I would love to learn to use Daz Studio BUT - it never loads Genesis 2

daveso

I have not been able to get it to load my content since at least vers. 4.1 or something. i have tried to fix it, but it never works..so it gets uninstalled.
Now I have cleared out all my stuff after 4.7 or .8 ..and now downloaded and installed 4.9 utilizing DIM ... and again, when Studio loads, it cannot find starter content, ie...Genesis 2 female. also, when i open the content tab, it has the placeholders but shows nothing there ... missing files. 

Why is it, when using DIM, that the damn thing can;t eve place the files correctly so Studio can find them? Why are the install paths different?

I have missed tons of super sales bacasue why buy the stuff when I can't even get the program to work? 

Richard Haseltine has tried to help me .... and I will continue to work on the other thread I started, but this is most frustrating. Obviously a lot of others have this working .... why is it that I am having these problems?

BeeMKay

Well, it appens if you are using different drives and such, or specified a different location for download. I had that happen to me too, until I took some time to sort out my installation.

Here's what I did (sorry if I am explaining "baby steps", but I don't know how detailed your knowledge is, so please humour me). I consider it a given that you have downloaded all of the Starter Essential packages, so that's not causing your problems.

First, go to you DIM, and check the settings. You can find them when you click on the cogwheel in the upper right corner in DIM.

There, select the "Installation Tab", and check to where it leads. Also, make sure that you select the second option about the installation, because otherwise, DIM might get confused with some older installed locations on your machine. If the path you have in DIM isn't exactly the same as you have defined in DAZ Studio, or the one where you want to install your content, now is the perfect time to change the path. You might want to uninstall, and reinstall your content afterwards, so that it's located in the proper location.

Next, go to DS, and check the settings in the Edit-->Preferences--> Content Directories Manager. Under both, DAZ and Poser files, you need to set the directory you have chosen as a download directory. If only the DAZ, but not the Poser directory is set properly, you will get type of error messages you posted in the other thread.  Click on Accept after you're done.

Now, you can do database maintenance. In the Content Library, click on the small list in the upper right corner. From the list that pops up, select "Content DB Database" and check the items I have marked here:

If everything works as intended, you should be able to access the items now. If not, at least this part of the puzzle can be counted out as origin of your problem.

Richard Haseltine

Closed in favour of http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/70154/why-is-there-always-some-file-or-object-missing#latest