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Quoted for agreement. Think about it, the more complex a "storage" methodology is the more prone to breakage it becomes. Was thinking about testing out the new version. Now... nope.
It could be argued that storing everything in self contained folders is actually a much simpler method; it'll certainly make manually removing the files of only one product much simpler. That said, trying to find texture files (for example if you want to use a different skin on a model and have to navigate to them) via sku with no actual name is really irritating. I'm going to wind up having to make a completely separate textures folder of all the character images I like using.
It could, but I wouldn't bother arguing such.
What Daz 4.9 offers in the way of render speed increase is good; I just can't get used to the smart (it's not - just like smart phones and tvs aren't) content. I find it way more work; and a huge time sink for sorting it out.
I use the category system via content library, not smart content, so I won't be using smart either. Nor do I like that Connect content will be organised via SKU making it really annoying to find specific texture files. I think that the new system is more annoying for many end users that actually use the various files, but probably simpler for general basic customers who break things without knowing what they're doing, and this layout is probably simpler from the Daz end, so the "it's more complex" argument doesn't really work, that's all. I still don't personally like it.
I broke a few things when I first started; reinstalled a couple of times; it tought me a lot. :)
Yeh, the catagory system takes a lot of work; I've a relatively paltry 2000 items, and arranging those how I like takes more work than work; I like what I have now.
How is morphs going to work in older figures like V4 and V3 when they are not in the same folder? I have beautiful bends for V4 and M4, How's it suppose to work through the clould and smart interface?
Because techs/programmers are hopelessly addicted to overly complex systems and subroutines, requiring months of strenuous data crunching...It's what they live for!
(Satire, meant for fun)
I do agree that it will not help very much as this is still a hobbiest's medium for the most part, and if you take a look at the majority of the user base, you'll see they aren't working in the industry, not to take away the users who are working in the industry, but they are in the minority.
I do applaud DAZ for trying to go in that direction though, and to be honest they are actually succeeding in some respects, but they're still over complicating a program that their main user base are used to, which we will see how this plays out..Hopefully for the best of both worlds as they get more exposure to the gaming/3D and virtual reality industry..Speaking of which, imagine working in daz studio on your literal desktop via ocular rift!
It doesn't work for V4 or any figure using EXP technology, that was stated in the FAQ. The problem with those is that you need all the morphs in the same folder to compute the list of morph channels, so it can't work with the "one filder per product" paradigm/
V3 would work I think: the list of channels is pre-built in the cr2, all they have to do is to look for the morph itself in the product directory rather than the main Runtime when they inject it.
I don't really understand the seeming enormous resistance to this new iteration of Smart Content. As someone who has routinely had multiple runtimes (10+, maybe?) and often found myself spending more time moving stuff around than actually USING it, I am so on board with this. I got Michael 7 yesterday... there was a time when I would have had to scroll and click all over the place to find the pieces I wanted to try and experiment with, not so yesterday: I just went to Smart Content and with a couple clicks some toggling of the context filter and I was finding and grabbing all the things I wanted. Must admit the Genesis 3 Starter Essentials could have used a little bit more work in the meta data for the wardrobe, but other than that... everything was filed away nicely and easy to find. And I really didn't have to anything extra.
The problem I have is that most of my products don't show up in the smart tab. It's in the product catagory in my Content Library tab and I can install it from there with cloud. For example, I recently bought Drucilla for Lillith 6, but it does not show up in smart tab at all, I first have to find it in my product catagory in the Library Content Tab, install through cloud. Then I right click on the product so it can show up in smart. But it will not stay in the smart tab, it seem that I can only catagorize it through the Content Library tab. Smart tab doesn't work if my stuff isn't seen. And yes, the info tab says that the product has metadata.
Well I don't mind not using V4M4 with DAZ Connect, So if I finally start liking Smart Content Tab (Right now its nothing but a pain) I'd rather use it with Genesis and up going forward. I'm guessing this whole DAZ Connect and Cloud system with be completed with Studio 5.... not sure I'd want it....
