@carrie58 Thanks for the suggestions. I don't have many V4 items, but it may be interesting to get them so that I can use them on a character with autofit. I've been seriously thinking about creating a TriAx V4 (as I did with V3/A3 described in a tutorial here ) to enable other generation's clothing to work - but it involves a significant amount of time. However, the 'V4 for Genesis 2' product may swing the balance in the other direction. Will have to see if they are ever significantly discounted.

@mding Those are good suggestions. I have 2 items of the Ranger set already (must have been freebies at some time), but the rest are definitely worth the outlet price. They look really good. I have the morph set - they were needed to get some of Lyonesse's characters to work. And, much to my surprise, I have the core characters in my product library. They all show as having been freebies over the years, with purchase dates as early as 2021. No wonder I can't remember getting them, I can barely remember last week. I'm less keen on the monsters, I must admit.

As for untapped potential. I totally agree. When you look at the technical advances in rendering over the years, when applied to the older characters , it makes me so sad that no-one has taken the time to update the older ones, and assess how much of an advance has actually been made. I mostly use G8F, but the base character is only a relatively small advance over G3F (as shown by the huge levels of compatibility between them). I feel G9 has a disappointing level of technical advance over G8, being better in portrait close-ups, but the ease of accidentally noodling the joints and making the limbs look like rubber is a huge retrograde step. However there seems to be a huge difference between G2 & G3. I'm sure most of that is actually down to the introduction of Iray, and the older G2 characters not being updated to Iray.

@xyer0 Thanks. I had to look up what a 'maven' was. Not convinced you're right, but I try to share what little I do know. When I first saw the word 'Maven' I thought it might be related to the Hobbit word 'Mathom' as found in LOTR, and you were [rightly?] suggesting I was an unwanted lump to be passed around as fast as possible.. .

The image. Wee. Full of action. Wouldn't like to meet either on a dark night!

Regards,

Richard

The folder structure in the data directory is usually created by Daz Studio when someone is saving a prop / a clothing item or a morph, so the morphs should be somewhere like this:

/data/[vendor name]/[outfit name]/[dress name]/Morphs/[vendor name]/

And inside you will likely see a Base folder and all morphs related to the dress should be here.

As far as I know, morphs located inside the /Morphs folder of an item will be automatically loaded with the item they are related to.

Descriptions of the preset from Product page:
 

DA Horse 2 UV for Horse 3 Base Figure.duf
This figure is designed for use with the base Daz Horse 3 figure and applies the DA Horse 2 UV transfer and modified surface areas to enable compatibility with textures originally made for DA Horse 2. (Surface names and geometry selection aligned to Horse 2 with Daz Horse 3 figure compatibility.)

DA Load Horse 2 Mat from Library.dsa
This script loads the original Daz Horse 2 material onto the custom Daz Horse 3 figure using the compatible UV and surface settings.

DA Load Horse 3 Mat from Library.dsa
This script applies the original Daz Horse 3 materials to the custom Daz Horse 3 figure using the custom UV/surface setup.

DA dForce Hair Convert Horse 3 to Horse 2 UV Parameters.dsa
This script adjusts the dForce hair material parameters to better match the DA Horse 2 UVs on the custom Horse 3 figure.

DA Iray Horse 2 Iray Converter Coarse.duf & DA Iray Horse 2 Iray Converter Glossy.duf
Apply an Iray conversion to pre-applied Horse material presets, mainly used for updating older 3Delight materials to Iray compatibility. Two variations: glossy or coarse fur settings.

(Utility) dForce Hair Converter to Horse 2 UV.duf
Base material preset for use by included script "DA Dforce Hair Convert Horse 3 to Horse 2 UV Parameters.dsa."

(Utility) Change UV on all surfaces — Apply after Horse 2 Mat.dsa
When applying a Horse 2 material directly to the custom base figure, this small script applies correct surface settings to convert the preset to display correctly. This is an optional utility script for select use cases, such as loading Horse 2 presets directly without the script helper.

(Utility) Copy Horse 3 Surfaces to Horse 2 Surfaces.dsa
When applying a Horse 3 material directly to the custom base figure, this small script applies correct surface settings to convert the preset to display correctly. This is an optional utility script for select use cases, such as loading Horse 2 presets directly without the script helper.

crosswind said:

Usually there're two ways to locate morph files (DSF files...):
- Filter or locate the morph property in Parameters or Shaping pane, click the gear icon on the right of the morph slider to open Parameter Settings... You'll find a field of File Path, click the browse button to locate the morph in Data folder.
- Directly find the morph file in File Browser. The morph files of character products are always within: your DAZ3D Library\data\DAZ 3D... then for example, drill down to your DAZ3D Library\data\DAZ 3D\Genesis 9\Base\Morphs  to locate G9's characters' morphs, by vendors.

