Daz Studio 4.9 Beta Now Available..
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Just a few simple questions:
1. Can I run 4.8 and 4.9 simultaneously?
2. Can I use 4.9 without using the Connect Content Manager?
3. Can I install my content for usage in 4.9 further manually from downloaded DAZ DIM-files or from other Stores as I do it now?
4. Will any new content further be available in my Product library for Download?
Points 2 to 4 are most import for me. I like to store the products that I have paid on external media to have always my own backups.
I have the same problem as Novica. Half of my content is greyed out or missing in Smart Content! Everything I have ever bought from Daz has been installed, but I can't use some of it now unless I download it again from cloud!
I don't like the Smart Content and I still can't find anything quickly. Also it is so slow to load the images. A lot slower than 4.8.
Sorry but I have decided I am going to uninstall it.
What you have to do is when in the Smart Content section up the top of the pane you will see a Arrow with 4 lines running down from it click on Content DB Maintenance and select Re-Import Metadata, what that will do is tell Smart Content where your content is.. I had the same problem and doing that fixed it for me, but well I went back to using the Content Library as some items still would not show in Smart Content..
In file loading I have seen a small increase in speed, where it is good is that 3Delight does render better if it is not crashing though mind you it was crashing in 4.8..
Yes to all of the above.
I already stated I had done that, checked, no change, then exited and came back in and no change. But maybe it'll help someone else.
I'm a Content Library person anyway.
Wendy, why do you have to use the "cloud?" (Can't she simply change her DIM to point to the place that 4.9 uses?)
Calling it cloud makes things much more confusing to so many people. It really isn't a cloud service and it isn't remotely required in 4.9
You can continue using your regular content library in the same place as it was before - all you need to do is go into the content manager (edit preferences content manager button for directory manger) and tell Daz where your installed content is (and it can be placed anywhere on any drive you want it to.) Then you can go on with everything exactly as before.
The new Daz Connect content will automatically go into the topmost of the folders you nominate in the content manager (this needs to be clearer, Daz.) but if you have a product installed (that Daz knows about via having the directory chosen as above) then connect wont bug you to download it again.
I did re-import the metadata, but it made no difference. Still showed items as not installed. No worries, I have now uninstalled 4.9 and won't use it any more.
My database is all setup correctly in Database manager, the same as in 4.8 but it still shows greyed out icons and if I click on one it says I need to download it.
Well, the good news is this is beta and finding bugs is what it is supposed to do. Perhaps when it is rolled out after the PAs test the improved version, then it really will be ready for us.
I don't get why all the people here is so scared by DRM and the Smart Content...
I think everyone could learn to use the Smart Content tab (my workflow skyrocketed since I started using it!) and the DRM is the only way to protect the PAs from piracy.
Thanks Ghostly12, that almost worked for me. I still have a LOT of greyed out icons, and many of those don't have the little 'cloud' icon on them either.
It's also extremely interesting to see just how many DAZ products do NOT have pictures for the icons. And some of them have the name below them and a LOT don't.
And of course, products from stores other than DAZ don't show at all.
If Smart Content stays like this, it simply WON'T be able to replace my own method of organization.
Well, you're doing better than me Wilmap. If I dbl click on a greyed out icon, it doens't install, it doesn't tell me it needs to install, it doesn't do anything at all actually. :)
@ Jakiblue
Just go on your Library and categorize them! If they don't have metadatas, just add them by yourself!
I have products form Renderosity, RuntimeDNA and other stores in my Smart Content tab, everyone Context sensitive!
More than a third of my DAZ purchased items do not show up in Smart Content because they have no metadata.
Of the remainders most of my DAZ content shows up in "Lost and Found" which is just a big directory of uncategorized stuff.
So until the metadata is fixed and complete, Smart Content is useless to me.
but that's what i'm saying....i can categorize something, but they DON'T show in smart content.
Yeah I still have some greyed out icons not sure why, case of who knows but I did find the rest of my files though.. As it seems that for whatever reason AoA's light presets are not seen as a product per se so dont show up under the Product Tab. They instead show up under the Files Tab and pretty much everything else that does not come under the Products Tab.
Look under the Files Tab you might find them hiding in there is where I found content that did not show up under the Products Tab (well most of it)..
