Richard Haseltine said:

Totte said:

memcneil70 said:

Totte said:

memcneil70 said:

I was finally able to download DS 2025 on my Win11. I had to open DIM, untick the items necessary items needed for download and then tick them again and refresh DIM. The downloads then appeared. I did have to search for the sku 109051, but it was there also now.

I have been working back on 4.23 on my MacMini and I have noticed its performance has degraded. Is there an expected impact of the DS 6 on DS 4? I have started working on updating my Poser/3DL products to .duf/Iray so I won't lose some of my favorite older products when DS 6 goes fully live. Thank you to Code66, RiversoftArt and SickleYield for their work over the past few years.

What exactly is slower in DS 6? I see uo to a three times speed boost with some of my scripts on DS  vs. DS4 when it comes to loading stuff (but that did require updating them for DS 6)
 

It wasn't scripts but when I was adding additional categories for Smart Content to products I had installed from my existing library of products. I have categories that help me find items more easily and that seemed to lag when I was adding them. Or just looking at the product to ensure it had the correct category or where it was located. Sometimes I am able to recall the image better than a name, and having an idea where an obscure item is located helps me save time. And sometimes a character is not assigned the correct category in Smart Content. They may only have 'Figures' but nothing after, or be Male, when they are Female, or a Creatures when they are a Dog and should be an Animal. And as I pause between work, I find the swirly gets longer. I also found with the scripts I did have to reboot my MacMini M4, DS 4.23.1.47 locked up. I had just used it too long. Need to add in a reboot in long sessions of work.

The CMSDB (Postgres databse) sometimes gets really screwed up if it has crashed too many times ( A database is a system that sooner or later will corrupt the data you store there / old djungle maxim )  
I sometimes reset the cms 8 by exporting user data then reminit it and reimport metadata), then it usually gets fast and snippy again.

Not an option, however, if one installs with Connect.

Are these options not available when installing through connect, or is the metadata not available for reimport when installed through connect?
 

If you have the metadata in DS you cana lso right-click on the product>More Information.(opens in the DS help pane, hold down cmd/ctrl to get an option to open in the system browser and whether to go to the readmen or Product Library page).

Totte said:

memcneil70 said:

Totte said:

memcneil70 said:

I was finally able to download DS 2025 on my Win11. I had to open DIM, untick the items necessary items needed for download and then tick them again and refresh DIM. The downloads then appeared. I did have to search for the sku 109051, but it was there also now.

I have been working back on 4.23 on my MacMini and I have noticed its performance has degraded. Is there an expected impact of the DS 6 on DS 4? I have started working on updating my Poser/3DL products to .duf/Iray so I won't lose some of my favorite older products when DS 6 goes fully live. Thank you to Code66, RiversoftArt and SickleYield for their work over the past few years.

What exactly is slower in DS 6? I see uo to a three times speed boost with some of my scripts on DS  vs. DS4 when it comes to loading stuff (but that did require updating them for DS 6)
 

It wasn't scripts but when I was adding additional categories for Smart Content to products I had installed from my existing library of products. I have categories that help me find items more easily and that seemed to lag when I was adding them. Or just looking at the product to ensure it had the correct category or where it was located. Sometimes I am able to recall the image better than a name, and having an idea where an obscure item is located helps me save time. And sometimes a character is not assigned the correct category in Smart Content. They may only have 'Figures' but nothing after, or be Male, when they are Female, or a Creatures when they are a Dog and should be an Animal. And as I pause between work, I find the swirly gets longer. I also found with the scripts I did have to reboot my MacMini M4, DS 4.23.1.47 locked up. I had just used it too long. Need to add in a reboot in long sessions of work.

The CMSDB (Postgres databse) sometimes gets really screwed up if it has crashed too many times ( A database is a system that sooner or later will corrupt the data you store there / old djungle maxim )  
I sometimes reset the cms 8 by exporting user data then reminit it and reimport metadata), then it usually gets fast and snippy again.

Not an option, however, if one installs with Connect.

memcneil70 said:

Totte said:

memcneil70 said:

I was finally able to download DS 2025 on my Win11. I had to open DIM, untick the items necessary items needed for download and then tick them again and refresh DIM. The downloads then appeared. I did have to search for the sku 109051, but it was there also now.

