Just been over for a bit of a browse in the store. So slow at the moment, went to Clothing-accesories-dresses&clubwear, 1st page loaded slower than usual but not too bad, but, page 3 was 4 mins and counting, logged out and tried again same deal. Hope it's just an air lock in the system.

Cheers

GG

WHO said Kiwi's can't Fly ?????

The store and forums are still in work, so I think we just need to be patient and give them some time :)

Cheers,
Alisa

RETIRED HiveWire 3D QAV Director

...this was supposed to be up and running three days ago.  Even the old forums are inccessable.

 

...I need my Daily Daz Forums fix, I'm really jonseing here. :bored:

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lol kyoto_kid daz never moves at expected speed you should know this by now. just think about the ppk that rely on their old bookmarks, they are prolly thinkin daz went under

Quote - ...this was supposed to be up and running three days ago.  Even the old forums are inccessable.

 

...I need my Daily Daz Forums fix, I'm really jonseing here. :bored:

I agree. A while back, one of the largest model railroad forums did a software update that was only supposed to take a few minutes. The forum was down for days. As software gets more complicated, this will probably happen more often. It will be back, eventually.

DAZ just tries to make everyone happy....right now with the store and site changing over to a new format, they are making all the trolls happy. The people who come out to post all their crap about how bad daz is and how this is proof of how bad things are.

Nothing makes these people happier it seems. Look at all the posts by the known trolls lately, they are happy as pigs rolling around in their own crap LOL

 

But yeah...anyone who has ever worked on major websites knows that changeovers will take time to work the bugs out. I know daz staff have been working late hours trying to get things done. There is not much more anyone can do, but wait till they get it done. It takes man-hours to do and there are only so many hours in a day.

It sucks for me as well...because I have a new product release, so when the site isnt working well...it makes it hard to sell. So I have to be as patient as everyone else, and hope its going to be running soon.

 

So right now we can let thr trolls have their fun and and enjoy these times. They need to have fun too. Because it must be very frustrating for them to bang their heads against the wall trying to show how bad daz is doing, and their head banging is not causing any problems as daz just keeps growing. That would be very frustrating I am sure. So now they can have a little bit of fun and release some of their pent up tensions LOL

 

Rawn

Kyoto Kid said

Quote - ...this was supposed to be up and running three days ago.  Even the old forums are inccessable.

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...I need my Daily Daz Forums fix, I'm really jonseing here. :bored:

 

The old forums are accessible, in Read Only Format.      http://forumarchive.daz3d.com/

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

Thankyou for the archive link.

You're welcome, glad I could help :biggrin:

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

Quote - DAZ just tries to make everyone happy....right now with the store and site changing over to a new format, they are making all the trolls happy. The people who come out to post all their crap about how bad daz is and how this is proof of how bad things are. Nothing makes these people happier it seems. Look at all the posts by the known trolls lately, they are happy as pigs rolling around in their own crap LOL . . . 

. . . the problem wasn't that there were still bugs in the food. The problem was the customers bringing up the problem. Their complaints were causing the problem. If they would just be quiet and eat, like nice customers, everything would be fine . . .

˙ʇɥƃıs ɟo ʇno ʇsnɾ `ɹoɹɹıɯ ǝɥʇ ɟo ǝpıs ɹǝɥʇO

Before this goes any further regarding daz's new sites & trolls.. please look at the post made regarding posts about Daz site changes. Thanks guys :)

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-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Quote - The old forums are accessible, in Read Only Format.      http://forumarchive.daz3d.com/

Thanks for reposting this, Cho, since the other thread where Richard had posted it got deleted.  In case anyone asks, you don't seem to be able to access threads/forums that are member-only, which makes sense because you'd need to log in to read those and you can't log in at the old site.  Hopefully they'll eventually find a way to allow members to access the old member threads, too.  I'm sure that's not a priority right now.

Cheers,
Alisa

RETIRED HiveWire 3D QAV Director

Quote - Before this goes any further regarding daz's new sites & trolls.. please look at the post made regarding posts about Daz site changes. Thanks guys :)

 

 

Sorry Kimberly...was just joking around. No harm intended.

 

Rawn

Alisa said

Quote - Thanks for reposting this, Cho, since the other thread where Richard had posted it got deleted.  In case anyone asks, you don't seem to be able to access threads/forums that are member-only, which makes sense because you'd need to log in to read those and you can't log in at the old site.  Hopefully they'll eventually find a way to allow members to access the old member threads, too.  I'm sure that's not a priority right now.

Yes, we did know about that problem, and yes they will work on it, once the other quirks and bugs have been ironed out.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

Cho or Richard?

If you're in contact with TPB at DAZ could you get someone to kick the machine that spits out Gift Card codes?

I know, I know.. I shouldn't have gotten creative with purchases  but regular downloads were working fine! LOL

Thanks!

"Own the Day"

*Live*Laugh*Love*Dream*Believe*

DS user since the first alpha :)

Poser user through P5

Quote - Alisa said > Quote - Thanks for reposting this, Cho, since the other thread where Richard had posted it got deleted.  In case anyone asks, you don't seem to be able to access threads/forums that are member-only, which makes sense because you'd need to log in to read those and you can't log in at the old site.  Hopefully they'll eventually find a way to allow members to access the old member threads, too.  I'm sure that's not a priority right now.

Yes, we did know about that problem, and yes they will work on it, once the other quirks and bugs have been ironed out.

 

Thanks!  I'm in the process of just moving a very small forum and site to another server and can't even imagine all the issues that are having to be dealt with given the magnitude of this change!

Cheers,
Alisa

RETIRED HiveWire 3D QAV Director

Quote - Cho or Richard?

