kyoto kid said:

...well the "big freeze here in Portland is finally over as it got up to nearly 50° (F) today after being in the mid to high 30s with lows in the low 20s that last couple days. 

The apartment has one of those "in the wall" heater units which are usually found in cheap motels and in the south  (yay, government subsidised housing) that are barely sufficient to warm up main area when it's in the 40s even on the high setting.. Usually I put an extra layer on but it was so cold these last few days my hands were freezing and once that happens I feel cold all over (difficult to type or work on scenes in Daz while wearing gloves). so I had to leave it run for hours to get any semblance of heat by my desks.  Why they never designed the building with a central boiler and steam heat, particularly in a building that is home to a fair number of seniors (who not just are more susceptible to temperature extremes, but also usually on a very tight fixed income) makes no sense as electric heating is probably the most cost inefficient way to heat the volume air in a room.  This of course translates to ridiculously high power bills in winter

Baseboard heating is bad enough (and you can't have anything blocking the units ao so arranging furniture is an interesting challenge), but those in the wall ones like we have here are definitely not up to the task.   On top of that even though this is a fairly new building I question just how good the insulation as it gets really cold inside this time of year (and conversely., very hot in mid summer).. 

Fortunately it's going stay more seasonable in the low to mid 50s this weekend through next week.

You wouldn't do well here this weekend!  Saturday morning, around dawn, it will be about -4F.  Wind chill will be in the negative 20s!  The high for Saturday is expected to be about 14F.  Diane asked about grocery shopping on Saturday, but I told her that I'm not going out, not even across the street to get our mail!  On Sunday, back into the mid 40s for a high.

Dana

kyoto kid said:

. Why they never designed the building with a central boiler and steam heat, particularly in a building that is home to a fair number of seniors (who not just are more susceptible to temperature extremes, but also usually on a very tight fixed income) makes no sense as electric heating is probably the most cost inefficient way to heat the volume air in a room.  This of course translates to ridiculously high power bills in winter

Our 21 stroy building has hydronic (hot water) heat with a boiler room on the roof,  4 boilers for building heat and domestc hot water with just about 12 million BTU available. Automation controls the boiler set points so that they get higher as the outside temo gets colder. We also have it set so that starting at -10C outside,  once an hour the system opens all the suite zone valves for a minute or to to help reduce the riks of heating pipe freeze. We had a ruin of -28C temps a few weeks back, and were able to keep the suite to about 75F.. 

Wonderland said:

kyoto kid said:

...well the "big freeze here in Portland is finally over as it got up to nearly 50° (F) today after being in the mid to high 30s with lows in the low 20s that last couple days. 

The apartment has one of those "in the wall" heater units which are usually found in cheap motels and in the south  (yay, government subsidised housing) that are barely sufficient to warm up main area when it's in the 40s even on the high setting.. Usually I put an extra layer on but it was so cold these last few days my hands were freezing and once that happens I feel cold all over (difficult to type or work on scenes in Daz while wearing gloves). so I had to leave it run for hours to get any semblance of heat by my desks.  Why they never designed the building with a central boiler and steam heat, particularly in a building that is home to a fair number of seniors (who not just are more susceptible to temperature extremes, but also usually on a very tight fixed income) makes no sense as electric heating is probably the most cost inefficient way to heat the volume air in a room.  This of course translates to ridiculously high power bills in winter

Baseboard heating is bad enough (and you can't have anything blocking the units ao so arranging furniture is an interesting challenge), but those in the wall ones like we have here are definitely not up to the task.   On top of that even though this is a fairly new building I question just how good the insulation as it gets really cold inside this time of year (and conversely., very hot in mid summer).. 

Fortunately it's going stay more seasonable in the low to mid 50s this weekend through next week.

Have you tried a portable desk heater? My apartment came with no heater whatsoever and I find the little portable heater is all I need, if that.  But my apartment must be very well insulated because even when it's like 40 degrees out, it's not really cold in the apartment. I just wear leggings, socks, a T-shirt and hoodie and it's totally comfortable. 

...unfortunately it would only dd to my already high winter power bills. 

I grew up in Wisconsin with a gas furnace, stove, and water heater.  So much more efficient for heating the volume of air (better for baking things in the oven as well) and our bills were not as high as homes in the area that had electric heat and the house was over a halfcentury old (nobiody bothered about "R-Factor" back then).  The first apartment  I had here in Portland (a large 1 BR) had a gas heater (one of the large wall mounted forced air ones) and stove.  That heater kept the entire apartment nice and warm all winter.  My gas bill in winter never exceeded 16$ a month. 

Steam heat is the best though  WHne I was in college in North Central Wisconin in the 70s, I shared a 3 BR apartment in an old mansion with a couple freinds that was dived up into a cpiple apartments and several single rooms. . The building had a central boiler in the cellar and the apartments as wel as single rooms all had those old fashioned iron radiators.  Even on -15° to -20² (F) nights the apartments and single rooms was toasty warm. Some nights I even had to turn the radiator in my bedroom down a bit.  

