Marque opened this issue on Jun 25, 2010 · 81 posts
kobaltkween posted Sun, 27 June 2010 at 6:22 PM
Quote - IMO the safest way is to install the DAZ figures in your default runtime and manage them from there, if you want to re-save stuff in other locations later then it's not a problem in my experience.
until you want to upgrade, that is. then it's a big, ol' PITA. one of the SM people posted the other day what i'd always experienced: if you install a lot to your main runtime, it creates problems when you need to switch your main runtime. personally, it took me ages to get my main runtime in order after switching to P7..
i think both camps can share the blame on these issues. as far as i can tell, the version 4 systems need to be installed in the main runtime because (as far as i know) there's no runtime awareness in Poser's Python. so the readScript calls that the files do in the !DAZ folder require what they reference to be in the main Runtime. if ":Runtime:" always meant the runtime the script was in (best solution), or the active runtime (still better than nothing), i'm pretty sure that it wouldn't be an issue.
if there is a good, non-absolute way to refer to external runtimes and i've just missed it (which is completely possible), please correct me. it would make my life a whole lot easier.
on the DAZ side, i just installed the updated V4 to a separate runtime to look at files and see how they work on their own. so far, i can find no trace of why updating V4 was necessary. the V4 cr2 is from 2008. the files within the folders in the !DAZVictoria 4 folder all seem to be from no later than 2008. i can find no trace of Stephanie anywhere. i don't see any trace of any of the add-ons. what they heck does initialization do? if they were open and explicit about what they were doing, it would almost defnitely be easier to troubleshoot.
at the moment, it looks completely unnecessary to update V4 base. the scripts look to certain directories for files, so all you need to do to add a new channels and morphs is add files to the right directories. the original files shouldn't need to change. since i know that's untrue, V4 has some seriously hidden aspects. i mean, i know it's not magic, and these are text files, so i should be able to find some hint of what's going on. but i'm not seeing it right now. which makes me wonder whether this needs to be this complex or not.