FranOnTheEdge opened this issue on Feb 08, 2008 · 18 posts
FranOnTheEdge posted Fri, 08 February 2008 at 9:30 AM
Are there any tuts for using Advanced Library with DAZ Studio?
I desperately need to organise all my stuff, but do not know how to do that. I've only just got Advanced Library - and thus do not know how that works either, but I'd been advised to get it... so.
For instance, I just installed the DAZ Artist's Mini Palette, to see what happened.
But nothing happened at all, I can't find the wretched thing.
Can anyone help at all?
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
Incognitas posted Fri, 08 February 2008 at 9:58 AM
I'm sorry to laugh but this what happens to me when I install any of the DS plug ins...I'm left wondering where it is and how to use it and looking for the required info which, when I do find it seems to have been written for someone with a degree in Quantum Physics.
Andrew_C posted Fri, 08 February 2008 at 11:37 AM
Advanced Library? I think you need the DAZ|Studio version of the PRPC (Poser Remote Procedure Call) it's at
http://www.pontari.com/Products/DazStudio/prpc/
there is a thread about it at http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=77154&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=72
beyond that, I have no idea.
djc3p0 posted Fri, 08 February 2008 at 2:05 PM
Quote - Are there any tuts for using Advanced Library with DAZ Studio?
I desperately need to organise all my stuff, but do not know how to do that. I've only just got Advanced Library - and thus do not know how that works either, but I'd been advised to get it... so.
For instance, I just installed the DAZ Artist's Mini Palette, to see what happened.
But nothing happened at all, I can't find the wretched thing.
Can anyone help at all?
Hi Fran,
it would be nice to know what system you are using. Are you on a Mac or Win system??
I'm on Win Xp Pro and install always to my desktop and move the folders, i.e. runtime and readme, manually to C:/program files/ daz/stzudio/content/.
Win ask will ask, that there is a runtime and a readme folder and it should overwrite them, then I answer "yes to all" and it merges them.
On a Mac, you have to move the files manuallly, bc the Mac will overwrite your runtime.
Hope this helps
Bernd
aka djc3p0
LocusSolus posted Fri, 08 February 2008 at 4:33 PM
Hi fran, I'm just a beginner with 3D and D|S and as all beginner I hurried with voracity to download the quite-all free stuff of DAZ's (a hundred packages of any kind) and about 40-50 Platinium $1.99 items. After installing them, that was representing not far from 7500 files of morphs, mats, textures, figures, poses etc...for that reason I let me beeing seduced by the Advance Librairy and the 3D content manager plug-in, wich I bought and installed.
After an hour of vain fighting, I threw the sponge, recognized my defeat, and gave to the winner a place of honour in a chest in a cave in a dungeon in a castel in my 99% full hard Drive.
Then I took my 99% empty skull in my hands and tried to find a solution. and found it. Now I'm happy. As said Incognitas here above, using plugins could sometimes be damageable for your psychic health. Friendly, LocusSolus.
FranOnTheEdge posted Fri, 08 February 2008 at 6:05 PM
I don't think I understood a single word anybody said.
Except for "what system?" the answer to which is "A PC running Win XP".
It almost seems like Daz is never meant to be understood or useable in any way.
At least in Bryce things are logically organised, and you can do your own organising without a flamin' degree in gobbledegook...
I never in all my born days... shambles off muttering darkly, and wishing I was Riddick.
Say, let's talk about Riddick - I could probably understand that.
Having just watched both Pitch Black and then The Chronicles of Riddick - I'm beginning to wonder what would happen next.
I doubt very much if Riddick would hang around and play at being conquerer, he's more likely to just slip away one night.
Anyway... I'm tired and as the answer seems to be "No, there are no tutorials" however much you guys want to help, I'm just not getting it... so I'm off to bed now, maybe in the morning....
er... daz will have ceased to have ever existed, the sun will be purple, I'll wake up to find that I've been a famous movie director for the last 8 years, and there's an email in my inbox from Jonny Depp wanting to do my next movie project with me...