On Readme page of a product, as long as there're any DSF files in the product package, you should be able to find the location of morph files by clicking File List

thanks. its actually a dress from Rendo, so the structure might not be the same? so the morphs are dress movements basically. I've had this problem finding morphs from other products from Rendo as well. there are a lot of morphs within the data folder, but maybe nothing to call them up? I'm at a loss. I've never liked Content library.   
Anyway, my orkflow to install is the extract the files, copy them, and then paste them into the MY DAZ 3D Library folder. I works for most products, but not all. The morphs included in this package are DSON not DSF. 

Usually there're two ways to locate morph files (DSF files...):
- Filter or locate the morph property in Parameters or Shaping pane, click the gear icon on the right of the morph slider to open Parameter Settings... You'll find a field of File Path, click the browse button to locate the morph in Data folder.
- Directly find the morph file in File Browser. The morph files of character products are always within: your DAZ3D Library\data\DAZ 3D... then for example, drill down to your DAZ3D Library\data\DAZ 3D\Genesis 9\Base\Morphs  to locate G9's characters' morphs, by vendors.

On Readme page of a product, as long as there're any DSF files in the product package, you should be able to find the location of morph files by clicking File List

mummystoat said:

I have it installed with 4.3, not super impressed.
It exports the OBJ wonderfully well. I haven't had one success with materials yet and with almost no documentation to help, it's basically a dead end.

It relies on a PrincipledBSDF shader setup in Blender. PrincipledBSDF, from what I understand, is an open physically based rendering format (PBR). Iray is a PBR engine with equivalent material slots in its shaders. If a Blender mesh doesn't have PrincipledBSDF shaders nodes applied, this product can't bake/convert them to Iray shaders. Instead, you'll only get the mesh.

I don't buy a lot of Blender products, but most of those I own don't have that shader setup and don't transfer materials. Some of them I can sort of convert to PrincipledBSDF manually and they sort of work. The Blender products I own that do have PrincipledBSDF shaders are transferred to Daz/Iray perfectly.

I don't use Blender much and struggled to figure out the product. I thought it wasn't working, but it was a combination of not the best documentation and my severe lack of Blender shading systems. Having learned a little about those, the documentation seems more adequate (at least on the marketplace I bought it from). 

golem841 said:

Artini said:

Would be great to have a utility to find and fix duplicate formula problems.

It's a must have, if it ever happen. 

These should be fixed at source as the issue is naming - if people do their own renaming then it will not be the same as other people's or an eventual real fix, which may cause the fixed morph to stop aplying in saved characters or scenes.

Yes, Morph Loader Pro gives you an option to import the morph for grafts - it's a button that gives a list when clicked, Import Morphs For or something like that.

@richardandtracy: That is an incredible V3 Render!! It really shows the unused potential we have considering our old assets!

If I look at the Outlet Store, the https://www.daz3d.com/ranger-bundle-for-genesis-2-female-s seems to me especially useful, as it includes many assets, and also, if you don't own it yet, the https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-2-female-morphs-bundle for 1$ (several characters require the two morph packs included).

Then DAZ Core Characters: 

https://www.daz3d.com/victoria-6

https://www.daz3d.com/michael-6

https://www.daz3d.com/aiko-6

https://www.daz3d.com/keiko-6

https://www.daz3d.com/minotaur-6-hd-for-genesis-2-male-s with the https://www.daz3d.com/minotaur-6-hd-premiere-add-on-bundle

If you already own https://www.daz3d.com/reptilian-6-hd-for-genesis-2-male-s then there is the https://www.daz3d.com/reptilian-6-hd-premiere-add-on-bundle for 1$.

The rest depends on what you are looking for / what you like,

Finally got it installed and tried it out. Just simple object transfer, but it was instantanius. Moving things back and forth between programs was great. It was a real pain trying to find out how to install the program. Download manually, find the read me file in the zip and your good to go.

I know I can export the Genesis models into blender as an .obj, edit their shape a bit, and then import the .obj back into Daz to serve as a morph. Is this possible to do if a geo-graft is attached to the figure? An example would be if a tail geo-graft is attached to the genesis figure, exported the figure with the tail attached as a .obj, edit the figure's and tail's shape together to make sure the design is perfect, and then import back into daz to serve as a morph for the genesis figure + tail geo-graft combo.

Is this possible? 

- The easiest way is to: instead of fitting the glasses to the figure, just parent the glasses as a Smart Prop onto figure's head and tweak its Transforms.
- Or, if the character has a single head morph, in Parameters pane, Show Hidden Properties... zero that auto-follow head morph on the glasses.
- Or, remove generated morph by using Rigidity Group ~~

This script is a diagnostic tool designed to perform an in-depth scan of a figure's morphs to identify potential issues that may interfere with:

• Wearables such as hair or clothing
• Poses
• Other morphs or characters
• Rendering results

Originally, the script was developed to troubleshoot unexpected behavior I encountered while creating clothing items. Specifically, I noticed that certain body-cbs morphs were activating incorrectly during specific bone rotations in the Genesis base figure. These morphs were not supposed to trigger under those conditions, which led me to investigate further.

