I have a morph that changes the entire G8F but I only want the head to change. How do I do this or is there a tool that can do this. I found two ways that might do this on the forum, but they were from 3 years ago and didn't work (shaping preset and headsplit dformer).

Richard Haseltine said:

Morph Loader is available through scripting, if you just want to avoid the UI and manual operation.

Where can I find the script for it? 

MetaHuman won't make DAZ obsolete, because it will be cloud based and this means no control and no modifying of those barbie/ken characters and they will all be some kind of "lookalikes", a problem all "ingame character creation systems" do have. They seem to have just one skin texture and one normal map (for aging effect), where you can set the strength etc.

As for the cloud: If they decide to take the application down, it will be instantly forgotten as if it never existed.

Another point is the horrendously bad performance (like with every object/mesh using materials with an extensive blueprint setup) which makes it impossible to use it in open world environments. With UE5 you will still have to reduce polycounts for skeletal meshes (and foliage). Only static meshes

won't need a LOD system anymore. That's the reason why they have shown  only some dead dessert environment in their promo, but no huge forests.

The hair technology you see in the examples is something UE4 specific and probably can be used with any character, no matter if DAZ, MakeHuman etc.

As for those nice skins: This is nothing special, just some good PBR textures (with some additional maps, not just diffuse,specular and normal) with an advanced shading/blending algorithm. You only need some good textures and can freely copy the blueprint node setup and voila you have a similar skin quality.

I've heard somewhere that DAZ uses this PBR technology to a more advanced degree as well with the new Victoria 8.1?

And I'm sure that MetaHuman won't have the full range of morphs, clothing options, hairstyles, bone driven morph targets like DAZ has and it probably won't have even full human bodies. Hell, the standard UE4 version doesn't even have Dual Quaternion skinning, so the characters either will deform badly or they will always have some clothing on in order to hide the bad deformations.

To conclude I can say it will be very limited and not usable outside of UE, so any modding on a broader scale will be impossible, maybe with the exception of some minor adjustments.

i just bought Reyna and am trying to use hair with her but her ear morphs are being covered by her hair i put on her and i cant find the morph to turn down to remove the ear morphs from the hair D: i weent to properties and cant find the ear morphs for Paloma Hair : o 

inquire said:

@jbowler: OK, good to know it works for you as well. Do you think it will present any problems if there are future updates directed at these folders? Or, as some have said, if a folder is missing or not found, the installer will just create a new folder: do you think that's how it works?

An update to the Genesis 8 Female or Male (as appropriate) Starter Essentials will simply put the folders back (and it won't remove the renamed, .SAV, folders).  Such an update is certain to occur.  However I have determined by experiment that existing scenes should not be damaged; I set "Afraid HD" on a G8.1F as part of my tests.  I then saved the scene, restored the removed Genesis8_1 folders and reloaded the scene.  "Afraid HD" was still listed in the "Currently Used" settings in the parameter tab and the character still displayed the expression.  If I added a new G8.1F character to the scene that (new) character does not have "Afraid HD" available, even though the setting is still on the other character.

I believe what is happening is that the scene .duf records the absolute location of the morphs and uses that first.  If morph isn't there I think DAZStudio goes looking for it in the Content Manager and in that case it will find the dummy morph file; DAZStudio apparently has a built in search list for G8.1F which looks in Genesis8_1 but then looks in Genesis8.  The "rename" trick might only work because the Content Manager doesn't know about the "new" .SAV directories, so you might find that your fix stops working if the CMS is rebuilt.  There are, unfortunately, a very large number of possibilities so I will stick to hiding the removed directories in a .zip archive.

amysparkles said:

I hope it is okay to revive this thread. I have been using the V4 to G8F hair converter and really like it. I have some questions and issues though I would like to put out there.

First of all, I am encountering problems with V4 hair models where all the morphs are located in 'Neck'. I have no idea why the content creators decided to put all the morphs there, but it is causing a huge balagan. The hair converts just fine, but to view the morphs I have to enable 'see hidden properties'. Which would not be such an issue in itself if the morphs were not all labeled '1_neck, 2_neck, etc... Instead of their usual names. This makes it incredibly difficult to find the shaping parameters I want  - especially if the hair model has close to a hundred different morphs.

Is there a workaround or fix for this issue? I think the reason why morphs located in 'neck' in V4 hair models is causing such problems is because there's no 'neck' in either G3 or G8. There's just upper neck and lower neck, so I assume the converter cannot transfer the morphs properly with names preserved. I do not mind the shaping parameters being hidden, just so long as they are correctly named. 

Hmm. The names should be coming from the V4 morphs.  I don't believe they would be changed.

 

I also have a question. I would like to convert V4 hair to Genesis 3, since I am using G3 a lot more than G8 recently. Though you do not have a V4 to G3 converter, I did notice you sell a G8 to G3. Am I right in assuming that if I purchase the G8 to G3 hair converter, all I have to do is convert the already converted V4-G8 hair? That is, point G8 to G3 to the folder all my V4-G8 converted hairs are located?

It might not work.  I remember Sickleyield telling me that we could not chain the conversions for some reason, but I don't remember if it was for clothing or hair.

Morph Loader is available through scripting, if you just want to avoid the UI and manual operation.

daveso said:

Ragazzine said:

I'm with Daveso.  Don't need more characters. My spending way down the last few months, In fact I'm now looking at which characters and morph sets to uninstall to reduce load time.  Once again however, Elianeck has her hooks in. At the price I expect I'll buy Jellybean. I wish she would include a natural lips colour.

