SaintOfTheDragons said:

namffuak said:

The Package Archive is the directory DIM downloads to; there are no useable Studio files in this directory, just .dsx and .zip files with names that start IM0. DIM reads files from this directory, unzips them, and writes the contents to the Studio content library directory (or directories).

Got it. So if I want to easily transfer DAZ3DIM it sounds like I need to make a new folder on my hard drive to download the package files. Every time I move to a different machine, just set the Package Archive to that folder.

Back when DIM came out my internet was dial-up and I was downloading to an external drive on my laptop at Starbucks, then bringing it home and installing on the main system. DIM just made the process a lot easier. Download to the external drive, go home, plug the drive into the main system, fire up DIM in off-line mode on that system, and do the installs.

Petra said:

It sounds that the hair and clothes are not fitted to the character, so when you add this morph, the character gets taller and with that everything that is not fitted or parented will not move with the characters body when it is changed.

They actually are fitted though. I use the transfer utility and when I select a body part in the scene tab (but not in the larger scene workspace - because little red circle) and then use the pose slider, the body and garment do actually pose. The hair is fitted and parented and poses as well except when I use that one particular morph in question.

namffuak said:

The Package Archive is the directory DIM downloads to; there are no useable Studio files in this directory, just .dsx and .zip files with names that start IM0. DIM reads files from this directory, unzips them, and writes the contents to the Studio content library directory (or directories).

Got it. So if I want to easily transfer DAZ3DIM it sounds like I need to make a new folder on my hard drive to download the package files. Every time I move to a different machine, just set the Package Archive to that folder.

going crazy again.  trying to use the basic wear panty expand all morph.  it keeps popping back to 0

tried saving it to carrara.  didnt help

With the weight-mapped figures the geoemtry and modifiers (such as morphs) belong to the figure, so no you can't selectively apply a morph. There are workarounds for non-HD morphs (Shape Splitter in the store, or export as OBJ and reload with a weight map from a dForm used to attenuate the effect - act as a mask, if you like) but they all involve creating a new morph.

cant recognize the deformations maybe better attach 2 images, default pose and posed

in parameter tab check the wheel right to the heart, parameter settings, of the slider that gives you the issue (collar bend maybe?)

and check what is connected (ERCs) you should only see collar related morphs and 1 pectoral, if i am not wrong

in any case if there is something about the nipple it should be an error,

also load the development base character  and check if there are active morphs with a default value non zeroed

in that case set the default value to zero in the same parameter settings window and overwrite that single morph asset

or you can reinstall all the g8 package, if there is an error for sure is not about the original files

Is it still possible to apply full body morphs, such as Behemoth, partially? 'In the olden days', one could go into a body part and manually dial even a full body morph back down to 0%, but it'd appear that in D|S 4, that capability is no longer there?

meipe said:

Masterstroke said

So if you are creating morphs, clothes, hair, geo grafts or any other add ons, use the Genesis 8 Female base, not Victoria 8.

 

If you create geografts, vicky morph will be transfered to the geograft. And if the result isn't good, you have to edit the morph to correct it. With such an asymmetric geometry you can say goobye to mirroring your sculting tool.

pardon me, now i see, about the nose tip i was thinking it was on Y axis on front view, thights zone also its clearly visible

no errors on my few g8 geografts for the moment

@cclesue Wow, thanks for that info. Jorja is definitely the most "latina" looking morph around. Nice tip ! :)

It sounds that the hair and clothes are not fitted to the character, so when you add this morph, the character gets taller and with that everything that is not fitted or parented will not move with the characters body when it is changed.

It's better to have what you render around the origin when rendering in Iray. When your item is far from origin there can be render artifacts where you have surfaces close to each other, like iris and cornea in the eyes. From what I understood that's due to Iray using a fixed number of digits to represent position: when an item is far from origin it needs more digits for the "main" part of the position so it has fewer digits availables for decimals, so there can be rounding errors causing surfaces which are close to be located at the same place when rendered.