What began as a simple utility has evolved into a comprehensive morph analysis tool. It now allows for the isolation and inspection of problematic morphs that may affect your workflow. The script presents its findings in an interactive dialog, enabling you to easily identify and isolate potential problematic morphs.

Additionally, it uses severity flags to highlight the impact of each issue, allowing you to quickly spot major problems at a glance.

The script performs the next tests in full scan mode:

• Not in 'Hidden' or 'Actor' group
• The initial value is not the default.
• Not hidden morph in "Hidden" group.
• Has no "Limits" enabled.
• Has No controllers.
• Has [Multiply] but not [Add]
• Has no [Multiply] controllers.
• Not "Modifier/Shape" in "Actor" group
• Not "Modifier/Corrective " in " Hidden " group
• Not "Modifier/Pose " in " Pose Controls " group

A 20-page manual is included to guide you in using the script and evaluating the results.

The linked video demonstrates the script.

If you're a character creator looking to set up custom morph controllers for your figure easily, this script is made for you.

'Setup Figure's Morphs Multiplication' is a tool that allows you to link your custom morphs with a base figure morph using one of three modes, ensuring the correct activation and behavior of your morphs.

The linked video demonstrates the script.

I think it may be a plugin I recently bought from a different marketplace, which reminds me me I still need to leave a review there. Dev is responsive and patched a bug I reported within a few days.

I bought it to test out the feasibility of transferring Blender scenery into Daz. As for does it do what it says? Yes, it does, with three caveats for my particular use case. 

The first caveat is that most of the Blender scenes I tested didn't transfer iRay textures. That's not the plugin's fault. Instead, I learned that the number of Blender products that have PrincipleDBSDF shaders was a lot smaller than I'd hoped. But even for those products, you can transfer all the meshes, cameras and lights.

Second, most of the time the UVs on the products I tested were poor. That made it impossible to apply my own iRay shaders inside of Daz.

Third, many Blender scenes seem to often rely on particle systems to achieve their look in the Blender rendering engines. I think those are Blender specific.

On the whole, I found my issues to be with the quality of Blender products, but for those Blender products of a higher and more universal setup, yes it works and very well. And it's far quicker than baking materials in Boender manually and exporting meshes individually - both in the manual work needed and in the baking process.

Since you're using Faceform Wrap, you can do map transfer with it. 

A key step is to use Texture Atlas in the process... Thanks to Jay Versluis who ever wrote a detailed post, you better firstly check it here: https://www.versluis.com/2022/11/converting-skin-textures-for-use-with-genesis-9/ ; (G8 > G9)

We ever discussed about how-to by using Wrap in these threads, though it was for G9 > G8, but the process would be almost the same. Hope they can help to some extent. 
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/691881/use-g9-skin-on-g8/p1
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/701781/attempting-to-apply-a-texture-atlas-texture-map-to-an-exported-obj-mesh

Besides, yes, you can also project and bake texture maps across different UVs in Blender... but in my experience there'll be artifacts on the result.. especially with setting Daz3D Genesis figure as the target. 

kpr said:

faeleshstudios said:

crosswind said:

If you know sculpting, you can easily make an Earless morph for the figure, like the one I roughly made in the screenshot down below.

Would you be willing to sell me this morph? It's the last thing I need to move forward and I can't find ANY earless morph on the shop for G9  

(Not wishing to stop crosswind making a sale but) you might want to look at this https://www.daz3d.com/easy-geometry-hider

(at least, I think it will "do" ears)

Ah, I never sell things in the forum though some kind folks in here usually buy me coffees or pay for commissions.

BTW, Easy Geo Hider is a good product esp. easy for creating conditional grafts... but it won't help with OP's case because it mainly works on conformers rather than a close-looped softbody ~~

Whichever of its "ways" will just bring "two holes" on the Ears region.

faeleshstudios said:

crosswind said:

If you know sculpting, you can easily make an Earless morph for the figure, like the one I roughly made in the screenshot down below.

Would you be willing to sell me this morph? It's the last thing I need to move forward and I can't find ANY earless morph on the shop for G9  

Oh, it's just a morph. Pls feel free to use it!

Just extract the data folder winthin ZIP file to the root dircectory of you Daz Library. The morph is under Actor/Head/Ears/Morphs in Parameters pane, or just filter by Earless. 

faeleshstudios said:

crosswind said:

If you know sculpting, you can easily make an Earless morph for the figure, like the one I roughly made in the screenshot down below.

Would you be willing to sell me this morph? It's the last thing I need to move forward and I can't find ANY earless morph on the shop for G9  

(Not wishing to stop crosswind making a sale but) you might want to look at this https://www.daz3d.com/easy-geometry-hider

(at least, I think it will "do" ears)

crosswind said:

If you know sculpting, you can easily make an Earless morph for the figure, like the one I roughly made in the screenshot down below.

Would you be willing to sell me this morph? It's the last thing I need to move forward and I can't find ANY earless morph on the shop for G9