yes there is:

1. Delete Eyelashes
2. Mesh Resolution: BASE!
3. Morph Head as desired
4. Prepare a Desktop Folder as temporal
5. Export Poser Preset OBJ named "CharaHeadApply"
6. Morph Body as desired
7. Export Poser Preser OBJ named "CharaBodyApply"
8. Create a New scene
9. Load G8F default
10. BE SURE TO SELECT Genesis 8 Female
11. Open Morph Loader PRO
12. click on "Choose Morph Files"
12. choose / select your 2 morphs on the temporary desktop folder and OPEN
13.  Accept
14. a message will say Created Morph Succesfully on both morphs
15. click ok
16. Your Morphs will appear on Parameters > Morphs > Morph Loader
17. Change your sliders to 100%
18. Open Parameter Settings on first Morph
19. Name and Label change as desired name for your first morph
20. Change "Color A" and "Color B"  is optional
21. Change Min: to 0% and Accept
22. Repeat for the second Morph if you wish
23. Now your figure MUST have both Morphs on 100% for the next step
24. We need to adjust the bones for the new morphs on Genesis 8
25. Click on black color of the 1st morph and select EDIT MODE.
26. on EDIT MODE, change value of morph Head to 0%
27. select BONE EDITOR
28. Right Click on Genesis for menu > Edit > Adjust Rigging Shape
29. Accept, the window now is Calculating Mean Value Weights
30.  Change to SECOND Morph at 100% and select ERC FREEZE > ACCEPT
31.  Change Second Morph to 0%
32. Change FIRST morph to 100%
33. Select G8
34. Right Click > Adjust Rigging to Shape
35. Accept, the window now is Calculating Mean Value Weights
36. Select FIRST MORPH at 100% and select ERC Freeze
37. Accept
38. We are going to create a THIRD MORPH linking 1 and 2 Morph!
39. BE SURE 100% both morphs, 1 and 2 must be on 100%
40. Right Click on second morph and select CREATE NEW PROPERTY
41. Name and Label with same name
42. Change Color A
43. Default Value of "Min:" is 0
44. CREATE
45. A 3rd Morph is done but is not change nothing when move to 100%
46. on 3rd Morph Select ERC FREEZE.
47. BE SURE on Property that Both morphs are selected, Raw Value 1
48. BE SURE your 1 and 2 morphs are on 100% too.
49. Accept
50. Now 3rd morph at 100% will change 1 and 2 morphs at 100% too!

That looks really interesting, both the morph and the outfit.

Question for Zev0:

The two morph files:

chestLower_CTRLMD_N_ZRotate_20.dsf
chestLower_CTRLMD_N_ZRotate_n20.dsf

are both referencing Genesis 3. It results in a popup asking for Genesis 3 when that is not installed.

Is that intentional or would pointing it to Genesis 8 fix it?

Is it possible that 4.14 affected the ability of DS to identify G8F as a G8F when you select her in the Scene Pane and try to 'Filter by Context' in Smart Content to come up with nothing. I tried this on both of my DS computers, and in the new Beta DS when it was released and it happened again. I first noticed it about two weeks ago when I was testing new female characters and thought something was wrong with them, but they were associated with Genesis 8 Female correctly. 

So for the past few weeks, I can only look through all my files for something I want to try for her. This is Wardrobe, Hair, Accessories, Poses... 

Does anyone else have this or know of a fix?

My last few reports to customer service came back with a boiler plate reply that they had a high volume of reports and it would be weeks before they could address my report.

Thanks,

Mary

Yeah, there's a character or two that DS allows to screw up G8F compatibility.  Kalaa is one such character, I believe.  Reinstalling Starter Essentials usually fixes that up.

Daz really needs to do something about protecting that kind of basic functionality from rogue morph settings.  It's becoming more and more common.

I see an update for Kalaa in my DIM. I never noticed any problems with her---mind you, I only loaded her once and did a test render with nothing else in the scene. Does the update fix the problems?

I'm not sure if anyone has tried using AME on Leyna, so I gave it a go.  AME Body set to 50%, AME Flex Size 50%, AME Muscle Definition 100%, and AME Veins 50%.  Snuck in my starter morph parameters, but dialed out Cartoonized.  Her outfit is one for G8F and autofitted.

