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[Solved] Dformers on one node automatically add their influence to nodes on other pieces of clothing

Joe827Joe827 Posts: 272
edited June 25 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I could really used your help with this.  Last week, I reinstalled windows/daz studio 4.24.0.4 and I've somehow wound up with a very frustrating problem.  When I load an existing scene or a character that I've saved as a subset, the clothing is badly distorted because dformers on one piece of clothing have added their influence to nodes on another and visa versa.

Scenario 1 - Existing Scene:
1) Clothing item A has 2 deformers on the hip node
2) Clothing item B has 3 deformers on the hip
3) Both clothing items are parented to the trunk node of Victoria 4.2.  Both clothing items are fitted.
3) When I load the character, both clothing items are distorted.
4) I look at the deformer influences on the hip of A and I can see that the deformers from B are influencing the hip of A and visa versa
5) I removed the influences of B from A and visa versa and saved the scene
6) When I reload the scene, the same problem happens again.

Scenario 2 - New scene
1) Load victoria 4.2
2) Load a shirt that overlaps with the hip and parent it to the trunk node of victoria 4, but do not fit it yet.
3) Load a pair of pants.  Parent them to the trunk of victoria 4 and fit them.
4) Add a deformer to the hip of the pants and drag the dformer handle forward.  See attached image number 1
5) Now, when I fit the shirt, the influence of the dformer on the pants is suddenly added to the shirt.  See attached image number 2

If the shirt and pants are NOT parented to victoria 4, this does not happen.  So as a workaround, I've been removing the undesired influences, unparenting and resaving.  Unfortunatley, it's been my practice for years to parent clothing to the figure for organization purposes and to make deleting figures/clothing from a scene easier.  So I'm encountering this everywhere... 

I did not have this problem until I reinstalled windows/Daz.  Is there a fit setting I'm forgetting about that causes dformer influence automatically be added to matching node names?  I don't know exactly which version of Daz I had before the reinstallation.  It was 4.24, but I'm not sure if it was .0.3 or .0.4.  I usually stay up to date, so I'm assuming it was .0.4.  I did save a disk image prior to the reinstall.  So it's possible I can reflash that to a spare drive if information from that is needed.

Again, I could really use some help with this one because it's extremely disruptive and the workaround is time consuming.  Thank you very much.

Update:  Also, in case it is relevant, I did not rinstall my content files.  My content files are on a separate drive so after I reinstalled Daz, I just pointed it to that location.

01 - not fitted.png
1961 x 1021 - 760K
02 - after fit.png
1940 x 1021 - 753K
Post edited by Joe827 on

Comments

  • garrett_3dgarrett_3d Posts: 854

    Does this happen if you hide the shirt while posing the jeans?

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 13,499

    There is a setting to have dFormers applied to the figure automatically apply to items that are "fit to" the figure ("Auto-Magnetize" IIRC). That was useful for V4 because V4 includes magnets for joint corrections IIRC, and you typically wanted those to apply to the clothes too. 

    I don't remember it causing that kind of interference though.

  • Joe827Joe827 Posts: 272

    Leana said:

    There is a setting to have dFormers applied to the figure automatically apply to items that are "fit to" the figure ("Auto-Magnetize" IIRC). That was useful for V4 because V4 includes magnets for joint corrections IIRC, and you typically wanted those to apply to the clothes too. 

    I don't remember it causing that kind of interference though.

    Leana for the win!  This fixes it: Edit->Preferences->Scene->Uncheck Auto-Magnetize.  I feel so relieved right now.  Thank you Leana!

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