PerttiA said:

What does your log say after you have loaded G8.1 Female? (Help->Troubleshooting->View Logfile)

I got hundreds of warnings of 6843 and 6777 but those warnings appear when I loaded G8 as well so I don't think it's the problem. Althought I don't remember having those hundreds of errors before I installed G8.1 which incidently was the same time I also installed and uninstalled Daz Central, aka the BIG MISTAKE that screwed up my DIM installation paths. How do I debug 6843 and 6777?

After those warnings I got:

2021-05-06 19:33:18.980 Begin Loading Character Addons...
2021-05-06 19:33:19.107 Loaded Morph Deltas in 0 min 0.0 sec.
2021-05-06 19:33:19.107 Loaded file: bs_EyelashesCollapsed.dsf
2021-05-06 19:33:19.118 File loaded in 0 min 0.1 sec.
2021-05-06 19:33:19.120 Loaded file: Genesis 8.1 Female Eyelashes.duf
2021-05-06 19:33:19.125 Loaded Morph Deltas in 0 min 0.0 sec.
2021-05-06 19:33:19.130 Loaded file: PHMMouthRealism_HD_div2.dsf
2021-05-06 19:33:19.137 Loaded Morph Deltas in 0 min 0.0 sec.
2021-05-06 19:33:19.138 Loaded file: PHMMouthRealism8_1_HD_div4.dsf
2021-05-06 19:33:19.370 Loaded Morph Deltas in 0 min 0.0 sec.
2021-05-06 19:33:19.371 Loaded file: bs_TearProjectionShape.dsf
2021-05-06 19:33:19.378 File loaded in 0 min 0.1 sec.
2021-05-06 19:33:19.380 Loaded file: Genesis 8.1 Female Tear.duf
2021-05-06 19:33:19.471 File loaded in 0 min 0.0 sec.
2021-05-06 19:33:19.472 Loaded file: G8_1FAddOnMaps.duf
2021-05-06 19:33:19.474 Finished Loading Character Addons
2021-05-06 19:33:19.494 File loaded in 0 min 12.6 sec.
2021-05-06 19:33:19.497 Loaded file: Genesis 8.1 Basic Female.duf
2021-05-06 19:33:20.831 Loaded image G8_1FBaseHeadMapD_1002.jpg
2021-05-06 19:33:21.025 Loaded image G8FBaseLegsMapD_1003.jpg
2021-05-06 19:33:21.093 Loaded image G8_1FBaseEyes01_1007.jpg
2021-05-06 19:33:21.282 Loaded image G8FBaseArmsMapD_1004.jpg
2021-05-06 19:33:21.348 Loaded image G8_1FBaseMouthMapD_1006.jpg
2021-05-06 19:33:21.541 Loaded image G8_1FBaseFaceMapD_1001.jpg
2021-05-06 19:33:21.726 Loaded image G8_1FBaseBodyMapD_1003.jpg
2021-05-06 19:33:21.774 Loaded image G8_1FEyelashesO.jpg
2021-05-06 19:33:21.811 Loaded image G8_1TearOpacity.jpg

EDIT:

I tried it with other purchased characters such as Sangriart's Emmeline and the shape is the same for both G8 and G8.1. Goanna's Saya is the only one that won't work with G8.1. Saya is a HD character so I don't know if that's an issue. I can't try others since Saya is the only HD G8F character I owned.

Wonderland said:

I do like his morph but not his skin. Will probably get him someday in a mega sale only because he kind of reminds me of Stephen Lobo, a Canadian actor I like in one of my favorite sci-fi TV shows, Contiuum. 

Thanks @Wonderland - I was wondering who he reminded me of. And yes great tv series Continuum. Still miss it.

David 

Hello all,

I'm a new user Daz user and usually on forums I just lurk around and read a lot of the topics but I can't find an answer to this question anywhere.
What is the difference between a Morph and a Shape? 

As far as I understood a Morph is something that is applied to a specific part of a body, like a smile emotion.
But then I read about people applying different shapes like the Bodybuilder, shouldn't that be a Bodybuilder Morph then?
The pack https://www.daz3d.com/hfs-ultimate-shapes-bundle is called ultimate shapes but consists of Morphs, shouldn't that be ultimate morphs then?