If you're in contact with TPB at DAZ could you get someone to kick the machine that spits out Gift Card codes?

I know, I know.. I shouldn't have gotten creative with purchases  but regular downloads were working fine! LOL

Thanks!

I'm in the same boat - not getting GC codes (or sales confirmations) though other people are. The machine was kicked and sent another copy of my GC code, which still didn't come. I'd suggest, to anyone who hasn't yet tested this with a full purchase, that if you want to get a GC you try a $1 one first and buy a full value one only if that works. I have added this to the list I sent to DAZ, but it does seem to be patchy so it may be that they need to figure out why more emails are being caught in spam traps all of a sudden. If you aren't getting GCs, please PM me the email address you use for the DAZ store - that way it may be possible to spot a common element.

Quote - Kyoto Kid said > Quote - ...this was supposed to be up and running three days ago.  Even the old forums are inccessable.

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...I need my Daily Daz Forums fix, I'm really jonseing here. :bored:

 

The old forums are accessible, in Read Only Format.      http://forumarchive.daz3d.com/

...thank you. Bookmarked for now.

At first tried the eamil links, and nada. Wasn't sure if the old forum was down as well due to archiving.  When I archived my forum reminder emails from only the last four and a half years, there were over 15,000 files.  I can only imagine how much nine years of posts and images would take up.

While I never worked in web development I was involved in multi-media (CD ROM based) development and programming back in the old usenet days. I do understand, especially considering the company I worked for at the time was sailing in uncharted waters so to say, that best laid plans can often go awry or just take longer than expected to implement. 

Considering that other forum sites don't always have a store (which needs to protect it's customers account information) galleries, and support pages associated with them it makes sense why this would take a bit longer. 

Having a much improved website in the end wil be worth it.

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Quote - > Quote - Cho or Richard? If you're in contact with TPB at DAZ could you get someone to kick the machine that spits out Gift Card codes?  I know, I know.. I shouldn't have gotten creative with purchases  but regular downloads were working fine! LOL  Thanks!

I'm in the same boat - not getting GC codes (or sales confirmations) though other people are. The machine was kicked and sent another copy of my GC code, which still didn't come. I'd suggest, to anyone who hasn't yet tested this with a full purchase, that if you want to get a GC you try a $1 one first and buy a full value one only if that works. I have added this to the list I sent to DAZ, but it does seem to be patchy so it may be that they need to figure out why more emails are being caught in spam traps all of a sudden. If you aren't getting GCs, please PM me the email address you use for the DAZ store - that way it may be possible to spot a common element.

I (you might recall from the now-missing thread) bought myself an $80 gift card -- just checked my email and my spam-filter, still not there.  But there's nothing critical I needed to buy with it until the PC items go up, so no big rush.

˙ʇɥƃıs ɟo ʇno ʇsnɾ `ɹoɹɹıɯ ǝɥʇ ɟo ǝpıs ɹǝɥʇO

OK, have just had a quick check in at  Daz, forums are still not up but the store is lightning fast. Added a few things to my wishlist.

Slightly OT,  but just a small query .    Where it says "compatible software" does that mean the item will only work with that software? I listed a V4 hair item which is perfect for my needs but it only mentions Carrara in the software. I use DS and Bryce.

Cheers

GG

 

WHO said Kiwi's can't Fly ?????

Thanks for checking Richard :) PM sent your way.

(Gee.. kicking usually works around here! Machines, husbands, the whole lot  LOLOL)

"Own the Day"

*Live*Laugh*Love*Dream*Believe*

DS user since the first alpha :)

Poser user through P5

Thanks for putting some of the pertinent info back up in this thread from the one that went POOF chohole.

 

And, to add another thing Richard said regarding viewing pictures on the archived forums:

 

Copy the pictures url and paste into a new tab, but add the "archive" after "forum" in the address header (the same as chohole has shown above), and you will be able to view the picture you want.

 

Very good if you are reviewing a tutorial archived in the old forums.

 

*EDIT:  Forgot to add:  Also, like I said in the now defunct thread, if you have hundreds of direct links bookmarked to certain pages, and just want to go directly to those pages, add archive to the address header, and you are golden.  Thanks again Richard for your original help with this.

Take care all...

Ken

"I listed a V4 hair item which is perfect for my needs but it only mentions Carrara in the software. I use DS and Bryce."

 

Wich hair is it? If it is dynamic hair for carrara, it will only work in carrara.

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OK, mea culpa time - I had tried buying a $1 GC for Ann and I thought she had received it, but apparently not. So as far as we know GC purchases at the moment are simply not working. The orders are, however , being logged so this should be correctable. I'd still be interested in knowing email addresses and whether or not you are receiving order confirmations, as those seem to be very iffy on the new store.

I posted this on the thread about funny requirements, but seems relevant here:

Quote - Something else I've noticed is that I seem to be getting someone else's wishlist in the store view (such as here if you are logged in). Also, yesterday it had a link "Not <some guy's name>?" at the top, like I was logged into someone else's account, and it had his (huge) wishlist on the page. Fortunately when I went to my account details it was my account. I also bought my order twice (luckily only about $7) because the final page of the order confirmation didn't come up, and I didn't get an email. Of course, like an idiot, I went through the order again. Still no order confirmation but some time later I got two emails and the order was in my downloads twice. Zendesk isn't working so I can't report this, but it's not a huge deal—I can wait.

The notification emails didn't take that long (afraid I can't remember) but longer than usual. (I should have known better than to try the order again.)

Woops...

 

Think I spoke to soon (wish the other thread was still available to read for info).

 

Richard,

How do you get the pictures to work again?