IIRC there's a morph available somewhere to move the cornea a bit farther away, which can help reducing that kind of problem.

nicstt said:

shadowhawk1 said:

Charlie Judge said:

shadowhawk1 said:

I don't have GenX,The V4 morph I have was done by someone on DA and they also did a G2 for G3, but the set I seem to remember was sold in the store here.

See your PMs. I sent you a link to a DA one but I don't think it was ever sold at DAZ

 Thanks Charlie, I do have that one but the face seems a bit off when it is loaded. I appreacite the PM letting me know about it.  

I don't know why but I just have this vidid memory of there being a V4 or Gen 4 legacy morph set for G3 right after it came out, and remember it was a big deal but I ahven't seen it for a long time. Maybe I have lost my last marble and all I have left are rocks.  Thanks for everyone that has tried to help me with this

Our memories are notoriously unreliable. 

Funny though, how important eye witness testanomy is in a court of law, whereas scientific proof ignores it completely becuase of said unreliability.

 Back when I went through the Police Academy, one of the things my instructors always said that if you interview 10 people at a crime scene you will get 10 different stories and those 10 stories will become 20 under cross examination. 

TheKD said:

If that works, then there is no need. Just load g8.1 base, use the shape and skin presets from the vendor folder, then save that as a new preset. I don't have 8.1 installed yet, and won't be doing it for a while probably, so can't test the process myself.

shadowhawk1 said:

Charlie Judge said:

shadowhawk1 said:

I don't have GenX,The V4 morph I have was done by someone on DA and they also did a G2 for G3, but the set I seem to remember was sold in the store here.

See your PMs. I sent you a link to a DA one but I don't think it was ever sold at DAZ

 Thanks Charlie, I do have that one but the face seems a bit off when it is loaded. I appreacite the PM letting me know about it.  

I don't know why but I just have this vidid memory of there being a V4 or Gen 4 legacy morph set for G3 right after it came out, and remember it was a big deal but I ahven't seen it for a long time. Maybe I have lost my last marble and all I have left are rocks.  Thanks for everyone that has tried to help me with this

Our memories are notoriously unreliable. 

Funny though, how important eye witness testanomy is in a court of law, whereas scientific proof ignores it completely becuase of said unreliability.

WendyLuvsCatz said:

https://www.daz3d.com/v4-and-m4-shapes-for-genesis

but I have actually used GenX to get that onto genesis 3

 

 

I tried using Gen X a few times and it was a disaster, so I gave up on it and haven't tried it again. Also I have found that pretty much all of the conversion software available for figures always has some kind of error in it and doesn't transfer the greatest. 

Rufus Coppertop said:

In addition to the return of problems I thought I'd fixed yesterday with help from Richard and others, the problems are all back.

When I try to customize a figure with the elongate abdomen morph in Shape Shifter, the shoulders burst up through the tanktop straps and the hair which was on the head is now a nose level beard.

It only happens with that morph.

And now for the NEW & THRILLING BONUS PROBLEM...................I can't select anything in the scene workspace. There's a little red circle rather than an actual arrow cursor.

 

 That sounds like you have a Tool other than Node Selection or Universal selected.