Hmmmm. Night night all.
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
JackieD posted Fri, 08 February 2008 at 6:46 PM
Um..sorry if this is a bit simplistic but it's easy enough to sort DS out by changing names within DS...ie when I install a product, which might be unhelpfully called something obscure like
!MaciLMZ Red Dress in Figures and in Poses MAT!MaciLMZ
So...I find the product and change it's name..adding the category first followed by a more memorable name....ie if the item is a piece of clothing I rename it CLOTHES Red Dress. Same deal with Pose file...ie CLOTHES Red Dress Mat. I made a bunch of categories..HAIR, CLOTHES, POSES, etc etc..so if I want to find that nice red dress I bought weeks ago in a mad moment but never used I can go straight to CLOTHES and I don't have to rummage around trying to find and match up obscure file names - it's still hanging there waiting for Vick to try on :-)
jestmart posted Fri, 08 February 2008 at 9:35 PM
I believe plug-in scripts have to be installed to the /Studio/ folder not the /content/ folder.
Muffled posted Sat, 16 February 2008 at 5:22 AM
FranOnTheEdge posted Sat, 16 February 2008 at 10:06 AM
Quote - In the DAZ Main directory (like the one above) is a folder named plugins, that's where they go. Hope that helps.
Hey, hang on a minute. None of your stuff is in Program Files. How is that possible?
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
RHaseltine posted Sat, 16 February 2008 at 3:30 PM
You can install to any folder you like, even on another drive.
Incognitas posted Sat, 16 February 2008 at 3:43 PM
Yep I did that on my old PC.Trouble was it took ages for my PC to locate it on my external HD and every time I did an upgrade of Bryce or DS I got two copies of DS, one in Program files and one on my external.
Muffled posted Sat, 16 February 2008 at 7:21 PM
Quote - Yep I did that on my old PC.Trouble was it took ages for my PC to locate it on my external HD and every time I did an upgrade of Bryce or DS I got two copies of DS, one in Program files and one on my external.
Might be true for an external drive, but not on the same comp. At least not on mine.
FranOnTheEdge posted Sat, 16 February 2008 at 9:19 PM
Hmmm, I am thinking of getting a second hard drive for the PC - internal I mean, I already have two external ones.
What size is it Muffled? I was thinking of a 500gig one.
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
Muffled posted Sat, 16 February 2008 at 10:48 PM
Quote - Hmmm, I am thinking of getting a second hard drive for the PC - internal I mean, I already have two external ones.
What size is it Muffled? I was thinking of a 500gig one.
My drive is only 130 gig. So a 500 one should be quite a nice one!
FranOnTheEdge posted Sun, 17 February 2008 at 6:38 AM
Well my current internal hard drive is 500gig, and I'm always afraid of it dying - since the one I was using last November, did die, and this is the new one, so as soon as I have a bit of cash I want another 500gig internal as a safety feature, I already use one of the externals as a back up drive, I feel I want double redundancy...
Fear! fear! big raging fear! Don't wanna go through that again!
Lol...
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
Muffled posted Mon, 18 February 2008 at 1:01 AM
Quote - Well my current internal hard drive is 500gig, and I'm always afraid of it dying - since the one I was using last November, did die, and this is the new one, so as soon as I have a bit of cash I want another 500gig internal as a safety feature, I already use one of the externals as a back up drive, I feel I want double redundancy...
Fear! fear! big raging fear! Don't wanna go through that again!
Lol...
Yeah know what you mean! I used to swear of Seagate drives, only when I upgraded my comp last time(about 9 month ago) a friend of mine who has got far more knowledge in these things than I do, urged me, to go for a Western Digital one.
If Seagate has gone down in reliability or not, I cant say. This friend of mine told me, they did.
But confirm that, I cant!
FranOnTheEdge posted Mon, 18 February 2008 at 5:53 PM
*Jaw drops...
Oh you just had to pile on the fear, didn't you?
One of my externals's a Seagate.... wail!
gibber gibber wail sob
*runs around in circles...
lol.
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)