Thanks,
Robert

McGyver said:

PerttiA said:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7eeq8/this-tiktokers-scam-cryptocurrency-took-off-and-he-cant-believe-it

 

I'm starting to feel like my acorn based cryptocurrency "Wonkles" might actually be worth pursuing...

The following is from an old post or one of my Readmes...

"Bitcoins... Pffft...
Reminds me of the .com days. 
Just like small children, investors love playing with bubbles... While I can see some form of crypto currency eventually being a stable alternative currency, I don't think the ones we see now are going to be that, unless there is some sort of radical evolution... 
In the meantime these numbskulls are driving up prices for gamers and 3D enthusiasts. 
But I'll let everyone in on a secret...

I'm currently working on an even better crypto currency... It's based on a complicated system using special acorns which are numbered and given to spiritually enlightened squirrels to bury and then eventually dig up, each person who purchases one acorn (called a wonkel) before it is buried is issued two bananas which are not actually sent to the client, but are given to a specially registered chimpanzee banana attendant who then eats the bananas and writes out a complicated passcode mostly scrawled in poo, which is scanned and then laser etched into the shell of a turtle (called a "foogie") who is placed onto a series of complicated conveyor belts, some of which lead to enclosures with lettuce or others with lava. The surviving foogies (turtles) are then mailed to a crypto bank in Romania (or somewhere secret) where highly trained turtle whispers spin the foogies on a turtle divination board that's sort of like a roulette wheel. The foogie is spun thirteen times and the resulting numbers are multiplied by the number of surviving foogies from the previous night and then divide by 2.003 and that sum dictates the base value of each wonkel issued before 14:00 hours Greenwich time.

The client is then mailed a specially trained budgie (called a parakeet) who sings them their unique transfer code once before it explodes, which they must then quickly write down in invisible ink in their crypto pass book to redeem their wonkels.

As you can see it is foolproof.

My system is based on a physical item, the Wonkel which can be horded or traded, the entire system is based on a bafflingly stupid premise like all real currency, it involves some degree of risk to increase its volatility which drives its demand, it has an ironclad security system involving exploding budgies and invisible ink and the squirrels act as a randomizing factor to keep it real... This creates a complete system that marries the best stupid ideas of both traditional physical asset based currencies and imaginary wish backed crypto currencies.

Of course in the unlikely event all the foogies end up in lava, the system collapses... Which if you were paying any attention to at all, is clearly mostly almost absolutely sorta fairly impossible.

In fact one wonkel is probably kinda guaranteed to do nothing but increase 62,000% per attenuated monthly polysegment. 
Not bifurcated yearly amortized disinterest segment, but a real time attenuated MONTHLY polysegment!

So... All I'm saying is if you don't want to look like the biggest most flatulant idiot on earth, you should get in on this before it goes so big that obnoxious Internet celebrities and Russia billionaires are the only ones who can afford this... Not only that, but by sinking every penny you have into my system you will help drive down the cost of GPUs and you'll then be able to afford a really good one when the Bitcoin craze pops!

Win-Win for everybody my peeps!"

 

So yeah... It's looking like people are actually getting stupid enough for me to make this a real thing. 

...+1

...and yes I remember the dot com fiasco.

The Blurst of Times said:

I use a Genesis 8 geoshell product from the other store by ShanasSoulmate...
https://www.renderosity.com/rr/mod/bcs/tanlines-for-genesis-8-female/127753/

Should work on any skin.
You just have to do the geoshell transfer between G8F and G8.1F, and it should work just fine.

First off, thank you Blurst for your reply.  I have that product but not familiar how to transfer the geoshell between G8F and G8.1F.  I'll try to figure it out.  Thanks again! 

thanks for the shaping preset. It works as far as i own the morphs :-)

the vanishingpoint-site seems to be repaired.

