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 not often that people who use DIM ask & I'm not sure I've seen there's anyone ask about problems after using manual install. Could be there's a thread here.

Regards,

Richard

Daz Central is the default method, it takes some effort and knowledge to find Install Manager, so the association may be correlation rather than cause. (No, I have never worked for teh tobacco industry.)

DIM will inherit the paths set in Central (and vice versa). If it is installed on a clean system Daz Central will ask for a single location and place everything in sub-folders of that - the idea being to simplify the inital set up process, since people found the idea of content directories and so on confusing. If you click the gear icon in DIM and choose Advanced Settings you should be able to configure all paths (though the software path will be a base location, the isntallations will then be palced in a standard Daz folder within that, but a lot of other aplication installers do the same).

Depending on why you don't want to use Daz central there is also Daz Install Manager, there should be a link on the same product page as the direct download.

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 not often that people who use DIM ask & I'm not sure I've seen there's anyone ask about problems after using manual install. Could be there's a thread here.

Regards,

Richard

Hi everybody,

Do you also experiment difficulties with the CMS in daz studio?

Has anyone a clue of what's happening?

the program takes ages to launch, looking for the CMS engine (witch is already installed with daz pro), and when it starts, I have nothing in my smart content panel or it takes several minutes to find things.

I have deinstalled and reinstalled several time (witch is franckly painful! ) with Daz central or DIM

Any help welcome

tried uninstalling and reinstalling it using daz central, same results

I searched for products and found them, and they loaded just fine.

It loaded from smart content. Using Daz Central,

Ok, I don't have that problem. Every way I tried

zombietaggerung said:

Daz Central doesn't work well with macs. It's better to stick with DIM.

It doesn't seem to be much better, as it too insists there needs to be an Applications folder. 

I got no choice but to keep doing this manually, aren't I? :/ 

Daz Central doesn't work well with macs. It's better to stick with DIM.

Oh, that is odd. Can you check that the morph files still exist on your computer - according to the ReadMe you should be able to find them here (three examples):

• /data/second circle/SC Ana Hair/SC Ana Hair Rigged/Morphs/second circle/SC Ana Hair/Back Out.dsf

• /data/second circle/SC Ana Hair/SC Ana Hair Rigged/Morphs/second circle/SC Ana Hair/Back up.dsf

• /data/second circle/SC Ana Hair/SC Ana Hair Rigged/Morphs/second circle/SC Ana Hair/Behind Shoulders.dsf

Can you find them there? If not then a reinstall of the hair might be a good idea.

(If you install through Daz Central or DIM, that data folder will be in your main content library). If you installed with Daz Connect (i.e. from inside Daz Studio) then they will be a little harder to find.

Edit to add: I'm sorry, I just noticed the time and need to go now. If noone else drops in to help then I will be back tomorrow.

As long as the files are still in the same place within the new content directory then they would still be found, Daz Studio stores relative paths only for files in a content directory (which is why presets and scenes are portable as long as the required content is present in the correct relative location). The main potential issue is nestec content directories - if both My Library and My Library/Content are content directories and a file in in My Library/Content/Runtime/Textures/... then the relative path may include the Content folder, which would then fail on a different arrangement, which is why nested content directories should be avoided.

Install Manager/Daz Central do store absolute paths in their manifests, so if you have installed through those you will want to edit the manifests or - more safely - reinstall (if you kept the zips Install manager has an option to reinstall uisng the current path).

Whizdot said:

Massive interface overhaul to look like a 2022 program to with regular sized thumbnails...

That would be great, but the verbiage did read "jaw-dropping new addition to the Daz lineup"   That implies a new product, though given the loosness with which DAZ marketing tends to weild the actual meanings of words in the English language, it could just as easily mean DAZ Central 2.0 or a line of NFT-Shirts (they're all unique because we've got a really terrible company assembling them and they're hand-colored by third graders!) 

In DIM, click on the magnifying glass to see the list of available filters. Then select Filter by Tag and then Connect Installed. (Or just type tag::all::CloudInstalled into the filter text box.)
Then look at the products listed in your DIM Installed tab. Products listed there are products that are installed both ways.

I don't know how to check for Daz Central installs, because I've never used Daz Central. Many people confuse Daz Connect and Daz Central, because of the similar names, but they are completely different.

AllenArt said:

vwrangler said:

Just out of curiosity, could someone who actually got the email post the text, if you still have it and if that's allowed? For some reason, I never got it -- umpteen other marketing emails from Daz every week, but that one doesn't arrive, of course -- and the Youtube page is wonderfully unspecific as to what time zone it's telling me that the livestream starts in. All it's saying is "September 21 at 3pm." Is that Mountain? Is Youtube translating to my time zone? Is that GMT? What?

It says 16:00 MDT, which would be 6pm EDT, 3PM Pacific, 5pm Central

 

Thank you kindly!

vwrangler said:

Just out of curiosity, could someone who actually got the email post the text, if you still have it and if that's allowed? For some reason, I never got it -- umpteen other marketing emails from Daz every week, but that one doesn't arrive, of course -- and the Youtube page is wonderfully unspecific as to what time zone it's telling me that the livestream starts in. All it's saying is "September 21 at 3pm." Is that Mountain? Is Youtube translating to my time zone? Is that GMT? What?