Where do you add the "archive" at?  There is no address header.

 

Please show where for example on this pic address in one of the Triax Rigging thread:

 

Thank you...

Ken

...so are there now time limits on the weekly freebie downloads? 

I picked up Faveral's Ultralight when it was the freebie of the week but couldn't DL it from home.  When I went to my local hotspot to DL it I received the following error message:

Sorry, there was an error getting requested content. Please contact store owner.

...and took up one DL attempt.

It still shows on the order and my Downloadable Products list with a 0:00$ cost.  It hasn't been pulled form the store either.

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[Intel Xeon 5660 Hyperthreading 6 core CPU, 24GB GSkill Ripjaws 1333 DDR3 Tri Channel RAM, Nvidia Titan-X GPU with 12GB GDDR5 & 3072 cores, 1 x AData 240 GB SSD (boot) + 1 x 2TB HDD, EGVA 850 G5 PSU Antec P-193 with more fans than Justin Bieber.]

Quote - Woops...

 

Think I spoke to soon (wish the other thread was still available to read for info).

 

Richard,

How do you get the pictures to work again?

Where do you add the "archive" at?  There is no address header.

 

Please show where for example on this pic address in one of the Triax Rigging thread:

 

Thank you...

Ken

 

After the forward slash on the link I gave earlier add the postimages/origimage_1_3379470.jpg

 

So the link becomes

forumarchive.daz3d.com/postimages/origimage_1_3379470.jpg

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

Thank you chohole.  That's perfect.

 

I was going about it all wrong, and all the forum address varibles I tried failed.

 

Thanks again...

Ken

You're welcome

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

Yeah, I am getting someone else's wishlist also.  I don't know what else was being mis-linked so I went through & deleted all of my CC info.

Next time, I hope DAZ is smart enough to outsource this, it is pretty obvious that their tech folks are simply not up to the mission.  I doubt they will learn from this, however.  Introspection doesn't appear to be one of their strong suits.

Oh dear, some people are so paranoid, you are getting some sort of left over cookie show up is all, as soon as you click it requires you to login, so no information is disclosed apart from the fact that the last person to login had X number of items in their wish lists.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

I personally love Daz, I just hope that the bugs are worked out soon, I'm anxious to download the outfit I purchased 5 days ago.

Quote - OK, mea culpa time - I had tried buying a $1 GC for Ann and I thought she had received it, but apparently not. So as far as we know GC purchases at the moment are simply not working. The orders are, however , being logged so this should be correctable. I'd still be interested in knowing email addresses and whether or not you are receiving order confirmations, as those seem to be very iffy on the new store.

I bought all three $1 deals shortly after they showed up in the store and paid with a CC with no problems.  The purchases were added to my Available Downloads and the confirmation emails (with download links!) showed up just as quickly as they did in the old store.

I want some more of those $1 deals so I can practice some more shopping :-)

I paid with PayPal and I keep getting a message saying pending authorization and I know that the transaction on PayPal went through as I got a confirmation email from them.  A lot of times I'd rather pay cash for something rather than running up my credit card further.  I won't buy anything else until I can get this matter resolved.

Thanks Chohole for the link to the old forums. Would someone know how to search them?

Cheers

Don't get the DS 4.5 Beta, if you Wanted/Got the DS4-Pro give-away. It says right in the review that the OLD PLUGINS WON'T WORK! Not a bad business idea, give away the out-dated old to try and sell the new, but for now I'm firewalling DS4Pro from updating. Genesis is and DS4Pro is Awesome, Way better than all the V3,V4 and compatible put together. I can Remap UV's, Make my own morphs with Sculptris and FaceGen, Paint MY OWN textures in Sculptris, Make Any Clothes I want, and even Export to UDK with animation!! ..... Damn Right you need to shut it down and delete all my posts DAZ, You allready gave away all the Goodies !!!!

I agree, you shouldn't install the Release Candidate, unless you're prepared for what can happen.

I've never had Daz 4 try to update itself. If DS4 tries to access the internet, Zone Alarm will ask me and I'll tell it no, so I'm not worried, myself. I don't install Release Candidates of anything, if I've got a functional Full Release installed. I'm not that curious. (And the real release will come out before I know it).

(I might've told Studio not to check for updates, on the first install, and it stuck. I don't remember).

All I ever get is Zone alarm mis-identifying CMS's loopback, on the net card, as "The Internet", but it's never tried to "phone home", either. (I check the logs).

If this is the same as all of Daz Studios other updates, have no fear about Daz Studio Pro 4 auto updating.  Every Daz Studio update to date has been a new installation, not a patch--so essentially you have to uninstall the old version and install the new one as a new installation--it should pick up on your content and preferences when you start a new version up--but as stated above other things may not work.  NO Betas for me, I'll ust sit back and use the version of Daz Studio 4 Pro I have.  This version of DS, for meanyhow, has been the most stable one I've had to date.

My solution to not having plug-ins work with later versions is not to buy any.  I do hope that Studio does stabilize in the future and that newer versions will have backward compatibility with older plug-ins and content.  One thing I've always admired about Poser is that it has excellent content backward compatibility--I just had a a few based items that were not upgraded and are now essentially unuseable.

@elele.

 Thanks for the reply, went back and checked, yes it is dynamic and waaaaay at the bottom of the whats included list it says " product requires Carrara 7+". Think I need to go shopping again.

Cheers

GG

WHO said Kiwi's can't Fly ?????

"Don't get the DS 4.5 Beta, if you Wanted/Got the DS4-Pro give-away."

There is no charge for the 4.5 update and I strongly suspect that before long (if not already) the free version that people receive will be 4.5.

