Installing, activating, and accessing Daz Studio Premier features

The plug-ins provided as part of Daz Studio Premier need to be installed, like any plug-in, through Install Manager with Daz Studio closed. In DIM pasting

rx::ci::^Premier -

into the filter box at top-right should show the Premier add-ons and allow them to be installed, assuming that you have the Download Filters set to include plug-ins.

Once installed, open Daz Studio and log in to your account (Connect>Login..., for the plug-in/feature activation you do not need to update metadata though you do if you also wish to download the content that is tied to your membership; that does not include the free bundles, which are not tied to remaining a member). You should then be prompted to restart Daz Studio.

Once DS is running you can find the new add-ons in the following locations:

  • Geometry Sculptor shows up in the Tools menu (remember that, like other content creation tools, it disables any GeoGraft's mesh hiding and won't show interpolated hairs for dForce/Strand Based Hair)
  • Pose Converter shows up in Edit>Figure>Pose
  • Shape Transfer shows up in Edit>Figure>Shape
  • DForce Manager shows up in Simulation Settings pane / Manage
  • Render Queue shows up on Render Settings pane / Queue
«1

Comments

  • crosswindcrosswind Posts: 6,844

    Thank you for the guideline !

    Well, it seems that Manfriday sold almost all of his popular stuff to Daz.

  • EboshijaanaEboshijaana Posts: 503

    Okay but... does it ACTUALLY convert G3 figures? Because Manfriday's plug-in didn't do that successfully.

  • cuzabdulcuzabdul Posts: 3
    edited October 8

    What about "Send to Blender"?  Isn't that supposed to be one of the new Premier features?

    I only see the old "Daz to Blender" from 2023.

    Checked again today, and the Install Manager now has an update for "Daz to Blender" which added the "Send to Blender" option.

    All is good.

    Post edited by cuzabdul on
  • Josh P.Josh P. Posts: 49

    You should probably mention in your literature that Shape Transfer is limited to Genesis 3+. I tried to convert a Genesis 2 figure (Belle 6) and Shape Transfer refused to do it.

  • PetraPetra Posts: 1,154

    I can not find any of the above Premier downloads in the Installation Manager and I switched to Premier Membership early this Morning.

    Where would I find it?

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,564

    Petra said:

    I can not find any of the above Premier downloads in the Installation Manager and I switched to Premier Membership early this Morning.

    Where would I find it?

    Does Install Manager show plug-ins generally? Did you enter the filter text from my post?

  • rokkrrokkr Posts: 153

    Does this dForce Manager substitute the dForce Companion plugin? Because I just bought the former during the last PA sale...

  • crosswindcrosswind Posts: 6,844
    rokkr said:

    Does this dForce Manager substitute the dForce Companion plugin? Because I just bought the former during the last PA sale...

    That's correct.
  • RamsusRamsus Posts: 11
    edited October 11

    Richard Haseltine, I might have done something wrong, but after installing all the plugins, I noticed that the "Shape" item is appearing in the menu but not the convertion options, also the "Pose" item is missing. I found the rest of the items.

    Captura de tela 2024-10-10 233610.png
    450 x 128 - 12K
    Post edited by Ramsus on
  • RamsusRamsus Posts: 11

    Forget i alerady fixed it.

  • weird-grafxweird-grafx Posts: 45
    edited October 11

    I installed all premier plugins, but can't see:

    • Pose Converter shows up in Edit>Figure>Pose
    • Shape Transfer shows up in Edit>Figure>Shape

    I already did run the "Update and merge Menus" without success.

    All others are there. Any idea?

    Thanks

    DAZEditMenu.jpg
    682 x 707 - 66K
    DAZPlugins.jpg
    897 x 725 - 59K
    Post edited by weird-grafx on
  • carlrcoxcarlrcox Posts: 2
    edited October 11

    Thank you for this DIM filter... but I am not seeing the Queue option :(  Any advice?

    Richard Haseltine said:

    The plug-ins provided as part of Daz Studio Premier need to be installed, like any plug-in, through Install Manager with Daz Studio closed. In DIM pasting

    rx::ci::^Premier -

    into the filter box at top-right should show the Premier add-ons and allow them to be installed, assuming that you have the Download Filters set to include plug-ins.

    Once installed, open Daz Studio and log in to your account (Connect>Login..., for the plug-in/feature activation you do not need to update metadata though you do if you also wish to download the content that is tied to your membership; that does not include the free bundles, which are not tied to remaining a member). You should then be prompted to restart Daz Studio.