How did you transfer the M4-Morphs to G8.1M ???

zombietaggerung said:

certaintree38 said:

sid said:

I think the textures look nice over Torment, which was posted on the previous page, but the sculpt/morph of Jazz waaay too toony for my personal taste. And I want to buy all the mens. I'm yet to see a good dad-bod sculpt in the core figures (Floyd is marevolous, but he's older).

Would anyone be interested in rendering Jazz next to Sanjay?

I'd love to see a good dad bod. Something substantial without actually being too muscular or too overweight would be great. 

Tristan seemed to fit that OK, imo.

I didn't know about him! Wishlisted. 

certaintree38 said:

sid said:

I think the textures look nice over Torment, which was posted on the previous page, but the sculpt/morph of Jazz waaay too toony for my personal taste. And I want to buy all the mens. I'm yet to see a good dad-bod sculpt in the core figures (Floyd is marevolous, but he's older).

Would anyone be interested in rendering Jazz next to Sanjay?

I'd love to see a good dad bod. Something substantial without actually being too muscular or too overweight would be great. 

Tristan seemed to fit that OK, imo.

sid said:

I think the textures look nice over Torment, which was posted on the previous page, but the sculpt/morph of Jazz waaay too toony for my personal taste. And I want to buy all the mens. I'm yet to see a good dad-bod sculpt in the core figures (Floyd is marevolous, but he's older).

Would anyone be interested in rendering Jazz next to Sanjay?

I'd love to see a good dad bod. Something substantial without actually being too muscular or too overweight would be great. 

I think the textures look nice over Torment, which was posted on the previous page, but the sculpt/morph of Jazz waaay too toony for my personal taste. And I want to buy all the mens. I'm yet to see a good dad-bod sculpt in the core figures (Floyd is marevolous, but he's older).

Would anyone be interested in rendering Jazz next to Sanjay?

McGyver said:

PerttiA said:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7eeq8/this-tiktokers-scam-cryptocurrency-took-off-and-he-cant-believe-it

 

I'm starting to feel like my acorn based cryptocurrency "Wonkles" might actually be worth pursuing...

The following is from an old post or one of my Readmes...

Bitcoins... Pffft...
Reminds me of the .com days. 
Just like small children, investors love playing with bubbles... While I can see some form of crypto currency eventually being a stable alternative currency, I don't think the ones we see now are going to be that, unless there is some sort of radical evolution... 
In the meantime these numbskulls are driving up prices for gamers and 3D enthusiasts. 
But I'll let everyone in on a secret...

I'm currently working on an even better crypto currency... It's based on a complicated system using special acorns which are numbered and given to spiritually enlightened squirrels to bury and then eventually dig up, each person who purchases one acorn (called a wonkel) before it is buried is issued two bananas which are not actually sent to the client, but are given to a specially registered chimpanzee banana attendant who then eats the bananas and writes out a complicated passcode mostly scrawled in poo, which is scanned and then laser etched into the shell of a turtle (called a "foogie") who is placed onto a series of complicated conveyor belts, some of which lead to enclosures with lettuce or others with lava. The surviving foogies (turtles) are then mailed to a crypto bank in Romania (or somewhere secret) where highly trained turtle whispers spin the foogies on a turtle divination board that's sort of like a roulette wheel. The foogie is spun thirteen times and the resulting numbers are multiplied by the number of surviving foogies from the previous night and then divide by 2.003 and that sum dictates the base value of each wonkel issued before 14:00 hours Greenwich time.

The client is then mailed a specially trained budgie (called a parakeet) who sings them their unique transfer code once before it explodes, which they must then quickly write down in invisible ink in their crypto pass book to redeem their wonkels.

As you can see it is foolproof.

My system is based on a physical item, the Wonkel which can be horded or traded, the entire system is based on a bafflingly stupid premise like all real currency, it involves some degree of risk to increase its volatility which drives its demand, it has an ironclad security system involving exploding budgies and invisible ink and the squirrels act as a randomizing factor to keep it real... This creates a complete system that marries the best stupid ideas of both traditional physical asset based currencies and imaginary wish backed crypto currencies.

Of course in the unlikely event all the foogies end up in lava, the system collapses... Which if you were paying any attention to at all, is clearly mostly almost absolutely sorta fairly impossible.

