Start again, or try to fix it?
khyron555
Posts: 26
Okay, so my luck here has been pretty hit and miss. My latest issues involve, after a complete wipe of my HD, 1) The basic Genesis 3 male and female figures not loading (apparently they can't be found even though everything was installed via DIM) unless I use the merge into scene option, after which they cannot be fodified at all. 2) A few of my favorite G3F figures not loading at all, even though they were installed correctly, are present in the file hierarchy, and I can see them in the the file tree, but their sliders do nothing to the basic G3F figure. As an FYI, I never use the Smart Content menu as I find it makes little sense organizationally, and always default to the Content Menu instead.
Ugh.
I'm seriousl;y considering uninstalling everything, and recreating my library in a folder separate from DAZ itself, so there's little to no chance of anything critical to it's regular function getting borked. My question(s) however, are as follows; Does anyone actually think that will make a real difference, and after uninstalling the basic Daz studio via DIM, and where else do I have to go in my hard drive to delete any remaining vestiges in order to ensure a re-installation of Daz will yield better results/proper functionality? Please, don't suggest re-installing windows after a complete HD wipe, because frankly, that's impossible and absurd as well.
Thoughts and opionions are most welcome!
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DIM and Studio don't communicate with each other so you need to tell Studio where your content is through the Content Directory Manager.
That can happen if there was a Connect isntall of the content (installed from within DS) and the files were then manually removed or are no longer in a mapped directory. If you find Genesis 3 Starter Essentials in the Smart Content pane>Products tab and right-click on it, is the option Install or Uninstall? If it's Uninstall, click that.
When I looked for it where you directed me, there was only Genesis Starter Essentials. Default Resources and Genesis 8 Starter Essentials were also there with the uninstall option however..
UPDATE : I did in fact discover everything that had been installed previously, including the Genesis 3 Starter Essentials. Once I uninstall it, what would be the next step to getting it in the proper place?
If you installed it via DIM then uninstalling through DS will leave the DIM version in place.
So, uninstalling the DS version should solve my problems, or should I uninstall both, then reinstall the DIM version just for good measure?
Nor harm in uninstalling both and reinstalling the DIM version. Of course the Connect version should work too, if reinstalled, so if you are going to do both that may be more effort than just a plain uninstall/reinstall.
Uninstalled both, then reinstalled through DIM only. G3F loads now without using merge into scene but I still get the duplicates found comment, and most of the characters I have installed (by hand) from Rhiannon don't work, even though they show up in the Content folder, and the sliders are even present in the model list. Strangely, all of their skins load without issue..
Duplicate what found? There are a couple of possibilities.
"Duplicate fomulas found in files. Make sure the content is properly installed. See log file for details". After trying to inject Rhiannon's Saffron character (for G3F) I got the following in the log file;
2020-02-05 20:09:38.320 File loaded in 0 min 16.0 sec.
2020-02-05 20:09:38.322 Loaded file: Genesis 3 Female.duf
2020-02-05 20:09:38.935 Loaded Morph Deltas in 0 min 0.0 sec.
2020-02-05 20:09:38.935 Loaded file: PHMMouthRealismHD.dsf
2020-02-05 20:09:38.939 Loaded Morph Deltas in 0 min 0.0 sec.
2020-02-05 20:09:38.939 Loaded file: PBMNavel.dsf
2020-02-05 20:09:39.286 Loaded image RyJeane_arms_1004.jpg
2020-02-05 20:09:39.357 Loaded image RyJeane_mouth_1005.jpg
2020-02-05 20:09:39.534 Loaded image RyJeane_face_1001.jpg
2020-02-05 20:09:39.707 Loaded image RyJeane_torso_1002.jpg
2020-02-05 20:09:39.882 Loaded image RyJeane_legs_1003.jpg
2020-02-05 20:09:39.965 Loaded image RyJeane_eyes01_1007.jpg
2020-02-05 20:09:40.005 Loaded image RyJeane_eyerefl01_1008.jpg
2020-02-05 20:09:40.061 Loaded image RyJeane_lashes_1006.jpg
2020-02-05 20:10:56.516 File loaded in 0 min 0.0 sec.
2020-02-05 20:10:56.517 Loaded file: Saffron Head INJ.duf
2020-02-05 20:10:57.721 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\sdksource\cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): recv failed errno=10054
2020-02-05 20:11:46.941 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\sdksource\cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): Tcp shutdown called on a Tcp connection without a shutdown
2020-02-05 20:11:50.692 File loaded in 0 min 0.0 sec.
2020-02-05 20:11:50.693 Loaded file: Saffron Head REM.duf
2020-02-05 20:11:55.826 File loaded in 0 min 0.0 sec.
2020-02-05 20:11:55.826 Loaded file: Saffron Body INJ.duf
2020-02-05 20:11:55.998 Loaded Morph Deltas in 0 min 0.0 sec.
2020-02-05 20:11:55.998 Loaded file: PBMNipples.dsf
2020-02-05 20:11:56.013 Loaded Morph Deltas in 0 min 0.0 sec.
2020-02-05 20:11:56.013 Loaded file: PBMSaffronNailsSquare.dsf
2020-02-05 20:11:59.204 File loaded in 0 min 0.0 sec.
2020-02-05 20:11:59.205 Loaded file: Saffron Head INJ.duf
Dispite what it shows here, only the square nails get applied. Neither the head nor body injection actually work.
I suspect there are two Saffron or Saffron head morphs, from different characters.
Normally I'd agree, but what are the odds that every character Rhiannon has done, have duplicate names, spelled the exact same way, and all of them are in my runtime?
Do the actual morphs have "Rhianon" in the name (or soem cortnaction or abbrevaition)? If not then the second Saffron could be by someone else entirely.
Can't say for sure because I'm not at my machine atm, however, after searching through the possibilities, I have discovered that there is only one other character with the same name, and I know for certain, I do not have it.
Also, if there is a naming issue, would the sliders not do something when used, even if they aren't connected to the properly named files?
Whether the slider worked at all would, I think, depend on its nature - a controller, that wasn't itself a morph, might fail entirely I suspect.