ShadowSkillz said:

Good day, I used this tool to convert Rune 7, it seems to work, but the converted character only appears under content library pane and not the Smart content pane. Also when I check my "Rune G8 figure" I don't see the newly converted figures character slider but i do see all my other characters sliders. Am I doing something wrong or is this functioning as expected? 

In case this helps, all my Daz3D content is on a seperate drive from my C, and the converted character is located here: V:\Daz3DStudio\Applications\Data\DAZ 3D\My DAZ 3D Library\People\Genesis 8\Female\Characters(G3F_to_G8F)

The converted character will appear in Smart Content (Files tab).  The slider should be appearing too.  What is your MORPHS path?  I would expect to see something under data/DAZ 3D/Genesis 8/Female/Morphs/PRODUCT NAME/CHARACTER NAME, which when combined with the first path in Daz Studio Formats for the Content Directory Manager should be a valid directory:

All the morphs including the CTRL morph for the character should be under there.

Hope this discussion is still monitored, the product is awesome but the "Wrap wings" morph is broken, hope this can be fixed.

Hi,

I tried to look up this information but couldnt find anything really regarding my question. My old computer died last friday and I have to transfer everything to my new computer. Lucky for me my all my DazStudio were on a 2nd hardrive which will be transfered to my new PC. My main concern are 1) do i need to reinstall everything or i can just use my old already installed products. 2) I have over 80 customized character that I saved as scenes, if i need to reinstall everything, will they work without issue or I basically lost everything (this is my main concern). Thank you for your help!

WendyLuvsCatz said:

it is up to DAZ

Pretty sure it could be but only they can legally do it for redistribution

Maya can do UV transfer but again same issue, DAZ mesh

I might try Zprojecting it to Dragon 3 for my own use though 

if only dragon3 was face rigged.

mildragon is still my go-to dragon. 

subdragon is kewl, but some poses makes his wings polys intersect. a weightmap might help with that.

it is up to DAZ

Pretty sure it could be but only they can legally do it for redistribution

Maya can do UV transfer but again same issue, DAZ mesh

I might try Zprojecting it to Dragon 3 for my own use though 

I adjusted the morph a bit more. I'm not sure when I should stop working on the morph and start on the JCMs or normals maps. The newest morph is ready for testing. I've been looking at characters for sale in the store as references. I don't know when the morph is of good enough quality for the store ahaha. 

richardandtracy said:

I call this image

"One is the loneliest number".

I offer a possible story for this image.
"Vickie has recently lost her love during the pandemic. It was just so sudden. He was only 29 and as fit as a fiddle. He got sick, feeling awful and looking blue-grey. That evening he was rushed to hospital, and she was told he'd be lucky to survive the night. That was Saturday, by Thursday they were talking about releasing him on the next Saturday. Friday, he got worse at an astonishing rate and died of multi-organ failure on Saturday, the intended day of release. She'd never even got the chance to hold his hand and say goodbye. Now today, absorbing the news the pregnancy test has just given her, Vickie went to where they had first met and she felt closest to him, ordering the same as they had eaten on their first meeting in the park. Chips and frankfurter, with coke. What a meagre meal for the weight of meaning now attached. He had Gypsy Tart to follow, a revolting local delicacy consisting mostly of sugar cooked in condensed milk. Sitting in her chair, the tears gently rolled down her face as his chair remained empty next to her. But it was the closest she'd felt to him since.. since that awful day. 

It was not the way she'd expected to celebrate their first child, celebrate their love for each other... 
Celebrate being together...

How can anyone bear it?"

Free Items.

hdri background.
https://hdrihaven.com/hdri/?h=autumn_park

Table and chairs.
Not sure if these count. I modelled the furniture last Friday (12th), put them into an image, and then realized that the image could be a candidate for the competition. I had always planned them as freebies, and offered them for approval by Rendo as soon as possible. I accept they are not available for the whole month, but will be available as long into the future as Rendo decides to host them. If they don't count, ah well, no problems.
Basic Garden Furniture by richardandtracy.
https://www.renderosity.com/rr/mod/freestuff/basic-garden-furniture/87801
Membership registration required.