    Once DS is running you can find the new add-ons in the following locations:

    • Geometry Sculptor shows up in the Tools menu (remember that, like other content creation tools, it disables any GeoGraft's mesh hiding and won't show interpolated hairs for dForce/Strand Based Hair)
    • Pose Converter shows up in Edit>Figure>Pose
    • Shape Transfer shows up in Edit>Figure>Shape
    • DForce Manager shows up in Simulation Settings pane / Manage
    • Render Queue shows up on Render Settings pane / Queue
    Post edited by Richard Haseltine on
  • PetraPetra Posts: 1,154

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Petra said:

    I can not find any of the above Premier downloads in the Installation Manager and I switched to Premier Membership early this Morning.

    Where would I find it?

    Does Install Manager show plug-ins generally? Did you enter the filter text from my post?

    Thank you, the filter path worked, but now I am stumped at what path I need to select, when prompted. 

  • PetraPetra Posts: 1,154

    Petra said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Petra said:

    I can not find any of the above Premier downloads in the Installation Manager and I switched to Premier Membership early this Morning.

    Where would I find it?

    Does Install Manager show plug-ins generally? Did you enter the filter text from my post?

    Thank you, the filter path worked, but now I am stumped at what path I need to select, when prompted. 

    It seems to have installed, but there is also the beta options for all those files, and they won't install, are they needed? 

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,564

    Petra said:

    Petra said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Petra said:

    I can not find any of the above Premier downloads in the Installation Manager and I switched to Premier Membership early this Morning.

    Where would I find it?

    Does Install Manager show plug-ins generally? Did you enter the filter text from my post?

    Thank you, the filter path worked, but now I am stumped at what path I need to select, when prompted. 

    It seems to have installed, but there is also the beta options for all those files, and they won't install, are they needed? 

    The beta plugins are for use with the beta (Public Buld) Daz Studio. If you don't have that they won't install, sunce the path was never set, and aren't needed.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,564

    carlrcox said:

    Thank you for this DIM filter... but I am not seeing the Queue option :(  Any advice?

    Richard Haseltine said:

    The plug-ins provided as part of Daz Studio Premier need to be installed, like any plug-in, through Install Manager with Daz Studio closed. In DIM pasting

    rx::ci::^Premier -

    into the filter box at top-right should show the Premier add-ons and allow them to be installed, assuming that you have the Download Filters set to include plug-ins.

    Once installed, open Daz Studio and log in to your account (Connect>Login..., for the plug-in/feature activation you do not need to update metadata though you do if you also wish to download the content that is tied to your membership; that does not include the free bundles, which are not tied to remaining a member). You should then be prompted to restart Daz Studio.

    Once DS is running you can find the new add-ons in the following locations:

    • Geometry Sculptor shows up in the Tools menu (remember that, like other content creation tools, it disables any GeoGraft's mesh hiding and won't show interpolated hairs for dForce/Strand Based Hair)
    • Pose Converter shows up in Edit>Figure>Pose
    • Shape Transfer shows up in Edit>Figure>Shape
    • DForce Manager shows up in Simulation Settings pane / Manage
    • Render Queue shows up on Render Settings pane / Queue

    Not seeing it to install, or not seeing it in DS? If it is installed and isn't shwoing in Render Settings you may need to click the arrow buttons on the right to scroll the list of page tabs sideways to show it, depending on your pane's width.

  • carlrcoxcarlrcox Posts: 2

    Greetings! I am unable to locate the apps in DIM - when entering the above in the filter box I get a blank screen in Ready to Download and Ready to install - I do get  shape Transfer, Pose Converter, Geometry Scultor and dForce manager in the Installed window.

    I see nothing related to Queue in the Render Setting Pane.

    Thank you for all your responses :)

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,564

    If they are installed then all you should need to do is log in (Connect>Login) in Daz Studio and then restart the application.

  • EveEve Posts: 7

    Richard Haseltine said:

    The plug-ins provided as part of Daz Studio Premier need to be installed, like any plug-in, through Install Manager with Daz Studio closed. In DIM pasting

    rx::ci::^Premier -

    into the filter box at top-right should show the Premier add-ons and allow them to be installed, assuming that you have the Download Filters set to include plug-ins.

    Once installed, open Daz Studio and log in to your account (Connect>Login..., for the plug-in/feature activation you do not need to update metadata though you do if you also wish to download the content that is tied to your membership; that does not include the free bundles, which are not tied to remaining a member). You should then be prompted to restart Daz Studio.

