system shortcuts inside runtime/content directories?

twitchew

I have a beeing spending a lot of time traversing the folders and files in my daz content areas and poser runtime. I was hoping that maybe i could go tinto the file system and use the windows shortcuts to, well, make a shortcut to folders i use. I have tried to make shortcuts, but they don't show up in the folder structure in studio. Is there any setting or adjustment i can make that would let studio use shortcuts like this? (i have not tried the smartcontent system, not all of my content is registered there).

I know that i can stick things onto the toolbar as a custom action, but that list is getting long.  

Richard Haseltine

Not as far as I know Confirmed to not be possible. You could use a script to switch, that would appear in the DS Fomrat content directories 9and could be placed in Poser format directories if it had a dummy Poser file with the same base name beside it).

twitchew

thanks! 

no easy solution but i guess i can build a few scripts.

 

takezo_3001

twitchew said:

I have a beeing spending a lot of time traversing the folders and files in my daz content areas and poser runtime. I was hoping that maybe i could go tinto the file system and use the windows shortcuts to, well, make a shortcut to folders i use. I have tried to make shortcuts, but they don't show up in the folder structure in studio. Is there any setting or adjustment i can make that would let studio use shortcuts like this? (i have not tried the smartcontent system, not all of my content is registered there).

I know that i can stick things onto the toolbar as a custom action, but that list is getting long.  

You can always snag this magnificent script! I run a tonne of programs directly from my content library!

Night Owl 3D

This script works.   You only need to modify the path on the last line and it will jump you to that path in your content directory.  There is a separate version for Daz Studio and Poser libraries.

 

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/specific_ui/set_content_library_container/start

DrunkMonkeyProductions

The first solution i'd propose is setting up a folder for the items you use a lot, create links to the items(select item in DS>Right click>Create link for asset), and map that folder towards the top of CDM(content directory manager), or add an exclaimation point, or several, to get it to the top of the directory.

The second is Visual menus(https://www.daz3d.com/visualmenus ). At first i thought it was a solution looking for a problem, but it can be very useful for repetitive actions, and the menus can be assigned to short cut keys.

And of course, you could always manually organize everything on a folder level to make it easier to find with less folder flipping.

 

Night Owl 3D

I created a folder titled "!People" in the root of my library folder (see below) so its right there when I click on My Daz 3D Library.  Visual Menus is great for grabbing individual items (see below) but it can't jump you to a folder like this script can.

Taoz

BornTechy said:

This script works.   You only need to modify the path on the last line and it will jump you to that path in your content directory.  There is a separate version for Daz Studio and Poser libraries.

 

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/specific_ui/set_content_library_container/start

Is there a way to run this script outside of DS (e.g. doubleclicking it in Explorer) so I doesn't start a new instance of DS but opens the selected folder in the currently running DS instance?

Night Owl 3D

I can't say for sure as I haven't tinkered with scripts outside of the DS environment. You do have me curious though.

Taoz

BornTechy said:

I can't say for sure as I haven't tinkered with scripts outside of the DS environment. You do have me curious though.

As I understand Wendy and Richard in this thread it should be possible but I'm not sure how.  Command line perhaps?  Any documentation on DS command lines anywhere?

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/384201/run-ds-script-from-another-program#latest

DoctorJellybean

Maybe use symbolic links?

Taoz

DoctorJellybean said:

Maybe use symbolic links?

Hm, what is that? 

Richard Haseltine

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

Taoz

Richard Haseltine said:

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

OK, thanks. I doubt that will make any difference though, as it's just an indirect way of running the script.  The problem is that DS starts a new instance instead of running it inside the one currently running, when I run the script externally.  I've only tried with 4.11 official release though, you mentioned somewhere else that 4.12 instancing has been updated so maybe there is a chance it might work here?

Richard Haseltine

Taoz said:

Richard Haseltine said:

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

OK, thanks. I doubt that will make any difference though, as it's just an indirect way of running the script.  The problem is that DS starts a new instance instead of running it inside the one currently running, when I run the script externally.  I've only tried with 4.11 official release though, you mentioned somewhere else that 4.12 instancing has been updated so maybe there is a chance it might work here?

You could try drag-and-drop too, to the Vieport of the open version of DS.

Taoz

Richard Haseltine said:

Taoz said:

Richard Haseltine said:

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

OK, thanks. I doubt that will make any difference though, as it's just an indirect way of running the script.  The problem is that DS starts a new instance instead of running it inside the one currently running, when I run the script externally.  I've only tried with 4.11 official release though, you mentioned somewhere else that 4.12 instancing has been updated so maybe there is a chance it might work here?

You could try drag-and-drop too, to the Vieport of the open version of DS.

That works yes, but the idea is to run the script from another program which modifies the library path in the script dynamically so drag-n-drop can't be used here. 

Richard Haseltine

In that case could you not use the command line approach?

Taoz

Richard Haseltine said:

In that case could you not use the command line approach?

I've considered it but can't find any useful documentation on it.  I've found a class called DzProcess for communicating with external programs, but the info is very limited:

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/object_index/process_dz#a_1a836c27e2d64d0efa4a526150bdf6f3e5

The page has a link to an example script which probably would be very helpful:

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/object_index/render_to_rib

but that link is broken.

Taoz

 

Taoz said:

Richard Haseltine said:

In that case could you not use the command line approach?

I've considered it but can't find any useful documentation on it.  I've found a class called DzProcess for communicating with external programs, but the info is very limited:

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/object_index/process_dz#a_1a836c27e2d64d0efa4a526150bdf6f3e5

The page has a link to an example script which probably would be very helpful:

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/object_index/render_to_rib

but that link is broken.

Well I actually managed to find the script on google:

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/rendering/render_to_rib/start

but that doesn't help much.

Think I'll try the developer forums to see if anyone knows something there.