Tutorial How to Install Content to Daz w/ w/o Install Manager

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To confirm: You have your "my library" set in the DAZ studio, but that actual folder doesn't exist? And you've been trying to put your new files into the "My Daz Connect Library"? Daz Connect is for stuff you get from the DAZ Shop and install through DazCentral, not for manual or DIM installation.

First thing you should do is just make the "My Library" folder if it doesn't exist. Try putting your files into that folder and see if it works.
Also, for DIM, double check that you set it to extract into your My Library folder. On my system, it defaults to "C:/Daz 3D/Applications/Data/DAZ 3D/My DAZ 3D Library" , which is also a default location in DAZ's Content Directory Manager
 
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QuantumVNs said:
shironou89
To confirm: You have your "my library" set in the DAZ studio, but that actual folder doesn't exist? And you've been trying to put your new files into the "My Daz Connect Library"? Daz Connect is for stuff you get from the DAZ Shop and install through DazCentral, not for manual or DIM installation.

First thing you should do is just make the "My Library" folder if it doesn't exist. Try putting your files into that folder and see if it works.
Also, for DIM, double check that you set it to extract into your My Library folder. On my system, it defaults to "C:/Daz 3D/Applications/Data/DAZ 3D/My DAZ 3D Library" , which is also a default location in DAZ's Content Directory Manager
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I created a "my library" file in C/users/myuser/documents/daz 3d/studio/ and extracted the content there but still didn't show up in the application.
 
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shironou89

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QuantumVNs said:
shironou89
To confirm: You have your "my library" set in the DAZ studio, but that actual folder doesn't exist? And you've been trying to put your new files into the "My Daz Connect Library"? Daz Connect is for stuff you get from the DAZ Shop and install through DazCentral, not for manual or DIM installation.

First thing you should do is just make the "My Library" folder if it doesn't exist. Try putting your files into that folder and see if it works.
Also, for DIM, double check that you set it to extract into your My Library folder. On my system, it defaults to "C:/Daz 3D/Applications/Data/DAZ 3D/My DAZ 3D Library" , which is also a default location in DAZ's Content Directory Manager
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I have looked around in the application and I can find the content under "content library" when I search by directory. How do I get them to show up under "smart content"?
 
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shironou89 said:
I created a "my library" file in C/users/myuser/documents/daz 3d/studio/ and extracted the content there but still didn't show up in the application.
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mine was in my is set to C:\Daz 3D\Applications\Data\DAZ 3D\InstallManager\Downloads that is where you put the zips to use install manager. make sure it starts with IM00000 something like that It will only show for Daz Studio Assets too.
 
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shironou89 said:
I have looked around in the application and I can find the content under "content library" when I search by directory. How do I get them to show up under "smart content"?
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Assets installed with DIM (or purchased online and installed with DazCentral) should automatically be shown in the "Smart Content" pane as long as they had metadata associated with them (packages labeled like twiztid mentioned usually do). If you did it manually by extracting a zip file into your "My Library" folder they don't have that metadata and won't be in Smart Content. The only way I know of to get manually extracted assets into "Smart Content" is by going to "Content Library" and creating categories for whatever you want to show up in Smart Contents. It's not easy for me to describe how you do that over text, you can probably find a YouTube or image tutorial to help you out.
 
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QuantumVNs said:
Assets installed with DIM (or purchased online and installed with DazCentral) should automatically be shown in the "Smart Content" pane as long as they had metadata associated with them (packages labeled like twiztid mentioned usually do). If you did it manually by extracting a zip file into your "My Library" folder they don't have that metadata and won't be in Smart Content. The only way I know of to get manually extracted assets into "Smart Content" is by going to "Content Library" and creating categories for whatever you want to show up in Smart Contents. It's not easy for me to describe how you do that over text, you can probably find a YouTube or image tutorial to help you out.
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Or you could try this app to Repack the asset : https://f95zone.to/threads/content-package-assist.8420/
 
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does DIM let you update everything you have installed with it? or does it get the updates only for the things that you have purchased on your account?
 
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ghulsk said:
does DIM let you update everything you have installed with it? or does it get the updates only for the things that you have purchased on your account?
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You can work offline (put a check on the "offline" option) so you can simply put all the stuff you want to be installed in some folder and enter the path to it into DIM options.
 
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youaresoyummy

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I dont know what i did wrong i take FE Short Hair Vol 4 for Genesis 8 and 8.1
from https://f95zone.to/threads/fe-short-hair-vol-4-for-genesis-8-and-8-1.96056/
with SKU: 83155
and Name: FE Short Hair Vol 4 for Genesis 8 and 8.1
extracted it and made an ZIP file with the name
IM00083155-01_FEShortHairVol4forGenesis8and 8.1
and took it in the folder for the DIM but DIM dont find the ZIP in the folder.
So what did i wrong?
 
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Just wondering. Its been years since I used DAZ Studio, since before they introduced the Install Manager and now DAZ Central.
If I want to use content from 3rd party websites like Renderosity, legacy Poser content and maybe stuff from "unofficial" sources, would I be right in saying its better to use the download & install version of DAZ Studio rather than the version you install from DAZ Central?
 
Dukez

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Is there links to this download manager since they changed over to the central thing these days?
 
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Stringy Bob said:
There should be a link on this page
You must be registered to see the links
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Weird, before you had to login and the download link would disappear afterwards even after refreshes etc. Now it's there after logging in and I could download it. Well, at least I got it this time lol
 
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OMG thank you for this, it is so much fucking easier once you do it like this instead of trying to manually do all of this stuff. life saver.
 
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Not sure if anyone posted this anywhere in the forums, but if you're having issues with DIM when installing DIM files you can pretty much just drop the contents of the folder Content in your "My DAZ 3D Library" and then go to Content Library -> Content DB Maintenance -> Re-Import Metadata. Worked like a charm for me

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volente

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Excuse me, is it possible to upload the DIM somewhere? I can't access daz3d.com, error code 1020.
 
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