Render straight out of DAZ Studio with none of my usual contrast/tone enhancements.

Leyna for Genesiis 8 Male might be of use for those wanting a quick way to get AME abilities on a female character without a lot of effort. :)

Here's the store link for Leyna:

https://www.daz3d.com/leyna-for-genesis-8-male

Lee

 

That's actually a great idea. However, is there a product that allows the use of female genitalia on a G8M-based character for situations such as studio nudes? If so, your idea would have even more merit. Thanks for this suggestion!

Thank you, RenderPretender.  I would suspect that there are such products on more mature themed 3D websites.  Let us know if you find something that works!

Lee

Most-Digital-Creations has a very nice (to this day) V4 prop and textures called Anatomically Correct that can work convincingly with some tweaking. I was hoping for a geograft, though, of female gens for G8M. Still no luck. I'm still deciding whether to buy the G8M versions of ASE  and AME and the other tools I'd need to start working with G8M in the absence of the G8F version. That could get pretty pricey just to achieve a realistic split bicep.

There are products that you're looking for that use geografts for G8M.  You'll find those in another 3D marketplace that's adult oriented.  Perhaps one of those products will work?  I'm sort of tempted to try one out and see how Leyna, AME/ASE, and the geograft anatomy work together.

Lee 

Here's what's happening:

1. I use Face Transfer to bring in a face for a Genesis 8 Male.
2. I click the Save button and go through the dialog boxes that follow.
3. I create a new file, bring in a blank Genesis 8 Male figure, and look for the Face Transfer dial that I thought I just saved, but it's nowhere to be found.

Anyone know what might be going on here?

Fantastic!

I also found that I can just transfer via OBJ without groups, then use the Geometry Editor to create the face groups I need for bones. Save that result out to OBJ and I get one that works perfectly for rigging.

Thanks for all your help! I'm glad I don't need to learn a new modeling program in order to get around these issues.

Is it possible that 4.14 affected the ability of DS to identify G8F as a G8F when you select her in the Scene Pane and try to 'Filter by Context' in Smart Content to come up with nothing. I tried this on both of my DS computers, and in the new Beta DS when it was released and it happened again. I first noticed it about two weeks ago when I was testing new female characters and thought something was wrong with them, but they were associated with Genesis 8 Female correctly. 

So for the past few weeks, I can only look through all my files for something I want to try for her. This is Wardrobe, Hair, Accessories, Poses... 

Does anyone else have this or know of a fix?

My last few reports to customer service came back with a boiler plate reply that they had a high volume of reports and it would be weeks before they could address my report.

Thanks,

Mary

Yeah, there's a character or two that DS allows to screw up G8F compatibility.  Kalaa is one such character, I believe.  Reinstalling Starter Essentials usually fixes that up.

Daz really needs to do something about protecting that kind of basic functionality from rogue morph settings.  It's becoming more and more common.

Facegen is in the free selection if you buy the Drutherson bundle, but doesn't discount to 0. And in the selection, it shows 50% instead of 65 .So something is wrong, either misplaced or wrong discount.

I reported the failure of Face Transfer to discount yesterday. No solution appeared. 

However - today if you buy BOTH a cheap new item from the old Orangutan deal AND a cheap new item from todays deal - you can get FaceGen from $139 down to $20.02 and Face Tranfer to $7.19! Bargains!

(I know it works because I did it)

I'm not sure if anyone has tried using AME on Leyna, so I gave it a go.  AME Body set to 50%, AME Flex Size 50%, AME Muscle Definition 100%, and AME Veins 50%.  Snuck in my starter morph parameters, but dialed out Cartoonized.  Her outfit is one for G8F and autofitted.

Render straight out of DAZ Studio with none of my usual contrast/tone enhancements.

Leyna for Genesiis 8 Male might be of use for those wanting a quick way to get AME abilities on a female character without a lot of effort. :)

Here's the store link for Leyna:

https://www.daz3d.com/leyna-for-genesis-8-male

Lee

 

That's actually a great idea. However, is there a product that allows the use of female genitalia on a G8M-based character for situations such as studio nudes? If so, your idea would have even more merit. Thanks for this suggestion!

Thank you, RenderPretender.  I would suspect that there are such products on more mature themed 3D websites.  Let us know if you find something that works!

