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FIXED - Accidental Overwrite of Genesis 8 Base Female with Another Character

3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,970
edited August 2017 in The Commons

Please help! I don't know how I did it, but I accidentally overwrote Genesis 8 Base female with a character I was working on. Now EVERY SINGLE ONE of my Genesis 8 characters are showing up as that character. Even Victoria 8. I tried uninstalling Genesis 8 Starter Essentials and Victoria 8 via DIM then Reinstalling it. And it still hasn't fixed the issue. I tried uninstalling G8 Starter Essentials and V8 and LEAVING them uninstalled then starting Daz Studio, and all my saved characters with any G8F dialled in are still messed up.

I don't know how to fix this. Every one of my G8 characters are seriously screwed up (the character I was working on that overwrote G8F was a very extreme morph - so all my saved custom G8F characters look insane right now). Please help!

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  • algovincianalgovincian Posts: 2,664
    edited August 2017

    With a fresh G8F loaded and selected, you may want to try using "Currently Used" to find the offending morph. From there, it should just be a matter of dialing it down to zero and setting the default to zero, or deleting it. 

    You may be able to set the default to zero by clicking on the gear and selecting "Parameter Settings" and looking for "Default". Set it to zero.

    You may be able to delete it by entering edit mode (r-click on the morph in the list and choose "Edit mode"), and then deleteing it (r-click on the morph again and choose "Delete Selected Property"). Another option is to delete the morph from Windows directly. The directory is probably something like "data\DAZ 3D\Genesis 8\Female\Morphs\Divamakeup\MorphName".

    I've had this happen, too, even when I haven't saved anything. I've also dug up this thread:

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/88391/all-figures-loading-with-the-same-morphs-pre-loaded-help-please

    Hope this helps.

    - Greg

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  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,970
    algovincian said:

    With a fresh G8F loaded and selected, you may want to try using "Currently Used" to find the offending morph. From there, it should just be a matter of dialing it down to zero and setting the default to zero, or deleting it. 

    You may be able to set the default to zero by clicking on the gear and selecting "Parameter Settings" and looking for "Default". Set it to zero.

    You may be able to delete it by entering edit mode (r-click on the morph in the list and choose "Edit mode"), and then deleteing it (r-click on the morph again and choose "Delete Selected Property"). Another option is to delete the morph from Windows directly. The directory is probably something like "data\DAZ 3D\Genesis 8\Female\Morphs\Divamakeup\MorphName".

    I've had this happen, too, even when I haven't saved anything. I've also dug up this thread:

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/88391/all-figures-loading-with-the-same-morphs-pre-loaded-help-please

    Hope this helps.

    - Greg

    I tried that. Nothing is showing up under Currently Used. sad 

  • algovincianalgovincian Posts: 2,664

    Does the morph show up in Windows under "data\DAZ 3D\Genesis 8\Female\Morphs\Divamakeup\MorphName", or something like that?

    - Greg

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,970
    edited August 2017
    algovincian said:

    Does the morph show up in Windows under "data\DAZ 3D\Genesis 8\Female\Morphs\Divamakeup\MorphName", or something like that?

    - Greg

    I found the morph under the shaping tab (even though for some reason it wasn't showing up under Currently Used). I deleted the morph and that fixed it. Thank you so much!!! heartyesheartyes

    I was about 10 minutes away from panic mode. lol 

    Thank you for your help. Whew. Daz should NOT let it be so easy to screw things up that bad. 

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  • algovincianalgovincian Posts: 2,664
    divamakeup said:
    algovincian said:

    Does the morph show up in Windows under "data\DAZ 3D\Genesis 8\Female\Morphs\Divamakeup\MorphName", or something like that?

    - Greg

    I found the morph under the shaping tab (even though for some reason it wasn't showing up under Currently Used). I deleted the morph and that fixed it. Thank you so much!!! heartyesheartyes

    I was about 10 minutes away from panic mode. lol 

    Thank you for your help. Whew. Daz should NOT let it be so easy to screw things up that bad. 

    You're welcome, but I didn't do anything - you figured it out lol. Anyway, glad you got it all worked out.

    - Greg

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,970
    edited August 2017
    algovincian said:
    divamakeup said:
    algovincian said:

    Does the morph show up in Windows under "data\DAZ 3D\Genesis 8\Female\Morphs\Divamakeup\MorphName", or something like that?

    - Greg

    I found the morph under the shaping tab (even though for some reason it wasn't showing up under Currently Used). I deleted the morph and that fixed it. Thank you so much!!! heartyesheartyes

    I was about 10 minutes away from panic mode. lol 

    Thank you for your help. Whew. Daz should NOT let it be so easy to screw things up that bad. 

    You're welcome, but I didn't do anything - you figured it out lol. Anyway, glad you got it all worked out.

    - Greg

    Oh yeah you did! lol I thought I had restructured G8F somehow, rather than it getting mixed up with a morph that I could just delete. When you said you had done that before and pointed me at a morph I could delete it was just finding it from there. 

    Thanks again, my friend! :D Whew! 

    I'll say it again - Daz really needs to make it harder to screw things up like that. Hard to believe that can happen by accidentally clicking on the wrong option in a drop down menu. It should be harder than that to overwrite a base Daz character.

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  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715

    The more they lock it down, the more restrictive it becomes; innovation requires freedom, which includes the freedom to mess-up. :)

    Plus, you learnt something from it, never a bad thing.

  • ben98120000ben98120000 Posts: 469
    edited August 2017

    All morphs have Default and Value for it parameters which are active when you load the figure. If those parameters are set to 1 or 100% (depending if you are using percentages or not) than that figure will load with that morph active. Since that is morphs default state and if default and value are the same amount, that morph also wont be visible in Currently Used, since currently used shows only difference from default state. 

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  • robertdanielsimmonsrobertdanielsimmons Posts: 4

     

    I found a way to do this like flipping on a light switch.

     

    First let me say...

    I suffered this issue. ALOT. Erased all DAZ content the very first time I did it. I was so lost I could not think of anything else. Too rookie to even know what to search for coming into DAZ from Blender (I tried terms like genesis 8 not loading correctly, or genesis 8 loading in morphed lol). Last few bad morph saves, I hard searched out the bad morph, then just deleted file from BASE Gen 8 Path. 

    So to begin, a little Details on the save spot or rather LOAD spot of your G8 Base should be in the DazStuido base path to the Program files folder on your current installed drive. (For me it is C/program files/daz....and so on. If you just want a Hard fix, it is this path you will need to drill into the DATA/ DAZ Genesis 8 Folders when there open morphs folder and NUKE the bad boi morph then restart DAZ and try again. BOOM, Base G8 mesh is back.


    Now, If you wanna flip this switch ON you can also do this by STARTING CLEAN new scene...diliang up the current morph work project. Go to save as/support asset/modified content (AT Bottom) It will then do the same function I just shared how to Delete. So every time you open a G8 base, the morphed asset will load in. 

     

    To turn this off is just as simple. 

    Dial OFF morphs, then re save as modified asset.

    Then once again,

     

    BOOM, Base G8 mesh is back.

     

    Hope this helps someone out there.

     

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