FaceGen - any tips to get better results?

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• nicstt Posts: 11,715

  February 2020 edited February 2020

  1. Try with both a portrait and profile image, and with just an portrait.

  2. Don't dial in the morph to the full extent; dial in what seems best, then adjust with morphs. You can then ERC freeze and create your own morph slider if you wish.

  3. Scap it and start again with new imges.

  4 Edit the images to get a better base image before running Facegen; such as fixing shading, and hair that obscures features.

  5. Accept that it's as good as you can get due to limitations of the software and/or the available images.

  Edit:

  I can't remember the last time I used the morphs anyway..

  Post edited by nicstt on February 2020
• Stoic Posts: 157

  February 2020

  Some FaceGen threads & a video tutorial

   

  https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/15280/

  https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/17742/facegen-to-daz-studio-help-for-newbie

   

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmJeDDHAO58
• Odaa Posts: 1,548

  February 2020

  Inside of facegen, it's important to remember that each pair of dots should be set up in the same horizontal plane, or as close as you can manage. The jawline dots seem to yield better results when they are in the same horizontal plane (or as near as possible) to the corners of the mouth. There are adjustments that can be made in facegen after extrapolation: it is virtually always worthwhile to reduce the shape/caricature and asymmetry sliders very near to 0, and to adjust the round/gaunt face shape (found on another tab) to a more gaunt value, because in daz, the facegen faces tend to default to overly plump.

  Once in daz, you'll often find that 50-70% is as high as you can dial the facegen face without it looking grotesque. If you have the base morphs kit for the daz figure you are working with, dialing the "Face Full" and "Face Square"  morphs to a negative value will also help with the doughy, heavy look facegen faces in daz often seem to have.
• stephenhastings_cb38e41f31 Posts: 2

  April 2020 edited April 2020

  I cannot thank you enough for your tips Odaa. They made an absolute HUGE difference in the results I was getting in my face gen-Daz 3D workflow. Wonderful help, thank you!!!!!!
   

  Odaa said:

  Inside of facegen, it's important to remember that each pair of dots should be set up in the same horizontal plane, or as close as you can manage. The jawline dots seem to yield better results when they are in the same horizontal plane (or as near as possible) to the corners of the mouth. There are adjustments that can be made in facegen after extrapolation: it is virtually always worthwhile to reduce the shape/caricature and asymmetry sliders very near to 0, and to adjust the round/gaunt face shape (found on another tab) to a more gaunt value, because in daz, the facegen faces tend to default to overly plump.

  Once in daz, you'll often find that 50-70% is as high as you can dial the facegen face without it looking grotesque. If you have the base morphs kit for the daz figure you are working with, dialing the "Face Full" and "Face Square"  morphs to a negative value will also help with the doughy, heavy look facegen faces in daz often seem to have.

   

  Post edited by Richard Haseltine on April 2020