For a while in the 80s I lived in one of those cheaply built  "cookie cutter" wood framed apartment buildings built (I should say "slapped together") in the 70s which had electric baseboard heating that you couldn't put anything in front of (made for some creative furniture arranging).  One of the things I always wondered about those places is why the heating units were always placed right under the largest window in each room rather than on an interior wall. I always felt the contractor must have invested in the local power utility as the windows in those places were all single pane glass which offered zero insulation and made a perfect "heat leak". 

kyoto kid said:

...well the "big freeze here in Portland is finally over as it got up to nearly 50° (F) today after being in the mid to high 30s with lows in the low 20s that last couple days. 

The apartment has one of those "in the wall" heater units which are usually found in cheap motels and in the south  (yay, government subsidised housing) that are barely sufficient to warm up main area when it's in the 40s even on the high setting.. Usually I put an extra layer on but it was so cold these last few days my hands were freezing and once that happens I feel cold all over (difficult to type or work on scenes in Daz while wearing gloves). so I had to leave it run for hours to get any semblance of heat by my desks.  Why they never designed the building with a central boiler and steam heat, particularly in a building that is home to a fair number of seniors (who not just are more susceptible to temperature extremes, but also usually on a very tight fixed income) makes no sense as electric heating is probably the most cost inefficient way to heat the volume air in a room.  This of course translates to ridiculously high power bills in winter

Baseboard heating is bad enough (and you can't have anything blocking the units ao so arranging furniture is an interesting challenge), but those in the wall ones like we have here are definitely not up to the task.   On top of that even though this is a fairly new building I question just how good the insulation as it gets really cold inside this time of year (and conversely., very hot in mid summer).. 

Fortunately it's going stay more seasonable in the low to mid 50s this weekend through next week.

Have you tried a portable desk heater? My apartment came with no heater whatsoever and I find the little portable heater is all I need, if that.  But my apartment must be very well insulated because even when it's like 40 degrees out, it's not really cold in the apartment. I just wear leggings, socks, a T-shirt and hoodie and it's totally comfortable. 

...well the "big freeze here in Portland is finally over as it got up to nearly 50° (F) today after being in the mid to high 30s with lows in the low 20s that last couple days. 

The apartment has one of those "in the wall" heater units which are usually found in cheap motels and in the south  (yay, government subsidised housing) that are barely sufficient to warm up main area when it's in the 40s even on the high setting.. Usually I put an extra layer on but it was so cold these last few days my hands were freezing and once that happens I feel cold all over (difficult to type or work on scenes in Daz while wearing gloves). so I had to leave it run for hours to get any semblance of heat by my desks.  Why they never designed the building with a central boiler and steam heat, particularly in a building that is home to a fair number of seniors (who not just are more susceptible to temperature extremes, but also usually on a very tight fixed income) makes no sense as electric heating is probably the most cost inefficient way to heat the volume air in a room.  This of course translates to ridiculously high power bills in winter

Baseboard heating is bad enough (and you can't have anything blocking the units ao so arranging furniture is an interesting challenge), but those in the wall ones like we have here are definitely not up to the task.   On top of that even though this is a fairly new building I question just how good the insulation as it gets really cold inside this time of year (and conversely., very hot in mid summer).. 

Fortunately it's going stay more seasonable in the low to mid 50s this weekend through next week.

Gator 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.

Yeah I can imagine it just being a mess for asset management at the store, and for consumers. 

Just bought a clothing bundle that had all the outfits divided into separate parts with separate downloads... Pain in the you know where...

The idea wasn't bad, but the execution could not have been worse.

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.

Yeah I can imagine it just being a mess for asset management at the store, and for consumers. 

If you are getting "postgreSQL CMS connection" errors it seems likely that the installation was not done correctly. I don't know about the Daz standalone installer but via DIM it should install postresSQL alongside Daz Studio itself. This package is required for all the metadata/smart content parts and so Daz Studio will complain if it cannot connect to it as it is not designed to work without it.

It does sound like you either have a really bad internet connection or your antivirus is getting in the way and breaking stuff. I have only ever had one or maybe two zip files with that error message and it was down to slight corruption that was fixed by deleting the zip and re-downloading. Lot's of people have posted about various issues relating to over-zealous anti-virus so perhaps if that might be the cause you can try temporarily disabling the anti-virus while you install.

I would advise against trying to do things without DIM (or Daz Central I suppose) as you'd only be making things harder for yourself by having to do things manually before you have really learned how things work.

You can install content using the following methods:

DIM, Daz Central, Dax Connect (from inside Daz Studio), and manual.

I think you can download Daz Studio as a package and install, but if I don't know where to find the package.

