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All my iray shaders disappeared!

CherubitCherubit Posts: 994
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Please help me :( I can't recover them... How do I reimport them?

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  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    Are you sure you have the 64 bit version of Studio installed?

  • CherubitCherubit Posts: 994
    mjc1016 said:

    Are you sure you have the 64 bit version of Studio installed?

    Yes :( it even says 64bit in my shortcut...

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    edited March 2016

    Does it say 64 bit on the About page in Studio? (post a screenshot of the About page)  I've had it happen to me, once where the shortcut said one thing, but it was connected to a different version...and it was a 32/64 bit swap.  That was a Windows problem...

    Is the CMS running?

    What updates have you recently done...if the to the latest, did you also update the default shaders (they got another name switch....so they will need to be updated, too...)?

    Post edited by mjc1016 on
  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,875

    In Daz Connect they are called Default Resources, and as mjc1016 said, they are a separate "product" you need to install.

  • CherubitCherubit Posts: 994
    mjc1016 said:

    Does it say 64 bit on the About page in Studio? (post a screenshot of the About page)  I've had it happen to me, once where the shortcut said one thing, but it was connected to a different version...and it was a 32/64 bit swap.  That was a Windows problem...

    Is the CMS running?

    What updates have you recently done...if the to the latest, did you also update the default shaders (they got another name switch....so they will need to be updated, too...)?

    Well my PC has no wifi ATM so I took a photo... It says it's 64, unless it it really running a 32 bits version and is not showing (I don't know much about programming). I don't know which recent updates I did recently, which one should I look for? What's cms? It said the image was too big to upload, I'll try reducing it on my phone but have to submit first because it will refresh the page if I go to camera.
  • CherubitCherubit Posts: 994
    OK I checked using "shader" word filter and none is new, all are from when I installed daz long time ago... Also checked "default lights and shaders" and nothing new
    barbult said:

    In Daz Connect they are called Default Resources, and as mjc1016 said, they are a separate "product" you need to install.

    Msg above because I'm on phone it's a bit complex to type here
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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,875

    I think "Default Resources" are for DS 4.9, and you are running DS 4.8. Until you posted your screenshot, we didin't know which version you were running.

    So, where are you looking for the shaders - Content Library or Smart Content?

  • CherubitCherubit Posts: 994
    barbult said:

    I think "Default Resources" are for DS 4.9, and you are running DS 4.8. Until you posted your screenshot, we didin't know which version you were running.

    So, where are you looking for the shaders - Content Library or Smart Content?

    Oh I see... :P

    You see on the bottom right, M4 shaders? I'm looking for them there. But only materials like that are showing. All the shaders like glass, car paint, etc, are gone...

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    What does your Content Library (not Smart Content) pane look like...

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,875

    Have you selected an object in your Scene pane and then selected one or more surfaces in the Surfaces pane? An object and and at least one surface must be selected to apply any shader. If you are looking in Smart Content, it probably won't show you any shaders unless you have an object and surface selected.

  • CherubitCherubit Posts: 994
    mjc1016 said:

     What does your Content Library (not Smart Content) pane look like...

    It looks normal :( what part exactly? My DAZ 3D Library? What part you want so I can take a print screen? Now I can because I can save it in the usb drive.

    barbult said:

    Have you selected an object in your Scene pane and then selected one or more surfaces in the Surfaces pane? An object and and at least one surface must be selected to apply any shader. If you are looking in Smart Content, it probably won't show you any shaders unless you have an object and surface selected.

    Yes, with those selected :/ nothing shows up... I'm almost uninstalling and installing it all over again... D:

  • CherubitCherubit Posts: 994

    OHHHHHHHHHHHH I FOUND IT!

     

    I was so stupid :| I got confused because it showed up like this:

    > Default
    > Iray

    And in Iray there was only this prop's materials!

    So now I opened Default and found Shaders there...

     

    blush

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,875

    You must be looking in the Categories section of the Content Library, right? I don't think there should be an Iray category at that top level, unless Daz has suddenly changed the way the are categorizing things. It is probably a bug in the metadata of that product. Normally everything is under Default. I'm glad you found them, right where they should be. It would be helpful for other customers if you would write a bug report (help request) so Daz can fix that before other people also get confused. Use this link to write a help request.

  • CherubitCherubit Posts: 994
    barbult said:

    You must be looking in the Categories section of the Content Library, right? I don't think there should be an Iray category at that top level, unless Daz has suddenly changed the way the are categorizing things. It is probably a bug in the metadata of that product. Normally everything is under Default. I'm glad you found them, right where they should be. It would be helpful for other customers if you would write a bug report (help request) so Daz can fix that before other people also get confused. Use this link to write a help request.

    I will, thank you! laugh Yeah, I got super confused haha blush

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