Tutorial Created Aug 2007                                                                                                                                           © 2007 Jj and Alicorn                 

Installing Clothing Content and Organising Runtime

The item of clothing we are going to install for Aiko for the purpose of this tutorial is the free A3 MiniDress which can be found here at Renderosity.com. You have to be registered and logged in.

The tutorial applies to any other content you may wish to install except for installing products which come in the form of installers and .exe [program] files...these are expected to install correctly into your final designated folder.

Under the image in Renderosity you will see 'Details' and 'Download'. Always read through the 'Details' first as this tells you about the item and its requirements. Now click on 'Download'. Click'Save' in the 'File Download' window and save it in your 'Zips' folder.

When the download is complete, click 'Open Folder' and you will see your zip.

Now, right click it and select 'Explore' from the menu...........

and this will show you whats inside the zip file.......

 You will notice there is a 'Runtime' folder. This 'Runtime' contains the 'Libraries' 'Geometries' 'Textures' and 'Templates' for the item of clothing and you don't need to open it. This has to go into the !Aiko folder eventually but before you do this  you want to see if it works. Remember the 'Test' folder you made? This is where you are first going to put it, so, right click the 'Runtime' folder and 'Copy'..........

 then hit the 'Back' button top left of your window a couple of times till you get back to your 'MyDazFolder' where your 'Test' folder is kept, open your 'Test' folder and right click and 'Paste'. The 'Runtime' will now be in your 'Test' folder.

You now need to show Daz where your 'Test' folder is, just like you did for !Aiko, so go to 'Edit' 'Preferences', the 'Directories' tab, click the down arrow at the end of 'DazStudio Content Directories' and click on 'Poser Content Directories' and click 'Add'....find your 'Test' folder....

'Ok' it.....then 'Apply' and 'Accept'..........and it appears in your 'Contents' list. You only have to add this 'Test' folder the one time.

Now click on its + to open and yes, the dress is there in 'Figures'... 

...........and the textures [known as mats (materials)] show up under 'Poses' 

All you have to do now is move the 'Runtime' from the 'Test' folder and put it in the '!Aiko' folder.

So...in your 'MyDazFolder' open the 'Test' folder and right click the 'Runtime' and 'Copy'...hit the 'Back' button back to your 'MyDazFolder' and double click to open '!Aiko'.

This is what you already have in your !Aiko folder.....

it already has a 'Runtime' folder as you can see..

Now.....right click on a blank part in your !Aiko folder and 'Paste'

You will get this message....

All you do here is click 'Yes to All' ...you will see a quick scurry of something happening and you will end up like this...

It will seem that nothings changed. You will still have showing 1 x 'ReadMe's' and 1 x 'Runtime' folder which is correct. The contents of the 'Runtime' for the dress have gone in with the contents of the 'Runtime' for your !Aiko and dispersed themselves into their correct folders inside. Follow this exact same procedure for installing other items of clothing/hair/poses etc.

This is what it looks like inside your 'Runtime' folder and there's no need to touch anything, you don't really need to open the 'Runtime' folder.

All we need to do now is  remove the 'Runtime' file still in your 'Test' folder , so hit the 'Back' button back to your 'MyDazFolder' and double click on 'Test' to open it then right click on 'Runtime' and 'Delete' [send to bin]

Have a look at your 'Contents' now in Daz.....the 'Test' folder is empty, there's no + sign ...

....and have a look in !Aiko..............

in 'Figures' you now have the dress...

and in 'Poses' you now have the textures....

You can now carry on installing more content for Aiko. Also install your other characters to their respective folders and download clothing for them installing it in exactly the same way as you've just done for !Aiko.

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This tutorial was created and written  for  High Heel Renders  and Upsited. Please do not reword or upload the tutorial onto another website or group. 

Have fun

© 2007 Jj and Alicorn