Howdy.  I've got Poser 2012 and I'm trying to figure out why DSON won't work, and I can't find the G2 materials in Poser.  Poser keeps saying that it can't find the DSON stuff, and I keep downloading and uninstall/install in each of the Poser folders I can find, but no joy so far.  Is there some particular trick to getting the materials in their proper folders?

Good luck

One, do not use the DIM.  Manually download and unzip the folders.  Make a new external runtime.

Install both the Genesis whatever version stater content and the Poser companion files to the same external runtime.

Make sure you move the runtime folder that is inside the content folder of the zip out of the content folder and place it as you would any other external Poser runtime.

If Poser can't locate the textures when you click on them in the material room then they aren't where Poser can find them.  Poser doesn't recognize or look inside the content folder.

Beyond that, it can be a hit or miss proposition.  If you have issues with the DSON, you will have to go to DAZ about them.  SMS will not give tech support for DAZ products.

DIM has always worked for me.  I don't agree advicing against it; it's the quickest way to load content files without carrying over the content folder.

Create 2 new folders, one for your DAZ content, the other for the Poser Companion files.  Link both to your Poser Library (do not move the runtime folder from the DAZ My Library folder.  Poser needs to find that one).  Using DIM, set your preferences to point to the correct folder and decompress the content files.  Poser Companion Files need to cross reference DAZ files through DSON unless you use D3D's DSON Loader.

This link may help:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?message_id=4129784

What VonCroy Said.

I don't install the DSON importer using DIM, but I use it to install all the Genesis content. 

Make sure you are installing the Importer to the Poser program directory...

Just to clarify; is DSON itself working? The first sentence of your original post says DSON isn't working AND you can't find materials.

Do you get the python script warning when you try to use DSON?

Do you have SR3 for PP2012 (because SR2 isn't enough)?

I followed the link from VonCroy and that method works fine.

Finally had time to go back and attempt this again.  Here is what the error box says when it comes up:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:UsersPublicDocumentsPoser Pro 2012RuntimePythonposerScriptsScriptsMenuDSON SupportImporter Preferences....py", line 2, in
import dson;
ImportError: No module named dson

I just uninstalled/reinstalled DSON into the runtime for my Poser 2012, but the silly thing still won't find it.  And no, don't have SR3, sadly.  Is that a requirement?

Thanks for all the help, folks.

Poser Pro  2012 SR3 is the minimum requirement. Anything after that (PP2014 of any SR) will work.

Don't be sad...

http://my.smithmicro.com/poser-pro-2012-updates.html

Quote - I don't install the DSON importer using DIM, but I use it to install all the Genesis content. 

Make sure you are installing the Importer to the Poser program directory...

I do the same.

This really helped me: https://helpdaz.zendesk.com/entries/22997087-DSON-Importer-Basic-Installation-Tips