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.

Speaking of Genesis 8.1 bugs, is powerpose's "enhanced" 8.1 head template still broken by default?

I've been entirely avoiding the 1/10th generation and not making characters in it because of it and other things like missing morph poses.....

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.

Can't you just use the seperate body/head morphs instead so it doesn't change the scaling? Those morphs shouldn't contain scaling like the "Chracter" morphs do.

Left is Aiko dialed in completely, right is aiko body and head dialed in completely (and is still the standard height). 

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.

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.

xyer0 said:

I think AntFarm did an excellent job on his set piece. I own tons of Egyptian sets, but his brings something unique and instantly cinematic to the lot. The treasure and the weapons are a nice touch too. The outfits and hair seem well-made, but I already have several versions of the same thing. Now, Cleopatra 8.1 unfortunately (for me) seems stuck on the same bridge between realism and fantasy that Victoria 8.1 is on and that White Priestess was able to cross due to a more distinctive and detailed morph.

If they'd commission Josh Crockett to do a real Akhenaten 8.1, I'd get interested real fast.

AntFarm's Egyptian Oasis is gorgeous, I agree. I'd get that on its own, but it looks like it doesn't have rigged walls, according to the file list, which will make rendering and working with the inside a bit of a pain. Decisions, decisions...

Honzo said:

I'm no Blender expert, but isn't it possible to tween in Blender? I really don't do animation, but I thought I saw something about deforming meshes at different parts of a timeline and then letting blender work out the inbetweens. If, as I presume is the case, the Daz morphs preserve vertex count and order, wouldn't importing the final morph serve as a target for blender animation tweening?

Hm... I did some google search, but I didn't figured out what tweening should be. But what I saw in videos about weening didn't look usefull to me.

xyer0 said:

I think AntFarm did an excellent job on his set piece. I own tons of Egyptian sets, but his brings something unique and instantly cinematic to the lot. The treasure and the weapons are a nice touch too. The outfits and hair seem well-made, but I already have several versions of the same thing. Now, Cleopatra 8.1 unfortunately (for me) seems stuck on the same bridge between realism and fantasy that Victoria 8.1 is on and that White Priestess was able to cross due to a more distinctive and detailed morph.

If they'd commission Josh Crockett to do a real Akhenaten 8.1, I'd get interested real fast.

I couldn't have put it better. 

I think AntFarm did an excellent job on his set piece. I own tons of Egyptian sets, but his brings something unique and instantly cinematic to the lot. The treasure and the weapons are a nice touch too. The outfits and hair seem well-made, but I already have several versions of the same thing. Now, Cleopatra 8.1 unfortunately (for me) seems stuck on the same bridge between realism and fantasy that Victoria 8.1 is on and that White Priestess was able to cross due to a more distinctive and detailed morph.

If they'd commission Josh Crockett to do a real Akhenaten 8.1, I'd get interested real fast.