Installing, activating, and accessing Daz Studio Premier features
Richard Haseltine
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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
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Thank you for the guideline !
Well, it seems that Manfriday sold almost all of his popular stuff to Daz.
Okay but... does it ACTUALLY convert G3 figures? Because Manfriday's plug-in didn't do that successfully.
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.
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.
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?
Does this dForce Manager substitute the dForce Companion plugin? Because I just bought the former during the last PA sale...
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.
Forget i alerady fixed it.
I installed all premier plugins, but can't see:
I already did run the "Update and merge Menus" without success.
All others are there. Any idea?
Thanks
Thank you for this DIM filter... but I am not seeing the Queue option :( Any advice?
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.
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.
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 :)
If they are installed then all you should need to do is log in (Connect>Login) in Daz Studio and then restart the application.
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?
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).
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
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.
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).
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.
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?
I installed 4.23 and have no idea about where to find plugins. I just installed/updated whatever DIM recommended.
The plugins are separate downloads. Richard posted an example of search filter to find them in DIM in the first post.
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.