2021-01-30 23:40:51.025 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\sdksource\fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5759): Could not find output property for formula: Genesis8Female:/data/DAZ%203D/Genesis%208/Female/Morphs/D.Master/Auto%20Face%20Enhancer%20Female/G8Female%20PowerPose%20Female/AFE%20Brow%20Zero%20PP.dsf#Brow%20Master%20Center?value in file : /data/DAZ%203D/Genesis%208/Female/Morphs/3D-GHDesign/BooNanza/GHD%20BuggaBoo%20Eyes%20Elfin.dsf
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okay has dax merged I bunch of items into one string?
it looks like it's looking for something for "Genesis8Female" in data>Daz 3D>Genesis>Female/Morphs/D.Master/Auto Face Enhancer/Female/G8Female PowerPose Female/AFE Brow Zero.dsf Master Center?value in file/data Daz 3d/Genesis Female/Morphs/3DGHDesign/BooNanza/GHD BuggaBoo Eyes Elfin. dsf
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Okay, I can find the Eyes Elfin where they should be in genesis 8 folder in the runtime I installed it in. 
But where are all the genesis calls and I uninstalled the auto face enhancer because it was generating a lot of warning. 
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I did also uninstall all the gen 8 female  morph packages I could find 5 or 6 of them .. it cut the load time from 3 min 43 sec to 3 min 26...  and generated more warnings in the log. 
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actually another load droped to 2 min 24 ... but the only way to cut down the number of morphs would be to unintall most of my characters etc. 
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I can see three possible solutions...  obviously at the single morph level items read fast.. it's the 300 hundred of them (which is probably consevative very). 
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one) currently the program reads a morph dsf and then creates icon slider and hooks the morph in? 
so read the morph create image/slider and do the next one ... but doesn't activate the morph? 
I would trade loading the figure in a minute and waiting a couple secs to activate a morph when I choose to use it?
Two 
Create a new libary between the Dim and the program that looks like the content library but when I click on a character like edward8 .. .then it loads the morph packages assigned to that character? 
Three
Depsite issues I think the program does a lot of incredible things... but I used to program (and did stuff for some major companies) we created code that worked .. got the job done when Sears (one of them) was screaming we need this last week. 
So we produced working code fast.  But I have no doubt that someone who specialized in "coding structure" rather that specific result we were coding .. could have cleamed up not what the code did but could clean up how it was being done? 
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I know daz probably doesn't have a 640k partition down inside ... but I did have a friend who programmed Windows.. (back in the XP era). (he was the 700th employee and retired with a hellavalot of money at age 35 or so.) 
If you're old enough to remember the far side and the carton of the rocket scientists looking at ship on the launchpad that had zig xags going up and the there was a blueprint that had been mis-folded on the table? 
That cartoon was in the head programmers office posted on a bulletine board with the sections label 8 bit, 16 bit, 24 bit, 32 bit.
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So one idea would be not another 3d programmer but someone who just comes behind the 3d programing and cleans up and tightens the code? 
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attached is my scene/render backup folder from ten years ... I know there are duplicates but there's also stuff from the less couple months that's not in it yet. 
But the slow load issues --- and  other things that have been requiring time to work around and figure out have hacked my creative time way down. 
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just spend an eveing trying to figure out how to load figures faster .. 
yesterday ti was trying to figure why 415 doesn't like catalyzer...  but it's not all the time...  it'll do the snow leopard in 4kx2k and die doing another one in 1kx1k...  it'll render a scene than CTD reloading that scene.  had a sceice with a charater and wolverine. rendered it, saved it, closed, opened later...  now it crashes on any attempt to render the animal but I can render the character and then render the wolverine and it CTDs then or crashes when I click in the scene list or move the curser too fast.. but nothing consistant --- personally I'd like something to fail consistently until I can figure what's wrong then just be random. 
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I have about 1500 renders in my facebook cover file alone...
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But my pace is slowing. 
---

In addition to the return of problems I thought I'd fixed yesterday with help from Richard and others, the problems are all back.

When I try to customize a figure with the elongate abdomen morph in Shape Shifter, the shoulders burst up through the tanktop straps and the hair which was on the head is now a nose level beard.

It only happens with that morph.

And now for the NEW & THRILLING BONUS PROBLEM...................I can't select anything in the scene workspace. There's a little red circle rather than an actual arrow cursor.

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"Old Resolutions"

Oh yeah, Genesis 1 is VERY versitile! It also has better male/female parity with it's morph collections. Now if a stylized morph is released for Genesis 8, its usualy female only. To this day I don't think Sakura 8 ever got a proper matching male counterpart.