In 4.9 we have added new features that help you manage and maintain content purchased with your Daz 3D account and uses a new content delivery service: Daz Connect. Now, directly within the application, you can find, install, and update products you have already purchased. You can also now purchase products directly within Daz Studio and put the new product-centric workflow to work for you. This allows you to browse products you have not purchased, which are filtered based on content you already have installed and you are currently working with.

The render engine updates in this release include performance improvements, bug fixes, and (in the case of the NVIDIA Iray renderer) a few changes that improve the overall quality of your renders.

Daz Connect
Daz Connect is basically your connection between Daz Studio and the Daz 3D Store. It allows you to leverage a collection of new web-based services. The features that make use of these services, which will grow over time, currently include the ability to:
- Browse products you have purchased, whether they are installed or not
- Install or upgrade products with ease
- Automatically download any products that are missing from a scene you are currently working with
- See product suggestions, related to your current selection, to supplement what you are currently working on
- Easily download purchased products as needed to whichever computers you are currently working on
- Purchase new products and add new free products to your account

New Product-centric Workflow
The new product-centric workflow makes working with your content much easier. From buying and installing new products to navigating and alternating between products and files, the workflow has been redesigned. To get started, log in to your Daz 3D account to take advantage of the new workflow.

Optional Filtering Based on Context
In earlier versions, the Smart Content pane displayed filtered assets/products based on compatibility with the selected object and assigned content types. The 4.9 update now also includes a “Filter By Context” option (on the Files Page and separately on the Products Page), that lets you disable this filtering behavior and allows you to see content that may not be strictly built to work with the selected object. For instance, after adding a figure to the scene, selecting the “Hair” category in the Category View shows hair in the Results View that fits this figure. Similarly, once you have added hair to your character, the Smart Content pane automatically filters to show accessories and hair colors (materials) that work with that specific hair object.

Turning off the “Filter By Context” option shows you all of the products you own, regardless of whether or not they are currently installed, as well as all of the installed files for your products. This is a great way to see all products you own, regardless of scene selection, and it provides access to content that was not specifically built for your selection but may be a suitable candidate for Auto-Fit. This allows you to apply content originally built for one figure (e.g., Genesis 2) onto another figure (e.g., Genesis 3). Although results may vary, turning Off the “Filter By Context” option lets you try those older products on newer characters.

Synchronized Navigation and Filters
The new Sync Pages option helps you more easily navigate and alternate between products and files. When enabled in the Pane (Tab) Option Menu, Sync Pages attempts to synchronize category selection in one page with the corresponding category in the opposite page. For instance, if you are looking for long hair to add to your figure, you might start on the Files Page and select the “Hair” category, followed by the “Long” sub-category. Switching to the Products Page at that point causes the “Hair > Long” category to be automatically selected.

Installing Content
Using Daz Connect, you can now install products and assets directly within Daz Studio from the Smart Content or Content Library panes, eliminating the need to visit the Daz 3D website or to use Install Manager. This makes getting and installing content faster and more convenient.

Viewing a Product's Contents
The Product Contents View has been redesigned to be more user-friendly. Functioning much like the Files and Products pages, the new Product Contents View now expands and collapses vertically in a familiar tree-like manner and consumes the whole page instead of a side scrolling list limited to a fraction of the space. Jump “inside” a product to view that specific product's Category and Results Views. Once inside, you can quickly access more information about the product (i.e., Read Me), update the product (if installed using Daz Connect), view the assets in the product, etc., as well as take advantage of the features described below.

Filtering Products by Installed State
The Install State Filter Bar filters products displayed in the Results View a step further than the categories and sub-categories can on their own. This lets you view a product based on its status. Rather than search one by one through products, this option quickly filters products to show those that are installed, those that are have not been installed, those that need updating, and those that are currently in progress.

Sorting Products/Assets
Located directly beneath the Filter Bar, the Sorting Selector lets you sort assets or products using various attributes—such as Name, Product ID, Group ID, etc.—to make assets and products easier to find.

Assigning Products and Assets to Groups
Grouping helps you customize your content by letting you personalize the display of products and assets, which makes identification at glance even easier. Much like using a brightly colored marker or sticky notes, the Group feature marks assets and/or products in the Results View to help you visually group them using colors and shapes.

Purchasing Content in the Store Page
While you are logged in to your Daz 3D account, the Store Page, found in Information Panel section of the Smart Content pane, shows products and assets that can be purchased, in context to what is currently selected. For example, if you have a sword selected in the Smart Content pane, the Store page may display armor and other weapons for purchase that correspond with that sword. This page also bypasses the Install Manager, making buying and installing new content just a click away.

