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User Category Creation in DAZ 4.21

IceScribeIceScribe Posts: 694
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I can create a first sub-category in Smart Content. I have used this very useful personalization function for my own categories up to 3 sub sub categories. I can create them in 4.21, but they are not recognized in my search in Smart Content. Example: I have several 'environments" that I want to search by region. I create the continents to identify figures, landscapes, props. They will only appear now in the first sub category. Oddly, the last sub category which is used by the product's metadata will include air, land, water. I find these to be redundant and cluttered. I don't understand why "land animals" would be useful. It would be useful to have "Australian" then wild dogs, parrots, and kangaroos, crocs, etc.Another useful category I use is "child, adult, aged". I can quickly call up all "aged" figures, regardless of generation number. All all hair that is braided, regardless of generation number, since I could reasonalby choose a G1 hair for G9. I really miss this capability.  But, it seems this is a function that has been removed, or broken. Or has it been changed and I just need to know how to do this in 4.21?

 

Comments

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 101,027

    So you have items that will appear when the first sub-category is checked, but not for the second or third sub-category?

  • AllenArtAllenArt Posts: 7,169

    I have tried for years to create categories and nine times out of ten, I get an empty folder. I gave up.

     

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,124

    I have made my own sub-categories but not sub-sub-categories. The most extensive use is in Props, so I don't have a lot of stuff dumped into large categories that I have to search for items quickly. So Food, Kitchenware, Effects, Plants, Electrical, ... are expanded, and Kitchenware that was dumped into Food moved to Kitchenware, and Food moved from Kitchenware to Food. I reassign the old Wardrobe/Shoes to Wardrobe/Footware and then break that down further to type of Footware. And I added a Afro under Hair so I can easily find hair suitable for an African American when I need that style, instead of searching all hairs under Short.

    The 4.21 Beta version is the best for doing this in so far.

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