That sounds like mis-matched paths. Daz Central and DIM both use the Manifests folder to tell them what is isntalled, and where - Daz Studio doesn't look at that as it doesn't have the same information 9and would probably be slower to access) and anyway some items may be installed but not in an active content directory. Check that Daz Studio is looking in the location to which you installed the Genesis 8 Starter essentials.

After re-installing the latest version of DAZ Studio after my PC crashed, I find my Genesis 9 Starter Essentials files and my Genesis 8.1 files are missing. Strangely, both DAZ Central and DIM report them as installed. The Smart Content and the Content Library do not agree. Has anyone any ideas what is going wrong? Thanks to all.

DAZ3D must unravel DIM, DAZ Central, and the installation and re-installation of DAZ Studio and its assets.

No worries. As someone who has those bruises from walking the same path it makes sense to try to help others avoid the pitfalls.

I believe that Central and DIM are a bit more compatible and maybe would work together but Daz Connect that is inbuilt into Studio is definitely a different beast and does things it's own way so it is best to pick one and stick with it.

So if those existing products are still causing problems you will have to specifically uninstall those (to remove the DazConnect references) and then re-install via DIM

The files are where DIM says they are.  I"ve tried opening Daz Central after installing with DIM and Daz Central also recognizes that the files are installed.  If i try to open them directly through Central the same thing happens, Studio opens and says the files don't exist.

Thank you SofaCItizen.  I opened daz and hit work offline.  Closed it and then used DIM to install a test asset.   Upon reloading Studio that asset was found and working.  I wouldn't have though to log out of daz to install daz content.  You saved me a good deal of headache.

hello,im getting this error Unknown File Format
No importer for the file format can be found.

when i try to load any file ive installed from daz central, i guess the location is wrong but how i can choose the right location?

i also tried installing everything manuallly and cant seem to find the actors in the library.

Bendinggrass said:

Richard, I was on the DAZ Central page, and thought I was downloading DS from there. I was wrong as DAZ Central was involved in that then. 

I assume if I download DS through DIM I will have more control over where DS is located, and where my content is stored. 

Is that correct?

DIM will inherit the Daz Central settings (and vice versa) but yes, DIM allows paths for different purposes to be set independently. If you change the content location make sure you update it in DS too.

Richard, I was on the DAZ Central page, and thought I was downloading DS from there. I was wrong as DAZ Central was involved in that then. 

I assume if I download DS through DIM I will have more control over where DS is located, and where my content is stored. 

Is that correct?

imre.molnar1990 said:

Hello All,

I installed Daz Central, but Daz Studio installing stopped at 89%, this is the situation for neary 1 week now.

Can someone help me how to solve it or what can be the issue?

What helps me in the similar situations is just closing Daz Central, reopening it, and installing again: it usually picks up where it left off. Last time when I was installing the whole Studio, it often took multiple restarts of the DC for the installation to finally pick up.

Richard Haseltine said:

Sevrin said:

The launchable thing is kind of silly, but otherwise I like the new DIM.  Startup is much faster.

It's a feature Daz Central has that some segment of users seem to use. The whole thing can be turned off 9well, hidden) - see the change log for 1.4.1.18.

Oh, I disabled it as soon as I saw the option.  This also removed the "Launchable" category from the top of the installed items list. I don't use Hexagon often enough to need to see it at the top of that list. 

The render reminded me of Greece and California, wine country or the central coast area. I am hoping for a Mediterranean regional pack might be coming.

The render is just lovely Howie. Home.

Does the file you are activating have an icon?

And have you tried other clothing for V4.2. Or tried a newer generation content, to test if it is only V4.2 that has problems or it is more general.

The problem seems to be with that set of content. I only have a hair accessory which will load correctly. 

If you go to your Content Library > Products > Steampunk Outfit for v4, which icons are there then?

The icons are there and it all looks like it should. They just won't load onto the model. They also turned up in "lost and found" whatever that means. 

Those are native DS materials auto-loading when a PZ2 Poser material is loaded - it is not loading the basic outfit, which will be in /Users/Shared/My DAZ 3D Library/characters/some folder/. Don't try opening this through Daz Central, try loading it directly from the Content Library under Poser Formats>My Daz 3d Library>Figures>Some folder (I don't know what some folder would actually be called)

Obviously it will be different on my system. So "poser formats"....?

Aha!!!

They load a base mesh and then presumably you go to the content to load the textures. That did it.

Gee.

Got to say....that's a bit of a tough one to figure out unless you are highly clairvoyent. I'm not that new to this sort of thing. :-(

However - bravo for knowing about poser formats. Thanks for the help. 

Edit....so it loaded the mesh but the shaders and accessories still will not load. This is such a bizarre workflow and way of doing things. I guess it makes sense if you use it a lot. Any idea why the shaders won't load? I have the mesh loaded up but they will not load the shaders.

