Splitting FBMs

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• Masterstroke Posts: 2,331

  January 19

  Best tutorials:
  
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• Silent Winter Posts: 3,893

  January 19

  Or there's this: https://www.daz3d.com/shape-splitter
• VIArts Posts: 1,526

  January 19

  Silent Winter said:

  Or there's this: https://www.daz3d.com/shape-splitter

   Oh., cool! But down in the notes, It says it doesn't support HD morphs. The morph I want is HD...
• Matt_Castle Posts: 3,037

  January 19

  There's no tool on the Daz store that will split the HD component of HD morphs, as Daz does not give HD editing capability to end users.

  It can still split the SD component of those morphs though.
• Elor Posts: 3,323

  January 19

  I could be mistaken, but I think with this kind of characters, Rawart explained that providing a way to have only the head or only the body active lead to problems around the area were the cut was made.
• Silent Winter Posts: 3,893

  January 20

  VIArts said:

  Silent Winter said:

  Or there's this: https://www.daz3d.com/shape-splitter

   Oh., cool! But down in the notes, It says it doesn't support HD morphs. The morph I want is HD...

  Ah, sorry, didn't notice that part. 
• Silent Winter Posts: 3,893

  January 20

  Elor said:

  I could be mistaken, but I think with this kind of characters, Rawart explained that providing a way to have only the head or only the body active lead to problems around the area were the cut was made.

  It can lead to some wonky-looking transitions between the morphed and unmorphed part. The more extreme the morph, the harder it is to retain a smooth transition for a separate head morph.
• Bejaymac Posts: 1,952

  January 20 edited January 20

  Actually the seperate head and body morphs is one of the reasons G8F had such long load times, basically the more formula's DS has to process the longer the load times get.

  I make my own characters as a single morph, in my G8F characters there are 1020 formula, yet when I check split characters I regularly find 500+ in the head morph and 900+ in the body, doesn't take a genius to realise that's way more than 1020.

  Have a couple of dozen characters like that installed and it was no wonder DS was struggling to load G8F.

  Post edited by Bejaymac on January 20
• VIArts Posts: 1,526

  January 20

  I don’t have that hag yet, but I really just want it for the unattractiveness of the face. I’m working on an animation where her body has to look like a supermodel’s in silhouette;  so her posture has to look like a young woman, not hunched and crooked   So maybe there’s a better way than splitting the morph just to put her gnarly head on Vicky or some other “secy” figure. 
• Disciple Posts: 172

  January 20

  VIArts said:

  So maybe there’s a better way than splitting the morph just to put her gnarly head on Vicky or some other “secy” figure. 

  The shape splitter, together with the normal maps and other textures, might get you close enough. I've started with a supermodel character, then replaced her young texture with ones from an aged character, plus HD head detail morphs from two aged characters, and got an acceptable retired supermodel granny.

  Hallelujah!
  Disciple
• Uthgard Posts: 879

  5:26AM

  You could always load two characters. Hide the head from the supermodel and the body from the hag, parent, and done.