Render Engine Updates
Renderer engine updates include changes and bug fixes for both NVIDIA Iray and 3Delight render engines.

NVIDIA Iray
The NVIDIA Iray1 update provides fixes to the implementation of Sub Surface Scattering (SSS) and affects materials that make “Translucency Weight” active (not set to 0). This makes skin tones appear more blue than they do in previous versions. Daz Original products will be updated to reflect the 4.9 rendering changes, but if you encounter any products that render with a bluish tint, feel free to edit the “SSS Reflectance Tint” value to adjust the result to your liking.

3Delight
The 3Delight2) update includes bug fixes and improvements as outlined in the 3Delight Change Log.

Easier Product Installation
The Install Pane
The new Install pane uses filters to give you an easy place to find the products you own and install them locally. Here you can see the products that are not yet installed. Once a product is installed in this new pane, you can update or uninstall it from the Smart Content pane or the Content Library pane.

The Install pane is organized similarly to the Smart Content pane with a Category View and a Results View as well as an Install State Filter Bar at the bottom. This filter bar provides options for separating the available products for installation on the Available page from the products undergoing or awaiting installation on the Pending page. You can also choose to install or cancel several selected products at one time using the Install/Cancel Selected button.

Better Content Management
Both the Smart Content and Content Library panes are updated to enhance the various ways Daz Studio users can organize their content.

The Smart Content pane relies on metadata to sort and organize your content into categories. As you may know from past experiences, older products sometimes have incorrect or incomplete data, products from other sources may have no metadata at all, and sometimes categories are updated or added to a product after the fact. In order to make cleaning things up and getting updates to that data easier, Daz Studio 4.9 introduced Daz Connect. With Daz Connect, Daz Studio connects to the Daz 3D servers and retrieves the latest metadata for the products you own.
Another new feature included in this update is a change to the “ownership” of the “Lost and Found” subcategories and the assets assigned to them; this allows you to modify the categorization of these assets and even remove the subcategories themselves so that you can organize your content the way that works best for you.

Lost and Found
The Lost and Found category is now prominently displayed above all your existing categories. On the Products Page of the Smart Content pane, the Lost and Found category shows you products containing uncategorized files. A subcategory of Lost and Found is created using the name of each product containing these files. This lets you quickly and easily find any product files that are uncategorized so that you can categorize them as you see fit.

Categorization
One of the ways you categorize assets has been improved. The way you get there is still the same; simply right-click an asset and select “Categorize…” in the context menu. However, when the “Categorize” dialog appears, you now see the categories that the selected asset is assigned to, such as the Lights category if a light asset were selected, in a way that is consistent with what is displayed in the Category View. The updated dialog removes the top-level “Categories” column, as well as the “Default” column unless a user category has been created as a sibling to the “Default” category.

To help you differentiate between the default categories and any user categories you might create, the icon for each user-created category is styled differently from the defaults and marked with a “U.”
Categorize Dialog To create a category path, right-click a category and click the “Create Category Path…” action in the menu. The “New Category Path” dialog will display and be populated with the full path of the selected category. Here you can edit the category path to meet your needs and create new user categories to assign the asset to. Once accepted, the path automatically appears in both the Categorize dialog and the Category View.

Better Filtering
Now you can find products much easier than before by using the name of the product (or a portion of the name) instead of relying solely on the keywords assigned to the assets. Files can also be filtered in much the same way, but “name::” must precede the name of the file; i.e., name::Victoria

Filter Menu Another new feature that improves filtering is the Filter Menu. In this menu you can save a filter, you can apply filters you have already saved, and you can manage your filters. Clicking the Save Filter option in the menu allows you to assign a name to a specific word/phrase/expression that you use often (or find difficult to remember) and save it to the Filter Menu. For example, if you filter using the “name::warrior knives” expression, you could then save that expression with the simplified “Warrior Knives” name. Once saved, you can then apply that filter by clicking on it in the Filter Menu.

Virtual Folders in Content Library
Products installed through Daz Connect are managed on disk by the application in order to ensure consistency and the ability to update those products at the file level. Although installed in separate folders on disk, an aggregate view of the folders is available for you in the Content Library pane and emulates the structure of files installed through Install Manager.