In fact one wonkel is probably kinda guaranteed to do nothing but increase 62,000% per attenuated monthly polysegment. 
Not bifurcated yearly amortized disinterest segment, but a real time attenuated MONTHLY polysegment!

So... All I'm saying is if you don't want to look like the biggest most flatulant idiot on earth, you should get in on this before it goes so big that obnoxious Internet celebrities and Russia billionaires are the only ones who can afford this... Not only that, but by sinking every penny you have into my system you will help drive down the cost of GPUs and be able to afford a really good one when the Bitcoin craze pops!

Win-Win for everybody my peeps!

So yeah... It's looking like people are actually getting stupid enough for me to make this a real thing. 

Oh, I am so stealing that! ;-) 

PerttiA said:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7eeq8/this-tiktokers-scam-cryptocurrency-took-off-and-he-cant-believe-it

 

I'm starting to feel like my acorn based cryptocurrency "Wonkles" might actually be worth pursuing...

The following is from an old post or one of my Readmes...

"Bitcoins... Pffft...
Reminds me of the .com days. 
Just like small children, investors love playing with bubbles... While I can see some form of crypto currency eventually being a stable alternative currency, I don't think the ones we see now are going to be that, unless there is some sort of radical evolution... 
In the meantime these numbskulls are driving up prices for gamers and 3D enthusiasts. 
But I'll let everyone in on a secret...

I'm currently working on an even better crypto currency... It's based on a complicated system using special acorns which are numbered and given to spiritually enlightened squirrels to bury and then eventually dig up, each person who purchases one acorn (called a wonkel) before it is buried is issued two bananas which are not actually sent to the client, but are given to a specially registered chimpanzee banana attendant who then eats the bananas and writes out a complicated passcode mostly scrawled in poo, which is scanned and then laser etched into the shell of a turtle (called a "foogie") who is placed onto a series of complicated conveyor belts, some of which lead to enclosures with lettuce or others with lava. The surviving foogies (turtles) are then mailed to a crypto bank in Romania (or somewhere secret) where highly trained turtle whispers spin the foogies on a turtle divination board that's sort of like a roulette wheel. The foogie is spun thirteen times and the resulting numbers are multiplied by the number of surviving foogies from the previous night and then divide by 2.003 and that sum dictates the base value of each wonkel issued before 14:00 hours Greenwich time.

The client is then mailed a specially trained budgie (called a parakeet) who sings them their unique transfer code once before it explodes, which they must then quickly write down in invisible ink in their crypto pass book to redeem their wonkels.

As you can see it is foolproof.

My system is based on a physical item, the Wonkel which can be horded or traded, the entire system is based on a bafflingly stupid premise like all real currency, it involves some degree of risk to increase its volatility which drives its demand, it has an ironclad security system involving exploding budgies and invisible ink and the squirrels act as a randomizing factor to keep it real... This creates a complete system that marries the best stupid ideas of both traditional physical asset based currencies and imaginary wish backed crypto currencies.

Of course in the unlikely event all the foogies end up in lava, the system collapses... Which if you were paying any attention to at all, is clearly mostly almost absolutely sorta fairly impossible.

In fact one wonkel is probably kinda guaranteed to do nothing but increase 62,000% per attenuated monthly polysegment. 
Not bifurcated yearly amortized disinterest segment, but a real time attenuated MONTHLY polysegment!

So... All I'm saying is if you don't want to look like the biggest most flatulant idiot on earth, you should get in on this before it goes so big that obnoxious Internet celebrities and Russia billionaires are the only ones who can afford this... Not only that, but by sinking every penny you have into my system you will help drive down the cost of GPUs and you'll then be able to afford a really good one when the Bitcoin craze pops!

Win-Win for everybody my peeps!"

So yeah... It's looking like people are actually getting stupid enough for me to make this a real thing. 

Mystiarra said:

Lyra lil sister is adorbs.  wouldnt it be cute to put aiko3 clothes on her? or on Ava,

marako dress. or dagonessa.

You can.

Simply load Lyra into the scene, then whatever clothing you want to fit to her, but don't conform it.

