xyer0 said:

The Dawn figures include a Bodysuit morph that bridges the creases between and under the breasts and between the buttocks. Genesis 8 should include this, as well as all new iconicbasecorecharacterfigures. This would solve/lessen many problems immediately.

Kind of what this thingy does https://www.daz3d.com/sy-clothing-morpher-for-genesis-8-female ?

But yes, i'm sure they could do something!

tsroemi said:

There are women out there literally dying from having their boobs blown up like this.

I'm pretty sure smoking, obesity related illness, cars, motorbikes, guns, overeating, drinking, dangerous wild animals, dogs (probably cats), tall buildings, roads, the natural world, knives, those weedwacker thingies, washing machines and everything else kills around a bazillion times more people than that.

It's unlikely they're going to remove the glamorized weapons, bars and balconies from the store promotions. But as they have exceptionally stronger safety issues, it's maybe a better place to start. 

 

 

kyoto kid said:

...and trying to simply reduce the size is does not always end up with the best results. Even with utilities like Zev0's Breast Control, Natural Petite Morphs, and other morph tools it isn't easy and deformities can show up in clothing fits.  Speaking of clothing, so much female clothing, even everyday styles often end up with textures distorting badly if you try to fit them on a character with a reduced bust size.  For example I rarely ever bother with striped textures on upper body clothing for many of my characters. 

Thats true for any body morph though as clothing and textures are only really made with the base's body in mind. 

Increase a bust size or even change the shape and you'll just as easily end up with deformations and texture issues (which are usually kind of worse due to the stretching making everything lower resolution), so in the same way you'll probably have to resort to the usual "make your own morphs" route. Textures are a bit more of an issue for all body morphs and would need a new UV or something similar (I think I saw a product once that had a different bust size UV, but that was maybe Genesis 3 and just that once).

SteveM17 said:

Hello, and thanks for a generous freebie. Just to be clear, because I'm not great with the technical stuff, if I install this it allows the different Genesis models to wear each others clothes?

That's the idea. Autofit converts clothing from one figure to another: it uses a clone to adjust the clothes shape from the source figure to the target one, then rigs them automatically as you would do with transfer utility.

As with all automatic systems results may vary. Some items like shoes are notoriously problematic, for example. But overall it works rather well.

xyer0 said:

The Dawn figures include a Bodysuit morph that bridges the creases between and under the breasts and between the buttocks. Genesis 8 should include this, as well as all new iconicbasecorecharacterfigures. This would solve/lessen many problems immediately.

That would be great. One of the issues I have is the disconnect between the realism of the figures and the lack of realism in the clothing - especially what's released for men. The figures have improved immensely in every aspect since Victoria 3 and Michael 3, looking and moving more and more real. There are some exceptions, but a lot of clothing looks no more realistic than what was available for V4 & M4.

The Dawn figures include a Bodysuit morph that bridges the creases between and under the breasts and between the buttocks. Genesis 8 should include this, as well as all new iconicbasecorecharacterfigures. This would solve/lessen many problems immediately.

kyoto kid said:

tsroemi said:

I can't speak for 'women' in general, but being one, watching people doin' the doin' on camera / in pics just reminds me of how excessively hilarious all of it looks really, and so is rather a turn-down for me (or a laugh-up, but certainly not very romance-inspiring). Same goes for people's privates being on display, none of them thingies is so very appealing to me as, apparently, to lots of others. I still thought it was kind of refreshing to read about some of you guys just liking the stuff, though, and I do believe sex positivity is generally a good thing if coupled with informed consent. So, fine by me. BUT (yeah sorry, but there's always a but, isn't there ...) -

- I just wish the sexy clothing would not take up so very much space in the store, or the PA's would just make more variety possible. Like, give me more morphs to move down a hemline a bit, or close up a cleavage a little, etc pp. Some do, but many just don't, and since I mostly need old-fashioned and therefore generally more modest clothing for my renders, I'm often left with not much to buy if I don't want to go into major alterations. That's plain annoying to me. But that's just my personal dilemma.

- Also - and I'm really sorry if this goes too much of topic, and it'll also spoil the mood and all - I'll try to make it quick - I'm a bit sickened by seeing virtually every woman on promo pics here (and elsewhere in 3D land) being depicted with huge to enormous boobs plus, most times, a major cleavage to show them off. Yeah I get it, the female AND the male characters are mostly idealized versions of what the public thinks is attractive at the moment, and that's boring but quite alright, but - seriously, many of these women would have major health issues in real life. I wish we would just stop portraying such huge breasts as something to aspire to. There are women out there literally dying from having their boobs blown up like this. No, not kidding. (And even the non-artifical ones can hurt like hell on certain days, lemme just tell you that buddy ...) Could we not take sober facts like this into consideration just a teeny tiny little bit when having fun? - Okay, rant over, safe to read again ...

