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Does DIM automatically install 3rd party content?

Rectorade21Rectorade21 Posts: 19
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So I just downloaded a free item from a third party website known as Renderosity and in the instructions the user states:

"Install Manager (DIM) Ready: Place Zip into: Users\Public\Documents\DAZ 3D\InstallManager\Downloads"

So... I did. I followed it to a T. I can see where all the Daz3D zip files are in the path and they all have a "DAZ Shared XML" type associated with them.

So my question is: Can I get DIM to acknowledge the zip file so that I can install through DIM or are products not purchased through daz3d simply not able to load and will need to be manually installed instead?

Thanks!

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,841
    edited September 2017

    If it's been set up for DIM it should be there, in the Ready to Install tab- but it does require set up by the creator. That is your usual DIM downloads folder? if you've changed the location DIM uses you will have to change the place you put the zip to match.

    Post edited by Richard Haseltine on
  • Rectorade21Rectorade21 Posts: 19

    Yes. It is my usual folder. All my downloads thus far from daz3d have been placed in there in a zip file with a daz shared xml type file. But, I keep putting third party zip files in there and DIM does not know that they exist, even when I quit DIM and restart or refresh the program.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,841

    and you are looking in the middle tab, Ready to Install?

  • TottallouTottallou Posts: 555

    I made a Dim ready file that I uploaded to both Rendo & sharecg - I just checked my file & it appears when you upload to Rendo the name of the zip file is changed so the Install Manager part no longer works

    The solution for me was to rename the zip back to its original name but thats not helpful to the poster or others as they would not know the name :(

    In case its my file giving problems then just rename the zip  as CG50000750-01_LDPaulForG8M.zip in the DL manager & it should install as expected

     

  • Rectorade21Rectorade21 Posts: 19

    Yes. I am looking in the middle tab. Keep in mind that I am referencing 3rd party non-daz content that I download from a site in a zip file.

    @Tottallou I don't think it is you becuase I just tried this out with a bunch of freebies just to see if it was indeed the single zip... ANY zip file that I put in the download folder and then load up DIM is not pulled up for install. So... I have just been installing them manually.

    There HAS to be something I am doing wrong! I am putting .zip files in this directory: 

    C:\Users\Public\Documents\DAZ 3D\InstallManager\Downloads

    Which is were all the Daz3d products that I have bought are located in .zip files and... all of the Daz3d products that I have bought from Daz3d installed wonderfully. But these 3rd party zip files are falling flat on me... :(

  • TottallouTottallou Posts: 555

    Are the zip files you are adding to the downloads folder actually marked as install (DIM) ready ? If they are they will have a couple of letters & 8+ numbers like the one I quote (CG50000750-01)

    I must admit I don't usually look when I download things as I install non Daz & freebies manually into a seperate library but any DIM ready items I added to : C:\Users\Public\Documents\DAZ 3D\InstallManager\Downloads that are in the format above seem to show up for me :)

     

  • Rectorade21Rectorade21 Posts: 19

    No. None of my freebie files from other sites are coded in such a way. How am I supposed to know that was the case? LOL

  • TottallouTottallou Posts: 555

    Generally everything you get from any site that is not daz3d.com will need manual installation

    There is this free software that installs zips for you

    http://www.sharecg.com/v/71453/browse/10/Software-and-Tools/Daz-Content-installer-from-Zips

    You do need to check everything is installed though (especially FREE items) as if the folders are not in the correct format it will fail to install it but assuming they are OK its quicker than a manual install.

  • Rectorade21Rectorade21 Posts: 19

    Wow that is a great tool. Thanks!

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 12,732

    You can also use Content Package Assist to make DIM installable packages: https://www.daz3d.com/content-package-assist

     

  • desidazerdesidazer Posts: 7
    edited March 2019

    Yes, DAZ Install Manager can install third party content also.

     

    precondition

    1. zip file has to be in proper format.  
      eg. zip file should have folders Contents, Manifest.dsx, Supplement.dsx
      in doubt compare folder structure with already working .zip file
       
    2.   <package-name>.dsx file with the same name of .zip file is not mandatory. DAZ Install Manager autocreates <package-name>.dsx if its absent.
       

    Procedure

    1. Place Zip into DAZ IM Downloads folder
      for eg: Users\Public\Documents\DAZ 3D\InstallManager\Downloads.
       
    2. Go to DAZ Install Manager.
      press on 'Ready to Install' tab.
       
    3. Press Refresh icon located at top right
       this also automatically creates <package-name>.dsx same name as the .zip file at the Downloads folder.
       
    4. now your package appears in the list.

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