DS 4.9, where are my scenes?

Toyen

Hello there,

prior to 4.9 whenever I saved a scene in DS, it could later be found in Smart Content under Unassigned -> Scene.

Now however, every time I save a scene, it is nowehre to be found in Smart Content and the Scene tab only has my old scenes in there (those that were saved prior to 4.9).

Also, Iray shaders aren't showing up in Smart Content as well.

Is anybody else having these issues?

fixmypcmike

If you saved it to a mapped content folder, the scene should show up in Default > Saved Items (or something similar).

I've seen some isolated cases where only one set of shaders shows up, are you seeing it consistently?

Toyen

Hello there, what exactly do you mean by mapped content folder?

And I have no "Default" section in my smart content tab.

And yes, the Iray presets just don't show up in Smart Content.

Previously I would select the material zones and go to Presets -> Shaders and "Iray" would be there but now, there are only the 3Delight shaders so I have to apply Iray shaders using the Content Library instead.

sriesch

Toyen said:

Hello there, what exactly do you mean by mapped content folder?

Click on the Content Library pane's menu icon, then select "Content Directory Manager" from the menu.  Then click in the '+' in front of each of the listed items to expand it.  You should then see a list of all the Windows folders in which DAZ Studio is looking for installed content.  These are the mapped folders.  You can add more or remove from the this list.

Toyen

Thanks sriesch. I added the directory with my scenes but still they are nowehere to be found in Smart Content.

sriesch

Toyen said:

Thanks sriesch. I added the directory with my scenes but still they are nowehere to be found in Smart Content.

I don't know if this is necessary in smart content as well, but at least for the Content Library tab, after you add directories you also have to tell DAZ Studio to search those directories for content, by doing the following:

From the Content Library pane's menu icon, select "Scan known directories for files" from the menu, unchecking "Only New Items" when prompted.

fixmypcmike

If it wasn't a mapped folder when you saved them, you need to do a "Scan Known Directories for Files" to put them in Default > Scan Results

cm152335

scenes in "Smart content" are found with USER DATA

is the reason why DAZ say - Backup your DATA (export user data) before install up version 

after update version RE IMPORT MEDATA and USER DATA

if you  do not create an "export user data" reload your scenes via contant library and saves again

 

Toyen

I scanned the directiories and still, I do not have a section called "Default" in my Smart Content.

About exporting user data, I remmeber doing that once before I downloaded 4.9 beta.

fixmypcmike

The label "Default" won't show unless there are non-Default categories to show.

cm152335

Toyen said:

I scanned the directiories and still, I do not have a section called "Default" in my Smart Content.

About exporting user data, I remmeber doing that once before I downloaded 4.9 beta.

imagine, we don't have "smart content" where are those user saved scenes ?

in main library content library "scene"

on "smart content"  we have "DEFAULT/UNASSIGNED