It says 16:00 MDT, which would be 6pm EDT, 3PM Pacific, 5pm Central

PerttiA said:

windli3356 said:

Richard Haseltine said:

Is the Content Management System working - entries in Smart Content, Presets tabs, Categories and Products in the Content Library pane?

Yes, everything else working fine, and funny enough, it didn't mess the entire content libray, some works as they use to, it ruined 25%-30% stuffs from my library

Haw are you installing your content, DAZ Central, DAZ Install manager (DIM), manually or do you install the content inside DAZ Studio, using DAZ Connect?

Do you log in to DAZ Studio?

Where is your content installed? (Show us the paths in Content Directory Manager, all of them like in the second attachment)

I install my content via manual install, install manager and smart content manager, I did making sure all my content directory is set to the correct drive/folder, but sad thing is, Daz don't always allocate contents to your selected directory. 

All my content path is set on my G drive on both Daz studio, and Daz smart content manager, but after a few weeks Daz went back and targeting at my C drive exclusively regardless of my directory selection.

The only way trusted way I can get content installed to the correct loction is via manual file moving.

windli3356 said:

Richard Haseltine said:

Is the Content Management System working - entries in Smart Content, Presets tabs, Categories and Products in the Content Library pane?

Yes, everything else working fine, and funny enough, it didn't mess the entire content libray, some works as they use to, it ruined 25%-30% stuffs from my library

Haw are you installing your content, DAZ Central, DAZ Install manager (DIM), manually or do you install the content inside DAZ Studio, using DAZ Connect?

Do you log in to DAZ Studio?

Where is your content installed? (Show us the paths in Content Directory Manager, all of them like in the second attachment)

I have been using Daz for a very long time, Version 1. someting if I remember correctly. My nightmare is lately trying to keep stuff in one place, one copy.

What is the best one to use to install stuff, including software/plugin updates, etc.

If I understand it correctly the product info is in the meta data and the postgre DB gets created from the meta data. So if I move stuff, I can update the meta data with the correct path and rebuild the DB and smart content will show me only one copy of a product and there will be no lost files or stuff that needs to be installed that is installed, etc. Am I correct with my thought train?

Thanks in advance

alan bard newcomer said:

NextOS said:

Yes, we could make the agreement acceptance optional. In the following update, users can install the software without accepting it.

the current eula does suggest we can choose to exempt some levels of data... but also says doing that may impact the way the software functions without saying what may not work.
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One other question... the promo pages say that any daz figure from 4 up thru gen8.1 can be used .... 
In my case because (possible of some changes in design between g1 and the later ones) the head morph that is central to my characters will not transfer up to g8 
so my cats currently have g8 bodies with g1 heads ... 
the goal is not really make chat bots... but have them capable of speaking lines then doing a video capture  so I can produce basically mp4 cartoons ... 
Don't want to make movie type cartoons.. one liners are my speed. 

Oooo, sounds cool. Have you considered trying to use Mimic? It'll be tricky but I think it could be done that way. Find a decent text to speach reader to speak your lines and save to an audio fil which you feed into the mimic input (to create the mouth movements in Studio for your character) then once that is done have Studio render it out to video and then add using a vidio editor add the audio file you used to the saved video. Although the current version only says it supports mic inputs and no file input, just create a virtual mic and then play your audio file though it to Mimic. You know, now that this has come up, I need to get back to playing around with Mimic Live and do this myself since this is why I grap it when it was on sale a whlie back in the first place.

NextOS said:

alan bard newcomer said:

NextOS said:

Yes, we could make the agreement acceptance optional. In the following update, users can install the software without accepting it.

the current eula does suggest we can choose to exempt some levels of data... but also says doing that may impact the way the software functions without saying what may not work.
----
One other question... the promo pages say that any daz figure from 4 up thru gen8.1 can be used .... 
In my case because (possible of some changes in design between g1 and the later ones) the head morph that is central to my characters will not transfer up to g8 
so my cats currently have g8 bodies with g1 heads ... 
the goal is not really make chat bots... but have them capable of speaking lines then doing a video capture  so I can produce basically mp4 cartoons ... 
Don't want to make movie type cartoons.. one liners are my speed. 

Hi Alan. We will make the talking animation DAZ file for Gen 1,2 and Gen 3 available soon. If you have some time, you can even create this animation yourself. To do so, you can use our Gen 8 animation file to create the 23 frames in any Gen 8 character. Render the images in a folder. Then, you can open your own Gen 1 or 2 character in DAZ, set the animation timeline for 23 frames, and adjust the mouth shape of each frame starting with frame 01 (frame 00 is used for the neutral mouth position) using the rendered images as a reference to each frame. After you have your 23 frames with the mouth with the proper shape, you only need to render it and use the DTalks! Avatar Editor to convert into a DTalks talking character. This will work with people, animals, or any other character who has a mouth. To make your avatar speak aloud a specific text for you to capture and render into a video, you just have to add some text into a .txt file and save it in the folder \DTalks\queue\import  Just after you save a .txt file in this folder, the avatar will speak aloud its content. Then the .txt file is automatically deleted, and the system monitors this folder for a new .txt file to speak aloud.

 

sounds good... now I just have to wait until the eagle flies again...  because I can't be trusted with daz credits....  
I figured all that had to be done was to convert the mouth morphs backwards....