Those are native DS materials auto-loading when a PZ2 Poser material is loaded - it is not loading the basic outfit, which will be in /Users/Shared/My DAZ 3D Library/characters/some folder/. Don't try opening this through Daz Central, try loading it directly from the Content Library under Poser Formats>My Daz 3d Library>Figures>Some folder (I don't know what some folder would actually be called)

Try using Install Manager - it should pick up the settings from Daz central but seems better able to cope with recovering partial instalaltions (in this case, I suspect the application and perhaps some cotnent are isntalled and other content that is part of the basic Daz Studio product set are the problem).

Hello All,

I installed Daz Central, but Daz Studio installing stopped at 89%, this is the situation for neary 1 week now.

Can someone help me how to solve it or what can be the issue?

 I have just completely reloaded my operating system, windows 10 home, because my computer is reasonably old I install Daz studio using install manager instead of Daz central.

When I load Daz Atudio to use it I have no content, althogh according to Install Manager it has been, I get this error message at the start.

A valid PostgreSQL CMS connetction could not be established, several Daz Studio features That require a valid PostgreSQL CMS connection,

such as context aware content views and loading content installed using Daz connect service will not be available.

Check your network anti-virus and firewall settings for conflicts.

If anyons could help me in this matter, it would be greatly appreciated, I have this problem on both of my main computers.

Thanks in advance, Cheers.

Update: V4 turned up in smart content "figures". I could get the model loaded. Not as much luck with the Steampunk outfit. Just like with the Mac, on the PC I can get to it via Daz central (the content shows), but it won't load onto the model. There was a hair accessory which did. Trying to get more information via right-click yielded a webpage "page not found".

Any idea how to get this paid content to work? When I opened the model there was a check box for "legacy...something something something". I don't know if that might be the reason and I'll check next but any further help would be greatly appreciated.

On the PC now:

- I open Daz central, and I can see that I need to install the V4. I click install and it downloads. When I click open I get this:

- It should show an image of the V4 and it doesn't. Duly if I try to drag in it in to the viewport area, nothing happens. On the Mac, this was avilable and I could drag it into the viewport, but I could drag on any clothes. Its worked in the past but its not working now. I really can't figure it out and this not my first rodeo with software. There are no error messgaes that clue me in to what might be missing/required.

Hi - what is the process for transferring all Daz content to a new/different computer?

I currently have Daz on a Mac, and I am looking to move everything to a dedicated Windows computer running W10. 

- The Windows computer has latest Daz installed with everything I think I need. However, after downloading my content the download manager will not install it. Do I need to uninstall from the Mac first?

- Some of the content is visible in Daz Studio on the PC, but it won't open.

- Experimenting on the Mac, my V4 cothing is not loading onto the V4 model.

- The install manager has uninstall options. Presumably uninstall everything and then delete the manager?

- Just on the Mac...I installed Daz Central and wanted to open the Library Steampunk Outfit for V4, and also Victorian Innocence for V4, it guided me through to the location of the content in Daz Studio which I had already found anyway, but the clothing articles will not load on to the V4 model. The same thing occured on PC, but presumably the content had not been installed there.

- Opening Victoria 4 from Daz central also does not work.

- Double clicking on content I am trying to load takes me to a 404 page not found error on the pop-up screen in Daz Studio (on mac).

I think there are 2 parts to my query; 1) how to successfully access my content on a new/different computer and remove Daz from the old. 2) Why the V4 model which loads fine into Daz Studio will not load the accessories for it.

Sevrin said:

joanna said:

Hylas said:

I liked the split items, and I don't see how it would hurt folks who didn't like them. You could still buy the entire garment if you wanted to.

And have a huge mess in Daz Central and Smart Content as every single piece was counted as separate item. Same for the store, for that matter, scrolling past countless "piece of outfit" items was somewhat annoying.

Makes me wonder what the sales results were for full outfit vs. pieces, but I doubt Daz will share any ratios/percentages.

The extra items in Smart Content were my only problem with this.  If Daz could some how ship outfits like outfits for people who bought the whole thing, I'd like to see separates come back. 

Smart Content is kind of a mess generally right now, what with Lost & Found overflowing with items.  It's a feature I use a lot, and hope that it will get some attention.

That is a matter of getting the metadata corrected, Smart Content and Categories are just reporting what that says.

joanna said:

Hylas said:

I liked the split items, and I don't see how it would hurt folks who didn't like them. You could still buy the entire garment if you wanted to.

And have a huge mess in Daz Central and Smart Content as every single piece was counted as separate item. Same for the store, for that matter, scrolling past countless "piece of outfit" items was somewhat annoying.

Makes me wonder what the sales results were for full outfit vs. pieces, but I doubt Daz will share any ratios/percentages.

The extra items in Smart Content were my only problem with this.  If Daz could some how ship outfits like outfits for people who bought the whole thing, I'd like to see separates come back. 

Smart Content is kind of a mess generally right now, what with Lost & Found overflowing with items.  It's a feature I use a lot, and hope that it will get some attention.