Lee

Most-Digital-Creations has a very nice (to this day) V4 prop and textures called Anatomically Correct that can work convincingly with some tweaking. I was hoping for a geograft, though, of female gens for G8M. Still no luck. I'm still deciding whether to buy the G8M versions of ASE  and AME and the other tools I'd need to start working with G8M in the absence of the G8F version. That could get pretty pricey just to achieve a realistic split bicep.

she looks good yeah I was looking at v2 and 3 too, v2 has some nice poses with the figure but no expressions and you can't open the mouth unless there was a morph you hadto buy youget three versions well 2 really as one with skin is standard and  light edition the other is the silver no skin which is taller for some reason.oh no clothing. V3 at least has expressions and sort of clothing. Trying to think how could use her maybe as a synth droid, humanoid but not too real looking or a Auton

From my review of the Victoria 2.0 product 83 it comes with three actors. The Poser 4 Female shaped LE, the Poser 4 Female shaped high res version and  the standard Victoria 2 high res version. In my reply about expressions above the image is of the P4F high res version. You can think of this version and the P4F LE as a clone version. Lets V2 wear all of P4F's clothing. 

Also included are a set of poses for hands and full body. There are no textures included with the 83 set. There are textures included in item numbers 95, 96, 97 and 98, which you could buy seperatly. They are light and medium, low and high res textures sets. AprilYSH has a remapped version of Victoria 2 that allows her to use P4F textures. I am thinking about making a morph from the P4F Victorias to make Victoria 2 completely P4F just for fun. Then Victoria can have textures of P4F and her clothes.

The Victoria 3 product. 1098, comes with an actor shape of V3 allowing her to wear V2 clothing. The V3 version is based using the SAE version of V3, which is the latest version of V3.

Did you do something special with the 2nd picture re pose and morph? Whenever I do a pose like that - really anything with lifted arms - I get wonky biceps and triceps, sometimes wonky traps and lats.

(Why do those subtle scars on his torso make me feel... excited?)

The pose is from Composed Poses for Genesis 8 Males ('Pose 01M', descriptively), but I rearranged the right arm a lot and the left a bit because they were not having a nice time with the hood at all.  Also, I have both Ultimate Natural Bend Morphs on (I totally forgot that was its name until I had to make an educated guess at what the U of UNBM meant...), which does a lot of heavy lifting with some poses.  And in part I think it's because a lot of his right arm got obscured by the hood anyway.     I usually avoid poses like this like the plague (same problem, I spent longer sorting out Alex's arm in one picture than I did setting up the rest of the scene and it still looked iffy) but this one worked out surprisingly well.

I'll admit to getting a bit... uh... distracted by his stomach as well...

Do you feel like Ultimate Natural Bend Morphs is worth it? Does it help with posing buff characters? I look at the promos and it doesn't seem like it makes that big a difference...

I tend to apply it on every character I render (but I need to render more really buff guys ).  I didn't think initially that it made that much difference either, but I do seem to notice it when it's off.  It gives Alex in particular some really nice shoulderblades (he's kinda semi-buff) and it's why Yve has those nice neck muscles in the last picture.  You've still got to tweak stuff a little (like his pecs needed some assistance), but that's more down to Genesis than the morphs imo.  If you've got a similar product already, it might not be worth doubling up, but I'm glad I've got it.  Combined with the Skin Folds and Creases I like the look a lot.

I'll give it a play with Steffan, who's built a bit more heavily than Yve.  You can't see it at all in most neutral poses so I'll need to do a new one.  (I'm not complaining. :p )

Did you do something special with the 2nd picture re pose and morph? Whenever I do a pose like that - really anything with lifted arms - I get wonky biceps and triceps, sometimes wonky traps and lats.

(Why do those subtle scars on his torso make me feel... excited?)

The pose is from Composed Poses for Genesis 8 Males ('Pose 01M', descriptively), but I rearranged the right arm a lot and the left a bit because they were not having a nice time with the hood at all.  Also, I have both Ultimate Natural Bend Morphs on (I totally forgot that was its name until I had to make an educated guess at what the U of UNBM meant...), which does a lot of heavy lifting with some poses.  And in part I think it's because a lot of his right arm got obscured by the hood anyway.     I usually avoid poses like this like the plague (same problem, I spent longer sorting out Alex's arm in one picture than I did setting up the rest of the scene and it still looked iffy) but this one worked out surprisingly well.