I have been using DIM all the time, and it has worked reliably for me. 

felis said:

You must be aware of, if you have installed something from within Daz Studio, Daz Connect, then it will take priority over any other installation, even if it is not working.

When you are saying you can't install with DIM and/or Daz Central, do you then get an error message, or is it that you just not can access it in Daz Studio?

So you just answered my question just before :).

Thanks, I thought it was possible to access these commands without using dazcentral or manager, so it's a bit like steam, one can't go without the other.

Well, bad weather for me, what I wanted was just to bring my creations to life in Zbrush.

Can I still download an up-to-date and legal version of Daz studio? Even if I don't have access to the store, which bothers me, a little but hey, I should be able to manage by creating my assets with zbrush. According to the tutorials I've seen, there's already a lot of possibilities with just that and I'd like to let go of my graphics tablet a bit to try something else.

I tried all the afternoon and I even started to learn a little the basics with some tutorial but with only the software and nothing else I could not go very far with tutorials since it was necessary to pack them genesis. But I love it anyway.

I would all like to uninstall (again) then reinstall only daz studio without install manager and daz central since I can't get these programs to work, is it possible?

If so, can I still access the store and download a pack if I buy one?

I tried with a free pack but it sends me back to install manager, is it possible to download them normally as an archive? like that I could do without these two programs by having access to the store. I've read it quite a bit, I think it's great to have paid offers full of little free content and I also saw that it was super easy to open my creations with ZBrush on daz.

You must be aware of, if you have installed something from within Daz Studio, Daz Connect, then it will take priority over any other installation, even if it is not working.

When you are saying you can't install with DIM and/or Daz Central, do you then get an error message, or is it that you just not can access it in Daz Studio?

Uou can use Daz Install Manager, DIM, https://www.daz3d.com/install-manager-info

That is the elder install manager, where you have acess to more settings.

Daz later made Daz Central as a simplified version targeted new users.

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.

I had tried a few months ago but I had reconnoitered because of the following error "installation will begin after installation"

I thought that with time a fix would arrive but no, still the same problem.

Is it better to wait for a stable version or can we do without daz central? I have never managed to install daz studio with it yet.

CCleaner > Tools will also give you the means to uninstall things that you might not be successful with otherwise. Not sure why DS isn't uninstalling for you. Are you using your Daz Central to uninstall it?

I've never used that so I don't know. DIM uninstalls DS just fine. But I'm not sure DIM is still available to download. Can't seem to find it anymore.

Dartanbeck said:

Uninstalling the software will NOT touch your library - possible exception being stuff that comes directly within the application - and I don't think it has that, but comes as separate packages that come with it.

Changing the location of your content will totally screw you up entirely, unless you don't mind adding it back in. This is where DIM and possibly Daz Connect will help. I've never tried Connect, but every time I move or remove or change my library I use DIM, because that's what I ended up using to put it together in the first place.

 

Problems that WILL occur by doing something like this will come from anything you've already saved and wish to keep. Moving the content location will remove Studio's ability to find it again for any of your saved creations - the exception to that is if you move your library using the database related apps - DIM or Connect. 

 

Good luck - I hope it all works out well.

I am using the Daz Central for install.
The issues I was having were "fatal errors" with The DazStudio...-not- my content. I was hoping to uninstall, and do a clean re-install. But for some reason, its just not working right.
I want it all on the external drive. Which, I thought, wouldnt be much harder than uninstalling>re-downloading>reinstalling everything on the external drive.
But it seems either the computer or the program has way different ideas.
 

blainemiller said:

Great notion. Says not authorized to access the help article

 

So sick of this black art, back-end B.S.  Here Watch... Select New Content location (user points app to new location) Rebuild Database? Y/N (user selects Y then takes a walk for a few minutes)

Right-click on Daz Studio Formats 9and Poser Formats in its turn, if there is Poser-format content)>Add New Base Directory. Select the folder required (the oen that holds the Data and Runtime folders). There is no need to rebuild the database as it uses relative paths anyway - the only thing that deals in abolute paths is Install manager/Daz Central in the manifest files.

VicS said:

thanks SheLuser, because im pretty sure its still not showing up after i dragged data, people etc that was located under content,

You better create a DAZ library folder on another drive first of all other than using this directory on your C drive. Then press F2 in Daz Studio and configure the path of library in Content tab - Content Directory Manager.  Then use Install Manager or DAZ Central to install Zev0's product (IM.. package) instead of direct dumping. Load a G8 figure, you'll see those morph dials. For 3rd parties products, suggest use Content Wizard to install then you'll have them in Smart Content.

Daz3D never responded to my trouble ticket.  I messaged Polish on DeviantArt and will await a response.

I installed it with Daz Central.  Did anyone try installing it manually?  I'll give it a go and see if that fixes it.