Unique Setup Issue: DTB_v280-283.zip is missing after DAZ to Blender install

phoenix919

I've got what appears to be a new and unique problem in setting up my DAZ to Blender bridge that, as far as I can tell, no one has yet described.  I've trolled this board up and down but couldn't find the same issue.

My DTB_v280-283.zip file is missing.  And I think possibly my main export object?

Backing up:  I started off with the same problem as everyone else in this post where scripts was missing after installing Daz to Blender from the Install Manager, and thanks to all of you, I managed to resolve that issue (Thank you everyone in https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/424601/can-someone-post-a-new-thread-with-step-by-step-getting-blender-bridge-to-work!)  I got the scripts menu, and succesfully (suppossedly) ran the script and exported the files I needed for my scene I wish to import into Blender... I think.  Some context may be in order:

After doing this I also found the MyDocuments\DTB folder and verified it has an \ENV and \FIG folder after running the scripts, although after watching some tutorials I expected to see at least an fbx or obj file directly in \DTB, though I don't see anything but the folders. (\GEN and \to_blender_morph appeared after I ran the genitals and morph options under scripts|bridges|blender, which I also had but didn't need for my current renders, though I ultimately tried them anyway to see if using them helped.  They did not).  I thought that odd, but I figured maybe that was due to my scene.  Once Blender was setup, I thought maybe there was some way I could try importing the folders directly and see if it works.

But when I went to go setup in Blender (2.90.1), I navigated into C:\Users\<myuser>\Appdata\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\, but cannot for the LIFE of me find this "DAZ 3D AddOns\DTB_v280-283.zip" everyone speaks of!  Neither the folder nor the zip file are there.  Parent folder and subfolders do not have it either.  There are folders for blender versions on my system, 2.79, 2.80, 2.90, and it's not in any of those.  What I DID find was \Blender\2.80\scripts\addons\DTB with a bunch of .py files (17 in all) and an img folder.  (Note: Running the Genitals and Morph Option scripts created a "scripts" folder in 2.9 with an empty subfolder, but that's about it).  

I tried navigating in Blender Preferences to the install button (Edit | Preferences | Add-Ons | Install) to manually point at the folder DTB, but that didn't seem to do anything.  So I wondered if maybe it was already installed, but I could not find the Addon Armature: DAZtoBlender in the Add-Ons section, and the only tool tabs I see in Blender on the right when I click are "Item", "Tool", and "View", indicating it's not installed-but-hidden. (Admittedly I don't know much about Blender, I was hoping this would be a good learning opportunity, thanks to https://youtu.be/TEXzmUSzX30 for the tutorial video) But I'm stuck at this point... I can't figure out what I broke or what to try next.

Not sure what to do without the ability to install this thing, I run a Radeon and really could use rendering via Blender (a 4k single image render took 2 hours in Daz!).  If anyone has any thoughts, I'd love to hear them.  

(Note:  Pretty sure Blender was installed via Steam, doubt that has anything to do with it, but every bit of info helps)

phoenix919

Whelp, not sure what happened, but after a day and a couple blender restarts, I suddenly found that the bridge had been installed in Blender.  Not sure how or why.  

I see the option to import my exported character and my exported environment.  I managed to import the character and environment seperately (though skewed... apparently I've got a lot more studying to do).

Suffice it to say, if you run into this problem, restart blender a couple times and see if that does the trick.  The only other thing I did was tried exporting a different character

Silver Dolphin

Wow, that is a weird fix!!

sonitek4

I have the same problem .no zip file for blender.

Restarting hasn't fixed it. Is there a place to copy the script files? 
Im new to blender but was able to install the face builder add on.

garret95

sonitek4 said:

I have the same problem .no zip file for blender.

Restarting hasn't fixed it. Is there a place to copy the script files? 
Im new to blender but was able to install the face builder add on.

This happened to me too. Try to open DIM > Installed and uninstall DTB. Than reinstall it again. Right after that DazToBlender addon finally appeared in Blender Preferences>add-ons search and after turining it on all there everything started to work.

xxvinal77xx

same issue here - uninstalled, removed files downloaded redownloaded,  DTB_v280-283.zip is missing, and was never downloaded with the package.

