Problem with DAZ 4.16: Scanning for addons... take at least 5 minutes! (SOLVED!)

avatar0319

Am I alone in this one? Daz 4.15 never took so long to scan addons. With Daz 4.16 everything has changed in a bad way. 

Here's a log:

2021-12-24 12:00:28.759 Prepare asset load (open): /Scenes/Christie Ricci.duf
2021-12-24 12:00:28.759 Locking viewport redraw...
2021-12-24 12:00:28.759 Viewport redraw locked.
2021-12-24 12:00:28.914 Native format content directories: 2
2021-12-24 12:00:28.915 Poser format content directories: 2
2021-12-24 12:00:28.915 Other import format content directories: 0
2021-12-24 12:00:28.915 Begin asset load (open): /Scenes/Christie Ricci.duf
2021-12-24 12:00:29.858 *** Scene Cleared ***
2021-12-24 12:00:29.859 Determining missing assets...
2021-12-24 12:00:44.094 Setting textures...
2021-12-24 12:00:45.595 WARNING: QColor::setRgb: RGB parameters out of range
2021-12-24 12:00:45.609 Scanning for addons...
2021-12-24 12:05:05.161 Creating node geometry...
2021-12-24 12:05:05.316 Creating UV sets...
2021-12-24 12:05:05.323 Creating materials...
2021-12-24 12:05:15.091 Resolving legacy figures...
2021-12-24 12:05:15.092 Preparing modifiers...

Anyone know how to deal with this problem?

avatar0319

Finally found the culrpit here... It's not DAZ 4.16. It's Character Converter from Genesis 3 Female to Genesis 8 Female. I don't know what it really did wrong or maybe I did something wrong, but as soon as I deleted the last converted G3 character (FWSA Zarina HD) everything went back to normal. 2 minutes to load G8 character. Phew!

Hope if someone encounter this it will help them figure things out. 

I apologise to RiverSoft Art for blaming his product, but IN REALITY it's not Character Converter from Genesis 3 Female to Genesis 8 Female. When I started to re-install other stuff that I deleted when I was trying to figure things out I suddenly found that this problem was created by... a piece of clothing! Of all things! I tested it a couple of times converting FWSA Zarina HD to G8 with and without this clothing installed and I can confirm it. dForce Spring Slingshot Bikini for Genesis 8 Females is causing this long loads. 

I don't know the tech side of DAZ 3D that well, but can someone explain how can a clothing item affect loading times for G8 character that doesn't even wear this item in a scene? 

UPD: ...Who could have thought that all this troubles were caused by... .tif format of normal maps. I've manually changed it to .png and voila - everything working fine. 

Dazzle

avatar0319 said: "how can a clothing item affect loading times for G8 character that doesn't even wear this item in a scene"

That clothing item is so tiny, your G8F may have been wearing it in a scene without you noticing  

Glad you solved your problem though