But ... I found 2 products in that 2.99 section that are selling for 1.50.... and in my cart showing 1.27. That's near free. Hard to pass on characters that inexpensive, plus subD level 4.  

Those at 1.5 are probably because the PA is on sale at 50% because of a release that still has an active banner. As we go for keeping only the current banner (as we usually have during these big sale months) my guess is those ovelapping will be less likely. 

It is still nice the list at 2.99, not the same as 1.99 during PC sales, but close. Looking forward for rotation in that section.

Is it just me or are the tutorials totally different than the version of software just downloaded ? When viewing the tutorials, the panes are set up completely different depending on the tutorial.. In one tutorial the free face transfer is available through the "window" tab , yet it's not there in mine.  Anyway, is there something I'm missing that says which version of software the tutorial is for?  This is rather confusing for a newbie.

I appreciate the help.

You can use transfer utility but the result doesn't stay a genesis figure after you save it. 
But depending on what your goals are you maybe don't mind. 

Ragazzine said:

Robert Freise said:

Ragazzine said:

Morph Loader and D-Form Plugin from 2006-04-22. They are the oldest products in the loit. Before that were three orders, one for Studio 2.3.3 and another for Aiko 3.0 Base and Michael 3.0 base and the third for Victoria 3.0 base. There are 1321 orders on the list. I think I would rather not have known that.

Coud be worse I have  4145 

Yes, that would be worse. Much worse. Very much worse.  Probably almost the worsest. 

Actually it's worse as there are older orders that aren't listed 

Ragazzine said:

Robert Freise said:

Ragazzine said:

Morph Loader and D-Form Plugin from 2006-04-22. They are the oldest products in the loit. Before that were three orders, one for Studio 2.3.3 and another for Aiko 3.0 Base and Michael 3.0 base and the third for Victoria 3.0 base. There are 1321 orders on the list. I think I would rather not have known that.

Coud be worse I have  4145 

Yes, that would be worse. Much worse. Very much worse.  Probably almost the worsest. 

Paging @cybersox.

Robert Freise said:

Ragazzine said:

Morph Loader and D-Form Plugin from 2006-04-22. They are the oldest products in the loit. Before that were three orders, one for Studio 2.3.3 and another for Aiko 3.0 Base and Michael 3.0 base and the third for Victoria 3.0 base. There are 1321 orders on the list. I think I would rather not have known that.

Coud be worse I have  4145 

Yes, that would be worse. Much worse. Very much worse.  Probably almost the worsest. 

Ragazzine said:

Morph Loader and D-Form Plugin from 2006-04-22. They are the oldest products in the loit. Before that were three orders, one for Studio 2.3.3 and another for Aiko 3.0 Base and Michael 3.0 base and the third for Victoria 3.0 base. There are 1321 orders on the list. I think I would rather not have known that.

Coud be worse I have  4145 

daveso said:

Ragazzine said:

I'm with Daveso.  Don't need more characters. My spending way down the last few months, In fact I'm now looking at which characters and morph sets to uninstall to reduce load time.  Once again however, Elianeck has her hooks in. At the price I expect I'll buy Jellybean. I wish she would include a natural lips colour.

But ... I found 2 products in that 2.99 section that are selling for 1.50.... and in my cart showing 1.27. That's near free. Hard to pass on characters that inexpensive, plus subD level 4.  

I suppose that is part of the madness . I have fallen for the same arguments, although I am so heavy on DAZ females that loading a character already takes ages... 

I'm with Daveso.  Don't need more characters. My spending way down the last few months, In fact I'm now looking at which characters and morph sets to uninstall to reduce load time.  Once again however, Elianeck has her hooks in. At the price I expect I'll buy Jellybean. I wish she would include a natural lips colour.

Morph Loader and D-Form Plugin from 2006-04-22. They are the oldest products in the loit. Before that were three orders, one for Studio 2.3.3 and another for Aiko 3.0 Base and Michael 3.0 base and the third for Victoria 3.0 base. There are 1321 orders on the list. I think I would rather not have known that.

Is there a way to load morphs into a Genesis figure by circumnavigating MLP? I'm looking for a feature similar to the old INJ/REM feature where you could load only morphs specific for a certain character.

I hope it is okay to revive this thread. I have been using the V4 to G8F hair converter and really like it. I have some questions and issues though I would like to put out there.

First of all, I am encountering problems with V4 hair models where all the morphs are located in 'Neck'. I have no idea why the content creators decided to put all the morphs there, but it is causing a huge balagan. The hair converts just fine, but to view the morphs I have to enable 'see hidden properties'. Which would not be such an issue in itself if the morphs were not all labeled '1_neck, 2_neck, etc... Instead of their usual names. This makes it incredibly difficult to find the shaping parameters I want  - especially if the hair model has close to a hundred different morphs.

Is there a workaround or fix for this issue? I think the reason why morphs located in 'neck' in V4 hair models is causing such problems is because there's no 'neck' in either G3 or G8. There's just upper neck and lower neck, so I assume the converter cannot transfer the morphs properly with names preserved. I do not mind the shaping parameters being hidden, just so long as they are correctly named. 

I also have a question. I would like to convert V4 hair to Genesis 3, since I am using G3 a lot more than G8 recently. Though you do not have a V4 to G3 converter, I did notice you sell a G8 to G3. Am I right in assuming that if I purchase the G8 to G3 hair converter, all I have to do is convert the already converted V4-G8 hair? That is, point G8 to G3 to the folder all my V4-G8 converted hairs are located?

As long as they haven't been saved as morph assets reloading the base is probably the simplest if the delete option isn't working. If they have been saved then you need to delete the asset file(s) for the morph from the data folder.