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New install of Daz Studio 4.7 does not have genesis

tylerzamboritylerzambori Posts: 79
edited December 1969 in Daz Studio Discussion

I've been messing around with installing and un-installing various versions of Daz Studio, and now when I install daz studio 4.7,
I get a message upon opening the program that the Genesis file can't be found. In other words, I don't get any genesis.

And I ran 2 different registry repair softwares.


So now what?

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  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,997
    edited December 1969

    Are you sure you have also installed the 'starter essentials' files, of which there are now 3 or 4 - for Genesis, Genesis 2 (theer may be 1 each of these for male and female) and Lights and Shaders and have configured Daz Studio as to where they are?

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    edited December 1969

    tyler zambori said:
    installing and un-installing various versions of Daz Studio

    Which "various versions"? Up until a couple of years ago, the free starter content was included in the D|S installer, and was reinstalled whenever you updated the program. Nowadays the starter content is in separate installers, so you have to install both the program and the content. (If you use DIM to install, this is supposed to be automatic.) If you were bouncing between the older and newer types of installers, you might have managed to uninstall the old all-in-one content but not reinstall the new separate content.
  • JimmyC_2009JimmyC_2009 Posts: 8,891
    edited December 1969

    tyler zambori said:
    I've been messing around with installing and un-installing various versions of Daz Studio, and now when I install daz studio 4.7,
    I get a message upon opening the program that the Genesis file can't be found. In other words, I don't get any genesis.

    And I ran 2 different registry repair softwares.


    So now what?



    What you are seeing probably comes from Edit > Preferences > Startup > Load File. Look at that path, and make sure that it is pointing to the right place to load Genesis, and it is also looking for Genesis.DUF (NOT DSF)
  • tylerzamboritylerzambori Posts: 79
    edited December 1969

    Well, I figured it out, after I installed genesis starter essentials, I could see thumbnails.

    However, when I started DS I get a message saying that the genesis.dsf file is missing.

    I can get the basic male and female figures from smart content, but I get this mesasge everytime
    I start daz studio.

    I looked in

    c:\users\ public/documents\my daz 3d library\people\genesis, and everything in there is a dson file not a dsf file.

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,598
    edited December 1969

    tyler zambori said:
    Well, I figured it out, after I installed genesis starter essentials, I could see thumbnails.

    However, when I started DS I get a message saying that the genesis.dsf file is missing.

    I can get the basic male and female figures from smart content, but I get this mesasge everytime
    I start daz studio.

    I looked in

    c:\users\ public/documents\my daz 3d library\people\genesis, and everything in there is a dson file not a dsf file.

    What's the exact error message? The visible files in people/genesis are .duf, but the hidden data files are .dsf. Both of these are DSON file types. If the error message refers to a file in the Data folder, then it may be your content folders are not defined correctly. If you had DS4.0 installed previously, the start-up scene may be genesis.dsf rather than genesis.duf -- you can edit that in Window > Preferences > Startup.

  • tylerzamboritylerzambori Posts: 79
    edited December 1969

    HI, the exact message is:

    could not open the start up scene: C:/users/tyler zambori/documents/studio/my library/people/genesis/genesis.dsf
    File does not exist.


    I think you mean I can edit preferences, from the edit menu right? The windows menu does not have an option
    for preferences.

    Ok, I went to preferences under the edit menu, clicked on the startup tab, and it says: On launch, load file:
    c:/users/tyler zambori/documents/daz 3d/studio/my library/people/genesis/genesis.dsf

    There is no option to change it from .dsf to .duf.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,309
    edited December 1969

    The start up scene doesn't get changed when yu update DS, so it'ss till using the value from 4.0 when the user file was in .dsf format. Click on the file name to get a menu: you can either set it to None, so that you load the item you want (which is the default for newer versions of DS), or you click browse to select a different file (possibly the Genesis.duf file, if you want that to load on launch).

  • tylerzamboritylerzambori Posts: 79
    edited December 1969

    Ok , I managed to stop any attempts to load a figure on startup by going to:

    Edit, menu, then I clicked on preferences, then on the tab titled "startup."

    The "load file" option was checked. The file name was the one I posted already. If I clic on the down arrow to teh right of the file name, Iget the option to browse. I guess this means I can browse for another file.

    Since I don't know where I can find such a file as genesis.duf, I just unchecked it.


    There was no drop down menu that appeared after clicking on the name of the .dsf file. There was no "None" option.

    Are you sure we are talking about the same software????

    Anyway, not having any figure load upon startup is fine with me, the error message is gone now, thanks.

    I don't think I can stand spending time on a software that seems to be in a different dimension than everyone
    else is in, though.

    .

  • JimmyC_2009JimmyC_2009 Posts: 8,891
    edited December 1969

    You should see the dropdown menu when you click on the little right arrow as shown.

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  • tylerzamboritylerzambori Posts: 79
    edited December 1969

    Thank you JImmy.

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