From the first post http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/64736/daz-studio-pro-beta-version-4-9-0-21/p1
You can install and use 4.9beta next to an 4.8 install, but nowhere did I read that you can have 4.8 and 4.9 installed together. If the 'full' product install is the same as before, then 4.9 will replace 4.8
Thanks for the reply, I'll have to buy another external drive then, I tried doing that a long time ago but got so much lag it took forever for things to load so I gave up on that, but my computer and laptop weren't the best, my laptop how I don't think could handle studio but if it's enough to install and update stuff then ill definitely try that out
Did you try to reimport your metadata? Doing that with the actual product metadata (not the user data) is broken in this build, fixed in a later build, so if you did that would account for your issue.
Was the greyed out stuff still in its default location and showing in the smart content and product lists in 4.8?
Yes Richard. Everything was working fine in 4.8.
You can make it appear in the Smart content:
Go to your Content Library tab and select the product you want then from options select Content DB editor.
In the new window select the product and in "type" select what it is, if actor, scene or anything else.
Aftr this go to the compatibility tab and select wich figure is associated to it, like Genesis, Genesis 2 and others. It's not mandatory, you can disable the context from the Smart Content unticking the option under the window.
Now you can categorize it and finally see it in the Smart tab.
Because I never use smart content. I categorize my content my own way, and prefer it that way. There is no one way that will protect PA's or the store from piracy, sadly. And people don't like it because it hobbles their purchased content.
I don't want to trivialize anyones concerns, but there is a difference between DRM and encryption, and its not a small one.
Our banks uses encryption, not unlike the way Daz wants to use it, to protect our content.In the case of the bank that content is our money.
Our banks do not use DRM, they use encryption.DRM would do very little to protect our bank accounts.
I for myself will not pay for any content that relies on durable availability of DRM servers, which eventually could prevent me from accessing what I paid for in future. Not for movies, not for music, not for ebooks and not for 3D content. As simple as true.
It's already a pain when it comes to re-installing software with DRM protection, e.g. install Delphi to a new PC or clean OS after exceeding the 3 or so initial installations, so I need to contact Embarcadero and ask for additional installations - didn't read about that before buying, and made me not upgrading to a new version later. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Oh yes, and they just got bought out by Idera, so future will tell how long previous software versions still get this kind of support - if at all. For content DRM is even more a NO-GO.
2008 Sony turned down DRM servers for their Connect Music Service, music files could no longer be transferred to other devices and users lost access to their music when changing their PC configuration. The same year Microsoft turned down DRM servers for MSN Music, music files could no longer bla bla bla.. Wal-Mart didn't do better, their DRM servers have been shut down the very same year, with similar results. There are many more examples for negative impacts of DRM through the next years, not only for music or movies, but games as well - when Ubisoft or EA DRM servers have been temporary down you couldn't install or play what you paid for. But users are naive and forget quickly when it comes to new shiny toys.
Glad to see DAZ guys at least think about the DRM problems before anything happens. As a non-US citizen I personally wouldn't give a nickle on any non-technical, policy only driven solution to that problem.
So if you want to install a DRM that is more fair to honest users, why not using a time limited system ?
Fully decrypt (automatically or with the click of a button) all files say 6 or maybe 12 month after their initial release date and so give users a better feeling not being eventually locked out in future from what they paid for in past. Just turn the files into fully unencrypted files again. Should be easy to integrate into DS or do it on server side (just like any update), you already have the keys. And anything that has not been cracked within 6 or 12 months after release most probably isn't of interest to pirates anymore, as they are usually going to spread the newest, shiniest thingies.. I'd guess the biggest sale numbers for a new item fall into that timeframe also. And even people who don't like to buy into DRM content at all, could at least wait and buy later, when items are gonna be delivered without DRM again.
Just my 2 cents - add them to the thousands of dollars that you already got from me.
It's being called DRM because the encryption is against the account and requires that the machine have a machine- and account-specific key file to unencrypt.
Here encryption is one of the tools used to install a DRM.
You know, there is something to be said to have an automatic system in which products are encrypted for a given period of time (say, 6 months from initial release), and then encryption is removed -- generally most sales are within a short period of time of release. Lowering protection after that period seems to strike a balance between security for vendors and security in long-term use of products.