Still in the Assemble room, select the clothing and enter edit (model) mode.

Reshape the clothing to fit Lyra. For this, I always begin by selecting the entire mesh and use the scale and rotate tools to get it as close as I can before making more precise changes.

Soft selection is your friend, not only for shaping smoothly, but it also shows us if the clothing has parts that are separate meshes that are not welded (separate parts won't discolor from the soft selection) - so we can be careful not to wreck the clothing in places that are not attached.

For buttons and the like, I simply ignore them when shaping the cloth to fit, then select a couple of verts that form a loop of the button, use Loop to draw a ring of polys, then increase the selection to engulf the whole button. If it doesn't loop, I just use a very high number in soft select - then move the buttons, one by one to where they need to be against the new shape.

Keep in mind that some things are easily reshaped in this way, others are not. I often just give up on the latter, unless it's something that I really want to use, at which situation I just endure and pateintly work away on it.

==============================

Once you're done reshaping:

1. Export the clothing as an OBJ - use the Daz Studio Scene preset when exporting
2. Load Lyra into Daz Studio 
3. Import the new OBJ using the Carrara preset on import
4. Open the Transfer Utility and choose Lyra in the upper left drop-down, the clothing on the right
5. Leave everything at default and let the utility do its thing!

My video for this whole process is part of my Modeling for Genesis article

There's also a whole lot more we can do with it to make it work even better. See my Content Creation Tools info for videos and articles about all of this wonderful stuff.

I do these sorts of things quite often when I'm making a new character, like Rosie 5. She's wearing all custom attire.

Another method that I've not tried on any of Vyusur's figures, is the Clone method. Whether or not this tutorial works for her custom figures, we can make clones for her figures as well!

So if the video tutorial method doesn't work, instead of using the auto-fit method he describes, 

1. Load Lyra into Carrara
2. Load the fit-to figure into Carrara (Aiko 3 in your example)
3. Reshape Lyra as best you can to match Aiko 3, including the T-pose, etc.,
4. Follow the same procedure as above for clothes, but this time using the OBJ export as he uses it in his tutorial

I've never made my own clone before. I'll have to try it!

I got the banner for the bundle, but is it really worth it for a one interesting outfit and a face morph I'd end putting on Sanjay 8? I guess not.

I do like his morph but not his skin. Will probably get him someday in a mega sale only because he kind of reminds me of Stephen Lobo, a Canadian actor I like in one of my favorite sci-fi TV shows, Contiuum. 

Catherine3678ab said:

Torquinox said:

Should be interesting. Thanks! Mostly, though, it seems that men's 3d pants don't fit the figures like real pants. They fit more like tights. Not sure more bulging will fix that. O_o

Want more straight leg away from the body?

Update: here you go.

That's some progress.  :)

For example, I am trying to morph Landon 8 into the Lycan over a set of keyframes and it works as expected transition is smooth the change from one pose at zero to the final position works fine have adjusted to parts don't clip through each other, however, no matter what I try If I set the Landon textures at the first key and the Lycan skin and hair partway through the animation the Lycan overwrites the Landon textures at the start of the animation. Anyone have any ideas for this or would be so kind as to point me at a guide on how to do this, Google hasn't turned anything up. I must be overlooking something simple steps wise, have been trying to scale the hair and its length through the sequence and using keyframes but looks like its all or nothing. Many thanks in advance

To an extent, you can just copy data directories over and point Daz at them, but I don't know if Windows will have issues looking at Mac files. (I haven't tried this in a while.)

Clean install is good in theory, but when you have terrabytes to transfer, it's sometimes better just to copy over the old.

Testing out an idea here: when applied to the figure, G8M, it will project the morph into the clothing that is affected by the legs. Generally speaking, the pants as well as any footwear that goes over the leg. Works well enough with several clothing items. It is not recommended for "robes" ...

Sigh, the attachments come and go and come and go .... here's the link for the upload at sharecg.com. {link retired}

eta: The updated one is available at Renderosity. {I don't recall if the one attached is the updated one or not and as the forum has been quirky of late, I'm leaving it be.}