"It says right in the review that the OLD PLUGINS WON'T WORK! "

Till they are recompiled to work with the new SDK. DAZ will update all of the plugin's it owns and most other people will as well. It is unlikely anyone will charge for those upgrades. It is doubtful however that plug in's not updated to version 4 will be. Though since the SDK has not be finalized till now some may be.

"Not a bad business idea, give away the out-dated old to try and sell the new,"

The new will be free as far as anyone knows.

"but for now I'm firewalling DS4Pro from updating. "

That feature is not functional at this time anyway.

www.Calida3d.com
Daz studio and Poser content creators

Quote - Don't get the DS 4.5 Beta, if you Wanted/Got the DS4-Pro give-away. It says right in the review that the OLD PLUGINS WON'T WORK!

Some really nice new features in DS 4.5 RC. If you don't use the plugins too much it is really worth trying. Quicker UI, better file format, better database management and then brand new functions such as Node instances and Geometry shell. If you are no DAZ techie wait for the full release though as you won't need these things immediately.

I'm just a casual user, I don't need those new features except for the fast interface--so to me it's worth waiting until the  official version comes out of Beta.  I'm still hoping for better backward compatibility with geometry switchin fixed, but I'm not holding my breath.  Can someone with 4.5 try loading up M2 and let us know if geometry switching and his morph dials are working again?

Quote - OK, mea culpa time - I had tried buying a $1 GC for Ann and I thought she had received it, but apparently not. So as far as we know GC purchases at the moment are simply not working. The orders are, however , being logged so this should be correctable. I'd still be interested in knowing email addresses and whether or not you are receiving order confirmations, as those seem to be very iffy on the new store.

Richard

I haven't purchased a gift certificate in the new store, but the problem may precede the change. My ISP is Comcast and I never got the confirmation and number of a GC  I purchased a week before the change. I only got it through cust support.

I'm also not receiving confirmations of purchases at the new store--which would be a new problem since my Comcast account received them before.

FYI and HTH

Spit

I figure that the working suspicion is that emails are getting eaten by some servers.

But, just in case you need an anecdotal "Yes its one of those not-everyone issues. (The worst kind)".

I placed 2 orders in the new store, and got both email confirmations. At Yahoo, that notorious email delayer & spam-box-er.

I've been receiving instant alerts and I  have comcast. 

Quote - ...so are there now time limits on the weekly freebie downloads? 

I picked up Faveral's Ultralight when it was the freebie of the week but couldn't DL it from home.  When I went to my local hotspot to DL it I received the following error message:

Sorry, there was an error getting requested content. Please contact store owner.

...and took up one DL attempt.

It still shows on the order and my Downloadable Products list with a 0:00$ cost.  It hasn't been pulled form the store either.

I'm having the same problem. I "bought" it on Sat. but can't download it. I bought an item on sale at the same time, and was able to download it with no problem. Must be some sort of new store glich. Every failed attempt counts against my downloads as well, I'll probably wait a couple of days and try it again.

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My Rendo Gallery ........ My DAZ3D Gallery ........... My DA Gallery ......

I wanted to play with my Reniassance Outfit, but I can't download it either.  I saw the retro 60s dining room and want that, but I'm afraid I won't be able to download it if I purchase it.

Quote - Thanks for putting some of the pertinent info back up in this thread from the one that went POOF chohole.

 

And, to add another thing Richard said regarding viewing pictures on the archived forums:

 

Copy the pictures url and paste into a new tab, but add the "archive" after "forum" in the address header (the same as chohole has shown above), and you will be able to view the picture you want.

 

Very good if you are reviewing a tutorial archived in the old forums.

 

*EDIT:  Forgot to add:  Also, like I said in the now defunct thread, if you have hundreds of direct links bookmarked to certain pages, and just want to go directly to those pages, add archive to the address header, and you are golden.  Thanks again Richard for your original help with this.

Take care all...

Ken

 

Thanks for the info on archive..... So the thread I was participating in called "I want a Fuzzy" is below!

http://forumarchive.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=186569&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

BUT, not understanding how to get the pictures to show?  Example:

Where does one input the archive there?

Thanks again!  :biggrin:

Richard

---Wolff On The Prowl---

My Store is HERE

My Freebies are HERE  

Like this I think:

http://forumarchive.daz3d.com/postimages/origimage_1_3369414.jpg

I bought a GC for myself, when I bought the Dinette. Still haven't got the code for the GC. Tried emailing the sales address that came with the order confirmation, but that bounced.

I'm locked out of the Daz site completely. It won't accept my password and the reset password mail never arrives. The 'contact' button just gets a 404 page so I've sent a message to Daz tech at the address they had before. Now hoping that works.

I know that changes are hard work. I have to manage such things on a site myself and there's plent of fire-fighting. However, unable to log in I'm completely in the dark.

Jane

Quote - I bought a GC for myself, when I bought the Dinette. Still haven't got the code for the GC. Tried emailing the sales address that came with the order confirmation, but that bounced.

 

waves at Risi  

Quote - waves at Risi  

 

waves back

Quote - I'm locked out of the Daz site completely.

 

I'm having the same problem.

This is what I am getting when I attempt to log in:

There has been an error processing your request

Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons.

Error log record number: 399947795492

They must've pulled it down to do some updates. It the same in Firefox and IE.

I get the little green goofy alien.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

Quote - I get the little green goofy alien.

That's what I just got -- yay!  They're working on it!

˙ʇɥƃıs ɟo ʇno ʇsnɾ `ɹoɹɹıɯ ǝɥʇ ɟo ǝpıs ɹǝɥʇO

Huh, weird...

I (you guessed it) refreshed my long-ignored account page, which brought me to the login, of course... hit the button and it logged me in.