...and trying to simply reduce the size is does not always end up with the best results. Even with utilities like Zev0's Breast Control, Natural Petite Morphs, and other morph tools it isn't easy and deformities can show up in clothing fits.  Speaking of clothing, so much female clothing, even everyday styles often end up with textures distorting badly if you try to fit them on a character with a reduced bust size.  For example I rarely ever bother with striped textures on upper body clothing for many of my characters. 

So true... Even if you find a working combination of morphs for making the bust smaller, quite often the clothing does not follow the form, especially underneath the bust

tsroemi said:

I can't speak for 'women' in general, but being one, watching people doin' the doin' on camera / in pics just reminds me of how excessively hilarious all of it looks really, and so is rather a turn-down for me (or a laugh-up, but certainly not very romance-inspiring). Same goes for people's privates being on display, none of them thingies is so very appealing to me as, apparently, to lots of others. I still thought it was kind of refreshing to read about some of you guys just liking the stuff, though, and I do believe sex positivity is generally a good thing if coupled with informed consent. So, fine by me. BUT (yeah sorry, but there's always a but, isn't there ...) -

- I just wish the sexy clothing would not take up so very much space in the store, or the PA's would just make more variety possible. Like, give me more morphs to move down a hemline a bit, or close up a cleavage a little, etc pp. Some do, but many just don't, and since I mostly need old-fashioned and therefore generally more modest clothing for my renders, I'm often left with not much to buy if I don't want to go into major alterations. That's plain annoying to me. But that's just my personal dilemma.

- Also - and I'm really sorry if this goes too much of topic, and it'll also spoil the mood and all - I'll try to make it quick - I'm a bit sickened by seeing virtually every woman on promo pics here (and elsewhere in 3D land) being depicted with huge to enormous boobs plus, most times, a major cleavage to show them off. Yeah I get it, the female AND the male characters are mostly idealized versions of what the public thinks is attractive at the moment, and that's boring but quite alright, but - seriously, many of these women would have major health issues in real life. I wish we would just stop portraying such huge breasts as something to aspire to. There are women out there literally dying from having their boobs blown up like this. No, not kidding. (And even the non-artifical ones can hurt like hell on certain days, lemme just tell you that buddy ...) Could we not take sober facts like this into consideration just a teeny tiny little bit when having fun? - Okay, rant over, safe to read again ...

...and trying to simply reduce the size is does not always end up with the best results. Even with utilities like Zev0's Breast Control, Natural Petite Morphs, and other morph tools it isn't easy and deformities can show up in clothing fits.  Speaking of clothing, so much female clothing, even everyday styles often end up with textures distorting badly if you try to fit them on a character with a reduced bust size.  For example I rarely ever bother with striped textures on upper body clothing for many of my characters. 

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I think there's some confusion here.  Epic doesn't make a version of this plugin.  I'm the original creator and sell it on the Epic Marketplace still.  It says in multiple places on the page it's available from Daz for free.  If you bought the one on the Epic Marketplace, you should probably return it, you can use the free version.  You may have two versions of the plugin installed in Unreal now.  That might be part of your issue.

I don't remember making a video for environment transfer.  Do you have a link?  I made some instructions here:  http://davidvodhanel.com/daz-to-unreal-environment-transfer/

Just ignore the FBX smoothing thing.  It doesn't matter.

If you have a specific prop that isn't working, post a link.  If I have it I'll take a look.  Otherwise someone at Daz will need to.

Hi, when I tried to ERC freeze a morph after changing it's origin point and scale, it crashes every time and it shows the following message:

DAZStudio.exe caused ACCESS_VIOLATION in module "C:\Daz 3D\Applications\64-bit\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\dzcore.dll 

DzMorphDeltas::clearVertCount()+124 byte(s)

And sometimes it just stright up crashed, no warning or crash window. Does anyone know how to fix it? Thanks!

I am not a fan of big foreheads (I'm undoubtedly biased because mine is so tiny), so I was really excited when I found the Forehead minimizer freebie on DA. But it's for G3 and I'm mostly using G8 these days. It's a projection morph, and I've tried transferring projection morphs in the past with Xtransfer with no luck. Everything seems to go fine, but the end result is a dial that doesn't do anything. Is there another way to do it that will actually work? 

 

Kaleb242 said:

So cool @The Blurst of Times! 
How on earth did you transfer Lady Littlefox's Star 2.0 for G3F to G8.1 ??? I really need to figure out that workflow!
There's so many older shapes that I want to use with the newer mesh...