Figure pose modified from:
G8F Free Pose 024 by richardandtracy.
https://www.renderosity.com/rr/mod/freestuff/g8f-free-pose-024/85896
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Top and Trousers
G8F Action by Adam Thwaites.
https://www.most-digital-creations.com/g8f_action.php
Free subscription download.

Leather Shaders for G8F Action.
Car related shaders by Tom2099. Black & white leather shaders used.
https://www.deviantart.com/tom2099/art/Iray-car-related-shader-presets-megapack-539622361
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Shoes
Olympia HH by rudy_studio
https://www.renderosity.com/rr/mod/freestuff/hh-olympia-starter-kit/85584
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Waist and wrist rope
Odalisque Outfit by Noone102000.
https://www.deviantart.com/noone102000/art/FREEBIE-Sexy-Odalisque-798199404
Mature Content, none of which are visible without the Free Registration and login that is required. I'm happy to deactivate the link if needed to comply with the TOS. The wrist & waist ropes are entirely innocuous and rather nice, shame about some of the freebie.

Driving Gloves
Driving Gloves by zoro_d
https://www.renderosity.com/rr/mod/freestuff/driving-gloves-for-genesis-8-female-s-/80439
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Heart Necklace
Heart Necklace by Amyamei
https://www.deviantart.com/amyaimei/art/My-Heart-Necklace-for-Genesis-8-Female-729010047
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Tears
Tears for Fears by Kalhh
https://www.renderosity.com/rr/mod/freestuff/tears-for-fears-for-genesis-8-iray/85360
Membership registration required.

Chips and drink
French Fries for Dazstudio Iray by kalhh
https://www.renderosity.com/rr/mod/freestuff/french-fries-for-dazstudio-iray/87453
Membership registration required.

Pregnancy Test
Pregnancy Test Morphing Prop by Foxclaw
https://www.renderosity.com/rr/mod/freestuff/pregnancy-test-morphing-prop/86859
Membership registration required.

Mobile Phone
Smartphone Prop by Foxclaw
https://www.renderosity.com/rr/mod/freestuff/smartphone-prop/87343
Membership registration required.

Gypsy Tart.
Pumpkin Pie by Erock3D. Colour of filling changed to 'cowpat' for gypsy tart.
https://www.renderosity.com/rr/mod/freestuff/pumpkin-pie/80447
Membership registration required.

No Count Items:
G8F Base figure.
Possibly the table and chairs.

Paid For Items:
1) Tritium CG custom G8F morph for character.
2) Hair, Jim Burton's Las Vegas Hair, V3 version to which I added a skull cap and rigged as a native G8F hair. Hair no longer available in the DAZ store.
3) Character texture: Hue mapped CB Guilia texture.

[As an aside, my wife & I know/knew a couple where one of an inseparable pair died in the exact chronology I described. In their case it was 'Trish' of 'Trish and Arnie' who died. She was only 42, and was as fit & well as someone born without legs can be. She competed in Paralympic events and was incredibly athletic. Arnie, 7 months on, is still bereft with the other half of himself missing. We also know of 11 other families eviscerated by this awful disease.]

BTW, this list took about the same time to compile as the image from concept, to modelling, to completion.

Regards,

Richard.

All The Links Check Out Plz Post To The Entries Thread

And more Bugga Boo goodness! This one took a little more work because System 46 didn't play nicely with BuggaBoo's surface modifier. I had to start with G8 and then add in the BuggaBoo morph before adding the surface materials to the System 46 wardrobe. There was something weird going on with the opacity of the surfaces otherwise.

Genesis 1 MorphForms + is a small set of additional Pose dials for Genesis 1. They don't add shapes, they simply provide a global slider on the Actor level for ease of tweaking animations. Let's explain:

I enjoy using BVH or aniBlock motion data to at least get my animations close to how I need them, then tweak them from there with some good ol' hand key-frame animation techniques.

Well after finding myself constantly in the graph editor in either Daz Studio or Carrara to change the global bend of certain skeletal joints, I decided to make pose-morph dials so that I could achieve the same effect easily with the turn of a dial. It's completely non-destructive and doesn't add any shapes or overhead, just a few helpful global bend and twist options to assist with poses and animations.

For more information and to download, please visit the Genesis 1 MorphForms + page

Its me again.

I just had an idea of making a plugin that optionally load morph based on the method of making a new figure. It should be doable.