    Once DS is running you can find the new add-ons in the following locations:

    • Geometry Sculptor shows up in the Tools menu (remember that, like other content creation tools, it disables any GeoGraft's mesh hiding and won't show interpolated hairs for dForce/Strand Based Hair)
    • Pose Converter shows up in Edit>Figure>Pose
    • Shape Transfer shows up in Edit>Figure>Shape
    • DForce Manager shows up in Simulation Settings pane / Manage
    • Render Queue shows up on Render Settings pane / Queue

    Good morning,

    I've done this in every way and shape possible. I started with a fresh install on a new computer because it arrived just in time for the launch of Premier. Followed these directions to no avail. I've tried rebooting. Uninstalling Daz Studio /the plugins, reinstalling them, rebooting both the app and the machine. The Premier plugins are installed and loading, but Pose Converter and Shape Transfer don't show up under Edit>Figure, and I can't find them anywhere (the others are right where you said they'd be). Not certain it's related, but it also doesn't recognize that the default resources are installed on the new machine. The installation path for those and the Premier plugins are vastly different from my former system (which successfully shows both pose and shape down at the bottom of the figure menu), but I'm not certain if that's an installation difference between Windows 10 and 11. Any idea if I may have overlooked something?

     

  • EveEve Posts: 7

    carlrcox said:

    Greetings! I am unable to locate the apps in DIM - when entering the above in the filter box I get a blank screen in Ready to Download and Ready to install - I do get  shape Transfer, Pose Converter, Geometry Scultor and dForce manager in the Installed window.

    I see nothing related to Queue in the Render Setting Pane.

    Thank you for all your responses :)

    Did you find it yet? It's in an obscure location, as a tab at the top, the bar under the blue render button (assuming we have the same default workspace).

     

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,564

    Eve said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    The plug-ins provided as part of Daz Studio Premier need to be installed, like any plug-in, through Install Manager with Daz Studio closed. In DIM pasting

    rx::ci::^Premier -

    into the filter box at top-right should show the Premier add-ons and allow them to be installed, assuming that you have the Download Filters set to include plug-ins.

    Once installed, open Daz Studio and log in to your account (Connect>Login..., for the plug-in/feature activation you do not need to update metadata though you do if you also wish to download the content that is tied to your membership; that does not include the free bundles, which are not tied to remaining a member). You should then be prompted to restart Daz Studio.

    Once DS is running you can find the new add-ons in the following locations:

    • Geometry Sculptor shows up in the Tools menu (remember that, like other content creation tools, it disables any GeoGraft's mesh hiding and won't show interpolated hairs for dForce/Strand Based Hair)
    • Pose Converter shows up in Edit>Figure>Pose
    • Shape Transfer shows up in Edit>Figure>Shape
    • DForce Manager shows up in Simulation Settings pane / Manage
    • Render Queue shows up on Render Settings pane / Queue

    Good morning,

    I've done this in every way and shape possible. I started with a fresh install on a new computer because it arrived just in time for the launch of Premier. Followed these directions to no avail. I've tried rebooting. Uninstalling Daz Studio /the plugins, reinstalling them, rebooting both the app and the machine. The Premier plugins are installed and loading, but Pose Converter and Shape Transfer don't show up under Edit>Figure, and I can't find them anywhere (the others are right where you said they'd be). Not certain it's related, but it also doesn't recognize that the default resources are installed on the new machine. The installation path for those and the Premier plugins are vastly different from my former system (which successfully shows both pose and shape down at the bottom of the figure menu), but I'm not certain if that's an installation difference between Windows 10 and 11. Any idea if I may have overlooked something?
     

    What are the paths? Do the plug-ins appear in Help>About Installed Plug-ins? There do seem to be some oddities with the items thats hould appwear in the Edit>Figure menu (I am missing one of them in one release channel, General reelase I think, but have them both in the other - I have reported this to daz, one suggestion was to save the layout then do an Update and merge Menus (Edit>Workspace).

  • EveEve Posts: 7

    Richard Haseltine said:

    What are the paths? Do the plug-ins appear in Help>About Installed Plug-ins? There do seem to be some oddities with the items thats hould appwear in the Edit>Figure menu (I am missing one of them in one release channel, General reelase I think, but have them both in the other - I have reported this to daz, one suggestion was to save the layout then do an Update and merge Menus (Edit>Workspace).

    Yeah, sorry. I mentioned that above (that they are installed and seem to be loading fine), but didn't specify that all the plugins are greenlit under Help>About Installed Plug-ins. It's just those two that won't show up where they're supposed to be. Everything went smooth as butter on my older computer and I tried it to see if I was doing something wrong. I did go and try the Update and Merge Menus "fix" before I posted to you, just on the off chance that it was that simple of a solution, but it didn't help. I think because it was a fresh install, I didn't get the pop up from logging in telling me that Premier was activated and I needed to restart, but that's pretty much the only difference that I can recall. 

