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Same problem here, but I'm ignoring the error message and am able to navigate Smart Content. Haven't tried anything else yet. I did, however, notice that I can click a product icon and have the readme file pop up. Hurray! I've been wanting a way to quickly get to the readme file for a product withouth having to bring up DIM. This little feature, small as it may seem to some people, has me excited for what else new lies ahead for me to discover in 4.9.
On a less positive note, I will not be using DAZ Connect. I don't want any encrypted content. I've been burned in the past by DRM, when companies go out of business, and I'm stuck with using the content on only the computer(s) it was installed on when I was still able to connect to the company's licensing service. When those computers had to be replaced, I couldn't use the encrypted / DRM content anywhere else. I hope DAZ doesn't go out of business, but if anything were to happen like that, I want to still be able to use the content I licensed beforehand. So no encryption / DRM content for me, whether it's DAZ content or digital music or whatever. I just am not going there. I understand piracy is a concern that is trying to be addressed, but the thing about pirates is that they aren't going to spend money on content regardless. If they can't pirate content, then they will just do without. They won't buy it just because they can't pirate it. Whereas honest people are going to pay for any content they use even when there are no measures taken to stop piracy. So using DRM measures doesn't solve the piracy problem, and only makes life harder on the honest people. I won't stand for it. If the only way I can get DAZ content is to get it encrypted, I will stop buying it all together. It will give me a reason to start learning how to make my own stuff.
I am serious. I will not buy any content that requires me to establish a connection to some company's computer for the content to work when I move it to another computer. Doesn't matter if it's DAZ or some other company. I'm not doing it. I should only need to make the connection to download it once, and after that, I should be able to put that content on any computer I own and get it to work without having to connect to any #%*&@! company site. And since using DAZ is primarily a hobby for me instead of how I make my living, I can stop buying DAZ content and get along just fine with my life. Save some money. I have plenty of content as it is anyway. I'll just make do with it if I have to.
One can use DAZ Connect for non-crypted content. Some new releases in the store today which are not Encrypted Daz Connect.
Slope. Slippery.
yeah i got it as gift because i bought for more than 49.- dollars in that promo i tried to install through daz connect but i tell you its a mess,it installs in a different folder installs where it wants i am very much p***ed off at this daz new feature. at least all the products shall come with the 3 options daz connect,dim,and manual install.
yep me too i kept all the elder instalers daz 2 daz 3 and daz 4 since the beginning i have all my downloads in folders by year and month and by marketplace year daz renderosity,rdna divers others etc and the subsequent subfolders for each month and i want to keep it that way and i dont want any of this daz connect BS.
Daz studio 4.9 not responding after it worked perfectly the first and second time I used it. Now it locks up immediately after the interface loads. I am running Windows 8.1 32 gig ram Nvidia 980ti
Same thing here with the bought items that only appear in the inline store/purchases pane... Like the Lakeside Folly, which looks like allot of fun to use, is still listed as something I can buy but I bought it already. So hopefully you guys get this sorted. This whole thing reminds me of when Content Paradise had a pane inside of Poser, we all know how well that went! lmao
Does Daz Studio 4.9 require me to use Daz Connect?
No, you are not required to use Daz Connect services in Daz Studio.
Will Daz Install Manager and Daz Connect work side by side? Can I choose one or the other?
Yes, both Daz Install Manager and Daz Connect can work side by side. Planned updates to Daz Studio and Daz Install Manager will help coordinate installation methods.
Rejoice my friend, you will not be so restricted, it seems that DC is an option, not the mandate!
Unless you wanted to buy a product that is restricted!
Ohhh, so near and yet...I only use Iray, and the improvements to that are about the only incentive I personally have to upgrade, as I don't use Smart Content at all and am quite content to buy content through the online shop and download/install through DIM.
That being so, I have a follow up query. If I upgrade to 4.9, and don't care for it and later want to revert to 4.8, can I do so based on the zip file I still have that was used to install DS 4.8 by DIM? How would I use that zip file to re-install DS 4.8?
If effect, you bought them. :)
A nice little addition would be - at least for Windows - a render progress bar in the taskbar button, as is in File Explorer and many video players. Multitasking would benefit.
andya_b341b7c5f5: "I don't use Smart Content at all and am quite content to buy content through the online..." so much content I lost my way though it :)
You still can. You don't need to be logged in to do either. You only need to be logged in to download products using Daz Connect.
