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Trouble Downloading Files From Account

soulpainter06_36c7012b53soulpainter06_36c7012b53 Posts: 2
edited December 1969 in New Users

I'm so lost I am not even sure where to ask for help with what.

I have been using Daz products for quite a few years. I started my 3D adventure in life back in 2000 with Bryce. Ended up getting Poser 4 and it was off from there. Currently I am using Poser 9. I do have Daz Studio 4.6 installed but am not comfortable using it all. I do, however, like the genesis characters and wanted to use DSON to import them to poser. That is where the chaos begins.

I downloaded and installed DSON then attempted to download and install the Genesis Starter Essentials packs. Instead of them downloading as installers, I get them as .zip files. I unzip the file and am lost. I don't have a CLUE where all of these files go. When I try to have Poser look at the "Runtime" folder that Daz has it says its not a valid runtime folder. Getting very flustered and would love some guidance. I know its something i am doing wrong but just cant seem to figure out where I crossed my eyes while I was dotting my T's.

I am not only unsure of which folder I need Poser to look at, I am not sure where any of the folders need to go.

Thanks in advance.

System is
AMD FX6100 6x processor
NVIDIA Quadro K2000 vid card
16g high speed ram
4tb of HD space
blue case that has purdy lights all over it

Comments

  • TotteTotte Posts: 14,088
    edited December 1969

    Zip files can either be installed the same way you install zip files from "oner not mentioned here stores", but I heartily recommend using DIM (DAZ Install Manager).

    The main reason installers are going away is that nowadays with every update to Windows or Mac OS X a majority 20 000 installers has to be rebuilt as the OS changes security-wise all the time. Zip-files won't suffer from that pain.

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Install the DAZ Studio Content ALL to one folder DIM is the right tool for that. Now Point Poser at the FULL Folder and not at JUST the DAZ Studio sub folder Runtime. That is the proper configuration to Read the DSON and PoserCF types in the Poser DSON plugin in.

  • srieschsriesch Posts: 4,241
    edited December 1969

    With the newer zip files, unzip it into a folder, which will typically create a Content subfolder and a Manifest.dsx file. If you want the same structure you were used to, you would manually go into the Content folder, select everything, then move it all up one level out of and then place it alongside the Content folder.

    You can now delete the empty Content folder (I also personally delete the Manifest.dsx file on a PC that isn't using DIM, since it isn't needed there.)

    If you have multiple zip files, unzip them all into the same folder first, and when the second unzip complains that there are files with the same name, just overwrite them; I have been informed that they are always guaranteed to be identical. If your product has both the newer zip files and also has an older texture template zip or installer, do the above steps first, THEN unzip/install the older texture template installer, which doesn't create the extra Content folder level.

  • soulpainter06_36c7012b53soulpainter06_36c7012b53 Posts: 2
    edited December 1969

    Thank you all for the assistance. I guess part of my problem is I just need to sit down and learn DAZ Studio. I really do not care for its layout honestly. Been using Poser so long I am just very comfortable with where things are in that program. That and I dont like the idea of having to have duplicate directories for all my files. BIG waste of Space. Been nice if Daz and poser could have worked together and used one directory lol. Dream on I know! Still trying to figure out where to place older items that I have from Renderosity and other companies.

    Thanks again

    JL

  • soulpainter06_36c7012b53soulpainter06_36c7012b53 Posts: 2
    edited December 1969

    I guess one of the issues I am having is that I HAVE to have DAZ Studio installed in order to use some of DAZ content in Poser. That and I am finding when using DSON poser either locks up or lags really slow which, on my system, should not be happening. (I get a lot of items from Renderosity and Runtime as well as items I make myself in Hexagon and Silo. Its a nightmare dealing with DAZ Studio directory. I have totally sworn off anything that requires DSON importer to work in Poser. I LOVE the look of the new DAZ Dragon but wont use it because you cant install it directly into Poser, it has to go into DAZ then use the DSON importer for it to work.

    Flustered With DS

  • jestmartjestmart Posts: 4,449
    edited July 2014

    Both Studio and Poser can be pointed to your content location so you don't need multiple installs. You need the DSON Importer for Poser to use newer DAZ Studio formatted files in Poser. You only need Studio to build Poser CF files for DSON Importer if they are not included with a product.

    http://www.daz3d.com/dson-importer-for-poser

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