DSON - Gen 2...showing up, but not loading

Killebrew

Folks, I'm in a quandary here.

I've used the DSON thing with M5 and had no problems.

I've just installed the DAZ downloader thing, and the newest DSON release, the Gen 2 male essential pack, and I bought the big package of the Jayden teen Gen 2 character, and I'm having some issues.

if I download manually, I get zip files. The root zips contains a "Content" file, and inside that is a Runtime file.
Just unzipping each file in the package to my Poser 2012 directory as I've always done achieves nothing. I have a "Content" folder in there and nothing shows up in the Poser library when I'm running the program.

I went back and just drag-and-dropped the Runtime files from inside the zip files into the Poser directory and they merged fine and now I can see everything inside of Poser (completely skipping the "Content" folder), but when I try to load the character, it cranks for one second and I see nothing. The character and props and what not are invisible. I also noticed that it's not going through the usual DSON process of writing the character and taking a while to load. It doesn't seem to be doing the whole process.

So I bit the bullet and used the DAZ installer doohickey (looks handy) to download and install all the individual teen Gen 2 packages into my Poser directory. Same problem as I originally had with nothing showing up....just a "Content" folder in the main directory that Poser doesn't recognize or does anything with.

Now I admit, I haven't loaded a DAZ product into Poser in about a year because Genesis scared me off. But somehow I managed to get M5 to work without any problems.

Exactly how and to what directory am I supposed to be installing this stuff? Something somewhere is missing and this $125 package ain't showing up.

Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?

-I did uninstall the old DSON before installing the new version, which seems to have worked. The old M5 Genesis 1 still works just fine.
It's this "Content" folder that has me suspicious.

Many, many thanks for any help you can provide.

-RK

fixmypcmike

You need to take the Data folder from inside the "Content" in the zip and copy it to the folder containing your Runtime folder (not inside Runtime, but parallel to it).

fixmypcmike

When using DIM, set the install location to the folder CONTAINING the Runtime folder, not the Runtime folder itself.

Killebrew

Thanks!

I thought I did that...installing with the DIM into the main Poser 2012 directory, not the actual Runtime. I've got the Content folder in the same directory as the Runtime.

I'll go look and see what I ended up doing. I must have done it wrong.

fixmypcmike

You don't want the folder named "Content", just what's inside that folder.

Killebrew

Thanks for that.
I'm not having luck with the DIM.

I'll do it manually.
This will take a while.

I appreciate the help!

Killebrew

Huzzah!
fixmypcmike, you just made my Christmas card list. It works!

The character is showing up in the Poser 2012 library inside Poser.

Thanks so much for your quick replies and helping me fix my problem.

Also, apologies for not putting this in the Poser specific forum. (I thought I did....but clearly I'm not very good with the "I swear I did that" stuff tonight)

Many thanks!

-RK