Smart Content grouping addons together?

sunnyjei

Hello! I was wondering if there is a manual way to have a main item and it's add on textures 'merge' into one so that when I look for the main item I see all of the additional addons grouped with the initial textures.

For example I purchased an outfit. I also purchased different textures for that outfit. When I go to the main outfit content in Smart Content, I only see the initial textures and none of the additional textures I purchased. To find the additional textures I have to search for them separately (especially if they have different names).

Is there a way to fix this in Smart Content and 'merge' them? Thanks!

Richard Haseltine

If you right-click on one of the items there should, if relevant, be an Explore Add Ons options.

sunnyjei

Ha! THanks I was starting to think I had imagined that option because I've seen it once or twice (I thought) but not always even for items that I purchased and downloaded thru Daz. One example that doesn't have the explore add ons (just explore which takes me to the main item) is

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-chiffon-crop-dress-for-genesis-8-female-s

I purchased that dress and the add on textures: https://www.daz3d.com/goth-girl

Same thing with a newer items I purchased Grovebrook House, Grovebrook Park, and Cinematics for Grovebrook Park.

Edit (after some further digging around)- I think explore add-ons might be for when I right click on a prop or item that has material/texture addons. Still looking for a way to have them all grouped together if possible, is there a main registry or file I can edit to lump them together...

ShelLuser

sunnyjei said:

For example I purchased an outfit. I also purchased different textures for that outfit. When I go to the main outfit content in Smart Content, I only see the initial textures and none of the additional textures I purchased.

Does this happen because the items aren't there or are they somewhere 'hidden' within the list? Because sometimes items can end up on different locations or even fully uncategorized (though this doesn't happen too often in my experience). I'd first verify if this is the case... Check the content library tab, skim the 'producs' section and find your texture pack in there. Verify that the item actually has meta data assigned to it (so it has a 'texture' banner shown in the icon) and if it does right click on the item and select "Categorize", this will allow you to set a new location for the item but... it also allows you to verify where these items can be found within the smart content pane.

As mentioned sometimes items don't seem to end up in the right place, which can then cause some confusion. Or... also possible: sometimes items don't have metadata assigned to them.

Hope this can give you some ideas here.

sunnyjei

Thank you both. I can't speak for the entirety of my Daz Library because I've had so many issues with it being on a different drive than C, but the example listed above (Chiffon Dress) the textures and the main dress both show up in the Smart tab and if I do Richard's explore add on suggestion  it works. I was just hoping there was a direct way to modify the metadata/item listing so that all the items were together (seems silly to me that they wouldn't be anyway because if the textures can't exist on their own if I go into their Smart product folder I can't do anything with the material files unless I've already added the original file the material applies to)