 

So I decided to do the definitive test. Logged out -  " {Site Down} " (The one with the grapic of the green, buck-toothed 3DU toon character).

Edit: I must type really slow...

Edit: The archived forum is still accessable, FWIW.

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I get the same Alien.. and I agree with BethQQQ!!!

 

Quote -   The old forums are accessible, in Read Only Format.      http://forumarchive.daz3d.com/

Thank you so much, i had no idea that the address had changed, fortunately i dont have many book marks to change :)

I agree - I'd rather see the site down - I think it will result in far less freaking out by everyone while things are being worked on

Cheers,
Alisa

RETIRED HiveWire 3D QAV Director

Quote - The old forums are accessible, in Read Only Format.      http://forumarchive.daz3d.com/

Oh hey thanks. Now I can access the geo-graft tutorial and hammer out some stuff. I was looking for the forum archive but failed my Search roll...

I is mildly sad, though. My purchase (60s kitchen + Ren outfit) is still pending, even if the other purchase (Aidan + some 1.99 stuff) came through just fine. Not in a huge hurry, frankly, I got my hands full with other things, but it'd be nice. I have received confirmation mails, but then again, I run my own server and I have black- and whitelists out of wazoo. FYI: some have reported problems with installing downloaded content from the new store, I have been lucky, I s'pose, mine were perfectly intact.

Also, FYI: I found a cool feature from DS4.5! It has "Add push modifier" right below "Add smoothing modifier"! What it does? Well, apply it to, say, hair or clothes, and then you can manually jiggle the airspace between figure and clothes! AWESOME. So glad I managed to grab it before the site update.

All in all: I truly feel for DAZ Studio, knowing what kind of hell software changes can wreck; my own server upgrade resulted three sleepless nights, four days, and in the end, I solved it with money -- I bought a new NIC since I did not feel like retro-porting a NIC driver from an older system and fighting it some more, since 14 euros solved the problem. (By the way, it works much, much better now with the new NIC -- responses are notably faster. Eff you, NVidia, eff you and your embedded NICs.)

Now, hugs and kisses to everyone, users and DAZ people alike. This will get better. It may have a worse dip somewhere still, but it'll get better.

Looks like the site is back now, but I'm still locked out. If they don't reply soon maybe I should create a new account and try to get help from there.

Jane

HAve you tried closing your browser, emptying your cach and history and then rebooting your browser.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

A THOUGHT!

Maybe now is the time for all of us to actually use the software we've already purchased :D

 

Barb

Quote - A THOUGHT!

Maybe now is the time for all of us to actually use the software we've already purchased :D

 

Barb

 

::waves to Barb::

Good idea. But I just closed DAZ4.5 after playing with instancing for a couple of hours. Need a break :)

Quote - you are getting some sort of left over cookie show up is all,

Hmm, could this be the cause of the weird behaviour I was seeing? Whenever I clicked from one page to another — it apparently didn't matter which, whether inside or outside the account pages —

• I didn't know whether the new page would show me as logged in or not;
• Whether or not I was logged in on the previous page;
• The cart and wishlist count didn't change at the top of the page, even if I'd just come from adding or removing stuff from the cart or wishlist and seeing the item count and total price change properly;
• I never knew whether or not the top page links for account, login or logout would show, even if I was clicking back and forth between the same two pages.

Some of this went away (or at least became consistent) if I did a hard refresh on every page, which seems to mesh with what someone said about a caching problem. Honestly, though, I don't think I've seen a site misbehave like this since before I switched from IE4 to the Firefox prerelease beta.

Lots more to say about things that IMHO need to be tweaked/changed/killed with fire, but that can wait until after we're all settled in on the new forums. Hopefully ess ooo ooo en...  :unsure:

Hi Cho,

I've cleaned everything out, including all cookies. The problem started when the new site decided my password was too short and refused to let me in. I should be able to reset the password but the reset mail is not coming through.

I'm going through, adjusting filter settings on the mail account in case the reset mail is being mistaken for spam - I've had that before trying to register two different forums. As a back up I've created a new email address to register again and take things from there.

Jane

Hey RAM, access them how MJ_Vivianight (and chohole a couple posts down from my original) posted (but, you probably know this by now).

 

I have to second Skiriki's thoughts on version 4.5, and like him/her I was lucky (more like had the foresight) to grab all my downloads before the site went black.  And, thank you Skiriki for illustrating how that function works.  I will have to give it a play.

 

4.5 does have some interesting new additions, and the "Edit" menu now holds some interesting production tools I don't seem to have in 4 Pro.  Also, they have included "Darkside" UI by default (no need to istall).  I never installed it in 4 Pro, so it was nice to check it out.  I think I'll keep it set to Darkside.

 

Take care all...

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So many issues and problems fix it first and I would love to see some constraints and ik/fk rigging on models too.

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jb11said > Quote - Hi Cho,

I've cleaned everything out, including all cookies. The problem started when the new site decided my password was too short and refused to let me in. I should be able to reset the password but the reset mail is not coming through.

I'm going through, adjusting filter settings on the mail account in case the reset mail is being mistaken for spam - I've had that before trying to register two different forums. As a back up I've created a new email address to register again and take things from there.

 

Can you drop Daz_Ann an email at   aanderson@daz3d.com

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

Thanks Cho,

I've sent her a mail with details. Keeping fingers crossed.

Jane

jb11, my password was too short as well, it seems the new site requires 6 or more characters, I just created a new password and have not had any probs.

Cheers

GG

WHO said Kiwi's can't Fly ?????

