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She's a beauty. I look forward to picking her up.
:)
Thanks!! :D
Awesome tutorial! :D
One point -- loading the Property Editor pane takes forever if you have a lot of morphs for Genesis. (Maybe literally forever-- I had to kill my DS and start again.) However, you can put a button for ERC Freeze in your toolbar using Window->Workspace->Customize... and skip that part entirely. :) Then use the gear in the Shaping tab to edit the parameters for your morph. Much faster that way. :)
I'll post a screenshot -- just had a guest arrive and I need to make lunch!
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Thanks for the tip. Yes it can take awhile, think it froze at least twice on me lol ... then vanished, then when I clicked for something else, it reappeared!
Yea, I try to avoid using the Properties Manager as much as possible.
I brought up the Customize dialog: Window > Work Space > Customize or F3 on the keyboard
Choose Menus tab on the right side. Scroll down to the last entry: ToolSettings Pane Menu and expand that.
Expand the Joint Editor and then the Edit sub section.
On the Left side of the dialog and expand the CCT Property Editor and you will see the ERC Freeze entry there. Just simple drag it across the way to the expanded area on the right and
Apply and then Accept and it's done.
Next time you have need to access your ERC just after you Adjust Rigging to Shape they are now all in one location.
Yeah, that menu location is a good place to put it, especially since there's no toolbar icon....
Ok, I'm having a bit of trouble with the rigging. I've followed the above steps, and everything looks ok until I try to use pose controls like "Right Fingers Grasp" (or manually bend the fingers). The finger bones line up with the mesh ok, but they appear to be rotated around the long axis... which isn't quite the same as the Y axis. :( Do I have to hand tweak each of these bones, or change the rotation order? Or something else? The current rotation order is XYZ. Changing rotation order to XZY gets the bones bending in the right direction, but they won't bend very far-- they have the side-side limits still, I think.
Any suggestions?
Hmmm, and you did an ERC Freeze afterwards??
I'll need a bit more information to help you. The exact steps would be good!
Yes, I did an ERC Freeze. I'll post more detail later (I'm at work now). I'm sure I've forgotten something obvious... or maybe I did something especially awful with my morph! :bug:
Well as long as you saved it all in a Scene .duf file it will keep fine until you get it figured out.
Here's what I did:
Load Genesis (no morphs) into DS
Set Subdivision Level to 0 in Paramters
export obj
export to obj: scale .410105 (doesn't matter as long as I use the same scale coming back, right?)
- Use Bone Welds
- Write UV Coordinates
- Write Groups - Use Existing Groups
- Write Surfaces - Write Material Library - No Maps
import obj to Blacksmith3D
move mesh around
export to obj
In DS, with Genesis loaded, set to Subdivision level 0
Launch Morph Loader Pro
Choose Morph Files... (my modified obj file)
Name: my name with a hyphen at the beginning (good trick!)
Property Group: Actor/Female/Stylized
Create Control Property: Yes (settings at defaults)
Reverse Deformations: No (because I had no morphs applied when I exported)
Overwrite Existing: Make Unique - Clean Up Orphans: Yes
In Shaping tab, under Actor/Female/Stylized, I see my morph
Click Bone tool
Set morph to 100%... ah, I think I've found the problem.
The t-pose has the palms facing downward. For some reason (probably to do with the figure I was originally trying to match) I rotated the forearms so the palms are facing forward.
Blerg.
Ok, I think I know how to fix this....
Ok, hands are fixed... is there anything I can do about this elbow, apart from applying smoothing?
Yea, not sure what to suggest for this sort of morph. If you look at the figures layout in what ever program your using to morph the mesh in yo will notice little arrow types of things, mostly those are what I use as guides. Some are for safely indenting areas and some for bulking areas up. The backs of the legs and elbow are very tricky in that way. If you do it just right it will work, if you don't do it just right your going to get funny bends even if the rigging is good.
PS... just home from work and dinner so I apologize for not getting back to you sooner. Glad you got the rigging snafu fixed! :-)
You don't need to "open" the Property Editor tab to access it's options, as long as it's docked and you can see the tab then you can right click it to get the menu, which is what I've done in the attached image, and it doesn't just work with the Property editor, it works with all of them.
Hello, I have question concerning Step 1.
In order to minimize the customization work in Hexagon, is it possible to apply Daz Presets to Genesis before exporting it to Hexagon?
I'm just thinking one could roughly approximate desired changes first in Daz and then fine tune them in Hexagon....
I can get about 90% of my desired changes using Daz presets, but there are several areas that need tweaking and a bit of clean up.
Thanks
Are you talking about morphs for Genesis or clothing?
I'm your typical overwhelmed newbie.....
My primary goal ATM, is to learn more about how to use Daz and Hex....
I'm working on this tutorial primarily as a learning exercise, so I want to learn about making and using FBMs in general...
But, beyond the nuts and bolts of all that, I'm thinking that if I can get a full body morph - exactly to my desired specs - that will serve as the best possible mannequin for making clothes in Hexagon.
