goofygrape opened this issue on May 18, 2026 ยท 15 posts
Bejaymac posted Thu, 28 May 2026 at 6:59 AM
If you are getting a missing file warning while loading a character/figure, then there are only two ways DS does this.
First is a bad/missing parent, every single morph DSF file in the data folder has a parent file listed, DS uses that "parent" to make sure that the files it's loading are meant for that figure, if the "parent" points to a bad/wrong file then DS refuses to load it, if the "parent" points to a missing file then you get a warning as well as the file not loading.
Second is a missing texture file.
Now I was at one of my friends on Monday to fix an issue with one of her recent purchases, after doing that I had a look through her downloads, turns out she has DTGs Bliss, now it's not well made, but after checking her files and the file list here at Rendo that file "dtg bliss bliss doll.duf" doesn't exist in the product, there isn't even a character preset in it just shaping presets.
Now for the parent to be that bad someone has to have really ****ed up big time, as DS will add the correct parent to a file as it's creating it.
Time to learn what all of that info means in the log file, as you now have to figure out which is the bad DSF file and then how to repair it.