Here's a minor tidbit that could stand fixing on the new forum site: Jaderail created a very nice tutorial for new users on installing zip file content into Daz Studio. The new site has a posting of that title with a link to the original article, you guessed it, to the wrong address for the old forum.   

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/47/

It would be really nice if they either copied the original article into the new forum, or fixed the link...

Here are a few oddities from the store: When browsing the store, say you view a product, then use the browser's back button and then go forward again. The list of required products sometimes changes! Also, when using the browser's forward and back buttons in a category, the sort order and criteria do persist (yay!), but sometimes the last item or row of items on one page are replicated on the top of the next page.

See? They should have asked me to beta test this thing before going online. I would have filed at least 20 reports a day. :laugh:

All fixed now. It looks like the reset mails were tumbling into a black hole. Spam filters can get a bit excitable sometimes.

 

Jane

Quote - A THOUGHT!

Maybe now is the time for all of us to actually use the software we've already purchased :D

 

Barb

...already doing just that.  Hope it renders when I'm done. ; )

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Quote - I have to second Skiriki's thoughts on version 4.5, and like him/her I was lucky (more like had the foresight) to grab all my downloads before the site went black.  And, thank you Skiriki for illustrating how that function works.  I will have to give it a play.

(She, yes.  :biggrin:)

I left my system rendering when I went to bed, and when I came back it had done only 8%. Wow. Dreamer wings apparently slow things down for some reason. o_O I think this can mean only one thing... MOAR WINGS. Better ones.

(Hmmm. Spicy chicken wings in RL sounds like a great idea as well.) 

Quote - 4.5 does have some interesting new additions, and the "Edit" menu now holds some interesting production tools I don't seem to have in 4 Pro.  Also, they have included "Darkside" UI by default (no need to istall).  I never installed it in 4 Pro, so it was nice to check it out.  I think I'll keep it set to Darkside.

Oh really? New additions? Darn, I've forgotten to check those, I got so excited about the "add push modifier" that  I forgot to spelunk for everything else.

I'm easily entertained and easily distracted, it seems... 

mediaspongewrote > Quote - *Here's a minor tidbit that could stand fixing on the new forum site: Jaderail created a very nice tutorial for new users on installing zip file content into Daz Studio. The new site has a posting of that title with a link to the original article, you guessed it, to the wrong address for the old forum.   *

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/47/

It would be really nice if they either copied the original article into the new forum, or fixed the link...

Some things were added to the new site before the old site went read only, and so the correct url wasn't available to add to posts like this. At the moment we have as must access as you do to the new forum so cannot correct links.

For the tutorial you speak of, the correct link is

http://forumarchive.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=180932

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

Quote - Here's a minor tidbit that could stand fixing on the new forum site: Jaderail created a very nice tutorial for new users on installing zip file content into Daz Studio. The new site has a posting of that title with a link to the original article, you guessed it, to the wrong address for the old forum.   

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/47/

It would be really nice if they either copied the original article into the new forum, or fixed the link...

Here you go - http://forumarchive.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=180932 any old forum links, just add the word archive after forum and all is well, would have been nice to keep the original forum.daz3d.com domain tho ;)

Quote - Kyoto Kid said > Quote - ...this was supposed to be up and running three days ago.  Even the old forums are inccessable.

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...I need my Daily Daz Forums fix, I'm really jonseing here. :bored:

 

The old forums are accessible, in Read Only Format.      http://forumarchive.daz3d.com/

 

Thanks for the link, Chohole.  I've bookmarked it so I can find it easily.

 

AtticAnne in Austin TX

No probs Anne, at least you can browse back over old threads to while away the time. :bored:

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

Maybe with what is going on over there is the reason my asking for a pasword reset since they changed how you login, and how it has screwed up my auto fill in with Opera's Wand. (Because of all the passwords I have written down I can't find my current Daz Store password.) 

The email I am expecting has not appeared in my email. And yes I do have Thunderbird set to allow any emails from Daz. I cant even access the support section since the page is not there yet. So I am locked out till I get some sort of reply from them.

You know you enjoy 3D Art when you realize that your life is a piece of 3D Art. :)

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DDrop an email to Daz_Ann at aanderson@daz3d.com, she may be able to help you.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

Cool thank you. :) Just not sure why this happening.

You know you enjoy 3D Art when you realize that your life is a piece of 3D Art. :)

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ghosty12

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I mailed her and it worked fine for me. Very helpful.**

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**There is something up with the mailings though. No order confirmation arrived. I set my mail to send everything with no filtering, so it may not be a spam filter doing the dissapearing.

 

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Jane

jb11

Ahh thank you, yeah it is really strange, good to know so to speak that it is not just me having problems with their new site. But this is what happens when major web site changes happen just a real pain though.

You know you enjoy 3D Art when you realize that your life is a piece of 3D Art. :)

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I notice a couple of new goodies have just appeared in the New Releases page. I hope DAZ realises that a lot of people, including me, have no trust in the secure and efficient operation of the store in its current state. I certainly won't buy anything else, or even put anything else into my cart or wishlist, until it's fixed.

So why are they putting up another $1 special (with no closing date — again) at a time when none of us know when the site will be properly operational again? There shouldn't be any more limited-time offers until we know we'll be able to download what we bought. (And yes, my last purchase is still "pending" and the order is tagged as "complete"... and everything I bought is still in my cart.) Both of the new items are things I want to buy anyway, which only adds to the annoyance.

I really feel sorry for the vendors of all the new stuff in the firing line, this must be having a terrible effect on them. Hopefully sales will recover once all the "interesting times" are over.

I just bought one of the two new products. Everything went fine in that I got what I wanted, went through the process, and got the file.

