Alessandro Mastronardi said:

I don't recognize any of these squirrels. Will there be a pack for the Western Hemisphere soon? What other rodents are planned?

These are squirrels common in Europe, Africa and Asia. Next set will be with american ones (western hemisphere indeed, with Abert, American Red, American Black and Variegated squirrels).

Rodents planned:

Rats and Mice (already under production)
Porcupine (about ready)
Chipmunk
Guinea pig
Hamster
Capybara
Elephant Shrew (under production)
Rabbit (under production)
And a new beaver version

I just realized that the poor rabbit is in the works since 2017 now ... Oooooh when oh when ...! If you would just release the morph and nothing else, Alessandro, I would gladly buy it and just use the fur from the squirrel ...

Truth be told, I don't remember installing it at all. It comes with Genesis 8.1 and I believe I just updated the "Genesis 8" folder in smart content once and the 8.1 appeared.

Anyway, it means the properties can have a morph and a pose together. Is it possible to export only the morph? For example, for the blink, how would one only export the actual morph data, without leftBrowOuter movement? I know how to export only poses without morphs, is exporing only morphs possible?

Hi!

I'm trying to understand how to find when a posing contol uses morph targets and which one exactly is used.

I'm looking at the new Genesis 8.1 FACS system and there are a lot of different properies. In the Properties Hierarchy tab, there are properties called "facs_cbs_...", it's not always clear if those are morphs or poses or both? For example, facs_cbs_EyeLookDownRight_div2 is clearly a morph, because there is no sub-components, it doesn't move any bones. But facs_cbs_EyeBlinkLeft_div2 modifies some bones, like "leftBrowOuter". Is there also a morph target attached or not? How can I find it?

I'm asking because I try to export those FACS poses to UE4 and I try to minimize the use of morphs, use only bones when possible.

Leana said:

For those who may not have seen it: you can ask for a transfer for your HW3D purchases which moved to Rendo.

https://community.hivewire3d.com/threads/transfer-of-customer-purchases-at-hivewire-3d-to-the-store-at-renderosity.4400/

jestmart said:

The product is built to use the G8 base UVs so there is no point in using it on G8.1

Why not? You can then use that skin for a character using the new expression system or morphs made specifically for G8.1.

And you can always use Map Transfer to create a version with G8.1 UVs if you really want to use those.

jaidawg75 said:

I've been reading this thread just as a curiosity because I have a different problem/question and this thread sort of touched on it. Nothing related to loading times but to loading morphs. Is there a way to create a new character with all these different morphs and save them permanently so they are no longer morphs and just a new character with all morphs at zero? Let's say I load G3F and I change her face and head to make her look different. How can I save her to have these morph be permanent?

Making all these zero next time I load my new character. I hope I've made it clear as mud but if this is possible, it may reduce loading times as well.

You can make a new morph and then load it onto a base figure with Morph Loader Pro.  This is useful for other reasons too, i.e. if your character has modified scale.  Scale can be a problem for some poses and animation key interpolation (I have found).  There are numerous tutorials around on how to make a morph.  In short, do your characterisation, change to base resolution, export as .obj (make sure no clothes or hair, lashes and so on is visible), import back again onto a base figure with edit -> figure -> morph loader pro.

Yes, that's probably what happened.

I just restarted Daz Studio to begin a fresh scene when I encountered the same issue with my converted EmmaAndJordi hairs again.

I realized the 'height' body shaping parameter is somehow causing the hair to sink into the head. (The character I applied the hair to has her height set to -27). No other G8-G3 hairs are doing this, only the EmmaAndJordi hairs I converted individually about an hour ago. If I change the height setting to +27, the hair floats above the head. Loading up a G3F base figure and sliding the height setting back and forth reveals the hair is not following that particular morph.

Not sure if there's anything you can do about it though as it seems to be something specific to converted EmmaAndJordi Hairs. But I will post this in case anyone else encounters the same problem with hair not following 'Height'.

All EmmaAndJordi hairs made for G3 have never had this problem with 'Height', only those converted between the generations.

I've been reading this thread just as a curiosity because I have a different problem/question and this thread sort of touched on it. Nothing related to loading times but to loading morphs. Is there a way to create a new character with all these different morphs and save them permanently so they are no longer morphs and just a new character with all morphs at zero? Let's say I load G3F and I change her face and head to make her look different. How can I save her to have these morph be permanent?

