Finding Stuff

drafter69_696b99e42b

I am new to Daz Studio and have a question regarding keeping track of all the various figures and the materials that support that figure. Is there a way to catalogue all the figures, props and add-ons?

Ron B

mark128

DAZ Studio has categories in the content pane. These are also used in the Smart Content pane. You can create your own categories and organize all of your content in whatever way makes best sense to you.

I have been organizing content myself. It is a fair amount of work to keep it up to date.

DAZ uses categories to organize smart content. Items. They are put somewhere under the 'default' category when you install them, if they have meta-data. I would not try to re-organize the 'default' category. If you do DAZ will just mess up your work when you install something new. Create your own root category and build your organization under that. That way DAZ meta-data will not interfere with your organization.

DAZ does send updates to products frequently. These updates sometimes (not always) remove the products entries from your categories. You have to be very careful installing updates to make sure you don't lose all the category entries for them.

The content entries you create are stored in the same data base that the DAZ meta-data is stored. If you are creating your own categories you have to back them up every so often to make sure you don't lose all that data if the data base becomes corrupted.

sriesch

The Content Library pane lets you catalog all your content however you want, research that or ask questions.

The quick summary is that you have to first click the menu item and go to content directory manager and add all your content locations so DAZ Studio knows where your content is (Possibly it already knows if you used the default location), then from that same menu select "Scan known directories for files" to tell it to look for it, then locate your content. The newly found content will appear somewhere within Categories > Default, either in Unassigned or pre-categorized or both. You can right-click on a content thumbnail within here and select "Categorize", then move it wherever you want.

The very top level of the Content Library tabs categories are different ways of viewing your data (only DAZ Studio format content, only Poser format content, other formats of content, by product name, or your own custom categories. )

When you create your own categories, you will do all of that within "Categories". See screenshot for example of how I have it laid out, but yours will look different, it's however you want it it. Note that Categories > Default is special and created by DAZ Studio, but all the other subcategories are ones I manually created.