(I haven't tried to install yet. Will do that in a bit)

I did have on problem though. I returned from the product page to click the 'add to cart' button from the main page. The item was the first one on the page. I clicked the button, a message came up saying I had added a different item to the cart. I looked down and sure enough, the two thumbnails had switched positions but it didn't show up until the page refreshed with the 'added to cart notice'.

I simply added the one I wanted, then deleted the one I didn't and continued on.

Heads up. Otherwise the process was much much better than the other day. And once in the cart it was secure pages all the way.

 

I just got the new thingie and some old stuff (Regency for M4).

My PayPal purchase went through, no problem.

Download? No hiccups. Full speed ahoy.

Install for RRTime? No problems.

Install for Regency? No problems.

The error log shows no problems beyond the usual (injectpmd whinge, since I went and updated to 4.5RC1). 

I realize that the plural of anecdote is not "data", but, maybe others could share their experiences of Tuesday and onward purchases?

I still can't get my wishlist (because it chokes the system), but at least the last two purchase bundles have worked to me, with the very first one (which was made as soon as the new site went live) still pending (so 2-1 in success stories), but Ann forwarded my e-mail onward to Customer Service and said they will deal with the pending purchase. 

Quote - I notice a couple of new goodies have just appeared in the New Releases page. I hope DAZ realises that a lot of people, including me, have no trust in the secure and efficient operation of the store in its current state. I certainly won't buy anything else, or even put anything else into my cart or wishlist, until it's fixed.

So why are they putting up another $1 special (with no closing date — again) at a time when none of us know when the site will be properly operational again? There shouldn't be any more limited-time offers until we know we'll be able to download what we bought. (And yes, my last purchase is still "pending" and the order is tagged as "complete"... and everything I bought is still in my cart.) Both of the new items are things I want to buy anyway, which only adds to the annoyance.

I really feel sorry for the vendors of all the new stuff in the firing line, this must be having a terrible effect on them. Hopefully sales will recover once all the "interesting times" are over.

 

Spotted Kitty, have you seen the contact info that Richard has posted on the 2nd page of this thread  

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2849812&page=2

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

For those who may not have received the latest newsletter, the deadlines for the $1 sales are:

Sixties Dinette Set 5/25

Aiden for M5 5/29

R and R Time 6/1

Quote - Spotted Kitty, have you seen the contact info that Richard has posted on the 2nd page of this thread   http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2849812&page=2

Must have missed that post. Got it, thanks. A bit late tonight, I'll fire off an aaaiiieee-mail tomorrow.

I've managed to buy and download a couple of things. All went smoothly. The only negative was that the order confirmation email never arrived.

I mailed 'DAZ-Ann' as she asked for any feedback when sorting out my access problem. They are finding it very useful to identify people with problems so that they can look for things that are in common.

 

Jane

I recieved order confirmations for my two purchases. Kinda slow processing on the order submit page but other than that it's been fine. Not a fan of how I can't see Aiden's texture under smart content materials though, you have to go under character which makes him lonely. Everone else's textures show under materials.

After I submitted my order, it took at least 15 minutes before the order completed ... I stopped watching the spinning cursor after 10 minutes.  I fully expected it to fail (or something worse), and was surprised when I did get an order confirmation email.

I'm hesitant to order anything else ... fortunately, there isn't much being offered to tempt me.

 

I absolutely hate the Itemized Order History.  It's worse than useless with no way to sort by date, order no, or product name.  Default at least should be by newest date first.

Quote - I recieved order confirmations for my two purchases. Kinda slow processing on the order submit page but other than that it's been fine. Not a fan of how I can't see Aiden's texture under smart content materials though, you have to go under character which makes him lonely. Everone else's textures show under materials.

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The Itemised Order History is sorted by product name - it looks odd because there are some items with punctuation (such as quotes) in front of the name and those are shown first. Once you go to the second page the page number is in the URL so it is possible, at least as a work-around for now, to edit that by guessing where you need to be to hit the product name (I have a huge list and didn't find it too time-consuming to get some resets, though it is annoying to have to use even a simple work-around for a limitation).

RHaseltine, I have a question for you

Who was the *&^%# that thought grey text on a grey background was a good idea.?

See attached file

Quote - The Itemised Order History is sorted by product name - it looks odd because there are some items with punctuation (such as quotes) in front of the name and those are shown first. Once you go to the second page the page number is in the URL so it is possible, at least as a work-around for now, to edit that by guessing where you need to be to hit the product name (I have a huge list and didn't find it too time-consuming to get some resets, though it is annoying to have to use even a simple work-around for a limitation).

I found navigating the order history to request a reset initally confusing, but soon realised it was sorted as you described.  I was very impressed that after requesting a reset the item was there in my downloads within seconds.

 

 

 

{waves back]  :)

 

Haven't looked at 4.5 yet .... still practisiing controll Advanced Pro ...

 

Barb

Quote - > Quote - A THOUGHT!

Maybe now is the time for all of us to actually use the software we've already purchased :D

 

Barb

 

::waves to Barb::

Good idea. But I just closed DAZ4.5 after playing with instancing for a couple of hours. Need a break :)

anyone try the instancing stuff? I tried it and I ran into some issues. If I deleted the instance node the instances remained. Anyone know of the right way to get rid of them?

 

I made a few instances of hitomi and things started to slow down so when I tried to delete them. After the instance node itself is gone you can actually select the instances directly to try and delete that way.

I realized it was ordered alpha and that products with numbers or non letter characters appear first.  But, I also used the itemized list to copy the product name, order number, and order date into an excel spreadsheet.  It was easier to do that then to open the order page and copy the relevant bits from different locations on the order page ... especially, when I didn't populate my spreadsheet immediately, so had more than one order to grab.  Unfortunately, that's what I now have to do, and it is rather ... annoying.