I'll admit to getting a bit... uh... distracted by his stomach as well...

Do you feel like Ultimate Natural Bend Morphs is worth it? Does it help with posing buff characters? I look at the promos and it doesn't seem like it makes that big a difference...

she looks good yeah I was looking at v2 and 3 too, v2 has some nice poses with the figure but no expressions and you can't open the mouth unless there was a morph you hadto buy youget three versions well 2 really as one with skin is standard and  light edition the other is the silver no skin which is taller for some reason.oh no clothing. V3 at least has expressions and sort of clothing. Trying to think how could use her maybe as a synth droid, humanoid but not too real looking or a Auton

V2 has expressions and can open the mouth ... you have to buy nothing, just select the head and there they are.

With Chrome any web address that starts "http" is flagged as un-secure, data transfer on those sites aren't encrypted, while sites that use "https" are encrypted, and classed as secure by Chrome.

I suspect Chrome has added some kind of new security "feature" that is coded (badly) to be Hypervigilant to Alarmist. For the past couple months (& this definitely started before Store Changeover), I've been getting this official Chrome warning off and on. It says I should check &/or change my passwords for everything because they have detected breaches on multiple sites. If I open my Chrome password/site list, there's nothing recent. All the flags are for sites I haven't visited in years &/or have login credentials--usernames,PWs, email addresses--I also discarded long ago. This happens on sites of all levels of security. Only Chrome, and the last time I had any sort of security problem online was 1 nasty bit of malware over 10 years and 2 or 3 computers ago.

Chrome does that when it feels that your login details have been compromised, usually because the site in question has been hacked, and your login details have been put up for sale somewhere.

It gets worse if you happen to have used the same login details on more than one site, one gets compromised and it wants you to change all of the others.

...well said.

A major part of being in this for myself relates to the fact I used to paint in watercolour and oils which due to worsening arthritis I no longer can do.  While the primary reason was for RPG character & setting as well as story illustration, I also enjoy just creating works at like I did when could still sit at a canvas on an easel or watercolour paper and deftly manipulate a brush for hours.  I approach pretty much all my scenes wither as I would as if I was still painting or using a camera (replacing the old 35mm film camera kit I have with comparable digital gear is beyond my budget these days). 

For rendering I use both Iray and 3DL as they each have their own strengths (though with new tools for 3DL like IBL Master and the AweShader system, it can approach a very stunning level of realism as well that reminds me of the "photorealism school" of painting).  I do like Carrara's render engine (as well as it's ability to do network rendering and it's material building system) but without a true bridge between it and Daz, importing my custom designed characters over is, to say the least, disappointing as most of the resource utilities I use do not transfer over very well or at all.  I also considered Octane because of it's out of core rendering until Otoy went full subscription. I haven't looked into Filament yet (haven't installed 4.14) but from what I gather, it is a viewport based render engine which seems more suitable for animation than single frame rendering and it would be yet another learning curve to throw onto an already overloaded plate (currently in the thick of learning modelling in Blender).

So - forgot something... what to look for.
When I went to buy a laptop (well, just did), my priority list ran like this, after I set a budget max:

1. A decent GPU - not bleeding-edge (because only suckers buy bleeding edge), and not ancient. Today, this means the RTX 20xx series for iRay and such. They have RTX 30xx, but hoooly crap it costs a mint. Now if you;re on a budget, you can still do just fine with a lower-end GTX 1080 or better.
2. More than one drive. This way I park all my runtimes and content directoris on that fat second drive (a 2TB SDD), that I was able to easily drop into the new laptop; all my files kept their references, and no transfer times.
3. CPU. Yeah, #3. Why? Because an i7 10th-Gen isn't really too awful faster from the i7 8th-Gen I just replaced it with. Now if you exclusively use 3Delight or a CPU0intensive render engine, then okay, go for the gusto and get the latest/greatest CPU, maybe even spring for a mobile Xeon if you have the budget for it (yes, they make those).
4. Look for "Gamer" laptops - you don't pay as much as you do for a "mobile graphics workstation" or similar claptrap. 
5. Manufacturer reputation: MSI is a solid and known quality to me. So is Apple (which has slipped of late... urgh). So is Acer. Believe it or not, I avoid Dell (because their Alienware brand is way overpriced and usually outdated), and I'm okay with HP and their products are generally solid, but they tend to charge a bit more than they should IMHO, so unless there's a great deal on one, I don't bother.
6. Weight. In my case it's a bit low on the list because I'm buying 17" beasts. That said, my new baby is a full half-kilo lighter than the old Aspire 7... which is pretty nice.

