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Lilflame Clothing Missing Smart Content

Depa3DDepa3D Posts: 29
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

Good day,

I went on a spending spree, shame on me, and picked up a lot of Lilflame's clothes for G8.

I installed via DIM and then opened Studio. Then logged into Daz3d from inside Studio to update metadata.

Then when I looked for my new purchases under Smart Content I couldn't find it. With or without a G8 Female figure selected. I turned on and off Filter by Content. Still no luck.

On a whim I looked in Lost and Found. There they are. With no metadata/smart content set up.

Did I do something wrong, or will Daz fix these issues in an update to the clothes? 

I'm not the best at setting up metadata and I bought too much LOL

Tom

Comments

  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,485

    DAZ welcomed several artists from the other place, bringing thousands of products with them. Unfortunately, metadata is a relatively lengthy process, so it was not produced, and I don't think there are any plans to update anything. New releases still get it, but to do that many back-catalog products would take literally man-years of work (okay, maybe one).

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 11,693

    There's a good chance that item is one which was moved from Renderosity.

    Those products usually don't have metadata for smart content as they typically didn't have them at Rendo and there were way too many products moved here for Daz to add metadata to all of them before the move.

     

    Whether or not Daz will progressively add metadata to those products is anyone's guess.

     

  • Depa3DDepa3D Posts: 29

    Thanks,

    Any good tools to assist with this in the store? Or tutorials on easy ways to add the meta data?

    Tom

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 11,693

    Content wizard is a good tool to help you create metadata for a lot of items: https://www.daz3d.com/content-wizard

  • Depa3DDepa3D Posts: 29

    I have that, but I can't figure out how to make it work for stuff that I've installed already. From what I can tell it means I have to download the zips again (due to storage I tell DIM to delete them after install) and then use Content Wizard to "install" it from zip?

    Unless you know of a different way to do it?

    Tom

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 11,693

    Content wizard analyzes the zip to generate the metadata, so yes you would need that.

    But if your files are installed in the standard location you can then tell it to only install the metadata afterwards, no need to reinstall the product files themselves.

  • ElorElor Posts: 1,474

    It's an old video, but when someone shared it a couple of months ago (I think it was @memcneil70) it helped me get my foot in the door when I wanted to learn how to add metadata manually, so maybe you'll find useful too:

  • Depa3DDepa3D Posts: 29

    Thanks! This explained it so well. I'm still having trouble with the materials. But, I will look that specifically up.

  • Depa3DDepa3D Posts: 29

    I figured out what was wrong with the materials. Thanks everyone that helped me here!

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