I must agree, I find the Smart Content to be a very powerful and useful tool. I have spent a significant amount of time learning all of the ins and outs so I can add all of my content to it. I also feel that more effort is required in ensuring that there is a consistent and uniform meta data format used by the Vendors and/or DAZ.
All that being said, streamlining the process of adding a product to Smart Content would be a very welcome and I strongly believe that everyone would be far more reseptive to the feature if that were the case. Although Generation 4 (V4/M4) cannot directly be added into the process as per the information regarding EXP and morphs, all of the generation 4 clothing, props and accessories can be added to Smart Content and they work very well. I know that is true because I have over 2000 items in my Smart Content for generation 4 & 3 characters.
I just looked through the change log for the Beta, does this mean what I think it does?: 'Fixed drag-n-drop creation of metadata in the Smart Content pane'
Will we be able to drag and drop items into the Smart Content from the somewhere else? If so, where can things be draged from?
I'm Reinstalling 4.9beta now, tho I'm curious why 3DL would be doing this. I tried closing Beta, cleared the cache folder, ans started Beta again, and the same. Very odd I think. There is renders all over the place of what this test chamber floor should look like, lol.
Ah, yep. The reinstall didn't fix it. What is up with the floor in 3DL?
"Very damaged. Zathras can never have anything nice." lol.
ZDG, check the render settings and see if the Max Raytrace Depth is the same between 4.9 and 4.8.
Same, four. Thing is, the color scale cube is not tiled correctly (H 3, V 2), not just the floor. Yet the same exact scene is loading and working fine in Studio 4.8 64bit.
And the view field is absolutely not in Iray, lol.
File a ticket...there was something like that in a much older beta (before 4.8 beta) and was a problem in the build, if I recall.
I can't play around with the beta, not enough drive space to set it up as a parallel option and not going to replace 4.8, yet, so I can't double check for a settings error (but the most obvious one is not the problem).
Will do. Tho I'm really hoping there working on that Ray-caching thing, as that would be really nice.
New build, new thread... 4.9.0.36
-Rob
Got it, I will pause typing the bug report, lol.
I can only speak for myself, but the reason I don't prefer to use it is because it would mean that I would have to rely exclusively on the default settings/online mandate which I don't care to, as I have a horrid ISP, so it's not a question of the new system's functionality as much as it's inflexible customization. I'm sure that it's a brilliant system for automating content management, but it's too inflexible, if we had more flexibility...And yes, you're right about the scrolling, the constant scrolling can be irritating, but from what I've read in these threads in order to replace a texture you have to attempt to find the SKU number of that texture, and just like with steam's save files, it would be too time consuming to try and figure out what SKU 29-3474-77900 is to which and what asset? But for fairness I'm going to give this smart content a whirl and see how it works.
You need to be online once to register the machine, and currently (but not in the future) you have to download Connect content directly to the machine. But you don't need to be online to use your content. You can still use custom categories, but it is apaprently best to have a parallel structure rather than mixing them in with the default Daz categories.
because all files (texture, duf , and dsf etc,)of one product need to be gathered in one product directory and separate from each product, to manage install or up-date, easy by DAZ connect. I think.
the SKU directories ,My DAZ 3D Library\data\cloud\SKUNUMBER, seems new root directory of each product ,,
then is there way to install this version again?
Would it not be possible to have it do SKU-ShortNameHere or something? I know folders have total character limits but as long as no one's making products with ridiculous title names it should be doable? Even that would be better than having nothing but a number to go by.
Thanks for the online clarifacation, that eases my concerns somewhat...
The reason why I'm so anal about custom directories are because of the D/S content directories being strewn all over my C drive, first it's: My (Pointless) Library that was located in the documents, (Per User) then public, and finally buried in the appdata folder, not to mention the content folder having several differing "shader/Materials/Lighting" folders which was also located in several of the libraries folders, I have multiple HDDs so my games/3D progs are located of different drives due to space reserved for my C drive.
I give kudos somewhat for the consolidation, but now I would have to deal with not only the multiple folders strewn accross my drive, but now I have to attempt to hunt for a different texture by going through SKU numbers...That is, if I were to use the default settings, *(In the voice of McCoy,) ****Jim, I'm a Human not an automiton!