My budget max was $2k, and I wound up paying $1200 (after rebates and price-codes. Note that I also paid $200 above that for a two-year SquareTrade warranty (because the missus had to use them once after dropping her laptop, and it was IMHO well worth the $200 for a two-year coverage period. Cheaper than AppleCare too.)

HTH a little.

I don't think any laptop I've had has ever been as heavy as my first one - this thick boy

Even my current one which isnt exactly slim and has a much larger screen is way lighter (I looked it up and according to the internet it weighed 7.18 pounds which...)

 

Incidently the last time I checked it still worked, the bottom 3rd of the screen doesn't but that happened while I was using it - Somehow managed to use it like that for actual years. 

Oooo, I remember those horrible monsters.  Mine had a Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading and a Geforce 5200.  It would overheat and shut down if you did any multi-core aware workloads.... Like World of Warcaft for example.  Shut off Hyperthreading in the bios and the thing could still double as a furnace and the WASD keys would still get too hot to touch.... But you could actualy play WoW without shutting down! 

So - forgot something... what to look for.
When I went to buy a laptop (well, just did), my priority list ran like this, after I set a budget max:

1. A decent GPU - not bleeding-edge (because only suckers buy bleeding edge), and not ancient. Today, this means the RTX 20xx series for iRay and such. They have RTX 30xx, but hoooly crap it costs a mint. Now if you;re on a budget, you can still do just fine with a lower-end GTX 1080 or better.
2. More than one drive. This way I park all my runtimes and content directoris on that fat second drive (a 2TB SDD), that I was able to easily drop into the new laptop; all my files kept their references, and no transfer times.
3. CPU. Yeah, #3. Why? Because an i7 10th-Gen isn't really too awful faster from the i7 8th-Gen I just replaced it with. Now if you exclusively use 3Delight or a CPU0intensive render engine, then okay, go for the gusto and get the latest/greatest CPU, maybe even spring for a mobile Xeon if you have the budget for it (yes, they make those).
4. Look for "Gamer" laptops - you don't pay as much as you do for a "mobile graphics workstation" or similar claptrap. 
5. Manufacturer reputation: MSI is a solid and known quality to me. So is Apple (which has slipped of late... urgh). So is Acer. Believe it or not, I avoid Dell (because their Alienware brand is way overpriced and usually outdated), and I'm okay with HP and their products are generally solid, but they tend to charge a bit more than they should IMHO, so unless there's a great deal on one, I don't bother.
6. Weight. In my case it's a bit low on the list because I'm buying 17" beasts. That said, my new baby is a full half-kilo lighter than the old Aspire 7... which is pretty nice.

My budget max was $2k, and I wound up paying $1200 (after rebates and price-codes. Note that I also paid $200 above that for a two-year SquareTrade warranty (because the missus had to use them once after dropping her laptop, and it was IMHO well worth the $200 for a two-year coverage period. Cheaper than AppleCare too.)

HTH a little.

I don't think any laptop I've had has ever been as heavy as my first one - this thick boy

Even my current one which isnt exactly slim and has a much larger screen is way lighter (I looked it up and according to the internet it weighed 7.18 pounds which...)

Incidently the last time I checked it still worked, the bottom 3rd of the screen doesn't but that happened while I was using it - Somehow managed to use it like that for actual years. 

she looks good yeah I was looking at v2 and 3 too, v2 has some nice poses with the figure but no expressions and you can't open the mouth unless there was a morph you hadto buy youget three versions well 2 really as one with skin is standard and  light edition the other is the silver no skin which is taller for some reason.oh no clothing. V3 at least has expressions and sort of clothing. Trying to think how could use her maybe as a synth droid, humanoid but not too real looking or a Auton

V1 with Mimic lite certainly opens her mouth

I am pretty sure my V2 does too