I have been working back on 4.23 on my MacMini and I have noticed its performance has degraded. Is there an expected impact of the DS 6 on DS 4? I have started working on updating my Poser/3DL products to .duf/Iray so I won't lose some of my favorite older products when DS 6 goes fully live. Thank you to Code66, RiversoftArt and SickleYield for their work over the past few years.

What exactly is slower in DS 6? I see uo to a three times speed boost with some of my scripts on DS  vs. DS4 when it comes to loading stuff (but that did require updating them for DS 6)
 

It wasn't scripts but when I was adding additional categories for Smart Content to products I had installed from my existing library of products. I have categories that help me find items more easily and that seemed to lag when I was adding them. Or just looking at the product to ensure it had the correct category or where it was located. Sometimes I am able to recall the image better than a name, and having an idea where an obscure item is located helps me save time. And sometimes a character is not assigned the correct category in Smart Content. They may only have 'Figures' but nothing after, or be Male, when they are Female, or a Creatures when they are a Dog and should be an Animal. And as I pause between work, I find the swirly gets longer. I also found with the scripts I did have to reboot my MacMini M4, DS 4.23.1.47 locked up. I had just used it too long. Need to add in a reboot in long sessions of work.

The CMSDB (Postgres databse) sometimes gets really screwed up if it has crashed too many times ( A database is a system that sooner or later will corrupt the data you store there / old djungle maxim )  
I sometimes reset the cms 8 by exporting user data then reminit it and reimport metadata), then it usually gets fast and snippy again.

Sorry, I found another error: the H.Mats presets don't load on G8F.

2025-04-28 08:33:56.151 [INFO] :: Prepare asset load (merge): /People/Genesis 8 Female/Clothing/Excessive/Bodywear/Mist Walker/Materials/!Mist Thick.duf
2025-04-28 08:33:56.151 [INFO] :: Locking viewport redraw...
2025-04-28 08:33:56.151 [INFO] :: Viewport redraw locked.
2025-04-28 08:33:56.497 [VERBOSE] :: Native format content directories: 29
2025-04-28 08:33:56.497 [VERBOSE] :: Poser format content directories: 2
2025-04-28 08:33:56.498 [VERBOSE] :: Other import format content directories: 0
2025-04-28 08:33:56.498 [INFO] :: Begin asset load (merge): /People/Genesis 8 Female/Clothing/Excessive/Bodywear/Mist Walker/Materials/!Mist Thick.duf
2025-04-28 08:33:56.499 [INFO] :: Determining missing assets...
2025-04-28 08:33:56.507 [WARNING] :: Invalid hierarchy for selected node(s) and "preset_hierarchical_material" type; no root(s) found.
2025-04-28 08:33:56.507 [WARNING] :: Error loading asset: /Users/nicolas/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/Metadonnees/people/genesis 8 female/clothing/excessive/bodywear/mist walker/materials/!mist thick.duf
    Operation failed
2025-04-28 08:33:56.943 [INFO] :: Unlocking viewport redraw...
2025-04-28 08:33:56.943 [INFO] :: Viewport redraw unlocked.

They do work on G8.1F, so my guess is you saved them on a Genesis 8.1 figure.

If someone is in a hurry to fix them and can't wait for Squishy to fix them, the easiest way to fix them is to uncompress all H.mats presets files and batch replace 'Genesis8_1Female' by 'Genesis8Female' with a text editor capable of doing search and replace in all files in a folder.

frank0314 said:

We pay about $130 a month for ours, not including the modem, router, fiber optics and wireless pods. You should be able to go to ISPs site and look up your plan. Do you a limit that you can't go over before they down throttle you? Here is my speed test.

I will have to check with ISP later this week... As far as I know it's SUPPOSED to be unlimited.  ughh... I'm so dumb when it comes to stuff like this.  Maybe it's the wireless???  I don't know.  I'll see if I can find out.  In the meantime I'm still trying to get Daz sorted... but it's a long process... I really like having metadata... TRYING to figure out where stuff is in my runtime is so complicated.  Each PA uses their own naming system.. Nothing is as I EXPECT it to be.  :(  Gonna be slow going doing any rendering for me.  (sighs)  Thanks Frank ... not sure what else to do.  :(

Hi, is there any Diffeomorphic to Cascadeur workflow?

From Daz to Blender:
Using Genesis 9 imported into Blender via the Diffeomorphic plugin (Blender 4.2).

From Blender to Cascadeur:
Exported the Daz rig into Cascadeur. (I also tried Convert to Rigify option in Diffeomorphic)
In Cascadeur, I ran "Generate Rig" after import.

