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Single Dial Morph correcting. [Solved]

AbnerKAbnerK Posts: 718
edited April 2020 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

Hi, 

Yesterday I made a single dial morph [SDM] added the icon and saved it. Then this morning realised I'd forgotten the two things I nearly always forget, the navel and Adam's Apple. I have at least made a SDM for those items, but I thought it makes sense to have all in together.  But, can you save over an SDM? I tried making a third one but, that just links to two previous SDM's. Then I thought, I'll try copying and pasting the shape but that also copied the SDM. I tried deleting the SDM's but that reset the figure to G8M basic. I read somewhere on the forum that it's best to use a Shaping preset which is what I'd done yesterday first before making the SDM. Only problem is, after deleting the SDM, the first thing I did was to try the Shaping Preset I'd made but that didn't work. I have no clue why it didn't work. 

So, what is the best course of action? Is there a way to 'unpick' a SDM. Obviously I can see all the dials when I click on Currently Used in the parameters pane, but how to remove the SDM's without resetting the dials it links to?

 

Edit:

BTW, I'd forgotten, I'd also saved him out as an Actor, a character preset. I loaded that, thinking, I'd have a 'clean' figure to work with but, when I looked, the SDM, the basic one, without the navel and Adam's Apple, was loaded in. I know that I definitely saved that character preset first which, is why I'd forgotton. My Daz crashed so many times in the last 24 hours. The first time I'd not even saved the file with the character. Luckily I did remember what I'd dialled in. So, why don't I make it again? Welll, yes, I could but I'm after knoweldge more than a shortcut. There will be another character and my cack-handedness won't have got any better. 

 

Thanks. 

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Comments

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 107,971

    Assuming you created a set of links with ERC Freeze, find the link in the Property Hierarchy pane (which you can do via right-click on the sldier if the Parameters pane iss till in Edit Mode) and select ERC Bake - that turns the link back into separate settings. You can then add the extra proeprties, redo the ERC Freeze, and resave the result. Don't run two ERC Freezes on the same controller without baking between as it is likely to create the Duplicate Formulas error.

  • AbnerKAbnerK Posts: 718
    edited April 2020
    Richard Haseltine said:

    Assuming you created a set of links with ERC Freeze, find the link in the Property Hierarchy pane (which you can do via right-click on the sldier if the Parameters pane iss till in Edit Mode) and select ERC Bake - that turns the link back into separate settings. You can then add the extra proeprties, redo the ERC Freeze, and resave the result. Don't run two ERC Freezes on the same controller without baking between as it is likely to create the Duplicate Formulas error.

    WOW! Fantastic! I didn't know we could do that. Yeah! Thank you so much, Richard! BTW, I did, in the past, try to ERC freeze a second time and it really does mess things up. I only did that once. :) 

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  • AbnerKAbnerK Posts: 718
    jimmac-donald said:
    Richard Haseltine said:

    Assuming you created a set of links with ERC Freeze, find the link in the Property Hierarchy pane ... and select ERC Bake - that turns the link back into separate settings. You can then add the extra proeprties, redo the ERC Freeze, and resave the result. Don't run two ERC Freezes on the same controller without baking between as it is likely to create the Duplicate Formulas error.

    Thanks, Richard, I did it, I 'undid' the ERC freeze but I'm not sure If did more than I needed because it seemed that there was some information missing and the ERC Bake didn't appear to do anything. 

    What I did was: I chose ERC BAKE, it didn't appear to do anything so, I opened the Property Hirachy and I found the Dials I'd made, the orginal, and the additions. In the Hirachy Pane I removed those items. Then, I created a new propery and did ERC Freeze. It works but, as I said, I feel it was belt-and-braces. I couldn't see the point in finding the links in the Hirachy Pane if I wasn't going to remove them. That  might sound stupid but you didn't say anything about removing them. 

    Thanks.

     

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 107,971

    ERC Bake, with the morph set, should leave the figure in the saem state - but each property is set locally, not slved to the master slider (the one you click on to do the bake).

  • AbnerKAbnerK Posts: 718
    edited April 2020

    Thanks. I'll have a play. 

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