Access third party content from smart content menu?

mike_42547761

Hey, I know I should know this stuff by now, but manually installing Daz Content has always been my weak point.

So if I was installing third party content, such as items downloaded from www.sharecg.com or www.free3d.com, to use in DAZ, is there a way to make everythinig accesible from the Smart Content menu?

Right now my third party content is on an external drive, and files are in proper directories for the most part, but I'm still finding it cumbersome and less organized to use that content in the content pane and I find the serch function never works for me. 

Is there a way to make all of my Daz content appear in my smart content pane? Like can I give the program multiple directories to assemble the aset catalog from? Or does it all have to be install in one location and on my harddrive?

I love this program and it's sped up my creative work considerably, but now I need to do something with some custom third party assets and the current configuration is slowing my down.

Any advice from you experts out there would be much appreciated!

Thank you in advance!

Esemwy

You’d have to add your own metadata. Start here. There’s a fair amount of discussion on the Content DB Editor as well as a few Youtube videos. 

mike_42547761

Esemwy said:

You’d have to add your own metadata. Start here. There’s a fair amount of discussion on the Content DB Editor as well as a few Youtube videos. 

Thank you so much for the response. this is helpful. 

kaotkbliss

If you want to at least be able to look up 3rd party stuff you've installed by first letter, you could always get the content package assistant here on daz.

You have it open your zip, drop in a product image, make sure your folders are in order and it will create a DIM ready package. Once installed by DIM, you can go to your content library tab, to your products. Then click on the first letter of your product name, find your product and everything that was installed for that product shows up.