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Materials not working with Michael 4?

charliejameson10charliejameson10 Posts: 8
edited December 1969 in The Commons

Hey All,
First post ever but here it goes. I am sort of new to Daz Studio 4.8 (messed around on Bryce until it got discontinued for Mac) and I have run into a few problems. One of these problems is with the materials for Daz Studio 4.8. The problem is that when I don't have anything selected in the scene, I can see all of my materials (i.e. textures, props, everything) [Picture 1], but when I select my Michael 4 model, the only things that appear in the wardrobe are the mapless skin, Michael 4 boxers, and Michael 4 hair [Picture 2]. I have checked to see that these products are compatible with Michael 4 (some of the products include: Arcane Archery, M4 Army Combat Uniform, M4 Elite Texture Stratton, Raphael for M4, Slicer, Troy for M4 to list a few) but they just don't seem to work when I try to apply them to the Michael 4 model. Some of the poses work but none of the textures or materials. Another problem is that my Michael 5 doesn't want to import and gives me an error [Picture 3] and then puts in a blocky figure. any suggestions?
Thanks,
Charlie Jameson

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Comments

  • HavosHavos Posts: 5,404
    edited May 2015

    You are only looking in the "Smart Content" tab, and most of M4's stuff is too old to appear as smart content. You should open up the "Content Library" tab, and look in particularly at the PoserFormat part, as likely most of what you need will be in there.

    Edit: Regarding your M5 issues, are you sure that you have installed the Genesis Essentials? M5 will not work without these. Also the place where all your DAZ stuff was installed must be added as DAZ Studio Base Directory, which you can do in the Content Library tab.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,841
    edited December 1969

    Those are material settings since you are looking at the Surfaces pane - the materials for the clothes apply to the clothing models, not to the Michael 4 figure. You need to load the models first, which - since the materials are appearing in Smart Content - you should be able to get by using the full Smart Content pane. It looks as if you have closed that, you should be able to open it via Window>Panes(Tabs)>Smart Content. Then select Michael 4 and look in the Wardrobe category in Smart Content.

  • charliejameson10charliejameson10 Posts: 8
    edited December 1969

    Problem solved, thank you to everyone that helped!
    Charlie

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