DD PBR Concrete Shaders for Iray Vol 3

paulawp (marahzen)

Hello ... Did anyone else have any trouble with this item?

DD PBR Concrete Shaders for Iray Vol 3 | Daz 3D

I collect shaders of this type and have had no issue with Vol 1 and Vol 2 (as well as many other DD shaders), but when I went to test this one, which I picked up recently, I can't find it anywhere. DIM showed it as installed; I uninstalled and reinstalled, still nothing. Thoughts?

 

NorthOf45

The manifest entries are missing part of the path, so they don't actually get installed.

The package has "Shader Presets/Daz Originals/DD PBR Concrete Shaders for Iray Vol 3/"

The manifest has "Shader Presets/DD PBR Concrete Shaders for Iray Vol 3/"

The metadata has "Shader Presets/Daz Originals/DD PBR Concrete Shaders for Iray Vol 3/

All three must agree, and editing the manifest is quickest. Just insert the "Daz Originals" string wherever needed.

paulawp (marahzen)

OK, thanks. Just to clarify - as I don't have any prior experience with this sort of thing - this is supposed to be done to all references of that path in the Manifest.dsx file in the main directory of the downloaded zip file? Is there any recourse if I still want to use it with Smart Content? For my personal taste, I hardly ever use Content Library and almost anything I install manually that ends up being accessible only there ends up getting underused and eventually totally forgotten.

Oddly, I notice that although the product itself has an April 2023 release date, with a fix shown in the Read Me for this very problem in May, almost all of the files in the downloaded zip are dated from last year.

SofaCitizen

I submitted a support ticket for this 9 days ago and it was confirmed and passed along to the bug tracker. So hopefully it will get fixed and updated soon. Although if you cannot wait you can fix it yourself as NorthOf45 mentioned.

NorthOf45

paulawp (marahzen) said:

OK, thanks. Just to clarify - as I don't have any prior experience with this sort of thing - this is supposed to be done to all references of that path in the Manifest.dsx file in the main directory of the downloaded zip file? Is there any recourse if I still want to use it with Smart Content? For my personal taste, I hardly ever use Content Library and almost anything I install manually that ends up being accessible only there ends up getting underused and eventually totally forgotten.

Oddly, I notice that although the product itself has an April 2023 release date, with a fix shown in the Read Me for this very problem in May, almost all of the files in the downloaded zip are dated from last year.

 The metadata is valid for the actual folder structure in the package, so once the installation path is corrected in the manifest and the product is installed, it will show in Smart Content as expected.