Export from Cascadeur:
I exported the whole scene in FBX (as suggested by the official tutorial).

Problem:
After bringing the data back into Blender, the rig scale is completely wrong compared to the mesh.
(Mesh dimension is correct, but Rig dimension becomes tiny.)
And also, when I transfer the action(motion) in the rig from Cascadeur's  to Blender's rig, most of the motion has gone.

Has anyone experienced this?
Any advice on how to correctly export/import between Diffeomorphic and Cascadeur?

Thanks a lot!

I've been working with balloon and bomb props, where the fuse/string is highly animated. But I want to be able to take the last frame of one of them and use that as the starting point for more than one new sequence, which means a i want a new file. i couldnt find a way to export the keyframe of the existing animation to a standalone file. looking through the help forums i see people using Export Pose and Export Hierarchical Pose, but neither of these work for me as they apparently only save the variables of the topmost item in the hierarchy, expecting that anything parented to it will be an item of clothing that needs to be fit to it, not an item in itself with its own X/Y/Z rotation variables. So I dont think exporting poses will work for me.

Likewise there are various options like "create key", "delete key", "copy key", and "paste key", but they seem to refer to metadata that is of no use to me rather than the poses of the objects in the keyframes. 

Basically Im looking for an "export frame" option, or its closest equivalent. The bomb's fuse is about 20 nodes deep and the balloon's string is 12, so it's extremely tedious to copy the X/Y/Z rotate and translate for each node in the chain by hand every time I find a new pose I want to use as a starting point. I hope someone here can help. 

Best regards,

Soap

There is also http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/metadata/list_products/start

crosswind said:

nimonsi said:

I just put the dress over the seat and simulate it, it's just fall through seat like there was nothing (i added static dForce to Shinkansen Seating_225640)

Firstly, you need to select Shinkansen Seating_225640, in Parameters pane, make sure Visibile in Simulation is turned On. (ss1)

Secondly, with a dForce modifier + Weight node on the seats, and a Timeline simulation, Gravity = 0, you'll get a natural collision as well as the sunken seat when the figure sits down. (ss 2 ~ 3)

You also can go for two times' simuation, firstly for the seat, with Gravity = 0, then keep the deformed shape on the seat (Freeze Simulation or export / import as a morph). Then simulate again with Gravity = 1, to have more draping on the clothing.

Oh my god!!! Visible in Simulation ON is helped!!!

I knew it was something very easy 

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! 

What the site is it i can't give a like or heart to someone who helped me or tried to help ? 

You can export .csv format directly from DIM. In each tab (Ready to Download, Ready to Install and Installed) select all Products, then right-click anywhere on a Product and select "Export Selected to CSV". Choose which fields you want to use and Accept. Import the three files into your spreadsheet. Combine them into one sheet and sort as you like.

nimonsi said:

I just put the dress over the seat and simulate it, it's just fall through seat like there was nothing (i added static dForce to Shinkansen Seating_225640)

Firstly, you need to select Shinkansen Seating_225640, in Parameters pane, make sure Visibile in Simulation is turned On. (ss1)

Secondly, with a dForce modifier + Weight node on the seats, and a Timeline simulation, Gravity = 0, you'll get a natural collision as well as the sunken seat when the figure sits down. (ss 2 ~ 3)

You also can go for two times' simuation, firstly for the seat, with Gravity = 0, then keep the deformed shape on the seat (Freeze Simulation or export / import as a morph). Then simulate again with Gravity = 1, to have more draping on the clothing.

frank0314 said:

Llola Lane said:

Hi gang... I have my new hard drive installed.. It is taking a while do get metadata to download... There HAS to be an easier way.  I have over 20,000 items in my InstallManager... and about 4,000 things didn't have manifest data :(  I am reinstalling them but.. it's been a week and I still have about 2,000 things to go!  What's holding stuff up is all the RETRYs I am getting.  Gotta close IM and then wait for it all to reload.. then try again... I've got it installing 12hours a day!  I give the computer a rest at night... I also tried REIMPORT Metadata IN Daz.. and had it running for over 12hours and it was only 5percent done!  WHAT am I missing???   Not sure anyone is watching this thread anymore (sighs)...