No scripts, all done by hand via a tutorial on this very forum. Bethany 7 in Genesis 8.1? Star 2.0? All the same process... of course, replacing G8F with G8.1F for the new mesh/facial rig/etc.

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/177246/basic-tutorial-for-transferring-genesis3-female-morphs-to-genesis8-female

EDIT: Also, SickleYield has a more detailed tutorial on her DA page:

https://www.deviantart.com/sickleyield/journal/Tutorial-Transferring-Character-Morphs-G1G2G3G8-409437916

The Blurst of Times said:

benniewoodell said:

That looks awesome! 

Thanks

The skirt is a little weird... like any metal/armor piece that moves when you move the joints, so it might be better if I parented it instead. Same goes for the neck piece/choker.

I just really like the Betty Bot outfit, and I wanted to show that it could go a little more skimpy than the promo shots show. It's good Retro Sci Fi.

EDIT1: Also... the figure is a mix of things, including 3d Universe's Toon Gen 4, Lady Littlefox's Star 2.0 for G3F (transferred to Genesis 8.1 here), and Adiene & Jessaii's Niesha for G8F... The hardest part of playing with Jacqueline 8.1 is not morphing her face to fit my current Toon mood.

EDIT2: I think the belly button morph is actually from Angel-Wings, except I'm not sure it's available right now with her figures? (I probably picked up the dial from the other store, and her products are not available at that site.)

So cool @The Blurst of Times! 
How on earth did you transfer Lady Littlefox's Star 2.0 for G3F to G8.1 ??? I really need to figure out that workflow!
There's so many older shapes that I want to use with the newer mesh...
For my own personal art, I really enjoy making stylized characters too... dial spinning FTW!

benniewoodell said:

That looks awesome! 

Thanks

The skirt is a little weird... like any metal/armor piece that moves when you move the joints, so it might be better if I parented it instead. Same goes for the neck piece/choker.

I just really like the Betty Bot outfit, and I wanted to show that it could go a little more skimpy than the promo shots show. It's good Retro Sci Fi.

EDIT1: Also... the figure is a mix of things, including 3d Universe's Toon Gen 4, Lady Littlefox's Star 2.0 for G3F (transferred to Genesis 8.1 here), and Adiene & Jessaii's Niesha for G8F... The hardest part of playing with Jacqueline 8.1 is not morphing her face to fit my current Toon mood.

EDIT2: I think the belly button morph is actually from Angel-Wings, except I'm not sure it's available right now with her figures? (I probably picked up the dial from the other store, and her products are not available at that site.)

I'm fairly sure anime generally uses spherical eyeballs regardless of external eye shape (I mean, basically all anime is CGI now)? But anyway, couldn't you as an alternative, morph the eyeballs/sockets and possibly use extra JCMs for the eye movements to compensate? It's more work but should be a bit more robust in theory, and it's something vendors occasionally do for "extreme" eye shapes.

As a side note, most animals with non spherical eyes (like owls, who have tube eyes) don't rotate their eyes at all, just their heads. Though I assume you're using human characters! 

marble said:

I'm feeling the need for another sub-forum - a sub-forum beneath the Blender forum. It seems to me that most of the posts here are concerned with the bridge products and few about actually using Blender. I have been thinking recently about attempting to make a prop or perhaps geografts. I often use Blender to make morphs for figures and clothing. These subjects are all to do with Blender but have little to do with the bridge add-ons. 

Obviously there is a wealth of tutorial material online for modelling, sculpting, rigging, UV unwrapping, etc. in Blender but little of it is focused on making (or kit-bashining) content for DAZ Studio. I suppose that most of the PAs here use ZBrush for that but some discussions aimed at amateurs who only have Blender might be nice.

Yeah I agree.. there are lot "layers" in  Blender which we need to understand first before we decide to jump in "look like a simple one but more complex " stuff like Bridges and Add on . its like you start with Box Cutter without getting know about vanila Blender modelling . Its ok for quick job but still.... we need the basic 

Basic things like Controlling Camera - Pointing Light to object - Exclude object from render or lights -  Node shader types -  render setting - Morph creation for DAZ contents and kitbashing until Compositor "101" are topics which still mystery for most of us in here . 

You can create special thread/post about Tips of creating Morph for character and Clothing , so if people needed they know which one post/thread they need to follow .

That looks as if you have loaded a morph which was made with the figure moved forward from its default position. If that is what happened, the best solution would be to try to line the OBJ for the morph up with the default figure position, export the OBJ again to make the new positon permanent, and then import that OBJ as the morph.

