can't find cyclorama files in latest Daz Studio

Sdragon

i have the mpc,and numerous files for it, in the list it shows up but the current DS doesn't let me load it. grrr what can i do to fix this.

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nemesis10

When you say you can't load it, do you mean that

1. you can't load it from smart content
2. you can't load it from the library
3. or you can't load it from products?

I definitely can load it from the library (Content Library > Daz Studio Formats > My 3D Library > Environments > Landscapes > Multiplane Cyclorama) and Content Library > Products > Multiplabe Cyclorama) but it is probably too old to have smart content metadata.

AgitatedRiot

I searched for products and found them, and they loaded just fine.

It loaded from smart content. Using Daz Central,

Ok, I don't have that problem. Every way I tried

Sdragon

from library.

Leana

So what happens when you try to load it? Do you get an error?

Sdragon

yes.

it says could not find 651 resource

Sdragon

tried uninstalling and reinstalling it using daz central, same results

felis

What is the error text from the log?

richardandtracy

There seems to be a very common theme with people who can't load stuff, so common it's hard to ignore. The common theme seems to be DAZ Central. There are people who succeed with DAZ Central, but large proportion of those who do have problems & ask about it in the forums use DAZ Central. It's not often that people who use DIM ask & I'm not sure I've seen there's anyone ask about problems after using manual install. Could be there's a thread here.

Regards,

Richard

Richard Haseltine

richardandtracy said:

There seems to be a very common theme with people who can't load stuff, so common it's hard to ignore. The common theme seems to be DAZ Central. There are people who succeed with DAZ Central, but large proportion of those who do have problems & ask about it in the forums use DAZ Central. It's not often that people who use DIM ask & I'm not sure I've seen there's anyone ask about problems after using manual install. Could be there's a thread here.

Regards,

Richard

Daz Central is the default method, it takes some effort and knowledge to find Install Manager, so the association may be correlation rather than cause. (No, I have never worked for teh tobacco industry.)

PerttiA

richardandtracy said:

There seems to be a very common theme with people who can't load stuff, so common it's hard to ignore. The common theme seems to be DAZ Central. There are people who succeed with DAZ Central, but large proportion of those who do have problems & ask about it in the forums use DAZ Central.

It's the whole process that is being presented to new users that's essentially bound to create problems.

At DAZ site, they are given a link "Download Studio", which doesn't download DAZ Studio, but offers to install DAZ Central instead.
When the user has installed DAZ Central, downloaded and installed DAZ Studio and the assets that come with it and starts DAZ Studio the first time, the user is presented with a dialog asking for login credentials in a way that one thinks they should be given.
Having given the login credentials to DS and permission to go online, DAZ Connect within DS starts updating the metadata and 'bugging' the user that the content has not been installed (with DAZ Connect) and makes the user think it has to be installed again, which DAZ Connect does to an other location, taking twice the space on users C-drive (default location)
As any content installed with DAZ Connect takes priority over the installations made by other methods (DAZ Central/DIM/Manual installation), even when DAZ Connect installed content is corrupt, the user ends up with content that does not work and no way to figure out why...

There is no warning or notice explaining that logging in to DAZ Studio, is only needed when one chooses to install content with DAZ Connect within DAZ Studio and if one does choose to do that, there is no point in using the other installation methods.