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Yes, it was always a 2 step process. It worked the other times because you had already installed the content, probably when you bought the rendo products. Smart Content uses relative path, e.g., People/Genesis 8/Female/My Character.duf and not C:/Users/ME/Documents/My Daz 3D Library/People/Genesis 8/Female/My Character.duf. When the Smart Content was installed, DS found the associated items based on these relative paths and voila, it showed up.
Optional but important:
Step 5: Click on Save Configuration File to save the configuration file if you want to correct stuff later
Step 6: Click on Export Zip File(s) & Self-Installer to save the correct zips for later. These zip files can be used by DIM if placed in the DIM downloaded products directory on your current computer or another computer.
Submitted update today. Changes:
Just using this for the first time on some stuff I got over the holidays and I must say this is lightning fast.
Best thing since invention of sliced bread and longlife milk . I whish DAZ would use it to prepare the metadata for their products. Results would be much better in most cases. So far, I only had weird results when PA's got overly creative with their content structure, or when there is an ampersand in any of the files or directories. Just today I also spotted that it chokes on some special characters, like an é, but that is easy to fix. I am really looking forward to the update....
EDIT: corrected auto-correct .
Looking forward to the update. The mac editor "issue" (not being able to edit some stuff) is unfortunately still present I suppose.
RiverSoft Art is having difficulty accessing the Daz Forums since Friday, Jan 8th. Once the issue is resolved, he will answer any questions.
I had the same issues. According to the reply from DAZ support, it has been a known issue with some accounts and they were working to fix it. They did fix it, at least for me. Everything is working fine again, but - as always - your milage may vary.
Thanks @ALLIEKATBLUE and @Mark_e593e0a5 for the kind words.
(I apologize to anyone for not responding faster. I had issues accessing the forums since Friday Jan 7th. Thank you for your patience; everything seems resolved as Jan 14th. A special thank you to @Marshian and @Sickleyield for stepping in and helping me.)
In a lot of cases, Daz metadata is messed up. Is there a downside to using CW to install Daz assets instead?
I have. not yet seen issues. I used it e.g for Sickleyield's "SY Naturally Flushed Genesis 8", as the meta data is only showing the female part. The male part of the product is completely forgotten (and the ticklet I filed is rotting in the tech support queue since release day). CW created the correct metadata for both male and female, and it assigned the correct categories. That product was a "fire and forget" install, others might need some re-categorization.
I do suppose, however, that product update might either install as a duplicate, or overrun your categorization.
The downsides are the updates as Mark_e593e0a5 mentioned. They should not matter most of the time, though if files are moved or deleted because of an update, you will need to re-analyze with CW.
I'm trying to do meta data for HiveWire products. I am following what you have. But I can't double click on the columns to make changes, and it never lights up the Install Smart Content or Export Zip Files buttons, so after installing I can't click on Install Smart Content. I have tried 2 different products (both DS) and have the same issue.
I have included the Table View, you can see that nothing is checked, and that install Smart Content is greyed out (I have already installed content twice). The log file is not showing any errors. I'm at a loss of what to do. I've watched your video.
After Step 1, do you set the product name, vendor, store, and id?
Yes, I did everything like the video said. Including the icon. I never get the preview tabs to light up either.
Here is the product tab:
Trying again
That is strange. Please post the log from when you analyse it and click Install Content.
Here is the log after Analyze and Install Content again.
It said everything was successful...
So, I'm at a loss
And still can't edit anything in Table View
And to make matters stranger, I just tried it using a Renderosity product, and after figuring out that I had to unzip the original file into 2 zips, it worked fine.
The Hivewire files don't have hidden zips, so I don't know what the issue is. and why it didn't work.
I don't think you posted the entire Daz log (not the log in the dialog). I would expect to see more messages. Can you check again? And make sure you run CW twice. Daz Studio has a tendency to not show the last 3 or 4 log messages until something else gets written to the log.
The one thing I see strange is that there are 2 zip #4s.
I am wondering if maybe the collision between two exact zips would cause a problem? It shouldn't, but I will need to think about it.
I noticed that about the dual file.
anyway, I shut everything down, cleared the log, then opened DS up.
I opened CW
I repopulated it with the proper files (no dup)
I repopulated the image icon and the names, et. al.
I Unzipped the folders
I then clicked Analyze
Got the same thing.
So, here is the Daz log
Ok, this was helpful. The script crashed:
The problem is that your version is older than mine and that line is no longer the same for me. Can you PM me your email address so I can send you the latest?
Ok, this was helpful. The script crashed:
The problem is that your version is older than mine and that line is no longer the same for me. Can you PM me your email address so I can send you the latest?
You can add App.flushLogBuffer(); just before your script exits to resolve this.
Oooh, nice tip! It doesn't help if the script crashes, but I want to remember this one!
21 days and still the update does not show up in DIM. Do you have a date from DAZ when they will relaeas the update? I do have a lot of stuff with ampersands to throw on CW , from nirvy on the other store....
No idea. It is still waiting on testing. Once an update goes into testing, it can be live within the day sometimes.
Forgive me if this is a frequently-asked question, but I didn't find an obvious answer in this thread, or in the documentation.
I'm trying to install to a separate library at 'F:/DAZ 3D/Installs/Miscellaneous', which contains the usual 'data', 'People', 'Runtime' etc. folders.
Some of the archives I'm installing from contain 'data', 'People', 'Runtime' etc. at top-level; these install without problems.
Others contain the following structure:
If I try to install those using Content Wizard, then I end up with a folder 'F:/DAZ 3D/Installs/Miscellaneous/My Library', i.e.
which, quite aside from being a mess, means that the relative paths are broken.
This seems to be a common issue, so I assume Content Wizard has some simple and obvious way of dealing with it. But I haven't found it, so my question is: what's the best way to get Content Wizard to strip off that 'My Library' from the destination paths when installing?