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看起来您好像已经加载了一个变形，该变形是通过将图形从其默认位置向前移动而制成的。 如果发生了这种情况，最好的解决方案是尝试将变形的OBJ与默认的图形位置对齐，再次导出OBJ以使新的正子永久化，然后将该OBJ导入为变形。

I haven't really found a any one single vendor, as it completely depends on what kind of eyes I'm needing at the time. Mousso figures have nice eyes, though the scleras can be a bit bright (which is an issue with so many eyes in general). There are also some G8 core figures who have really nice eyes...Monique 8 comes to mind. I also tend to use a mish mash...so like for example with this image, I used Mousso eyes with a manual shader adjustment to make them purple in conjunction with the Natural Eyes HD morph - 

For G8.1, I really haven't found any eyes that I like more than the ones that come with the new core figures. I have Michael 8.1, Victoria 8.1, and Torment 8.1 and I just pick one of those eyes for whatever character I'm working on. I purchased a couple 8.1 eye products and I haven't been able to top the eyes that come with those three characters yet. 

Hey there, 

It's been a looking i'm trying to find where the problem is.. it's look like the morph aren't exported or something. The mesh of the character is different for daz to C4D. Are you experiencng the same problem ? 

If you have solution that be great. Have a good day

Also trying to figure this out. This is my best guess currently. A few au seems to map to the same slider. Some are a bit more questionable, let me know if you find better matches.

Edit: Also most of those can be seperated into left and right morph.

AU	FACS name	DAZ	AU	FACS name	DAZ
0	Neutral face		41	Lid droop	?? AU43
1	Inner brow raiser	Brow Inner Up Left/Right	42	Slit	?? AU43
2	Outer brow raiser	Brow Outer Up Left/Right	43	Eyes closed	Eye Blink Left/Right
4	Brow lowerer	Brow Down Left/Right	44	Squint	?? AU43
5	Upper lid raiser	Eye Wide Left/Right	45	Blink	AU43
6	Cheek raiser	Cheek Squint Left/Right	46	Wink	AU43
7	Lid tightener	Eye Squint Left/Right	50	Speech
8	Lips toward each other	?? Partial Mouth Press AU24	51	Head turn left	Neck-Head Twist
9	Nose wrinkler	Nose Sneer Left/Right	52	Head turn right	Neck-Head Twist
10	Upper lip raiser	Mouth Upper Up Left/Right	53	Head up	Neck-Head Bend
11	Nasolabial deepener		54	Head down	Neck-Head Bend
12	Lip corner puller	AU13	55	Head tilt left	Neck-Head Side-Side
13	Sharp lip puller	Mouth Smile Left/Right	M55	Head tilt left	AU55
14	Dimpler	Mouth Dimple Left/Right	56	Head tilt right	Neck-Head Side-Side
15	Lip corner depressor	Mouth Frown Left/Right	M56	Head tilt right	AU56
16	Lower lip depressor	Mouth Lower Down Left/Right	57	Head forward
17	Chin raiser	Mouth Shrug Lower/Upper	M57	Head thrust forward
18	Lip pucker	Mouth Pucker	58	Head back
19	Tongue show	Tongue Out	M59	Head shake up and down
20	Lip stretcher	Mouth Stretch Left/Right	M60	Head shake side to side
21	Neck tightener		61	Eyes turn left	Eye Look Side-Side Left
22	Lip funneler	Mouth Funnel	M61	Eyes left	AU61
23	Lip tightener	AU24 (partial)	62	Eyes turn right	Eye Look Side-Side Right
24	Lip pressor	Mouth Press Left/Right	M62	Eyes right	AU62
25	Lips part	??? Partial Mouth pucker	63	Eyes up	Eye Look Up-Down Left/Right
26	Jaw drop	Jaw Open @ 50%	64	Eyes down	Eye Look Up-Down Left/Right
27	Mouth stretch	Jaw Open @ 100	65	Walleye	AU61/62
28	Lip suck	AU24	66	Cross-eye	AU61/62
29	Jaw thrust	Jaw Forward (unknown placement for Jaw Recess)	M68	Upward rolling of eyes	AU63
30	Jaw sideways	Jaw Left/Right	69	Eyes positioned to look at other person	N/A
31	Jaw clencher		M69	Head and/or eyes look at other person	N/A
32	[Lip] bite		80	Swallow
33	[Cheek] blow		81	Chewing
34	[Cheek] puff	Cheek Puff Left/Right	82	Shoulder shrug
35	[Cheek] suck		M83	Head upward and to the side
36	[Tongue] bulge		84	Head shake back and forth
37	Lip wipe		85	Head nod up and down
38	Nostril dilator	Nasal Flare	91	Flash
39	Nostril compressor		92	Partial flash
40	Sniff		97*	Shiver/tremble
			98*	Fast up-down look