I want my, I want my, I want my Dee Ess Three...
Penguinisto
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(...cue Dire Straits chords.)
Ok - here's the sitrep:
After years of farting around with CG, and studiously staying the hell off the forums over the past couple of them (well, for the most part), I'm breaking my silence with a small request.
After years of having to put up with Hackintoshing my laptops when possible (but over the past two just running D|S and Poser under Linux viz. WINE), I'm on the verge of (finally!) getting the machine of my dreams: I pick up my shiny new 15" MacBook Pro tomorrow.
I intend to pack it to the rafters with RAM (and a terabyte HDD cloned over) and turn it into a fire-breather... because I can. :)
Now, here's the request part: I don't want DS 4. Call me a curmudgeon. Call me an old fart. Ask me why I keep demanding that you get the hell off my lawn.
I don't mind... I want DS 3.1.2.32 (or newer, as long as that first number is a "3"!) - but for OSX.
So... where's the archives? I used to be able to download it via an old forum link, but someone went and broke that (Grr...). I may be able to scrounge what I need off of my ancient (but still working just fine) Dual G5 PowerMac, but I don't feel like dragging that aluminum boat anchor out of the closet and getting it all plugged in just to do that (especially not when I intend to just rip out the hard drives and donate the rest to FreeGeek.)
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If you bought it here, you can probably just download it again from your product library. I just looked in mine and it is there. Both Windows and Mac.
Gus
http://www.daz3d.com/downloader/customer/files/
Put in studio in the search box and hit filter.
The best thing you can do is to Contact Support, via the Zendesk System, as DAZ 3D is the only way you can obtain a legal copy if it is not in your download history here.
To check if it is indeed there, follow the link Kerya has given you, making sure that you are logged in to the store first. You will also need to agree to the new DAZ 3D EULA if you have not done so already.
You didn't back up the installer? I didn't save the alpha release but I have most of the beta's. Did you check your order history. If you "bought" DS2, you can still down load the last stable release candidate.. I just did it to make sure it works.
I have DS3 in my Product Library and the latest version listed there is DAZStudio_3.1.2.32_Win32
This, right here.... err, edit: not quite. 3.2.1.24 was there. :(
That's odd - the version I have in my Product Library is 3.1.2.24 ...
That's odd - the version I have in my Product Library is 3.1.2.24 ...
I think it's a Mac-Windows thing.
I guess I'll have to cook a script to ratchet back the version number on all my *.daz files
My product library shows DAZStudio_3.1.2.32 for both Windows and Mac. I also have the same download numbers for DAZStudio 3 Advanced, so I have no idea why some would have a different file number, unless there was a further update that no everyone got, though I would think everyone who got DS 3 (free and/or Advanced) would get all the updates available.
That's odd - the version I have in my Product Library is 3.1.2.24 ...DS 3.1.2.32 is DS3A and only available if it was bought. If you had .32 it should still be in your Product Library for download. Mine is, in both versions 32 bit and 64 bit.
Bah - PowerPC only!
(forgot about that whole Dual G5 thing I had going...)
Incidentally, .32 was not DS3 Advanced... they did have a free version, and a link to it from this very forum (way back when.)
Guess I'm stuck with resurrecting the old Mac (I think there's an x86 Mac version in there archived), or $#@%^! DS4. >:(
Can I ask why you want DS3? The interface really hasn't changed much between 3 and 4 (believe me, if it did, I would have been complaining like a maniac), and 4 has better features and support for newer products. You don't have to use the Content Manager, and although a few people have had problems with upgrading, far more do not.
Just curious. :)
We can start with the eternal and never-ending "What do I do"? panes. The thought of going through Qt Designer and driving them all to null is not very appetizing. :/
Once you switch to Darkside style and have anything in your scene, you shouldn't see them often. I don't even know what QT Designer is; once you get away from the default interface, things get much better.
I have two tutorials for customizing Studio's interface that might help:
http://snowsultan.deviantart.com/art/Customizing-DAZ-Studio-Interface-Tutorial-1-309379885
http://snowsultan.deviantart.com/art/Customizing-DAZ-Studio-Interface-Menus-310684759
What else? ;)
No idea where they are on a MAC, but on a PC you will find a folder called "guide pages" at "Program Files > DAZ 3D > DAZStudio4 > resources", just rename the folder, that will stop DS from finding those files, and will give you nice empty panels instead of that "What do I do" crap.
Snow you do know that the only reason we have darkside, is down to us threatening to lynch the devs over that abortion of an interface they gave us, Rob had to make darkside in his own time to stop us from stringing them all up.
Beejay (is that you Little Dragon?), I and a lot of other long-time Studio users pushed HARD for a DS3-style interface in private talks with developers. Whether we helped to motivate Rob or not isn't important - what difference does it make how we got a better interface? The fact is that we got one.
how does the hackintosh work? I upgraded to Windows 8 Pro got my new computer and hate i hear good things about the Mac OS, but is hackintosh stable?
@dkgoose: The answer to that all depends on your hardware, and is it's own scope of discussion, I promise.
I will say that hackintoshing requires more than the usual skill to get installed (and to get everything working - but that's never guaranteed), and that you have to pay closer attention (and really pick-and-choose your patches, lest you blow the whole thing up). There are a wide variety of forums that are best hit up for that, though - this prolly ain't one of them.
To be honest though, I did the Hackintosh thing as a stop-gap. I saved my pennies for an MBP because my last hackintosh attempt (an HP EliteBook ) slowly broke down hardware-wise, just like every other Pee Cee that I've bought pre-built. The Apple hardware is built to last, and IMHO worth the investment.
@Snow, et al...
First off, I missed you guys.
Second, I broke down and wiped the guide pages. Qt Designer is the best way to do it (the whole UI is written viz Qt), since I didn't want to go all ham-fisted, and it let me sniff around and catch up on some things internally. :)
I did find Darkside, and it's enough to convince me that maybe DS4's UI isn't the suck I originally pegged it to be. At the very least, I can stop calling Rob dirty names now.
If Rob whomped that out on his own time, I owe him a case of his favorite beverage... it's almost what I would have done if I had the time to tear on the UI (I may yet tweak it further and pass around those results).
/Applications/DAZ 3D//resources/guide pages/
It's broken down by pane after that.
** for instance, mine says "DAZ Studio4 64-bit"
Very glad to hear that. :) Yeah, it's really not bad at all once you get your interface set up the way you like. I think some companies underestimate how important a decent interface is; the only real reasons why I haven't tried Blender and don't like Painter is because of their screwball UIs.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I have always hated those, and even though I use Darkside, they are still extremely annoying!!
Wee update...
Got to really sit down with it. It's actually usable now after enough customization (though I discovered to my horror that I forgot to xfer over all my 3.x DS directories from the Windows box, so most of my old .daz files don't open so hot; I'll fix that tonight).
I also discovered that somehow weight-mapping made its way in there... cool.