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Subject: DAZ Studio Unable To Open OBZ Geometry Files?

3dcheapskate opened this issue on Jan 02, 2015 · 4 posts
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3dcheapskate ( ) posted Fri, 02 January 2015 at 10:07 PM · edited Sat, 30 May 2026 at 9:03 AM

I recently compressed all my Poser content libraries - ie. all OBJ files are now OBZ, all CR2 files are now CRZ, etc.

This seems to cause a problem in DAZ Studio (I’m currently using DS3, DS4.5 and DS4.6).
DAZ Studio can open the CRZ files without any problem, but gets stuck when it can’t find the OBJ. And there’s no option to display OBZ files when you choose to manually locate the ‘missing’ OBJ.

Hopefully I’m missing something obvious…

(same query posted on DAZ forum)

The 3Dcheapskate (also available in DAZ and HiveWire3D flavours) occasionally posts sensible stuff. Usually by accident.
And it usually uses Poser 11, with units set to inches. Except when it's using Poser 6 or PP2014, or when its units are set to PNU.



3dcheapskate ( ) posted Sat, 03 January 2015 at 12:20 AM · edited Sat, 03 January 2015 at 12:22 AM

Really what I want to know is whether DS is supposed to be able to open OBZ files when they’re referenced from a CR2 as OBJ files, as Poser does.

And if not,why not? After all, even back in DS3 the "File > Import" option includes “Wavefront Object (.obj; .obz)” - so DS clearly understands the OBZ format.

When a CR2 references an external geometry OBJ Poser will look for an OBZ if it doesn't find the OBJ.

But DAZ Studio just asks the user to locate the missing file, and only allows “OBJFile (.obj)”* to be selected.

The 3Dcheapskate (also available in DAZ and HiveWire3D flavours) occasionally posts sensible stuff. Usually by accident.
And it usually uses Poser 11, with units set to inches. Except when it's using Poser 6 or PP2014, or when its units are set to PNU.



3dcheapskate ( ) posted Sat, 03 January 2015 at 2:06 AM

Problem clarified in post #7 of the DAZ forum thread. 

DS already opens the OBZ if there’s no OBJ.

The problem occurs when it CAN'T FIND the OBJ/OBZ and asks the user to locate it.

The “Open File” dialog that’s presented ONLY allows the user to select an OBJ file - there is no way to select an OBZ.

I've raised this as a Feature Request - details on the DAZ forum thread.

The 3Dcheapskate (also available in DAZ and HiveWire3D flavours) occasionally posts sensible stuff. Usually by accident.
And it usually uses Poser 11, with units set to inches. Except when it's using Poser 6 or PP2014, or when its units are set to PNU.



bhoins ( ) posted Wed, 07 January 2015 at 9:13 AM

If you fix your references, DS will read them just fine. 

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