    Re the Path installations, on the new computer with Windows 11, Daz installed things like the Default Resources into C:\Users\Public\My Daz 3D Lib... (etc), where on the Windows 10 system they're installed in C:\Users\Me\Documents\Daz 3D\Studio ... (etc). I did get Daz to list my default resources in the content manager at least, but I'm not exactly sure how. All I did was uninstall in DIM, point it back at Daz (the default installation path in DIM) and after doing that they showed up in Daz. I was hoping the two awol premier plugins would follow this example, but nope. They're being stubborn. If I need to switch to a different forum or post screen shots somewhere else, I'm happy to do that, as well. I really appreciate your efforts and patience helping as much as you have.

    :)

    Eve

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,564

    Eve said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    What are the paths? Do the plug-ins appear in Help>About Installed Plug-ins? There do seem to be some oddities with the items thats hould appwear in the Edit>Figure menu (I am missing one of them in one release channel, General reelase I think, but have them both in the other - I have reported this to daz, one suggestion was to save the layout then do an Update and merge Menus (Edit>Workspace).

    Yeah, sorry. I mentioned that above (that they are installed and seem to be loading fine), but didn't specify that all the plugins are greenlit under Help>About Installed Plug-ins. It's just those two that won't show up where they're supposed to be. Everything went smooth as butter on my older computer and I tried it to see if I was doing something wrong. I did go and try the Update and Merge Menus "fix" before I posted to you, just on the off chance that it was that simple of a solution, but it didn't help. I think because it was a fresh install, I didn't get the pop up from logging in telling me that Premier was activated and I needed to restart, but that's pretty much the only difference that I can recall.

    If you open Edit>Workspace>Customise do you have groups on the elft for the Pose and Shape transfer tools? If so you can drag them into their target folders under Main menu in the Menus tab on the right of the dialogue.

    Re the Path installations, on the new computer with Windows 11, Daz installed things like the Default Resources into C:\Users\Public\My Daz 3D Lib... (etc), where on the Windows 10 system they're installed in C:\Users\Me\Documents\Daz 3D\Studio ... (etc). I did get Daz to list my default resources in the content manager at least, but I'm not exactly sure how. All I did was uninstall in DIM, point it back at Daz (the default installation path in DIM) and after doing that they showed up in Daz. I was hoping the two awol premier plugins would follow this example, but nope. They're being stubborn. If I need to switch to a different forum or post screen shots somewhere else, I'm happy to do that, as well. I really appreciate your efforts and patience helping as much as you have.

    The nw system is shwoing the default path for DIM, the old is the default path before DIM (and still the default path for user-saved files).

    :)

    Eve

  • EveEve Posts: 7

    Richard Haseltine said:

    If you open Edit>Workspace>Customise do you have groups on the elft for the Pose and Shape transfer tools? If so you can drag them into their target folders under Main menu in the Menus tab on the right of the dialogue.

    Yes. That worked. Thank you so very much for finding me a solution. I figured the pathing was probably inocuous or had to do with Windows 11, but it's good to know there are some under-the-hood changes that maybe we should be aware of. Have a fabulous rest of your evening.

  • amehtanasamehtanas Posts: 20

    Hello,

     

    Just upgraded to Permier, and unable to find the Geometry Sculptor tool.

    Screenshot 2024-10-19 200625.png
    1322 x 729 - 907K
  • LeanaLeana Posts: 11,647
    edited October 20

    amehtanas said:

    Hello,

     

    Just upgraded to Permier, and unable to find the Geometry Sculptor tool.

    Did you install 4.23 and the premier plugins and activate them? Can you find the other premier features?

    Post edited by Leana on
  • amehtanasamehtanas Posts: 20

    I installed 4.23 and have no idea about where to find plugins. I just installed/updated whatever DIM recommended.

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 11,647

    The plugins are separate downloads. Richard posted an example of search filter to find them in DIM in the first post.

  • Richard Haseltine said:

    The plug-ins provided as part of Daz Studio Premier need to be installed, like any plug-in, through Install Manager with Daz Studio closed. In DIM pasting

    rx::ci::^Premier -

    into the filter box at top-right should show the Premier add-ons and allow them to be installed, assuming that you have the Download Filters set to include plug-ins.

    How do I do this part? I've used DIM since it came out but I've never did this part before. I just got premier a few minutes ago so not sure how long till things should show?

  • Guardian Angel 671 said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    The plug-ins provided as part of Daz Studio Premier need to be installed, like any plug-in, through Install Manager with Daz Studio closed. In DIM pasting

    rx::ci::^Premier -

    into the filter box at top-right should show the Premier add-ons and allow them to be installed, assuming that you have the Download Filters set to include plug-ins.

    How do I do this part? I've used DIM since it came out but I've never did this part before. I just got premier a few minutes ago so not sure how long till things should show?

    I think I just got it.

Sign In or Register to comment.