It's some time that I don't play with "Daz To Blender" though today I tried to export a basic Genesis 8.1 Female figure and after selecting "Daz to Blender" item from the Scripts -> Bridges -> Blender menu the "Daz to Blender" export dialog box doesn't show up as expected.

Recently I changed the installation locations for assets using the Content Directory Manager inside Daz3D Studio. Maybe it messed up with the "Daz to Blender" installation?

Also I would like to find the actuall script file (to eventually move to script directory manually and see if it works) but I failed to find where Daz Central installed it.

Daz3D Studio 4.20

Daz Central 1.5.0.20

Daz to Blender 2.4.0

Blender 3.0.1 and 3.3

Windows: 10 Pro
Version: 21H1
Build: 19043.2006

erixstrong said:

The installation of Daz to Blender seems a nightmare to a lot of people. Personally, I reinstalled it several times, using DIM and Daz Central, and I was unable to find a dtb folder or Daz to Blender.dsa file on my drive...

me 2 !! 

To PerttiA, Don't you just hate One Drive!  It's so intrusive and insidious. It constantly tries to take over your computer.  Changing to a portable drive is looking better and better.  Thank you for the thought!

To Richard Haseltine, I didn't know that.  Good to know now.  I had never used Central before because DIM worked just fine, and I didn't see the point of adding another application, but I was having a problem getting the latest Daz version and it seemed that it was only offered through Central; at least that was how it appeared because I couldnt't get it any other way, not even through DIM.  That was why I tried it, but as mentioned, it took forever to download stuff.  I checked downloading from other sites and they downloaded fast, so it wasn't my wi-fi, per se, which is the excuse I gave it; it was Central that was choking the download.  Either there was high traffic in that moment, or a deliberate short bandwidth for downloading.  You can notice this on other sites where you can only download one item at a time, like Sharecg; they choke the bandwidth.  Dissappointed with Central, I went back to using DIM, but it suddenly kept failing to download and install, probably for the reasons you just mentioned - which ever app gets used first has the power and Central had been first, and it messed up DIM, so I uninstalled Central.  It had a snappy interface in comparison to DIM, but who needs it?  I thought it would be able to compartmentalize things, like people, props, scenes, but, NO, it was a very limited inteface.  I'm more interested in performance.  DIM could do multiple downloads simultaneously, and just keep going until the newest items were downloaded and installed; not my experience with Central.  But, it might have been a bad day for the internet, right?  We will never know, because I have no desire to ever use Central again.  And when DIM times out someday, which it will as Daz Studio has to reshuffle its programming (Qt, anyone?) to a more advanced level at some point, then I will just manually download assets and install them myself as we do at other sites like Art Station, Rendo, and the like.  As in life, all things are a process...  Thank you, Richard, for the clarity.

Robert Freise said:

mrposer said:

Hmmm. I am confused. The youtube page says live in 4 hours. I am in central time and I thought it would be at 5pm here??

Me to. It was right earlier but now it's not or if it is the time has changed

1600 is 4:00pm and 1600MT is 1700 (5:00pm) Central  

Yes...  but is this with or without daylight savings taken into consideration?

Sorry, just being facitious. I go through this pain constantly with work meetings.

If you use Daz Central first it will use a single folder for everything, split into sub-folders. Its applications folder is not the same as the protected Applications or Progam Files folder. If you then install Install Manager it wil keep the same locations. Similarly, if you install Install Manager first it will use its defaults and if Daz Central is installed later it will keep using those rather than its own defaults.

felis said:

Chezjuan said:

Content manager is definitely how you should point Daz Studio at the files.

As an aside, I would recommend putting items from shops other than Daz Studio into the C:\Users\<your user name>\Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Library rather than mixing them up with the Daz-installed content. This can avoid DIM and Daz Central from breaking non-daz store content as well as protect the other store's content from things that DIM or Daz central may try to do.

And I would recommend putting your content on another drive than C, to avoid filling that up. 

Could not agree more and not just because of C-drive filling up, but also because the filesystem on the C-drive is the most vulnerable to corruption and the Microsoft created folders have restrictions and other undesired side effects (such as Onedrive taking over)

felis said:

Chezjuan said:

Content manager is definitely how you should point Daz Studio at the files.

As an aside, I would recommend putting items from shops other than Daz Studio into the C:\Users\<your user name>\Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Library rather than mixing them up with the Daz-installed content. This can avoid DIM and Daz Central from breaking non-daz store content as well as protect the other store's content from things that DIM or Daz central may try to do.

And I would recommend putting your content on another drive than C, to avoid filling that up. 

Yes, that too. I actually keep mine on an external server under a different drive letter. I should probably have noted that as well.  

Chezjuan said:

Content manager is definitely how you should point Daz Studio at the files.

As an aside, I would recommend putting items from shops other than Daz Studio into the C:\Users\<your user name>\Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Library rather than mixing them up with the Daz-installed content. This can avoid DIM and Daz Central from breaking non-daz store content as well as protect the other store's content from things that DIM or Daz central may try to do.

And I would recommend putting your content on another drive than C, to avoid filling that up. 

Content manager is definitely how you should point Daz Studio at the files.

As an aside, I would recommend putting items from shops other than Daz Studio into the C:\Users\<your user name>\Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Library rather than mixing them up with the Daz-installed content. This can avoid DIM and Daz Central from breaking non-daz store content as well as protect the other store's content from things that DIM or Daz central may try to do.

