Moonlit Moonshine Diner and Interior

SimonJM

Bizarre, went to try and use this [Moonlit Moonshine Diner and Interior] (and the various add-ons) and just get a swathe of error messages and end up with nothing visible loaded:

2016-49-25 09:49:07.297 Merging file !_pre_all.daz...
2016-49-25 09:49:07.839 Unable to find file for storable: data/3_0/mdi_wall_wide_3680/door_fr/mdi_wall_wide_3680_door_fr/geometry.dso
2016-49-25 09:49:07.840 Unable to find file for storable: data/3_0/mdi_wall_wide_3680/door_l/mdi_wall_wide_3680_door_l/geometry.dso
2016-49-25 09:49:07.841 Unable to find file for storable: data/3_0/mdi_wall_wide_3680/door_r/mdi_wall_wide_3680_door_r/geometry.dso

I do have the pre-requisites (Interior I and Diner itself) which pretty much work, although the Diner comes up with an error about "data/jack tomalin/moonshines diner/msdn_walls/msdn_walls_17790.ds" and the walls are the 'usual' grey blocks you get with geometry issues.

I have uninstalled and re-installed them all, reset database and re-loaded metadata, and still it continues.

Is this just me, or does anyone else have the problem?

Edited to note that it is the Moonlit versiosn that have the issues, the 'base' items load fine.

vwrangler

Not all of Moolit for Moonshine's has been updated, it looks like.

Most of Moonshine's has been reworked to be DUF, and some of it has also been reworked for Iray as well.

For reasons that surpasseth all understanding, the original names for some of the texture expansions for Moonshine's include:

- Moonlit
- Moonlit Bubblegum
- Moonlit Hip Joint
- Moonlit Noir

(It would be really nice if they hadn't used the name "Moonlit" for so many of Moonshine's texture expansions, especially since most of them got other names in addition.)

Moonlit/Bubblegum hasn't yet been touched -- I just downloaded the ZIP file to be sure -- which means it's now incompatible with the Moonshine's base, which has been updated.

Moonlit/Hip Joint is ... unclear. (I'm doing a render, so I can't test at the moment.)

I don't have Moonlit/Noir, so I don't know if it's been updated or not.

That said, Moonlit itself seems to have been updated to DUF, so I'm not sure why you'd be getting errors with a .DAZ file, of all things.

Are you using the main Moonlit texture, or are you trying Noir, Bubblegum or Hip Joint?

The interiors seem to mostly have been updated; you shouldn't be seeing any .DAZ files for those, I think.

You might want to mention this issue in the PC+ forum, if you're a member. Since it's a PC+ item, they'd be the ones to handle it. (Might also help to file a ticket.)

Also, if you're getting gray blocks on the diner itself, you might try re-downloading and re-installing to get the most recent version. It went through a few issues when it got updated, as I recall.

NorthOf45

The Diner and Interiors were updated this year, but the texture add-ons were not. This breaks some of the references in the preloads, for example, the walls, which are now msdn_walls_17794, versus msdn_walls_17790 from the previous version. (You can see that in the Legacy version files, but has a different folder structure).

There is no Legacy version of the Interiors, so you will have to apply the textures (Bubblegum, Hip Joint and Noir) individually. Interestingly, all the Material settings work okay with the newer base items. (There is no setting for the short chairs in the Bubblegum set, presumably overlooked). The Legacy Moonlit set will work with the Legacy version of the Diner, or use the new one and apply the new textures manually like the others.

vwrangler

I finally got a chance to try the scene files for Moonlit Moonshine's -- just the base Moonlit, not Bubblegum or Hip Joint or Noir. I actually didn't get any error messages, but it looks really ... odd.

To be fair, it's been ages since I touched Moonlit Moonshine's, so it may always have looked odd and I just don't remember. I thought it was supposed to have blue panels somewhere inside -- although there aren't blue panels on the texture maps, so I may just be misremembering. However, there's definitely something wrong with the outside; that looks nothing like the exterior is supposed to.

Unfortunately, the readme for Moonlit Moonshine's hasn't been updated in over two years, so it doesn't mention the fact that Moonshines now has a DUF-native version, or that it may or may not have been updated after that. Regardless, Moonlit seems to be seriously unwell, as these things go.

As it happens, I have the Poser version installed -- it came first -- and it works just fine, materials and all. Plus it has 3Delight sidecars for the materials.

vwrangler

Update for the Studio format Moonlit Moonshine's was in DIM today. I tried it out, and it looks like everything's fixed.

nonesuch00

That update was out quite a while back actually I'm guessing because it wasn't in my DIM