Yes, I do.  I think I should focus my cracks against the program itself, rather than the community.  You guys have been nothing but awesome so far ._.

I've always been more of an active learner, and done best when there's an expert with me, so it's even more frustrating that I follow the tutorial step by step and don't see the stuff happening on my screen that I do in the video, even when I do as instructed.

I can't find my complete system specs, but I'll give you what I have.  My computer is a Gateway GT5408, it's about three years old now.  I have upgraded it a little for the purpose of playing games.  Nothing too extensive, 1 GB of RAM and likewise in a video card.  Probably not the greatest setup, but it lets me play most of my games at good to high settings with no problems.  I run windows vista on this computer.

All right, so, here is the step by step process.  I got sick enough of trying to navigate the database system of DS 3, in addition to failing to get any of the free downloaded content to work.  I uninstalled everything, and started anew from the Daz software website.  I downloaded DS 4, standard, and the base packages for Victoria 4 and Michael 4.  From the download pages, I saw things like the power loader, morph package, and other things for V and M that said they were all listed in the base package, but could be downloaded separately....so I only clicked to download the base packs.

Next, I went to install the new studio.  Everything went fine until it installed something to do with C++, where it hit an error.  It didn't seem to affect the installation, though, as the program finished and opened fine.  After that, I went to install Victoria and Michael, no problems there.  When I opened the new studio, all I saw was the greyscale plain model.  None of the core packages for Genesis showed up on the left hand side of the window under My Stuff, Surfaces, Wardrobe and Props, et cetera, even though I could see the content actually in my hard drive files.  Likewise, V and M were nowhere to be found, not even when I found the database and looked through everything that was loaded up.

I uninstalled everything and tried again, just with the studio program alone.  Now, I did not see any errors at all.  Everything installed and opened again, and now those content tabs were full of stuff, morphs, props, clothing, presets for male/female, etc.  Now, following along with one tutorial video, I was able to build the model exactly as the instructor did, but when it came time to applying different skins (including Genesis' own skin) nothing happened.  I couldn't drag and drop to change anything, and every other way I was told I could load content didn't work.  I tried to play around with the model itself.  I was able to select individual parts, but couldn't do anything with them except change the pose.  I tried loading in the male and child morph presets into the model, and for some reason it created two grayscale humanoid shapes intermeshed with each other, and I couldn't interact with either of them.

And, that brings us to today, with me still confused.

And now, after another three days of trying to unpack downloaded stuff, having to uninstall, reinstall, upgrade to the newest DAZ studio (twice), and still not getting the program to work AS ADVERTISED, I'm about ready to say fuck it to this entire community....

I've checked the manuals, I've watched tutorials, and I cannot for the life of me figure out what, if anything, I'm doing wrong.

Hey guys!

Thanks for all of the advice and a few of the tutorial links.  I've been playing around off and on for the past month, and I'm learning some interesting things about how to work with this program.  I wouldn't really call them artistically inclined, but I've at least rendered two images so far, one by playing with poses, the other playing more with morphing what little content I have.

http://i.imgur.com/CfDk4.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/F93SS.jpg

I'm still trying to figure out things like lighting, cameras and so forth, as well as how to put in new downloaded content.  The free stuff I've downloaded so far won't even extract from the compressed files, but then, I'm not sure I'm supposed to do that...

Quote - Have you got the new Daz 4 because that interface doesn't look anything like the ones in the tutorials, they were made for the older Daz Studio

 

 

Sylvia

The version I have is Daz Studio 3