 

 

Legend

ditto

esimacio_6de14de8f3

I had the same problem, could not find the DTB zip file, but for some reason the addon have been extracted into C:\Users\esima\appdata\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\BLENDER_VERSION\scripts\addons\DTB

Move these files to C:\Users\esima\appdata\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.91\scripts\addons\DTB

rward_21

EDIT: FOUND A FIX!

1): Go into C:\Users\USERNAME_HERE\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.90\scripts\addons

2)Copy the whole folder 'DTB'

3)Go into C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 2.90\2.90\scripts\addons

4)Paste the folder

5)Start up Blender, then follow the usual process of edit preferences, install, then install it from the same location as step 3. Worth noting I went into the folder and double clicked on __init__.py  and then clicked 'install add-on'. It seemed to have done nothing, then I typed in 'Armature' into the search and bam its there. Working as before.

Tried so many ways but for whatever reason this time it worked. I also restarted Blender a lot just in case, but dont think thats relevant. 

Hope it helps!

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Exact same issue, I've even tried zipping the files into a folder to see if it works.

Interestingly blender 2.83 finds it instantly, but 2.90 wont, very irritating as I dont want to downgrade just for Daz bridge. I've also definitely had it working with 2.90 on my last machine. 

PLEASE any fixes! Thanks 

gtsthrowaway7t

rward_21 said:

EDIT: FOUND A FIX!

1): Go into C:\Users\USERNAME_HERE\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.90\scripts\addons

2)Copy the whole folder 'DTB'

3)Go into C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 2.90\2.90\scripts\addons

4)Paste the folder

5)Start up Blender, then follow the usual process of edit preferences, install, then install it from the same location as step 3. Worth noting I went into the folder and double clicked on __init__.py  and then clicked 'install add-on'. It seemed to have done nothing, then I typed in 'Armature' into the search and bam its there. Working as before.

Tried so many ways but for whatever reason this time it worked. I also restarted Blender a lot just in case, but dont think thats relevant. 

Hope it helps!

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Exact same issue, I've even tried zipping the files into a folder to see if it works.

Interestingly blender 2.83 finds it instantly, but 2.90 wont, very irritating as I dont want to downgrade just for Daz bridge. I've also definitely had it working with 2.90 on my last machine. 

PLEASE any fixes! Thanks 

This worked for me, thank you! Couldn't find any solutions other than this.

vincekiwipom

please can somone upload these files it just will not work i have tried everything and wasted soo much time i just want it to work...
i have the steam version of blender 2.91 i have attempted the fix suggested in this post and uninstalled and reinstalled with daz central and DIM and it never drops that zip it does create a folder called  BLENDER_VERSION in which it drops a DTB folder but it cannot be installed with install addons.

pejeplay1

esimacio_6de14de8f3 said:

I had the same problem, could not find the DTB zip file, but for some reason the addon have been extracted into C:\Users\esima\appdata\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\BLENDER_VERSION\scripts\addons\DTB

Move these files to C:\Users\esima\appdata\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.91\scripts\addons\DTB

 

Thanks that worked for me

Jeanostermeier

rward_21 said:

EDIT: FOUND A FIX!

1): Go into C:\Users\USERNAME_HERE\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.90\scripts\addons

2)Copy the whole folder 'DTB'

3)Go into C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 2.90\2.90\scripts\addons

4)Paste the folder

5)Start up Blender, then follow the usual process of edit preferences, install, then install it from the same location as step 3. Worth noting I went into the folder and double clicked on __init__.py  and then clicked 'install add-on'. It seemed to have done nothing, then I typed in 'Armature' into the search and bam its there. Working as before.

Tried so many ways but for whatever reason this time it worked. I also restarted Blender a lot just in case, but dont think thats relevant. 

Hope it helps!

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Exact same issue, I've even tried zipping the files into a folder to see if it works.

Interestingly blender 2.83 finds it instantly, but 2.90 wont, very irritating as I dont want to downgrade just for Daz bridge. I've also definitely had it working with 2.90 on my last machine. 

PLEASE any fixes! Thanks 

I thought, that it didt worked for me but you have to uncheck the box "enable add-ons only" and search by comunity. I know its a bit stupid, but i though i could help someone with this.  Link to what i mean: https://ibb.co/c15Mpsz