To install most anything into daz, you need to put it in the Program Files>Daz>Studio>Content ( don't even worry about the daz3 folder) This might be slightly different if you put daz into another directory of course.
There should only be one Runtime in Daz specifically, the one that follows that Daz, Studio, content, Runtime. If you are seeing others in Daz, it is probably reading your Poser runtime and it could also be finding anything that is filed wrong or mislabeled. (Sometimes I will download something that includes a content directory for instance, and so it'll add a content to my content folder )
I don't think you have to install everything back into Daz, but a lot of things have come with separate downloads for Daz and Poser, and I imagine those especially you might need to download the DS files separately. I get issues with Poser not reading files from my Daz runtimes, even though I am sure it should, but installing it into my poser runtime seems to fix it, it doesn't happen often though.
All of the Daz figures have Powerloaders as well, this is awesome for installing any morphs you want as you are loading your character. I think the powerloaders will have to be installed into Daz specifically, if you want to use them.
Questions about Daz3D Advanced
So I've been using Poser exclusively up until yesterday. I have a full, single, runtime. I install Daz and added that runtime. I tried importing a pz3 file into Daz and I got a bunch of errors, mostly that it couldn't find anything. I woke up this morning thinking, ok, maybe I have to install all the dazpeople into dazstudio. Still doesn't work.
For me to import anything, which runtime do I need it pointing to?
How can you tell you're even IN that runtime - I see the window on the left, but for some reason I have 2 poser8 runtimes listed (again, I have only 1) and 2 daz content runtimes?
After installing V4 and her morphs into daz (apparently I installed it into my roz/mydocuments/dazstudio/content folder) - I still couldn't do anything with her. Why?
Where do I install the poser/daz stuff? I realize daz only goes into daz content (again, why do I have 2?) I still install the poser/daz stuff into my original runtime, right?
Do I have to reinstall everything into the dazstudio/content?
Any help would be appreciated.
Lessa
15 years ago
ROzbeans
15 years ago
What I don't get is why it's not importing and claiming it couldn't find something, when I've got the runtime that has the stuff selected.
Lessa
15 years ago
You might have it set up so that you have to have DS search for new content.
If you doit that way, you will need to go into your Daz3 folder, into resources and remove the Contentmapfiles folder, because it interferes with searching for new content.
Otherwise you can set Daz to View folders as a list, instead of as a tree. You can do that at the top of your content tab, just click the little arrow and it'll give you a menu.
If you doit that way, you will need to go into your Daz3 folder, into resources and remove the Contentmapfiles folder, because it interferes with searching for new content.
Otherwise you can set Daz to View folders as a list, instead of as a tree. You can do that at the top of your content tab, just click the little arrow and it'll give you a menu.
Kilandra
15 years ago
I had a nightmare of a time just switching from DAZ3 to advanced. It is not very good at locating your files, so you have to go and set it to look in all your directory folders in the preferences I believe it is. Even now, I still have things it can't find, old models I made that it won't open.. I HATE switching or updating DAZ because of that :( I hope you can get it to work!!
ROzbeans
15 years ago
It is friggin ridiculous how fast Daz renders compared to poser. It would literally take hours - at least 12 to render a detailed scene in Poser for me since my computer isn't super great, but its mere minutes in Daz. So bizarre. Looks like I'll have to render my Wet Work piece in Poser though - just haven't figured out enough to do it in daz =/
Jetamio
15 years ago
Longest render I ever did was like 2 hours, and that was with poser. Longest in DAZ was like 45minutes. Haven't tried with this much better machine yet.
Laschae
15 years ago
I was supposed to upgrade my computer to 64 bit Win7 this weekend but we gotta work so...when I get my shit upgraded who wants to teach me DS? =P