M4 Morphs are AWOL

Joltrast

I have Daz 4 and I'm trying to use M4 again after a long absense. I can load the base figure fine as long as I don't try to load from Smart Content. However even though I have several body and muscle morphs for M4 they are obviously in the wrong location because Daz cannot locate them. I've tried unistalling M4 content and reinstalling via DIM, so in theory that should be in my content folder, but that hasn't fixed the problem.

Side note: Does DIM reinstall to "last known" location? I seem to remember reading that somewhere. Maybe that is part of the problem?

Please see pic for file paths etc. I hope it explains it better.

Thanks in advance for your help!

jestmart

DIM installs to where you tell it.  Click the cog icon to open preferences, go to the Installation tab to add new librarie/folders.  On Ready To Install tab have the Show Details box checked to have a dropdown button to switch libraries/folders.  Because of generation 4's ExP morphing system that requires new morphs to be initialized after installing I prefer to give them their own library.  You should not have a "Content" folder inside your library folder, DIM strips out the "Content" folder in the zip when it installs so I don't understand how it got there.

Joltrast

jestmart said:

DIM installs to where you tell it.  Click the cog icon to open preferences, go to the Installation tab to add new librarie/folders.  On Ready To Install tab have the Show Details box checked to have a dropdown button to switch libraries/folders.  Because of generation 4's ExP morphing system that requires new morphs to be initialized after installing I prefer to give them their own library.  You should not have a "Content" folder inside your library folder, DIM strips out the "Content" folder in the zip when it installs so I don't understand how it got there.

I always install DAZ content into My Daz directory, using the preferences tab in DIM so I don't know why it can't find some of the content. The extra content inside the library folder was probably something I did with some poser manual installs. It shouldn't affect any Daz content at all. I keep meaning to clean that up, but that's a separate issue. 

mjc1016

Joltrast said:

 The extra content inside the library folder was probably something I did with some poser manual installs. It shouldn't affect any Daz content at all. I keep meaning to clean that up, but that's a separate issue. 

That's 'nesting' and yes, it can affect it.  In this case, because it is a Poser format item, the 'search' for files will stop at the first 'content' folder...and not go deeper to find what is in the Content folder inside the top level content folder.  Basically don't think of anything before Genesis as DAZ content...it's Poser content.  Studio can use Poser content, but it has to be 'right'.

My DAZ 3D Library is the same folder as the 'content' folder shown in that path.  So everything in the runtime folder shown there should be merged with the runtime folder in the My DAZ 3D Library folder.

 

Joltrast

mjc1016 said:

Joltrast said:

 The extra content inside the library folder was probably something I did with some poser manual installs. It shouldn't affect any Daz content at all. I keep meaning to clean that up, but that's a separate issue. 

That's 'nesting' and yes, it can affect it.  In this case, because it is a Poser format item, the 'search' for files will stop at the first 'content' folder...and not go deeper to find what is in the Content folder inside the top level content folder.  Basically don't think of anything before Genesis as DAZ content...it's Poser content.  Studio can use Poser content, but it has to be 'right'.

My DAZ 3D Library is the same folder as the 'content' folder shown in that path.  So everything in the runtime folder shown there should be merged with the runtime folder in the My DAZ 3D Library folder.

I'm hoping to clean it up because it is a mess! 

On the bright side I've fixed M4 to where I can use his morphs. Here's what I did.

1. Uninstalled all M4 content.
2. Reinstalled but in preferences, I changed the radio button to "install to selected path"
3. I also installed PostgreSQL CMS and PostgreSQL Conversion by Valentina.
4. I opened up Daz, reset the database and re-imported metadata.
5. Then exited Daz and reloaded and it worked!

There does seem to be some circular arguments which I need to look at, but at least all the morphs load now.