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Where are the Animals?

dHandledHandle Posts: 617
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I just took advantage of the sale on animals, and bought several different types.  Eagle, puppy, mouse etc.

I launched DAZ and expected to be able to find them easily under the Smart Content tab under animals.  The only one listed there was the lion I've had for a while. I know I have a cat, dog, dragon, and a horse that I've had for a while, too, but they weren't listed either.

I tried in the Categories section under animals; Only the lion (Millennium Big Cat LE) was listed. Then looked under Unassigned.  The only one in there was the Slime Beast that I forgot I had! 

I wonder how many other products I've bought that don't show up!  Using the search or looking in the alphabetical products listing doesn't always work, because I have to remember the correct name.  For example, the lion.  If I want to add a lion to a scene, typing  LION in the search won't work, because it's named Millennium Big Cat.

Can anything be done about this besides me manually fixing them one by one?

Comments

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    Did you look under Poser formats, some of the animals are older products

     

  • larsmidnattlarsmidnatt Posts: 4,511

    I stopped using "smart" content years ago because of stuff like this. You have the choice of fixing the data, or learning where stuff is placed and finding it manually.

  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,019

    I've created my own system using the "Categories" rather than Smart content. I can assign my new releases to whatever sub-category I want, and even merge the textures&props together in one "Entry" rather than having them all over the place like it is now. :-)

  • kaotkblisskaotkbliss Posts: 2,914

    If I can remember what the name of the product was for the item I want, I use "Products" under "Content Library" then just find the first letter of the product name, then search for the product. If I can't remember the product name, then I can come here and search my products in my account to get the name.

  • Steven-VSteven-V Posts: 727

    Yeah the not-so-Smart Content is good for a quick pass, especially when you have stuff you know will show up there, like I do with certain items for G1 and G2. But it won't show you everything it "could" show you for a given figure or object. You have to really know your database.

    Ideally I would have, at the beginning, created my own categories and added products to them bit by bit, but I wasn't smart enough to do that.... so now I am slowly trying to add things as I use them. Which has been very hit or miss. One day, my whole entire database will be in my custom categories. Heheh.

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    Steven-V said:

    Yeah the not-so-Smart Content is good for a quick pass, especially when you have stuff you know will show up there, like I do with certain items for G1 and G2. But it won't show you everything it "could" show you for a given figure or object. You have to really know your database.

    Ideally I would have, at the beginning, created my own categories and added products to them bit by bit, but I wasn't smart enough to do that.... so now I am slowly trying to add things as I use them. Which has been very hit or miss. One day, my whole entire database will be in my custom categories. Heheh.

    Smart Content is only as good as the metadata that drives it...well crafted, complete metadata = Smart Content that works.  Also, very little of the vast BG (Before Genesis) content library has and metadata to even make it 'somewhat' work...

  • father1776father1776 Posts: 982

    Content storage needs ..er..improvement.

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