OK, here's what happened.  I downloaded Studio into a new computer, installed it, and tried to use Daz Central for the first time.  It was way too slow for some reason, and kept stalling, so I used the Daz Install Manager.  It kept failing, which as we all know is frustrating, so I figured it was probably just a slow day on the wi-fi.  Now Daz Central must have downloaded assets into This PC-Windows(C:)-Daz3D- Applications-Data-Daz3D-MyDaz3DLibrary, which is where I eventually found them when something happened that I will explain later.

We all know the DIM automatically put all your assets into Users-Public-Public Documents-MyDaz3DLibrary, which was always the wise choice, since you should not clog up your Application folder with gigabytes of assets.  The Public Documents-MyDaz3DLibrary folder is still there, except the folder is empty because Daz Central put the few downloaded assets it managed to get into the Application folder.  Unbeknownst to me, this setup worked fine, in the sense that the program could find its assets, but things were about to get tricky.

There were a few assets I bought from Renderosity, which have to be installed manually.  I looked to install them into the Public Documents folder, but that folder was completely empty, so I searched for where all my assets were downloaded and eventually found them in the Application folder, something that's never happened before, but thinking it was the "new" thing to do, I put the Renderosity assets into the same folder.  Well, guess what, they didn't work properly.  Somehow, the assets "knew", or refused to work properly because they were not in Public Documents!, because, of course, there was nothing in that library to draw from.  Daz Central put them into Applications, so I dragged all the assets from the Application folder and dropped them into the empty Public Documents-MyDaz3DLibrary folder, effectively transferring all the data into what once was the proper folder for all assets.  But now Daz Studio cannot find it.  Obviously.

There used to be a way to redirect libraries; you could tell your program where they were and you could put in the new "address," and all would be well.  So...where is that window that allows Studio to find the correct directory and draw from there in perpetuity?

I hope I made sense.  It's kind of complicated to explain and yet it's not complicated.  How do I tell Studio where the correct directory is?  Maybe I should have just said that. 

Thank you to all the fellow Daz geeks and nerds out there, who know the vaunted answer.

mrposer said:

Hmmm. I am confused. The youtube page says live in 4 hours. I am in central time and I thought it would be at 5pm here??

Youtube told me an hour off as well earlier, it looks to have updated to the correct time for me.

mrposer said:

Hmmm. I am confused. The youtube page says live in 4 hours. I am in central time and I thought it would be at 5pm here??

Me to. It was right earlier but now it's not or if it is the time has changed

1600 is 4:00pm and 1600MT is 1700 (5:00pm) Central  

mrposer said:

Hmmm. I am confused. The youtube page says live in 4 hours. I am in central time and I thought it would be at 5pm here??

Youtube time has been all over the place.

The emails said it would start at 4PM Daztime 

Hmmm. I am confused. The youtube page says live in 4 hours. I am in central time and I thought it would be at 5pm here??

Robert Freise said:

Time on email and YT match for me 5:00 pm central time USA

It would be 3:00 PM on the Pacific Coast, so California, Oregon, or Washington State, and maybe British Columbia. But what do I sign in to: Is it just to the DAZ site with my DAZ account? Or is there a specific link?

Time on email and YT match for me 5:00 pm central time USA

Do I read the times correctly? Does it really mean the announcement is planned for midnight on a workday for the Central European Summer Time zone?

If so, I find this very, very disheartening.

ShadowBox24 said:

I just tuned in on 21st Sept 2022 .....but saw nothing, so I tuned out after 20mins!

 

Please DAZ...... if your doing a special GLOBAL announcement, please showcase your announcement when your store changes its daily sale ads!  I just read in the forum that I need to retune in for special announcement within 12 hours time!

4PM Mountain Daylight Time

5PM Central Daylight Time

6PM Eastern Daylight Time

3PM Pacific Daylight Time

(UTC -6) Europe and others can take it from there. LOL
YouTube Event Link

Considering the "event" starts at 5.30am Australian Central Standard Time for me, so I will be missing out as I will be fast asleep during that time.. lol

richardandtracy said:

There seems to be a very common theme with people who can't load stuff, so common it's hard to ignore. The common theme seems to be DAZ Central. There are people who succeed with DAZ Central, but large proportion of those who do have problems & ask about it in the forums use DAZ Central.

It's the whole process that is being presented to new users that's essentially bound to create problems.

At DAZ site, they are given a link "Download Studio", which doesn't download DAZ Studio, but offers to install DAZ Central instead.
When the user has installed DAZ Central, downloaded and installed DAZ Studio and the assets that come with it and starts DAZ Studio the first time, the user is presented with a dialog asking for login credentials in a way that one thinks they should be given.
Having given the login credentials to DS and permission to go online, DAZ Connect within DS starts updating the metadata and 'bugging' the user that the content has not been installed (with DAZ Connect) and makes the user think it has to be installed again, which DAZ Connect does to an other location, taking twice the space on users C-drive (default location)
As any content installed with DAZ Connect takes priority over the installations made by other methods (DAZ Central/DIM/Manual installation), even when DAZ Connect installed content is corrupt, the user ends up with content that does not work and no way to figure out why...

There is no warning or notice explaining that logging in to DAZ Studio, is only needed when one chooses to install content with DAZ Connect within DAZ Studio and if one does choose to do that, there is no point in using the other installation methods.