Making all these zero next time I load my new character. I hope I've made it clear as mud but if this is possible, it may reduce loading times as well.

amysparkles said:

I do not think the G8 rigging is transferred to the hair during the conversion process. I could be totally wrong.

Here's a screen capture of the issues I'm describing. As you can see, the hair does not follow the pose and behaves like a solid object. The G8 rigging is also not visible in the hair. It just shows Head, followed by the Back, Front and Side branches. Like always, the morphs are also hidden and renamed ''Morph Name_neck...'

The hair I attempted here is Ibby hair for V4. All V4 hairs behave the same way after conversion. For the pose, I just bent G8's head forward and twisted it a little to demonstrate the effect.

 

If you post a log of the conversion process, I understand better what is happening

I do not think the G8 rigging is transferred to the hair during the conversion process. I could be totally wrong.

Here's a screen capture of the issues I'm describing. As you can see, the hair does not follow the pose and behaves like a solid object. The G8 rigging is also not visible in the hair. It just shows Head, followed by the Back, Front and Side branches. Like always, the morphs are also hidden and renamed ''Morph Name_neck...'

The hair I attempted here is Ibby hair for V4. All V4 hairs behave the same way after conversion. For the pose, I just bent G8's head forward and twisted it a little to demonstrate the effect.

Timbales said:

FleetAdmiral01 said:

Update. I finally learned how to use the transfer utility and now he has his proper uniform. 

 

I should mention I have a huge wardrobe of 'Trek costumes to put them in. I could do DS9 era Kirk if I wanted to.

Did you make your own DS9 uniform?

Yes and no while the DS9 Uniform I used on my main character was custom made it was a commissioned piece from an associate, which I then ported to DAZ. Additionally that uniform is unique to this specific character. For other DS9 era characters, for now I'm using dazinbane's reskin. - At least until Star Trek Fleet Command (the mobile game) releases their version of it. That TOS uniform I used on Kirk as well as the models that became the foundation for the morphs of the TOS crew came from Fleet Command. 

Another approach you may wish to learn is making morphs to correct things.

Depending on the dress your character has fitted each has a tolerance for movement so some you might get away with sitting that character in a chair, others you will not.

That is not the end of the story, you can deform the dress, you can also make a morph control for the dress. There are tutorials on making morphs.

A simple example work flow is import the dress into Daz but not fitted to a character. Export it to Hexagon using the Daz Bridge, In Hexagon select points below the knees - shift centre of rotation near where a knee would be if the dress was worn. Twist it all about 20 degrees and line it up get rid of any bad kinks. Soft selectioon on about 0.2 will help. Now send this dress back to Daz using Hexagons Bridge. Accept make a morph. Name it "Bend at Knee."  (can save this morph once tested). If it is imported as a prop it will just become a shell and loose rigging.hence make a morph is the answer here.

It might take a few tries to get a good looking adjustment morph, I do a few and save the best one.

Test it by:
1) Duplicate the item so you have a fresh one to send Hexagon unfitted if need to redo or make another morph.
2) Fit it to your character and sit them in that chair.. apply the morph 100% and test -200% and 200% (type Knee or Bend in parameters to find it if need)
3) Set limits on the new morph according to testing.

If making a series of morphs they will generally work better if each is made from a fresh non morphed start position. This does not prohibit making morphs intended to stack but later you may not remembers to do morph A before morph B.

Now the thing about this new morph is... it does not just bend the dress 20 degrees if apply it.. that is what 100% does.... You could set it to -200% or 400%.... it has made a control to bend that dress back and forth. You have upgraded the utility of this dress.

There are some dresses you may get with no adjustment morphs, some people make lovely items and give them away as free props. These need such upgrading to make them compete with polished products. Then there are polished products, there are dresses from some of the better published artists available in the store with a tonne of adjustment morphs built in.
The simple way to save this modifed dress with the knee bend morph is just to use it in a scene once made in a session and it will save with the scene. You can save the dress as a subset then bring it into other scenes with the new morph. You don't need to but you can save it as a modified asset so any new use of the dress will have these modifications. While you are learning you are better to leave the original dress alone and make a variant meaning keep the modified thing in scene subsets.

Be careful to check if the dress has any preexisting morphs. It it has none and you add some and don't break it then it is improved. Sometimes you get lucky and find the original item has morphs you didn't realise were included.I've added bend morphs to hairs before so they can dangle down when the actor leans over and then found the product already had such morphs! 