Ongoing Metadata Updates
Metadata Consistency
If you have two or more identical user-facing files assigned to separate products, you can categorize one, and Daz Studio now automatically categorizes the other(s) the same way.
New “Edit Metadata…” and “Export Metadata…” options are now more conveniently located in the Content Library context menus to help make editing/exporting metadata easier.
Daz JSON Link (DJL)
A Daz JSON Link is the equivalent of a “shortcut” (on PC) or an “alias” (on OS X). Because the folder/file structure for products installed via Daz Connect must remain intact, DJLs can be generated for these files and used as placeholders for the purpose of disk-based management.

NVIDIA Iray-Related Updates
New Iray Version
NVIDIA has released a New Version of the Iray renderer with several bug fixes and additional features.

New Draw Modes
This version of Daz Studio has new Draw Modes located in the Draw Settings pane, under Drawing > Draw Mode. Here you can now choose among Photoreal, Interactive, or blend between the Draw Settings Draw Mode and Render Settings Render Mode. Draw Modes Another new option is the Manipulation Resolution property, which allows you to render quicker than before by temporarily decreasing the size of the rendered image and stretching it to fill the view during manipulation. Choose to divide the rendered pixels by 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, or 1/16 (or 1/32 for very large displays) of the selected viewport. Since there are fewer pixels to render, this new drawing option makes interactive rendering quicker by rendering fewer details during manipulation and waiting to render them when the mouse is released instead.

Iray Light Portals
Light Portals allow you to “hint” to the renderer the location of openings where light might naturally come in through windows for interior scenes. Since sun and sky lighting can often be too bright for indoor scenes, these portals account for how much and where light enters a room. How effective these portals are at “guessing” where light might appear is dependent on your scene and how large the “windows” in the scene are.

Since a significant amount of illumination comes through windows, larger windows may let in too much light when using light portals. This illumination through the windows is not dominated by direct sunlight or other very bright regions in the environment, so comparing two rendered images—one with light portals, one without—can help you see if they are beneficial to your scene.
To begin using a Light Portal, you must first enable the Caustic Sampler property in the Optimization group found in either the Render Settings or Draw Settings panes. Then add a Spotlight or a Point Light to your scene. A Light Portal property appears under the Light > Area group when the Photometric Mode is enabled and the Light Geometry property is set to Rectangle in the Parameters pane. Enabling this Light Portal property causes the light to be seen by the Iray renderer as a light portal instead of as a light.

Updated Iray Uber Material
The Iray Uber Shader now adds an extra layer in the Base > Diffuse > Overlay group. This layer is ideal for adding details like makeup or tattoos in the diffuse section of the Iray Uber Material.

Other Enhancements
Other bug fixes include a new “Export Measurements” action to the Measure Metrics pane and improvements that allow you to import figures that were not exported from the FBX Exporter. The FBX Importer also now handles more general weight configurations.

Daz3D Installation Manager
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3D Bridge for Photoshop
The 3D Bridge is a plug-in designed to connect the power of Photoshop with the unlimited content possibilities of DAZ Studio. It's the next step to maximizing your creativity. It will also save you money by eliminating the need for costly photo shoots and stock imagery, save you time with quicker rendering, and save your brain by swiftly and easily integrating the best features of DAZ Studio and Photoshop.

Easily pose characters and objects three-dimensionally with the 3D Bridge for Photoshop while in DAZ Studio, which is a free download. Work interactively with 3D objects and see real-time results in Photoshop. The 3D Bridge for Photoshop is available for both Mac and PC, and Photoshop CS5 or higher. Gain higher functionality when used with Photoshop CS5 Extended.
Note: This plugin has been updated and requires DAZ Studio 4.6 or higher, and Photoshop CS5 or higher.

GoZ for DAZ Studio
Transfer models and textures seamlessly between ZBrushTM and DAZ Studio with the GoZ for DAZ Studio plugin. Models, texture maps, displacement maps and bump maps can be created in Zbrush and transferred directly into DAZ Studio. Take advantage of all that Zbrush has to offer and leverage the strengths of DAZ Studio to get the best of both worlds.

PostgreSQL CMS
With the PostgreSQL Content Management System (CMS), there is no longer a need to start a service that runs in the background; as there is with the Valentina CMS. Normally, the PostgreSQL server starts when the application (i.e. Install Manager, DAZ Studio) starts and stops when the application stops; unless another application is connected to it - in which case it will stop when the last application connected to it closes.
Explicit control to start the service from within DAZ Studio is provided via an action [in the Content Library pane option menu] and a button [in the Smart Content pane] without ever needing to leave the application. Explicit control to stop the service is also provided via an action [in the Content Library pane option menu

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