Morphs and injection help

TheCastellan

I got Mv, S4 and Freak and I downloaded the morphs as well, but nothing seems to work, there's no morph options to see when I click on said figures......what am I missing?

 

 

Also, what is a 'power loader'

 

and what is form m4, for example

studiocf and what is pupperteer studiocf?

 

I'm using the older Daz3, by the way.

 

 

Thanks for any help :D

SixDs

"there's no morph options to see when I click on said figures"

Unlike the newer figures that load all the available morphs when the figure is loaded, the Gen4 (Read Generation 4) figures, like V4, M4, etc. originally required manual loading of morph packages after the figures were loaded. With lots of morph packages, this could get tedious if you wanted them all, or most, soooo....

"what is a 'power loader'"

The Powerloaders were released for each of the base Gen4 figures to address the issue I mentioned earlier. If you have the Powerloader installed for V4, for example, when you load V4 into your scene the Powerloader dialogue will pop up showing all the morph packages that you have for that figure, such as the base morphs, morphs++, Aiko 4, The Girl 4, Creature Creator morphs, etc. There are check boxes next to each so you can select or deselect the morphs you want to load.

"what is ... studiocf and what is pupperteer studiocf"

When V4 was the flagship figure at DAZ, the figures were designed to work natively in both DAZ Studio and in Poser. However, differences between the 3Delight render engine used by DAZ Studio and the Firefly render engine used by Poser meant that certain material settings had to be different for each render engine. The solution to ensue compatibility with either program was to include "companion files" (thus "cf"). Sometimes the products would include the DAZ Studio materials in the main installer and the material settings for Poser in a Posercf file. Sometimes it was the other way around with the DAZ Studio materials in a separate companion file. If you only use either Poser, or DAZ Studio, you may or may not need the companion files depending on which of the above scenarios it is.

As for the Puppeteer files, they are for creating animations and are explained here:

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/artzone/pub/software/puppeteer/start

The documentation is a little dated, as the path would be Windows > Panes(tabs) > Puppeteer in DAZ Studio now, but may be relevant to DAZ Studio 3 - I don't recall.

TheCastellan

For i tried the power loader thing, and each time I tried to load M4 or Freak, I'd get some error message, and the figures would not open at all.  So I had to manually delete them from Daz.  Also, S4 loads ,but not her typical shape, mainly it's a smaller V4, and the face is just as bad, with the eyeballs slightly bugged outward.

 

And when I try to load the figures morph sets, still nothing happens, no options, no tabs, nothing.

 

 

V4 loads just just, mind you, everything works there.

Richard Haseltine

Did you install all of the Michael 4 morph addons to the same content directory as the base figure, and the same for the Victoria 4 add-ons?

SpottedKitty

Note that "installing to the same content directory" rules out using Connect, due to the way it works. All Generation 4 figures and their morph sets must be installed manually or using the DIM installer.