Morphing the character can also be an alternative. Example situation: You character is in a dress that follows her well but she sits in a thin chair her rounded butt goes through the seat of the chair with the dress. Solution - make your character a flattened butt morph for used when sitting. Posing youy character just above the chair with a flat butt now stops the dress going through it.

BlueSirius said:

Agree if it can't find the texture or a morph I only want to know about it in a log file. An option to ignore missing content needs a check box.

I'll probably just find something else that works or there is an updated texture/morph and that is why the old one is missing.

+1

Yes, if the only option in the warning is "OK", there is no point in interupting the loading 

Agree if it can't find the texture or a morph I only want to know about it in a log file. An option to ignore missing content needs a check box.

I'll probably just find something else that works or there is an updated texture/morph and that is why the old one is missing.

What I am doing is running a main content library on my core systems SSD, then a secondary content library on my much larger storage drive. My Victoria 4, Genesis 1 and 2 live on the 2nd drive.If I decide I am not using a G3/G8 morph group, don't like the character, only need one eyelash morph and have 5 etc... then those extra can go to the large drive. I'm mostly working in G3.
I'm normally working in Beta 4.15 and I don't have the big drive mapped as a content directory. If my release version is slow loading I work in the Beta till it gets there... mostly I am using the release version to compose subsets of scenes I then grab into my main working instance.

In effect the 2nd Content Library is not gone it is just a "back bench" out of my main working flow. However when I am making assets and scenes using the release version it can still see all of this stuff. RE: Back Benching Morphs - I use SceneNotes text files.. where I say what I want to do and what the scene needs... and also normally have OneNote ready to pop up. The reason I mention this is if I decice to backbench a set of morphs I can just quickly expose the path in parameters... then snapshot a view of it into OneNote to tidy up later. This is to stop my work flow going off on tangents. When I do a session of "back benching" morphs I have a visual list on a OneNote page.

Mostly I will only do backups of the main content (in case of disk failure etc.) and as such keeping it lean saves time.

WendyLuvsCatz said:

skboa said:

There's definitely something weird going on with this beta, some of my characters look slightly different. At first I thought it's a bad morph, but I didn't install anything in a while and when I load the same character in the non-beta it looks normal.

This might be related to Wendy's problem as well.

I sort of fixed mine by uninstalling, reinstalling and letting it add new libraries it detected which were duplicates of my existing ones.

so now my content tab has them all repeated but it works.

I know we had a little tussle in the past (eh, it happens :P), but I'm glad you suggested this solution! I sometimes run into this issue and I figure it must be two different morphs with the same name interfering with one another and cancelling the whole thing out, leading to figures looking slightly different after closing and re-opening Studio. 

Hello Everyone, 

I am hoping someone can help me with this problem. All my Genesis 8 males apply both James 8 and Christian 8 morphs both body and head. How do I remove the morph or prevent them from loading automatically? I attach an image.

Ok, so I saved and tested a shape preset, which I've attached. There's not as many morphs applied as I thought, but for everything to work properly there's a bunch of morph packs required, so looking at the "Currently Used" morphs, here's a list of the things you'd need to 100% replicate her.

Body Diversity Morphs

Genesis 8 Female Body Morphs

Captivating HD Faces and Bodies

Faces of the World - Northern Europeans

Olympia 8

Mystique 2 - not for the outfit, but for some of the breast shaping

Sunny Bikini - same as above

And of course, Blue

I also used the HD details from Khemsit 8

MimicMolly said:

certaintree38 said:

MimicMolly said:

watchdog79 said:

For USD 38.73 as it shows in my cart, I am tempted to pull the trigger.

What I really love about Cleopatra 8.1 is her height of 163 cm. She is not your typical modern tall model, 180 cm or even taller. Awesome.

I use the scaling morphs that come with Sangriart's Osuine and Kayleyss' Aurore to get my G8Fs to be about that size. Osuine is smaller than Aurore.

What's wrong with the height morph in the base morphs? Just curious.

Sometimes that scale morph is "baked in". So if you're making a mix character and dial in a short base, the character will get short. There's times you want the shape but not the size. As much as I love to mix with her, I have this problem with Mei Lin 8.

Not at home at the moment, so can't check but some height-morphs are just scaling the length of bones, and these morphs are not transferred to clothing and hair that's fitted to the character.
Apparently not much of a problem with clothing and hair that's created for the base figure in question, but when you fit something created for another generation, the fitted item doesn't always understand/follow the height-morph.

I just spent some time to figure out what was the problem with fitting some clothing to a character.