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3 easy(?) Questions

Geoffrey_WoodgetGeoffrey_Woodget Posts: 98
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Hi

Switching over from Poser. Redoing all my runtimes.

1) I read about 'legacy' products. Are those products that are pre-Genesis...or?

2) I have a TON of old product folders that contain both a DS & DPC installer. I'm not going to be using Poser any longer; is there a preference of which I should use since I could use either installer?

3) Years ago, if you made one huge runtime and put it inside the application like they instructed, you could plan on taking a month long vacation as you waited for it to load. With today's computers has that thinking changed? For instance, I have a Quad 4 I7 proccessor @ 4.0 GHz and 32 GB of DDR4 System Ram @ 3200 GHz. I'm thinking of making 3 Libraries-

  • My DAZ3D Library (For DIM installed)
  • My Library (for manual DAZ installs from DAZ, Rendo, DNAetc.)
  • My PzrRntm (for all my poser stuff)

Opinions? Would I be happy with this?

Thank you

Comments

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 11,842

    "Legacy" downloads in your product library are for products where you have a DS4.5+ version and one for earlier versions of DS which can't read .duf.

     

    For products where you have a DS and a DPC file: 

    - if installers are roughly the same size that usually means the DS file includes a full version of the product, so you can skip installing the poser version

    - if the DS installer is smaller then it usually means that the DS files includes materials only and you need the poser file to get the actual models

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    Geoffrey_Woodget said:
     
    • My DAZ3D Library (For DIM installed)
    • My Library (for manual DAZ installs from DAZ, Rendo, DNAetc.)
    • My PzrRntm (for all my poser stuff)

    Opinions? Would I be happy with this?

    Thank you

    That's pretty much the preferred way...

    One for DIM/Daz store content, another for things from other places and the last for Poser.   But they MUST not be in the application install folder...espeically on a Windows machine (I suppose you could get away with it, if you install the program somewhere outside of Program Files).  Windows has 'protected' the Program Files locations (PF & PF(x86)) so that user data in those locations is not a good thing...

    Geoffrey_Woodget said:
     

    2) I have a TON of old product folders that contain both a DS & DPC installer. I'm not going to be using Poser any longer; is there a preference of which I should use since I could use either installer?

    Best bet...redownload everything with DIM.  Many of those have had updates that repackaged them.  Some require both packages, some don't and there is no general rule..it's almost, but not quite, an item by item thing.  But the DIM will 'know' (by what filters you set for the software  you are using) to grab.  Makes it a lot easier than trying to go through a bunch of items, after the fact eliminating the parts you don't need.

    Geoffrey_Woodget said:
     

    1) I read about 'legacy' products. Are those products that are pre-Genesis...or?

    Pretty much, yes...pre Genesis.

  • Geoffrey_WoodgetGeoffrey_Woodget Posts: 98
    edited February 2016
    Leana said:

    "Legacy" downloads in your product library are for products where you have a DS4.5+ version and one for earlier versions of DS which can't read .duf.

     

    For products where you have a DS and a DPC file: 

    - if installers are roughly the same size that usually means the DS file includes a full version of the product, so you can skip installing the poser version

    - if the DS installer is smaller then it usually means that the DS files includes materials only and you need the poser file to get the actual models

    Now my question is; if the DPC file is larger than the DS one, and DAZ Studio 4 accepts Poser files, what's in the small DS file that I'd need that I didn't need using Poser? The Poser DPC installed a M6 Folder for the materiasls didn't it?

    Post edited by Geoffrey_Woodget on
  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,613
    Geoffrey_Woodget said:
    Leana said:

    "Legacy" downloads in your product library are for products where you have a DS4.5+ version and one for earlier versions of DS which can't read .duf.

     

    For products where you have a DS and a DPC file: 

    - if installers are roughly the same size that usually means the DS file includes a full version of the product, so you can skip installing the poser version

    - if the DS installer is smaller then it usually means that the DS files includes materials only and you need the poser file to get the actual models

    Now my question is; if the DPC file is larger than the DS one, and DAZ Studio 4 accepts Poser files, what's in the small DS file that I'd need that I didn't need using Poser? The Poser DPC installed a M6 Folder for the materiasls didn't it?

    WIth those old installers, the DS file just had DS-optimized material presets.

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    But did it install actual Daz materials or 'dummy' Daz files that load the Poser materials? 

    The Daz file should be the actual Daz materials.

    And that's why I said let DIM figure it out...on a lot of that content it is very unclear as to what is exactly needed.  Fortunately most of those are very small files...a few KB settings file and a thumbnail image.

  • Geoffrey_WoodgetGeoffrey_Woodget Posts: 98
    edited February 2016

    Okay, I'm sufficiently beffudled, (I think I get it :)

    In the DIM, for M4, there is a regular file & a regular file..StudioCF, so you load both I take it. So manually installing, if there is an itty DS installer besides the larger DPC installer, that must be the StudioCF.

    Thanks to all!

    Post edited by Geoffrey_Woodget on
  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,613

    yes

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