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In DS3A, I bought Morph Loader and used it to save a lot of head morphs for V4.  Trying
to apply them to V4 in DS4.5, it almost works, but the ears and neck implode into sharp
jagged polygonal messes (if you follow…).  I’m using “Morph Loader Pro” which
seems to be built in.  Any ideas or fixes?  Any alternatives?  Does DS 4.5 have any other way to save
a morph to a slider? One reason I liked Morph Loader is that it allowed me to mix in
multiple morphs at whatever levels I liked.  Puppeteer almost does that, but not quite.

I think you get jagged broken morphs if you export using bone welds for your base mesh?

I could be wrong?

jim - 27 November 2012 08:45 AM

I think you get jagged broken morphs if you export using bone welds for your base mesh?

I could be wrong?

I’ll try some various options with new exports, but what I’d really like is to use the many morphs I’ve already created.

You should think about making the jump to Genesis. Most of the new tools are so much easier to use and all your old Props, Clothing, and hair can be easily converted. You can use Wings3D, Blender, and/or Sculptris to Sculpt morphs and then save your characters to Dials!! ...

Anything Gen4 I still do in DS3. I could never get 4.5 to load the morphs correctly (or save out either). However, I use SyrInj (in the DAZ store) for all of my morph loading, as it saves it as a PZ2 file rather than load it into V4’s CR2.

I appreciate the comments.  Daz went to the bother to write the morph loader pro and morph
loader advanced (still unclear why we need both) for DS4.5.  So, it should be useable and I
guess it’s just buggy at present.  If anyone could try to recreate my issue I’d appreciate hearing
about it:  export a facial morph for V4 in DS3, and then try to use it on V4 in DS4.5 and see
if the ears and neck implode or if they morph properly.  Thanks!

Morph Loader was IIRC in Advanced, and perhaps Standard as well, while Morph Loader Pro was a DS Pro-only feature, that’s why there are two. The non-Pro has always given me problems, too. I have exported, as OBJ, a V4 head with a male morph dialed to 80% both as welded and unwelded and it loads apparently correctly in DS4.5. I do not see ear nor neck distortion. I’m not sure what the cause could be.

I’ve verified that if I export the morphs in DS4.5 they import properly (in DS4.5).  So,
that’s a start.  I’ll keep playing.

BTW, when I exported morphs in DS3A, I used to hide all the body parts except for
the neck, head, eyes, jaws, and tongue.  And then used the option about the hidden
body parts.  While playing with DS4.5, I didn’t bother to do that and the head morphs
still seem ok.  Was it unnecessary to do this in DS3A with morph loader, or has something
changed?

Your DS3 technique is correct, only the visible vertices are saved I don’t think it changed in DS4.5 (I did a quick test). In any case if you plan on re-importing as a morph, it’s not wrong to export everything since the Morph loader strips the unused values.