Thanks for the information!
I have on additional concern with encryption, if we cannot export the model or textures to make modifications in color, morphs and shape then the encryption removes a capability I must have.
I understand the need to protect the artists but not at the expense of the above capability.
Export options are not changed. Textures are not encrypted. Encryption can be easily removed by resaving the asset, something DAZ may not have wanted the average user to know.
Hmm, I purchased some new content today to receive three freebies. DIM available product downloaded immediately.
The 'Troubadour for Genesis 2 Male," "Troubadour Textures," and the "Lulu Outfit for Genesis 3 Female," still haven't surfaced four hours later.
I closed the program, logged back in. ---> Still no.
I tried the manual install route as instructed by DAZ_Vince ---> Nope. Still not showing up. Not one of these three are available.
I even tried to search via the store from within DAZ 4.9 Connect program while I was logged in. I saw the products and the option to 'Install" them. I clicked on the button. Nothing. I right-clicked the button. Nothing again.
I've already put in one ticket with the DAZ Customer Service. Looks like I'm going to have to put in another.
At least I didn't pay for those three products, or I would be furious. Also, I opted only to download and install DAZ 4.9 Connect on an old Toshiba that I really didn't care about anymore. It's an i7 with an NVidia card and Windows 7 64-bit, so there is no problem with render mode. However, my encrypted content doesn't show up - so...
Maybe tomorrow. Too bad I have to work all day, so I won't get to check on it.
I poked the cache for your account, try doing a fresh "Fetch Metadata" and see if your new products appear (greyed out) in either the "Product" section of the Content Library, or the Products / All section of Smart Content.
The first round of using store direct connect content went alright. I have Zoe, Lynsey and the Medieval Storage Room. My snag came with the Troubadour and LuLu Outfit offer, none of which has shown up in the Smart Content Product Pane. I have tried all the reccommended trouble shooting and still no dice. I can get it to load offline manually but as soon as I sign back online POOF its gone again. VERY FRUSTRATING. I tried to "TRICK" the interface by dressing a G3 female with the offline LuLu outfit and saving it as a scene. If I reload it while still offline... NO PROBLEM.... If I try to reload it ONLINE... BIG PROBLEM (See Photos)... This is unacceptable. I often buy content on the fly when I'm on a project. I need it to be available NOW and no issues. I hope this is resolved soon.
https://flic.kr/p/DjcLuM
https://flic.kr/p/CtY2XQ
Set to work offline running old school with my custom categories no problem. I have to admit skin looks improved in iray..
i asked this here again
now say you just go the new way and install everything into a new connect folder
how do your older saved scenes find content ?
edit says: it works somehow
and you can download missing files at once
nice
would be very nice to have an install window
when installing through connect
as i sometimes do not realy know if theres a download running now or not
everything is so tiny
like the import window when loading a scene would be nice
next question
is there a way for smart content and connect to update custom categories also ?
other way i have always to look (how?) which products are metadata updated and do it manual
What is "lost and found" category means?
I just log in once, then it seems auto-merged all meta-data of daz product. it is OK,
but there seems many categorized products and files as " lost and found product" in smart content.
then I up-date one product meta-data by dazconnect in the category, but it still categorized as "lost and found".
If I do not install these items by DAZ connect, these files just categorized as "lost and found" section?
Or I just need to re-install meta-data of these ?
i have a lot of icons with "update metadata"
but there are no updates available
why under smart content there are 2 times "people" and "animals"
DAZ connect can not tell, which product have no real meta-data. (categorize, and assgined compatibility)
As for me it seems best just use my hand-made product meta-data. but now most of these duplicated with
daz empty - product meta-data. and they are shown as if it is official. really stupid.
Usually If there are new DAZ connect product,
there should be new meta-data (not just product name, with compatibility, and category) I think.
but Actually DAZ just package many product, as if they are up-dated but, actually many new DAZ connect pacakge still offered empty product meta-data. then DAZ say we will. but it just confuse me, and need to import real usable handmade product meta-data. nof offered by daz.
But I may need to keep these un-useful up-dated package with no usable empty, no category , no compatibility data. then they are official product,
and they tell me, if there is up-date or not. Those things are really foolish.
Try loking at the Pending tab (at the bottom) in Smart Content. I think that's what it does, shows isntalls in progress.
If all you did was categorize an item (as opposed to creating a product) then no, metadata update won't affect any additional categorization you created.