Just need to:

1.Duplicate the base figure as a new figure (at least doable manually).

2. Figure out how to find all the morphs for the figure. (dont know how)

3. Let user select which morph to add to the character (should be doable but dont know how).

4. Apply the morphs to the character (doable with dazscript).

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[Best watched at full size for details.]

"Real Life Online"

Starring: Ellie and Nico

The tale:

Amsterdam, The Netherlands 11:48 AM, "Hey girl, what are you up late?" Nico said to Ellie when she called her via a video call using the Signal app. "And what are you there sitting in the dark honey?" "Yeahh, couldn't sleep so decided to play some more with one of the latest DAZ Bi-weekly Freebies and it's a full moon so a beautiful light is shining in..." (Ellie)
Nico flew to the Netherlands for Christmas to stay with her parents but was unable to fly back to Los Angeles due to the tightened Corona measures.

Soundtrack:

The Doors - End Of The Night (© 1967)
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https://www.sharecg.com/v/35954/browse/5/3D-Model/Basic-Computer-Mouse  **

#02! Dining Set by Laboratory108 (Zippo)
http://www.lab108.x0.com/lab108/furniture.html  (item 5)

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https://www.sharecg.com/v/89731/related/21/DAZ-Studio/Linda-Character-for-G3F-with-texture-maps  **
[Used her as a start for the Ellie textures by ElSinestroUno]

#13! MicCable Set by MDP
https://sites.google.com/site/mdp6gdl/  (item 11)

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[Tank top]

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#22! SY 200 Morphs for Genesis 8 Head and Body by SickleYield
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Rendered with DAZ Studio 4.10.0.123 (nVidia Iray)

Other free software used: GIMP v2.10.14, Irfanview 4.54 and PoseRay 3.13.29

Postwork: used the AltaLux Image Enhancement Filter (Effect) by Stefano Tommesani that comes with Irfanview and some filters (oa) that come with GIMP. Also used mcjDenoise by mcasual. (https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts9/mcjdenoise)

"Real Life Online"

Thanks, Sven Dullah. I like using Genesis 1 again and doing simple and fast renders. I didn't do many renders in 2020. I like your portraits a lot.

Dartenbeck, Abominable with Mortem Vetus skin is so fitting, and he looks at home with the Troglodytes. 

JOdel, I like your Hogwarts faculty and your Tarot cards. Very expressive!

Here are a few of mine from 2013. The SciFi one has M4 HiRez skin with M4 morph and stocky body morph. 

j cade said:

The problem is You're going to get different advice from everyone - some of it conflicting

 

 My personal tastes/habits

• Use spectral rendering 
  • as a result using Isadorekeegans method of a trasnsmitted color of .99/.99/.99 to fix the chromatic sss spectral bug

I'll try to go point by point here, sorry for late response by the way, the forums made it seem like my post wasn't posting and honestly i just gave up and assumed it wasn't going to work, didn't realise the post actually went through xD

Spectral rendering;

I've tried to mess around with spectral rendering before but it's honestly just confusing for me xD It's meant to make the colors look more true to life, but whenever i try to use it, it makes the colors feel wrong, off, desaturated, i don't know, it just doesn't feel right, is this at all related to the point you mentioned after?

as a result using Isadorekeegans method of a trasnsmitted color of .99/.99/.99 to fix the chromatic sss spectral bug

If so, could you possibly elaborate a little more on that? It's generally a good rule of thumb to treat me like a toddler and explain a little more than is neccessary xD

 turn down/off burn highlights/crush blacks they make things look awful - if you need to adjust contrast later do i with something that doesn't turn highlights weird colors

Okay so that's an interesting one, i found pretty good results upping the 'crush blacks' a little bit more and definitely agree with turning down the burn highlights, but i didn't really consider turning them both off (To 0 i presume?), do you keep your burn and crush at 0 and simply work with various elements of contrast in post? I'll have to give that a go :3 I think i get a bit caught up trying to minimize my post-work and perhaps do a little too much of the work in Daz itself xD

avoid rendering in a void: use a floor or scenery or physical backdrop for improved bounce light that blends your character into the scene

