Daz 3d How to Manually Install Content
The daz 3d install manager automatically installs content for you that you have downloaded via the the daz 3d website. This makes installation of official DAZ content a breeze, but what about the multitude of third party content out there?
At first this may seem rather confusing but we will guide you through the process. Heroes of newerth mac download. Firstly you need to locate where your public daz 3d folder is. On a Typical windows installation you will have two locations where you will find daz library folders. One will be
1. C:Users”username”DocumentsDAZ 3DStudioMy Library
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and another will be:
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2. C:UsersPublicDocumentsMy DAZ 3D Library
You need to install your content in the Second one. Most reputable content providers include instructions in the READ ME file about how to install the content, but generally it goes as follows:
When you examine the folder structure of your new content you will notice that it corresponds with your Daz Library folder structure. There will be various subfolders included.
Copy all of the content from these folders into the correct locations. For example if your new content has the folder structure of:
CONTENT
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————–DATA
———————–bobhair.duf
you will need to copy the file bobhair.duf to the DATA Folder located in your DAZ Library folder. Do not delete or edit the Data folder in your DAZ Library as this will break your existing content. Just simply add your new content and then repeat this process for all the remaining folders.
To make this clearer lets take a step by step look at another example.
Here we have a folder for the Sun balcony addon by Subray 3D. Inside is the ‘My library’ folder. In the case of daz studio this normally refers to C:UsersPublicDocumentsMy DAZ 3D.
- Open the data folder in your own Daz Library. Does it include already include a folder called Subray 3D? If it doesn’t, copy and paste the new Subray 3D folder into your data folder and your done! If it does already contain this folder we have to go a level deeper and focus on the Sun Balcony folder. If there were mutliple nested folders we would keep going untill we find a folder in your DAZ Library that doesn’t already contain the same files as your new content.
- Repeat this process for the Environments folder. It should normally contain an Architecture folder by default so open this folder. Is there a Subray 3d folder inside? Is there a Sun Balcony folder inside this one? Repeat the same process from above. Do the same for the Runtime folder and you should soon get the hang of it!
You should now be able to find your new content within DAZ Studio by using the smart content tab or the regular content tab. If for any reason you cannot see it try closing and reopening DAZ Studio. If your content contained metadata or you can’t find it, you can refresh the database by clicking on the icon at the top right of the content or smart content tab and selecting reimport content metadata.
If you cant find new content, look for this icon and select ‘Content Database Maintenance’. Free download paintbrush for mac. Tick the Re-Import Metadata box and click Accept
If you liked this, here’sanother great Daz 3D Tutorial to check out!
Prior to the advent of the DAZ Install Manager now known to many now simply as DIM, all content had to be installed manually using an executable file or zip file.
When you had a few to a lot of content to install it was a laborious task that took ages. Not only did you need to execute the install program, you needed to know where to put the content properly so that everything worked as it should.
Zip files were (and are) even worse on a Mac as there is no native merge directory utility as there is with the modern versions of MS Windows.
Then along came DIM a godsend to most, easy straight forward to use. Content went into the correct place and the world was all warm and fuzzy. That is until it does exactly the opposite and causes applications to not work properly, as was the case in a previous blog post where it actually killed the CMS database. Save embedded private vimeo video. Well, not intentionally, but it does have some quirks that are well worth noting.
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1. It will only allow content to be installed in a “Shared” directory/folder notably (on an OS X system) “/users/Shared/My DAZ 3D Library”, you cannot at the time of this writing nominate any other folder of your choosing. This in itself is not a huge problem, just annoying.
2. Originally DIM would only allow you to download and install content (and updates) purchased from the DAZ Store, and was very good at it saving a lot of time and frustration. All good. Now it would seem the newer version also finds, downloads and wants to install DAZ applications as well. I found this out the hard way.
3. Although relatively easy to use it is not very intuitive and in most areas I found out how to use it by trial and error. Not very spectacular when installing content, or more importantly not installing for reasons that will become apparent shortly.
I don’t know why DAZ in their wisdom decided to include applications like DAZ3D Studio 4.6 Pro 32 bit for Mac as well as the 64 bit version. As they are not compatible on the same machine. They also use the same CMS service and databases. In my case I was not really paying attention to list of available downloads and just thought it was the content I had purchased along with a few content updates, so I hit the GO button. Only to find that to my horror DIM was reinstalling DAZ3D Studio 4.6 Pro 64bit and the 32bit version as well.
That is what killed or corrupted my CMS content database.
That is what killed or corrupted my CMS content database.
Yes I hear you say, “but you can remove unwanted downloads and hide them so they don’t install”. Quite right, I agree. But only if you know what you are doing and are paying 100% attention! Even then they reappear next time you run DIM anyway. Grrrr……
The long and the short of it all is this, use DIM it is excellent, but bear in mind you have to pay attention to what is in the list in front of you.
I much prefer to use DIM for purchased content download and installation, but manually download Applications, Plugins etc from my account page then install them myself.
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Anyway I hope this helps, just my 5 cents worth.