wall opened this issue on Jun 06, 2012 ยท 15 posts
wall posted Wed, 06 June 2012 at 11:04 AM
I recently started using Daz Studio 4. Before that, I had only PoserPro. In PoserPro I customized all my directories to where I could find things easily. As an example..I made a directory in all the library folders and named them M4 for Michael 4. Example..Figures/M4......Poses/M4....Textures/M4..etc. This of course didn't agree with the locations in the cr2, the pz2 files etc, but PoserPro had no problem locating the textures for the figures and poses, even tho the locations were changed from what is stated in the cr2 and pz2 files. So now I have PoserPro working like I want, textures easy to locate etc, in case I want to edit any of them in Corel PhotoPaint. But now the nightmare starts. I get Daz Studio 4. I start to really like this program, slowly but surely learning how to do things in it that would be impossible in PoserPro, since PoserPro has no such features. In content manager I point it to my PoserPro folder. All the libraries show up. But when I load a figure, a pose, a prop, etc, I get the 'can't locate' such and such..jpg, etc. So now I have to manually locate the folder where this texture is located, and then it loads that texture. But now it can't find the next texture. So I have to go back and do the same thing again, maybe 10 or 15 more times, if that many textures still have to be located. You have to be kidding me! With Daz Studio being more advanced than PoserPro, why don't they have a feature built in, where you point it to the textures folders in PoserPro for example, and that it also takes into account all the sub folders, like in 3ds Max, so this way the textures can be located, regardless where the cr2 and pz2 files indicate the textures are stored? Maybe I'm missing something here, since I'm pretty new to Daz Studio 4. Maybe there is a feature like this, except I haven't figured out how to do it yet. If it's going to be this big of a hassle to use my Poser libraries in Daz 4, then I have to wonder why I should even bother with it any longer, even tho it's a cool program IMO?