I've only just recently started really getting away from rendering in a void hey xD It really does make such a huge difference, completely agree :3 I love transparency, i am an absolute glutton for transparent background xD But including basic scene elements changes the game SOOOO dramatically yeah in terms of the lighting and just the overall DEPTH of the render which is huge xD

realistic morphs: a lot of daz characters can be semi-stylized. Piling realistic textures shading etc on an unnaturally shaped character is never going to look right

Ugh okay, yes, completely agree, it is REALLY... REALLY hard to get naturally feeling characters, i've tried so many times to use references to get everything just right, overlayed proportion diagrams and stuff to make sure everything is correct, i even tried to mess with Wrap3 and some other stuff to get perfectly natural characters, nothing ever works, EVERY SINGLE RENDER i can look at and be like "Ugh, something is still off with this character -_-"  I wish there was a better way but honestly i think without sculpting the morph yourself, it's just a losing battle xD 

LEARN AND USE STRAND BASED HAIR!!!!!! It will absolutely take time and effort but what's your altenative? waiting for some magical fix to come in and complaining about how bad it looks when you have another option right there? even if it takes you literal years to learn thats still faster than waiting for something. I refuse to believe that I am the only person capable of using it. So I am going to keep beating this horse until everyone grows sick of it and hates me.

Okay let me just take a moment to point out that i just LOVE strand based hair xD

It never quite agrees with me, and i've flirted with the idea of getting Zbrush, learning blender hair, trying to do haircards for laziness, blah blah blah, but i feel like strand based hair is like my white whale, like i *HAVE* to make it work xD It's a beast i cannot fathom taming but i always try xD And 120,000% agree, it makes an INSANE difference in making a character look more believably human, so yeah, don't worry, i will continue to try to tame strand based hair xD IT MUST SUBMIT ONE DAY xD

Just for some like.. Context?

I've started messing with Michael 8.1 lately and so i've got a couple of terrible renders i've done to that end;

Try not to hate on some of the lighting, i was using references with harsh lighting and simply replicated it xD

DISCLAIMER: I make male renders, clothing is optional (EXCEPT FOR GENS, they will always be covered) and they are meant to feel more natural than studio, there are elements that intentionally lean more towards stupid insta pictures than photoshoots, this is, again, intentional, please don't hate xD

https://imgur.com/a/ASetfVH

So i mean, the hair is strand based, obvi xD But it doesn't really want to behave properly xD

I think some turned out better than others, again, pretty obvi xD

I've only JUST found the 8.1 face controls so there's some janky face stuff going on but yeah...

That's my 3 most current attempts minus one which has some inappropriate wording in it that i thought wasn't appropriate.

Oh, also, i welcome ALL opinions :3 Even if people have different ideas or opinions or advice, i wanna hear and try it all and find what works for me :3

I think that's the joy of a collaborative community, we can all have different opinions and ideas on what's right and wrong but in the end, two opposing opinions don't actually have to be mutually exclusive, they don't have to be right and wrong, they both just serve as different lessons on the path to the same goal ;3

One trouble with making character shapes by scaling various body parts is that a premade pose that you may want to use will often reset those scales back to default or whatever adjustment whoever made the pose wanted to use.  It really is much better to make a morph, and you like the shapes you're coming up with the way you're doing it now, then you really don't need an outside modeling program.

Simply change the subD of your character to 0 in the properties pane, delete the eyelash prop, and export an obj.  I suggest a folder called my morphs or whatever you want.  Then you can load up a new compatible default figure and load you morph.  You may need to adjust rigging to shape, under the edit/figure/rigging menu, and I always seem to forget the ERC freeze.  Way over simplified directions probably and it's a safe bet I'm forgetting something.

There's plenty of detailed info on how to do all of this on other forum posts, but everyone always focuses on exporting a default shaped figure and modeling in other software.  Obviously modeling software can give you virtually unlimited options with regard to how to shape a character, but if you're just trying to give someone longer arms, smaller breasts, or any other shape you can come up with right inside DAZ, you don't have to mess with another program at all.  It's simple and if you've already got the shapes dialed in DAZ it'll take five minutes.

babybuick2691 said:

ShelLuser said:

Sounds like something could have gone wrong with your moving of the library. I mean... if you remove the external drive with the library and then still load your character then it doesn't look like you really moved the library at all. Where is that character data coming from?