It could be a very quick interruption between Daz servers or your ISP. What is your download speed in DIM atm? ATM mine is 184 mb/s. Is see in the screenshot it's only 17.4 mb/s which is why it is taking really long to install. Can you try again? Also, what is your internet speed you pay for through your ISP?

Hi Frank.. thanks for reply... I have no idea what my internet speed I pay for through ISP (how do I check?)... I've restarted DIM several times.. right now I'm getting 26.6mb/s.  Seems like I'm stuck waiting?  Not sure if there's a way to have DIM download faster? 

Llola Lane said:

Hi gang... I have my new hard drive installed.. It is taking a while do get metadata to download... There HAS to be an easier way.  I have over 20,000 items in my InstallManager... and about 4,000 things didn't have manifest data :(  I am reinstalling them but.. it's been a week and I still have about 2,000 things to go!  What's holding stuff up is all the RETRYs I am getting.  Gotta close IM and then wait for it all to reload.. then try again... I've got it installing 12hours a day!  I give the computer a rest at night... I also tried REIMPORT Metadata IN Daz.. and had it running for over 12hours and it was only 5percent done!  WHAT am I missing???   Not sure anyone is watching this thread anymore (sighs)...

It could be a very quick interruption between Daz servers or your ISP. What is your download speed in DIM atm? ATM mine is 184 mb/s. Is see in the screenshot it's only 17.4 mb/s which is why it is taking really long to install. Can you try again? Also, what is your internet speed you pay for through your ISP?

Hi gang... I have my new hard drive installed.. It is taking a while do get metadata to download... There HAS to be an easier way. 

I'm gonna try and post something in the next few days... we have 4 more days til May 1st... Wish me luck! 

Keep posting the great artworks.. I enjoy seeing what you all create!  Stay well.. hugzzzzzzz

Hi gang... I have my new hard drive installed.. It is taking a while do get metadata to download... There HAS to be an easier way.  I have over 20,000 items in my InstallManager... and about 4,000 things didn't have manifest data :(  I am reinstalling them but.. it's been a week and I still have about 2,000 things to go!  What's holding stuff up is all the RETRYs I am getting.  Gotta close IM and then wait for it all to reload.. then try again... I've got it installing 12hours a day!  I give the computer a rest at night... I also tried REIMPORT Metadata IN Daz.. and had it running for over 12hours and it was only 5percent done!  WHAT am I missing???   Not sure anyone is watching this thread anymore (sighs)...

fbell said:

I guess it's not available to all Premier members yet, no show on my side!

Just in case you haven't done so,  login Daz Studio app and have the app update metadata so the Install Tab can repopulate with new products.

Thank you for your answer

The outfit is working fine as far as I can tell. I'm just in the process of adding metadata to your freebies so I'm looking extra closely at them during this process

About the pump, I just re-downloaded the version from Renderhub for the Showtime Outfit ( https://www.renderhub.com/excessive/showtime-outfit-for-g8f ) and once I extracted the file, the pumps geometry are in /Data/Excessive/CFM Pumps/CFM Pumps. It seems to be the same from the file from Renderosity and Google Drive.

The standalone pumps ( https://www.renderhub.com/excessive/cfm-pumps-g8f ) themselves do load their geometry from /Data/Excessive/Footwear/CFM Pumps

About the geoshell, it's working fine as it is, but them refering to the same geometry file seems to prevent Daz Studio to see them as two different Compatibilities base, so I don't know if I can set the metadata in a way preventing the G8.1 version to appear when the G8 geoshell is selected and vice-versa. I have looked at how you set it up and I will try to make it so that the G8 version has is own geometry file :)

As miladyderyni_173d399f47 said, we've been complaining about it for a good year now (yay, an anniversary!) and the response was along the line of "just deal with it." The only way you can protest is with your wallet. Most artists who migrated from the other site are on my permanent no-buy list because of that (also because of lack metadata for smart content and often subpar promos below the quality I got used to at Daz).

I don't have that item, but the sandals should be: default/Wardrobe/Footwear

The shoulder armor could either be default/Accessory/Torso or Arms or if treated as just armor, default/Wardrobe/Armor/Torso. Me, I would go with the Wardrobe, but Daz will often dump full armor sets into Accessories.

After that, click on the offending category that is upper level and 'Show in Content Library' and delete both items from it, then the product until the correct level is left.

I am writing this without Daz Studio open, so be cautious on the Content Library instruction.

You could also document this with a report to Customer Service and ask them to update the metadata. They will need to verify the issue and then elevate it.