Visual Catalog showing all Daz content owned, even stuff pulled from store

FrankTheTank

So I'm sure a lot of people with massive content libraries could benefit from this. I stopped using DAZ for a year or so after some major data loss. I'm ready to get back into DAZ and reinstall all my content, but I'm literally lost in all the content I have. It would be nice to only install stuff that I know I will use, but just  figuring out what I own is next to impossible.

For example, trying to find something as simple as all the motorcycles I own, gives me different results if I search in the store (and click on show only owned using the Plug-in), versus searching for motorcycle in my product library, vs searching in smart content. I get different results from all 3.

And I still am missing some of my motorcyles, I know I have a chopper style bike somewhere that I can't find for the life of me.

Why is there not a visual online catalag available of all my owned content that I can browse, with up to date metadata? I would pay for this plugin or whatever it takes to get this data. None of the current options deliver. I want something I can browse within the Daz Store preferably as it seems to have the best search meta data, but obviously still fails because owned content which has been pulled from the store doesn't show up. The only way to find that is to get lucky and find it in 65 pages of content library.

Please some coder, make a product like this and name your price.

FSMCDesigns

If you get this browser addon for DAZ3d, one of the features is it only shows you the products in the store that you own. You can go thru the store pages and see the products you own and if you click on one there is a link to the actual download for it.

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/106296/announcing-daz-deals-browser-add-on/p1

IsaacNewton

I did see a product which lists all installed product in the form of html files which essentiall find the thumbnails. Sorry, can't recall the name but shouldn't take much searching in the forum to find. However, it would nice to have a better search engine within DS.

FrankTheTank

FSMCDesigns said:

If you get this browser addon for DAZ3d, one of the features is it only shows you the products in the store that you own. You can go thru the store pages and see the products you own and if you click on one there is a link to the actual download for it.

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/106296/announcing-daz-deals-browser-add-on/p1

I do have that browser add-on, its pretty good but seems to be slowed down in my browser with all the other things going on. It would be nice if it could build the database locally somehow in a separate app, by pulling it from the DAZ server and then storing it on your PC. Don't know if thats  possible. And it still doesn't show items which you own but which have been pulled from the store for whatever reason, such as when a PA leaves or a product is retired. its a real pain to try to find that kind of stuff.

odastein

FSMCDesigns said:

If you get this browser addon for DAZ3d, one of the features is it only shows you the products in the store that you own. You can go thru the store pages and see the products you own and if you click on one there is a link to the actual download for it.

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/106296/announcing-daz-deals-browser-add-on/p1

Wow! I use it, and I never noticed the "only show owned" , which is going to be useful. Thanks.

Fungible User

I have the same problem and I have over a TB of daz products so I laboriously saved each of the photos for each of the products I own from 93 pages. Thankfully most of them were named apropriately when you right click and save. And then I put them all into different folders. it took almost two weeks (ok I confess, I did it at work) I find that the product photos on Daz too small to identify the products, perhaps the fault of my screen resolution, but now I can scale up the photos in my catalog and see what I want and quickly. OK so it was a big task and there probably was an easier way to do it, but its made life so much easier for me and more enjoyable to have everything with clear visuals and organsied to my mode of working.  I don't suggest anyone to do it, but its reintroduced me to products I completely forgot I owned, especially those I bought after a few glasses of wine.  I should have also made a folder called "what the hell was I thinking?" 

theforceunleashed3

I can recommend it. It's very useful and pretty easy... it works like a charm.

FrankTheTank

empty said:

I have the same problem and I have over a TB of daz products so I laboriously saved each of the photos for each of the products I own from 93 pages. Thankfully most of them were named apropriately when you right click and save. And then I put them all into different folders. it took almost two weeks (ok I confess, I did it at work) I find that the product photos on Daz too small to identify the products, perhaps the fault of my screen resolution, but now I can scale up the photos in my catalog and see what I want and quickly. OK so it was a big task and there probably was an easier way to do it, but its made life so much easier for me and more enjoyable to have everything with clear visuals and organsied to my mode of working.  I don't suggest anyone to do it, but its reintroduced me to products I completely forgot I owned, especially those I bought after a few glasses of wine.  I should have also made a folder called "what the hell was I thinking?" 

Yes, this is what I should have done a long time ago. It seems like an app should be able to do this as long as one grants it permission to log in as the end user and capture those hidden product images from older pulled content. It could then create a visual offline catalog of all of one's stuff. I would pay for an app like that. To do this myself would take weeks.

Fungible User

TGSNT said:

empty said:

I have the same problem and I have over a TB of daz products so I laboriously saved each of the photos for each of the products I own from 93 pages. Thankfully most of them were named apropriately when you right click and save. And then I put them all into different folders. it took almost two weeks (ok I confess, I did it at work) I find that the product photos on Daz too small to identify the products, perhaps the fault of my screen resolution, but now I can scale up the photos in my catalog and see what I want and quickly. OK so it was a big task and there probably was an easier way to do it, but its made life so much easier for me and more enjoyable to have everything with clear visuals and organsied to my mode of working.  I don't suggest anyone to do it, but its reintroduced me to products I completely forgot I owned, especially those I bought after a few glasses of wine.  I should have also made a folder called "what the hell was I thinking?" 

Yes, this is what I should have done a long time ago. It seems like an app should be able to do this as long as one grants it permission to log in as the end user and capture those hidden product images from older pulled content. It could then create a visual offline catalog of all of one's stuff. I would pay for an app like that. To do this myself would take weeks.

I would also pay for that type of thing as well, without hesitation. I'm a very visual person and a lot of times I find myself going online into the Daz store to have another look at some of the products I own and the six or so marketing photos the product comes with. it usually reinspires me and its a good reintroduction to the product's scope in general. I also have to 'unhide' the products I own when I am making a search just in case I have already bought it or have something similar. Textures for outfits are also a problem, because I can never remember whether I bought a texture set for a certain outfit as they usully don't appear in the 'wardrobe' with the clothing items. The list goes on... First world problems, eh? 

L'Adair

@empty, Check you PMs. I sent you a message weeks ago…