So, Genesis now, maybe clothes later.
Thanks
Ah but Genesis wears any sort of clothing . My advice, after learning the hard way, is to model your clothing to the Genesis default shape and then once you get it rigged using the Transfer Utility you will see that MOST shapes will follow along. If you have a specific shape you like then you can create a follow morph using that shape. If it's all your shape then it's cool and can be shared. If it's a shape that you put together using other folks morphs then you won't be able to distribute the shape.
RAMWolff -
Thanks for the quick reply and the information. I understand what you're saying.
It's help information, but I'm no where near making clothing for distribution or sharing.
My focus now is limited to the process of creating an FBM... just for grins.
Thanks
Success!
I followed the FBM tutorial using the Genesis 2 Base Female (from Genesis 2 Female Starter Essentials) and made a FBM morph without using any modeling tools.
First, I made a custom character using about two dozen of the body morphs from Zev0's "Shape Shift for Genesis 2 Female and V6".
Then, I exported it as a .OBJ.
Then, started a new scene and loaded Genesis 2 Base Female, then continued to follow the tutorial step by step (importing the .OBJ using Morph Loader Pro to create the morph, etc, etc.).
Since my custom character is about a foot shorter than the Genesis 2 Base Female, I also followed all the steps in the tutorial to adjust the rigging, etc.
Since this process bakes all the applied morphs into a single morph, it is a very handy way to create "checkpoints" as I continue to add more morphs (mainly head) and refine the my custom character.
I'm very thankful for this tutorial - especially the screen shots that helped to clarify the process when I got a little confused by the terminology.
does anyone have the PDF file that was created?
I would like to have a copy of that, but the above link is not working anymore
"File has expired and does not exist anymore on this server"
Thanks a bunch for this very clear and useful tutorial.
I'm at the stage of using Morph Loader Pro and successfully created a few body and face morph dials that work. I somehow did all that before finding this tut. To be safe, I compare the steps with mine, all coincide, except one:
Oops but I turned my custom morph dials to 100% when saving as morph asset. Somehow no issue when loading Genesis - the morph dials are all at 0. Genesis is perfectly normal and at zero state. Odd.
Inconsistency worries me... :bug: Especially this other morph tut also stressed that we must zero morph dial before saving.
Before I created these custom morphs, I did have an incident of base Genesis loading with a turned-up morph: for practice I marked around with the Alien head, created an alien head Figure Asset, then morphed some more, and saved Modified Asset. The next time I load Genesis, it had alien head. I did the most obvious - zero-ed Genesis, saved as figure asset. Deleted the alien assets. Genesis loaded fine and normal ever since.
Maybe therein lies the reason why today my base Genesis loads "normal and zero", even when I didn't zero morph dial before saving custom morph asset?
Hi
This thread has been really useful - I'm managing to create morphs in ZBrush, load them back into Genesis in Daz and then save them as support assets which load every time a Genesis figure is loaded.
What I really want to do though, is to save the morph somewhere so that it doesn't load automatically every time Genesis is loaded, but is located somewhere in the content folders, so that you can click on it and load the custom morph into the selected Genesis figure in Daz.
I've been right the way through the thread and searched others, but I can't find any instructions.
Could someone tell me if this is possible, and if so, how and where do I save my custom morph?
Thanks
Your morphs are saved in a data file under your name. Simply remove it out when you don't want it to load. However it will have been saved to load with any scene file that was created when it was loaded.
If you are meaning that the morph is "applied" to Genesis, it has to be resaved "zeroed", then it won't apply until you make it do so.
It cannot be saved elsewhere on the computer and still work in D/S.
Your morphs are saved in a data file under your name. Simply remove it out when you don't want it to load. However it will have been saved to load with any scene file that was created when it was loaded.
If you are meaning that the morph is "applied" to Genesis, it has to be resaved "zeroed", then it won't apply until you make it do so.
It cannot be saved elsewhere on the computer and still work in D/S.
Hi and many thanks for the reply.
I know about the data folder and I'm okay with creating morphs that go in there and load into Genesis automatically, but yes, I was hoping/expecting that there would be a way to save them so that you can inject them at will, as there is with the older figures.
It seems like a quite bizarre omission in the design of Daz/Genesis - it must create quite an overhead if you have lots of morphs that load each time Genesis is loaded.
Yup.
Read somewhere [have no idea how accurate the info is/was] that that was part of why there was a jump then to another figure altogether.
Thanks for this tutorial! Really helped me.
Is there any info out there on how to import high definition morphs for V6 and M6 High Def characters, by chance?
So far as I know, they're sitting on the plugin for those! All our attempts to bridge out the figures result in the base figure traveling. It's a new technology for the HD and it's a gold mine.
Depending upon what the end result is that you're after though; one can create the character with whatever is available in D/S and export out the .obj already posed and everything to just plant somewhere.
Updated the main tutorial to reflect changes in the newer version of DAZ and also outright STOLE a tutorial from Sickleyield, mostly in the interest of keeping all the info in one area for myself and others.
Hope this helps.