remember that many PAs use their images to show how to use their products), what the required products are, if they are a material set or a prop or whatever. With older items it is easy to tell a material product is that because you see its code line, but on a .duf it could be almost anything. Some do have material in the naming structure, but others do not. But I love the pictures for themselves. The PAs put a lot of work into them. I appreciate that. That awful blured mess is dreadful. 

I have sent in a Customer Service report with my feedback days ago, before I knew about the SKUs not always printing. 

I don't want advertising to YouTube unless it is to a tutorial by the PA for usage of the product. I don't like having to open up hidden fields to print them.

What I don't understand is how a professional company can repeatedly make this kind of mess, when a free website without advertising, for writers to post stories, can manage to set-up a test framework and have a variety of users, admins, writers, readers who all give feedback and help in the design and work to improve the old site that has had to reinvent itself three times due to servers, software, and other issues. By doing that we have a site that is stable, able to be read by people who have vision issues (legally blind without aids) and is accessible worldwide. And still free. 

And I am also avoiding the store as well. The changes that have happened to ruin the shopping experience, the emphasis on poorer quality, weird metadata assignment, items that never show up in Smart Content, are saving me a group of cash.

My thanks to DAZ.

But, I guess the latest shiny piece of trash in the Metaverse is worth it? Yes?