I created all my characters using Daz Studio Genesis 3 and 8 characters.  Daz Studio loads up from my C: drive and it has a copy of My Library located under users-public-public documents-My DAZ 3D Library. On my F; drive I have a My DAZ 3D Library with all my content. I copied the whole My DAZ 3D Library to the external hard drive. This is a fresh installation of Daz3D 4.15, so the only content is from the Daz Central installation. I installed default resources for Daz3D 4.15, character essentials, dforce essentials, face transfer, Octane render kit, and required PostgresSQL CMS and PostgresSQL CMS from Valentina CMS conversion. I did not have this issue with the 4.14 version, but 4.15 and the new 8.1 have cause these problems.

"it has a copy of My Library located under users-public-public documents-My DAZ 3D Library." - do you mean that literally?Having nested cotnent directories is highly likely to cause problems.

The look is the result of some character you have recently installed having it's default value set at 100%, which means that everytime you load a Genesis 8 Female based figure, that character is automatically applied to the figure. Maybe the same character is also responsible for the Duplicate Formulas, but these problems are otherwise not related.

To fix any ill-behaving morphs (non-zero default value), do as follows;

1. Load your base figure or the developer version.
2. Select "Show Hidden" in the Parameters-Tab, drop down menu (right-click) or Pane Options (Four horizontal lines) -> Preferences -> Show Hidden Properties
3. Zero the figure (Found in Parameters-Tab, drop down menu)
4. Memorize the figure (Found in Parameters-Tab, drop down menu)
5. File->Save As->Support Asset->Save Modified Assets

This procedure will zero the default value in the ill-behaving morph/morphs, and while saving DS also shows you a list of the morphs it is changing.

Hi! Thank you for reading this. I am currently working on a character design (called Josiah bc I have a hard time saying male gen 8.1 character design attempt) where hopefully the end product is something I can sell on Daz! Progress pictures will be posted here and I would like some critique. I won't lie, this will be a long process where I will no doubt ask too many questions. However, I will be talking about what I did so in case I made any big mistakes, someone can point it out. Basically, this is going to document the creation of a character done by a beginner. Maybe this will help someone in the future. Regardless of whether or not this figure makes the cut, I still think it would be fun to show what happens!

First things first! I am aiming for a skinnier figure with less of a heavy masculine frame.

Attached are pictures of the main morph, made in Zbrush. There are no skin details or textures, the model is currently using the default Daz 8.1 male skin. JCMs have not been created yet. Think of these renders as showing just the overall shape of the character. Critique is welcome and encouraged!

Right now I am looking for people to test the morph itself and let me know if there are any super weird rigging issues. (I tweaked and double checked that the shape doesn't do something super weird, but I might have missed something. Like maybe the foot is moved and the eyes leave the head but that shouldn't happen.)

I often experience some long random delays when doing something - e.g. I was just working with some lip morph dials and that worked OK, then after moving another lip dial it suddenly went into non-responding mode for about 3 minutes.  I don't recall having those delays with earlier versions.

It looks as if you need to Adjust Rigging to Shape (Edit>Figure>Rigging), then link the adjustements to the morph via ERC Freeze (Parametrs pane right-clicked to Edit Mode, then right-click your morph>ERC Freeze - assuming you haven't already done an ERC Freeze; if you have you need to find the cotnroller in the Property Hierarchy and right-click>ERC Bake or you will trigger a Duplicate Formilae error).

thomasritzler said:

Hi I'm having serious trouble with headshop 13 with lovechild plugin.

The program works fine, it exports the .obj-file and texture content aswell. However, when I open DAZ, load a Genesis 8 Basic Female character, remove eyelashes (I also tried NOT removing the eyelashes) because I read somewhere that the eyelashes sometimes causes problems, and start Morph Loader Pro and find my .obj-file from the Headshop 13 software and try loading the morph - a popup appears saying "Geometry did not match, failed to create morph." I should also mention that I haven't been able to integrate the Headshop plugin into Daz Studio, I am forced to use Headshop as a stand alone program for exporting the .obj-file. I use Windows 10 Pro, Daz Studio 4.15.0.2.

Can anyone help med out?

Please make sure you set DAZ Studio Preferences to "Default" as shown: