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Issue with Branca

WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,056
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Branca https://www.daz3d.com/branca-for-genesis-8-female does not have an “actor” character that you can just click on to bring into the scene. You have to load blank G8 then apply the shape and material. It’s not a deal breaker but I wasn’t sure if that was intentional or not...

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  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,979

    She has one in the Characters folder where the actor presets usually are located.  If it's not showing up it may be because you installed her while DS was open, in that case you may have to do a folder refresh before all presets show up (and I think that the morph dials need a DS restart to show up - at least I had to do that for another character yesterday).

    Antonella however has the actor preset in the root of the Genesis 8 Female folder instead of in Characters, that's definitely an error.

  • xyer0xyer0 Posts: 6,063

    I noticed this happened with at least two other characters (Allegra, Wufei): Instead of a blue-tagged Actor thumbnail, they had a yellow-tagged Character thumbnail (but yellow is also the colour of Materials so it was not easy to just scroll to it, and they were not easily found with the other Actor-tagged characters). I told Tech Support about it, and they said it wasn't considered an error. I'd like Daz to enforce its own established standards.

  • claycomixclaycomix Posts: 27

    @wonderland same here. it's annoying when characters don't come with presets, it adds a lot of extra steps.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,865

    Do you find the character preset loads promptly? For me it's always quicker to apply the separate materials and shaping presets (if possible).

  • ANGELREAPER1972ANGELREAPER1972 Posts: 4,518

    I just bought her and couldn't find her, so I I loaded base G8F and then in Smart looked in Shaping found her there and at first there is only shaping and materials on offer so went that way, then just looked in the other option she has lost and found and there is a duf file of her

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,783
    claycomix said:

    @wonderland same here. it's annoying when characters don't come with presets, it adds a lot of extra steps.

    LOL, it's a few clicks of the mouse. A lot of extra steps would be more like adding the textures to each slot on the surfaces tab (which I have done many times)

  • claycomixclaycomix Posts: 27
    For me, it's a trip to the genesis 8 starter, then figures, load up the genesis 8 female, go for a coffee, then find the character I wanted to load again, click on shapes then textures. If there's an easier way of doing it that I'm missing, I would love to hear it.
  • HavosHavos Posts: 5,404
    claycomix said:
    For me, it's a trip to the genesis 8 starter, then figures, load up the genesis 8 female, go for a coffee, then find the character I wanted to load again, click on shapes then textures. If there's an easier way of doing it that I'm missing, I would love to hear it.

    In Smart Content, click on Figures, type in the box the name of the character you want, eg Victoria 8, double click on the icon, and you are done.

    Of course if the character has not been set up as a character in Smart Content, as appears to the case with Branca, that is not going to work.

  • claycomixclaycomix Posts: 27

    @havos, that is the issue here. I've gotten so lazy with Smart Content I expect any figure I buy at daz to have a preset.  Some Rendo characters don't have presets and by that point I'm already deep in the Content Library, but with Smart Content it's nice just to be able to load a figure with a single click.

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,056
    edited July 2020
    claycomix said:

    @havos, that is the issue here. I've gotten so lazy with Smart Content I expect any figure I buy at daz to have a preset.  Some Rendo characters don't have presets and by that point I'm already deep in the Content Library, but with Smart Content it's nice just to be able to load a figure with a single click.

    This is the first character I've purchased at Daz that doesn't have an "Actor" icon included. I just assumed it was an error and accidentally left out of the package.

    The other issue, I should have noticed right in the promos. What is that white rim around the eyes? It does render like that too. 
     

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  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,056
    Richard Haseltine said:

    Do you find the character preset loads promptly? For me it's always quicker to apply the separate materials and shaping presets (if possible).

    It takes me just as long to load a preset character as a blank G8, usually about 10 minutes because of that stupid duplicate formula thing.

  • TheKDTheKD Posts: 2,706
    edited July 2020
    Wonderland said:

    This is the first character I've purchased at Daz that doesn't have an "Actor" icon included. I just assumed it was an error and accidentally left out of the package.

    The other issue, I should have noticed right in the promos. What is that white rim around the eyes? It does render like that too. 
     

     

    Now that I have seen it, I cannot unsee it lol. It appears in all the promos where you can see the eye well. Looks as if the iris has been pushed in a lot, maybe a normal map issue?

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  • junkjunk Posts: 1,370

    Oh man that is annoying.  I too thought.... where did the character install because if you go to "Figures" under "Smart Content" and you filter for Branca you will not find her.  You have to go to "All Products" to see her shown.  The character is lovely once you have it all in place but a little inconvenient.  

  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 9,723
    edited July 2020

    She is located in the usual place under "People, Genesis 8 Female, Characters"

    and she looks fabulous, IMHO.

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  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,979
    Artini said:

    She is located in the usual place under "People, Genesis 8 Female, Characters

    Yes, but it seems to be in Smart Content people can't find her (can't check as I don't use Smart Content).

  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 9,723
    edited July 2020

    and one more render of her.

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  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 9,723
    Taoz said:
    Artini said:

    She is located in the usual place under "People, Genesis 8 Female, Characters

    Yes, but it seems to be in Smart Content people can't find her (can't check as I don't use Smart Content).

    Ah, ok. I also does not use Smart Content.

     

  • junkjunk Posts: 1,370

    Thanks Artini... I seem to use Smart Content out of habit when looking for my people.  By the way excellent images of her.  I finally posted the one I was working on here:

    Space Crimes-The Russian Spy

    LINK TO THE GALLERY IMAGE

  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 9,723

    Thanks, junk.

    Your image of her looks excellent.

     

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