Ready to Render Dragon Slayer disappearance causing issues?

Kaimetsuo

Hiya! *waves*

So, I went to look up a tutorial package that I remembered from when I started in DAZ called "Ready to Render - Dragon Slayer" in order to find a particular setting, The Alchemy Chasm https://www.daz3d.com/the-alchemy-chasm so I could then do a similar scene where I was going to have Cthulhu rising out of the abyss to go after a heroine.

Sounds cool, right? ;)

Unfortunately, when I went to look it up in my Product Library, it wasn't there. It was completely missing. Something that I know that I rendered several times when I was first starting out to get a feel for the program, was just GONE from my stuff! I looked it up trying all kinds of names, it just wasn't there. I tried google search, DAZ's search, nothing. The Alchemy Chasm is still around, but the Ready to Render - Dragon Slayer has been taken down, and with it the record of my having "purchased" The Alchemy Chasm, and the other pieces that came with that tutorial.

I had to get a friend of mine to confirm where tutorials were in my library, and help me find it so that I could find the right one, so that I could even write up this report, and his is doing the same thing. So yes, this is something that is happening on multiple systems in multiple states.

The problem with this is that IF I were to have a crash, and my content were to get deleted somehow, then I would no longer have access to something that I previously had, and through no fault of my own should still have access to, but suddenly wouldn't have access to, because of some kind of error.

I figured you all should know about it. (Sorry if I'm rambling. :D )

Thank you for your time. Lots of hugs.

~LQ

 

Richard Haseltine

The Alchemy Chasm is installed by Genesis Starter Essentials, and is still listed in the File List. It should be in the Content Library under

Daz Studio Formats>content library>Props>Architecture>Alchemy Chasm

(where content library is the content directory installed to, or Daz Connect is you nstalled from within DS) and in categories under at least one of

Environments:Architecture:Interior
Environments:Architecture:Complete

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/14812/start

Kaimetsuo

Thank you for helping me find it on the DAZ side of things!

I also found it stashed on the Poser side in:  Poser Formats>My DAZ 3D Library>Figures>Alchemy Chasm  however it didn't have all the options with it that the props section you suggested does, just a preload.

Also, if The Alchemy Chasm is given to us in the Genesis Starter Essentials package, then why is it showing that we have not purchased it? Or, rather, that we still need it? (Refer to uploaded screenshot.) If it has something else that we need, then I'm all about paying the extra $1.99 but otherwise it seems off that it wouldn't tell us that we have it, along with the other pieces obtained in such a fashion. Unfortunately that promotes a way where people are purchasing things they may not need, and I'm sure you can see the problem in that.

Richard Haseltine

Essentialy because it's a different product (and I'm not sure the store version doesn't have soem extras over the free version - possibly the textures are higher resolution). In order for the store version to appear as puchased it would need to be included as such in the DS bundle, rather than the files being added to the Genesis Starter Essentials.

Kaimetsuo

Well, like I said before, if there's more to the one in the store then I don't have a problem paying the extra $1.99 for it. I just don't want to pay for it and then go to download it in my DIM and find out that there's no difference and I've already gotten everything. *shrugs*

JD_Mortal

That is odd... Must not be excluded from the searches... That item doesn't exist in the file-list of items, nor does it have an actual item-page, other than the one you found in the store.

Not listed here at all...

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/03000_03999

SKU: 3420 (The "Read Me" page does not exist.) This, and the store page, is the only page that I can find for that item, alone.

https://www.3d-almanac.com/wiki/index.php/DAZ-3420_The_Alchemy_Chasm

I assume that it may give you an error if you actually try to "buy" the item... But it may not. I would let Daz support know, so they can completely remove the item from the "shop" pages, as they have removed it from the "products" pages. (Product 3420)

You can only find the associated files by the "Starter essentials file list", found here. But it only includes file-names, not file sizes, so it will not let you know if there is anything "extra", like larger HD images or accessories.