Missing content...?
Hi All,
I've got content that I installed manually (non-DAZ Store, but Genesis friendly) and they're not showing up in my Content Library. I can follow the paths to the folders, correctly located. I can see things like the Mats (Hair), but the Obj files aren't there in the Content Library. Although I can clearly see them in my finder.
Any thoughts on what I'm missing here?
Thanks.
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Are you using the DIM as well as doing manual installs? If so are you mixing them both into the same folders?
I use DIM to install DAZ Store products into the "My DAZ 3D Library". I have a second folder/Directory that is dedicated to other content items such as Renderosity, that I install manually as per those item's instructions. That folder does show up in my Studio Content Library tree. It's just I can't actually select the items such as a particular "Hair". I can see the Mats for that hair, but it won't let me apply the hair to my character. Am I remembering wrong in that I can't have two or more directories, as in, all items need to be in the DAZ 3D My Library folder?
No they should definitely be kept separate. that's usually the first mistake folks make. Try this: go to the hair mat you can see and right click it and select browse to directory i think its called and see if the other files show that way.
I've got some manual install products that do the same thing but when i browse to the product they all show.
If I Right-Click on one of the MAT thumbnails, I do have the option to "go to file location", but that is simply my finder-folder location (On a Mac). It Doesn't allow me to locate it in my Directory within DAZ Studio.
Hey, just compared ti another file that I can see, and the seeable file is a .duf format. The other item has a file titled "01SH_1Default.ds" file. Is that an older format?
unless its content originally made for like D|S 2.3 it should work fine in the newer versions. Unfortunately i know squat about Macs so I'm afraid i wont be much help there.
Yeah, not thinking this is a Mac thing. Unless it's a D/S Studio-Mac version thing. Manually installing the items from a zip file is pretty straight forward, just time consuming. And the fact that I can see some of the items, such as the MATS for the hair, yet not the actual Hair file is a little baffling. Your last response came in late last night (my time zone). I'll take another look at comparative files this morning, see if I can spot anything. I did see on this particular items "Review" page that users are using it with G & G2 characters with no problems, so it's at least good for Studio 4.7, based on the last reviews.
.ds is a script file for (in this case) material settings. You need to load the hair first - are you sure this isn't simply a texture add on for a different hair product? Or that it doesn't have a Poser zip with the hair model that you also need to install?
Hey Richard, nice to here from you as always.
Not that I haven't done that before, but yes, it's the actual product. :-)
Here a link to the product page over at that other sight. http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/sav-sonia-hair/91550/
I can see all the different folders listed in the D/S "Content Directory". The "Geometry" folder, the "Texture" folder, etc. but when I click on them, nothing shows up in the directory window as a selectable option. Except for the MATS. Those I can see.
I install each piece of the package zip files, except for the included "templates" folder. I assume that's an extra for possible customization, correct?
It would be the "obj" file or the "CR2" file, correct? I can see them both in the finder. But not viewable in the Content Library.
Ah, if you can see the Geometry and Textures folders it's not in the right place - those should be in the Runtime folder, and the Runtime folder itself should be in the content directory you are using. The files will then be under Poser Formats>Your content Directory>Figures>SAV_SoniaHair for the hair and folders under Props, Pose or Materials for the rest.
They are in the "Runtime" folder. But they are in my second directory folder > Renderosity content. As explained earlier, for my own, keeping track of all my content, I let DIM install the DAZ content to the "My DZ 3D Library" folder. I manually install all my Renderosity purchased content to a folder titled "My Renderosity Library". There is a Runtime folder within that. Am I remembering wrong in that maybe D/S doesn't allow multiple directories? It obviously sees them as the folders are all listed in my Content Library directory.
They are in the "Runtime" folder. But they are in my second directory folder > Renderosity content. As explained earlier, for my own, keeping track of all my content, I let DIM install the DAZ content to the "My DZ 3D Library" folder. I manually install all my Renderosity purchased content to a folder titled "My Renderosity Library". There is a Runtime folder within that. Am I remembering wrong in that maybe D/S doesn't allow multiple directories? It obviously sees them as the folders are all listed in my Content Library directory.
FYI, I tried duplicating the relevant files into the "My DAZ 3D Library" Folder to see if they were viewable there. In case it's a directory-thing. They are not there. I refreshed and even closed and re-opened D/S, but can't see the items. They also don't show up in a file search for the title.
EDIT: Ignore post, misread something.
OK, I misunderstood your note here, Richard. But this was the problem. I had all these subfolders open in my Content Library tree, and essentially was looking in the DAZ Studio Formats Folders only. The Poser Formats folder was pushed off the screen below. Once I scrolled down and saw that folder as per your direction, I found the actual item file.
As always, you da man! :-)
It looks as if you have one content directory (the one with the Renderosity content) nested inside another. That can cause problems as when saving DS uses relative paths - the location of the file within the content directory, without specifying the location of the content directory itself - and with nested folders it has two choices for the starting point - either the My DAZ 3D Library, including the actual Renderosity folder in the relative path, or the Renderosity folder itself. That will (probably) work for now, but if you create content you wish to share it may cause the fiels to fail for other users - or for you if you later move to a different machine with different folder names.
Thanks for the heads-up there Richard. I'll give it a re-think. I already am actually. I'm setting up a visual reference catalog to keep track of what all content I own and notes that make sense to me for reference. So I'll move those other vender purchases currently outside D/S into the "My DAZ 3D Library". Should help my troubles there.
Thanks.