Can't install DAZ Studio Photoshop Bridge on Windows

Jay Versluis

Hello folks,

I've seen many posts about the Photoshop Bridge causing some issues. I have it running on my Mac with the latest Photoshop CC 2014 and it's working fine to exchange textures. I can't live without it. Now I'm trying to install it on my other system which runs Windows 8.1 and I'm stuck. Let me explain what's happening:

Installation via DIM
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I've given the installation manager the correct path to Photoshop CC. When I try to install the bridge however I get the error message that "a path to Photoshop CS6 or CS5 must be set". Even though there is an option for CC, which I have set, it's not enough for the installation manager (see screenshot).

So I'm cheating by adding a path to Photoshop CS6, pointing it to Photoshop CC in addition. When I do that, the installation completes fine, and I can see the menu item under File - Automate - DAZ Studio 3D Bridge. Selecting it however doesn't work, resulting in the error "Could not complete the DAZ Studio Bridge command because of a program error" (see screenshot).

I've tried several variations on this theme: remove the path to CC and only leave the one to CS6, remove both and add a path for CS5, and a path to CC again - all to no avail.

Manual Installation
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When I download the bridge installer manually and execute it, I get a very different error: "The installation path to DAZ Studio could not be found. Setup will now quit". Even though DAZ Studio is installed in its default location C:/Program Files/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4.

How does the manual installer determine the location of DAZ Studio? Is there an ini file I can tweak somewhere? What's the recommended way to install the bridge? Is this working for anyone on Windows?

I'm using the following versions:
- Windows 8.1, 64 bit
- DAZ Studio 4.6.3.52 Pro, 64 bit
- Photoshop CC 2014 (2014.2.1, 64 bit)
- DAZ Studio Bridge 1.3.3.52

Chohole

I believe they are still working on getting the bridge working with the CC versions of PS. It works on the Mac so far, but not yet on windows, so will probably not be added to an update till they have it working on both platforms.

Jay Versluis

Understood, thank you chohole.