Still, what makes the itemized order history most cumbersome is not being able to display the entire list on one page which then allows you to easily use browser Find.

 

As horrendous as the in-house store/forums must have been to maintain, they provided a far better customer experience.  But that is one of the advantages of in-house

Quote - The Itemised Order History is sorted by product name - it looks odd because there are some items with punctuation (such as quotes) in front of the name and those are shown first. Once you go to the second page the page number is in the URL so it is possible, at least as a work-around for now, to edit that by guessing where you need to be to hit the product name (I have a huge list and didn't find it too time-consuming to get some resets, though it is annoying to have to use even a simple work-around for a limitation).

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ssgbryan: Oh, I sooooo agree.  I have a visual impairment and my eyes water trying to read that!!! I left a message about it in "The Commons".

Boni

Boni

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Ok I just got my self Popcorn and Beer.. don't need my TV anymore since I went to visit DAZ today after a While . joining Beth QQQ and all Daz Optimists

Well What a show I go on first page tell ya guys its action , well nothing new since a week so I go to page two then three ... well pretty boring since it is still the same as 5 day's ago, so I decide to go back on first Page .... and woooow new stuff appeared but hell where did the stuff go I saw the first time I enter the Daz New releases , I have to admit the figures well Promos look great at least it is not a frozen Image anymore .. It's Alive ... I naturally Quote kylumi giving me the inspiration with his Dog for extreme situations... back to the Page!!  thinking what news could Daz have on the second page I make my way though to hit the link , oohh boy more new stuff well but the GIS expansion I saw at the beginning disappeared , now where did it go?? .....so after one page after the other no luck! and the New Jeep is also gone ! desperate I search for them. Ok time to restart the browser and start from scratch and jupiii GIS and Jeep are back on front but all the news are gone !!!

there must be a system to all this ... well I mean a mathematical one .... so I do the same as previously ... I solved the Puzzle !!!

I say Popcorn and Beer because I see Newbies creating great sites, Children creating forums and whole working websites with stores
and they do them in a half a day with no glitches,  I even believe that allot of you in here also have experienced how easy 
it is now day's to create a working Website , but a cooperation like daz seems to have more Barking Dogs then Competent Personell

I Just Love Intertainment

Ok where is the Add to cart link ??? 

A new Puzzle !!!

well I just cant wait to see the whole DAZ Crew and hes Dog, on David Letterman's Stupid Human Tricks or Pet tricks Show ( Please Google ), well I Might then spend the money I would of left on Daz Products on all the Popcorn and Beer needed.  

Quote -

Ok where is the Add to cart link ??? 

A new Puzzle !!!

well I just cant wait to see the whole DAZ Crew and hes Dog, on David Letterman's Stupid Human Tricks or Pet tricks Show ( Please Google ), well I Might then spend the money I would of left on Daz Products on all the Popcorn and Beer needed.  

Are you logged in? I have an Add to Cart button on that product.

I just tried it and even without being signed in, the Add to Cart button is there.

Quote - Ok I just got my self Popcorn and Beer.. don't need my TV anymore since I went to visit DAZ today after a While . joining Beth QQQ and all Daz Optimists

Well What a show I go on first page tell ya guys its action , well nothing new since a week so I go to page two then three ... well pretty boring since it is still the same as 5 day's ago, so I decide to go back on first Page .... and woooow new stuff appeared but hell where did the stuff go I saw the first time I enter the Daz New releases , I have to admit the figures well Promos look great at least it is not a frozen Image anymore .. It's Alive ... I naturally Quote kylumi giving me the inspiration with his Dog for extreme situations... back to the Page!!  thinking what news could Daz have on the second page I make my way though to hit the link , oohh boy more new stuff well but the GIS expansion I saw at the beginning disappeared , now where did it go?? .....so after one page after the other no luck! and the New Jeep is also gone ! desperate I search for them. Ok time to restart the browser and start from scratch and jupiii GIS and Jeep are back on front but all the news are gone !!!

there must be a system to all this ... well I mean a mathematical one .... so I do the same as previously ... I solved the Puzzle !!!

I say Popcorn and Beer because I see Newbies creating great sites, Children creating forums and whole working websites with stores
and they do them in a half a day with no glitches,  I even believe that allot of you in here also have experienced how easy 
it is now day's to create a working Website , but a cooperation like daz seems to have more Barking Dogs then Competent Personell

I Just Love Intertainment

 

Nice to see Gate, for me this was a really good read. I know how you feel buddy.

I would be the first to admit that i'm a Daz fanboy....but, the changes are kinda overwhelming [even for me].  I am hoping that with time I will accept it but, it reminds me of those forums you used to get 15 years ago...

But, I understand that changes are being made....... :sleep:

It does not help being devoid of graphical content.....I am sure when that part is corrected it will make a major difference to the experience.

ROFL ......I nearly put GRAPHIC CONTENT.......I bet that would grab someones attentions!!!

Quote - well pretty boring since it is still the same as 5 day's ago, so I decide to go back on first Page .... and woooow new stuff appeared but hell where did the stuff go I saw the first time I enter the Daz New releases ,

At least part of the problem seems to be that the new website somehow manages to push old cached pages at us, instead of assembling a new up-to-date page from the current store database and pushing that. I've been getting into the habit of force-reloading each store page as I look at it, and that does help, but I still get frequent most-recent-musical-chairs and now-you-see-it-now-you-don't sale prices. What a mess...

Ah well, at least I now finally managed to download the stuff I bought last Saturday. Maybe I'll buy more stuff I want to get this weekend.