I tried reading through this thread but 31 pages is too much.  I've attached an image from ultrascenery and you can see there is no ground material.  Didn't do anything special.  Loaded the landscape and applied a preset to it.  Saved the maps created in their seperate folder under documents.  There are no error messages and no matter which preset I use I get the same ground.  Even changing the terrain mat doesn't change the render results.

Any suggestions?  btw, I installed through DAZ central, uninstalled, installed with DIM, uninstalled and installed manually and nothing changes.

Thanks

I deleted all folders and files in DS Content and Product folders, then did a search on my drive for all files that may have been missed and deleted any I found. I then uninstalled through Daz Central and reinstalled but no luck reinstalling. I have also tried using DIM. I then located the product in my Daz account and did a manual download and install but all I get is in the pic attached. I have been permutating all sorts of strategies all day, at a loss :(

Thanks for the advice

OK RH.....deleted FG Attic in Content folder in Daz, did a search in Finder for FG Attic and deleted any files I found, went to Daz Central and it still showed "Open" so uninstalled it. Reinstalled. Now I can't find it anywhere so searched in Smart Content and get File does not exist, pic attached. After reinstalling through DC I clicked on the OPEN button but nothing happens.

Not one to give up, I opened the asset from DC, maybe I could download manually, and Im told it's purchased but opening My Orders, of which I have 9 pages worth, yields only order numbers not what they are so finding it will take me a while  :(

Thoughts?

Many thanks

Ought to say, I have uninstalled and re-installed the asset via Daz Central. Thanks

If you are logging in to DS thus allowing DAZ Connect to call the DAZ servers and download metadata "updates" and maybe unintentionally also installing assets/updates, while you are also installing products and updates with DIM, everything will be installed twice to two separate locations with the DAZ Connect installed products/updates taking priority over the installations made with all the other methods (DIM/DAZ Central/Manual installation)

Set your DS for off-line mode by setting the Startup options as in the attachment, and uninstall everything in 'Smart' Content that gives you the option to do so.

Logging in to DS and working in Online mode is needed only when one chooses to use DAZ Connect within DS as their primary means of installing products, and in that case there is no sense in using DIM or DAZ Central to install them.

From these replies it sounds like a problem at the Daz end of the system, especially if it is affecting Daz Central as well. I don't know where the sorting gets done, on the server or the client, so I thought it might be a problem with my setup.

When I go to the installed tab DIM automatically switches the sort order to Installed Date and this is correct. If I change it to Order Date it is wrong again. I supect the Installed date may be coming from locally stored files.

I'm having this issue with Daz Central. None of my recent purchases are listed, only really old stuff with a current purchase date.

I am running DAZ Studio 4.20 on a PC with Windows 10. Due to various issues I am running into, I want to uninstall and do a fresh reinstall. I've used DAZ Central since it was released to install everthing. From what I've read on the forums, some people suggest uninstalling it via DAZ Central. According to the Help Center here https://helpdaz.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055963392-How-do-I-uninstall-delete-Daz-Studio-  I should just delete all the folders that contain DAZ and it's files. Can anyone that has successfully done this, give me some tips?

Thanks!!

Rich 

So, folks, my problem is that the physical model does not import when I utilize BRIDGE to transfer from daz STUDIO to C4D; just the IK rigs do. I repeatedly uninstalled DAZ Central, Studio, and Bridge. and I have no idea what the upgrade changed.

Novica said:

Well Genesis 9 is the news- so the rest of you will have to showcase her as I'm not diving in to another figure.

We've got a possible hurricane forming in the Caribbean and future models (GFS) shows it will hit us Sept 30th timeframe, maybe Oct 1. Models hopefully will shift, I hope it doesn't hit us, but don't wish it on anyone else. Edit- and now the midnight run has it headed more toward Texas and Louisiana. 

Victoria 9 is way too pricey for me, especially when I don't know what will be in the bundle

It looks like it could be at least a catagory 2 or 3 hurricane. I'm not sure where it will go after it gets into the Gulf; but when I run the EMCF model I'm seeing the possibilty of it turnning NE and going across central Florida and then up the East Coast toward me. I hope it doesn't get either one of us.

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.