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How Well Do Cookie and Chip Work in DS 4.9?

InkuboInkubo Posts: 745
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I think the Cookie and Chip models are adorable, and I'm thinking about getting them.

Chip's product page says "some features may not work in DAZ Studio." I just today returned another, older-generation product that had a similar qualification on its description page, and it turned out that product almost didn't work at all. So you can imagine I'm a bit leery.

Does anybody know how well these figures work in DS 4.9, and whether the features that don't work are at all important?

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  • Silent WinterSilent Winter Posts: 3,766

    I've only got cookie and not chip but she works fine for me.  Wears (non-dynamic) clothes, poses, renders.  (There are some poser-only dynamic clothes for her and chip but I don't have any of those).

    No idea what features don't work - could be material settings (basic mats apply fine but if there are any poser 6 materials files they may not apply).

  • InkuboInkubo Posts: 745

    Thanks!

  • InkuboInkubo Posts: 745

    Paging Richard Haseltine! I bought Cookie and Chip. Cookie shows up as a product in Smart Content, but Chip and the expressions pack do not. Not in Figures, not in All Products, and not in Lost and Found.

    I tried categorizing Chip, but that didn't help... In the Content Library I tried Make a Product From in the right-click menu, but that merely made a new entry in Content Library with nothing in Smart Content...

    I have attached a graphic showing the files in Runtime/Support. What can I do to make Chip show up in Smart Content?

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,841

    I don't know. Does it appear in the alphabetical Products list (twice if you kept your version)?

  • InkuboInkubo Posts: 745
    edited September 2017

    Yep. In the alphabetical product list of the Content Library pane, it appears as the original Chip! and my Chip. But it doesn't appear in Smart Content at all.

    I'll try redownloading the package. Should've done that first.

    UPDATE: Well, that didn't help. But at least I got rid of my duplicate in Content Library.

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  • InkuboInkubo Posts: 745

    Here's a tip for anyone new to Cookie and Chip: when you fit their hair, it goes crazy and squishes up somehow. To fix it:

    • Select the hair in your Scene tab
    • Right-click and choose Expand from Selected
    • Select the hair and bones beneath it
    • Go to the main menu and choose Edit > Object > Zero > Zero Selected Items

    Once all the hair's "bones" are zeroed, it poofs back out into its original shape.

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  • InkuboInkubo Posts: 745

    For whomever it may help, I figured out why Chip and the expressions pack did not show up in Smart Content even though Cookie did.

    There are two problems:

    1. Most importantly, most Chip content has not been categorized. It will appear, with or without an icon picture, in the Lost and Found collection. To get the products to appear in Smart Content, you need to Categorize each resource in the affected products.
    2. For those products that show up in Smart Content with a blank icon, you can easily fix the icon by browsing to the location of a resource that does have an icon, copying that icon into DAZ's Runtime/Support directory, and renaming it to agree with the long product filename.
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