Greybro said:

wjpblathwayt said:

Good morning,

 

I have made 2 characters using Yellow, and I encounter the same issue.  When I start to pose the hands, they deform.  How can I deal with this?

 

Thank you

Hi. You need to save out the shape to a morph. After that the hands will not deform.

AH!  Thank you!

Mattymanx said:

If you are transfering over USB 2, then yes.  If you have USB 3.0 or 3.1, then not so much.  But all devices must support the faster transfer speed if you wnat to take adavantage of it

If you are transfering over USB 2, then yes.  If you have USB 3.0 or 3.1, then not so much.  But all devices must support the faster transfer speed if you wnat to take adavantage of it

I haven't tried Yellow, so this thread brings up a couple questions:

Does Yellow just save a single morph, rather than a controller that preserves all the joint control morphs of the originally dialed body shapes? If so, that is what Richard Haseltine always tells us is the wrong way to save a customized shape.

I see the deformed fingers discussion. Is Yellow not adjusting rigging to shape on their creation? Does a customer have to do that manually on each Yellow creation, or is it not necessary to do at all?

wjpblathwayt said:

Good morning,

I have made 2 characters using Yellow, and I encounter the same issue.  When I start to pose the hands, they deform.  How can I deal with this?

Thank you

You probably need to adjust the rigging to the new shape once you've saved it as a morph

wjpblathwayt said:

Good morning,

 

I have made 2 characters using Yellow, and I encounter the same issue.  When I start to pose the hands, they deform.  How can I deal with this?

 

Thank you

Hi. You need to save out the shape to a morph. After that the hands will not deform.

In all the years that I have had to transfer from one PC to another, I have found that just transfering to an external HDD and then transfering to the new PC is enough to keep everything intact.  I have never lost any files this way.

RawArt said:

NetherFalcon said:

SilverGirl said:

Exactly.  Even for the celebrities, we have dedicated PAs for that, too.  I would really like to hear the feedback from PAs about this, because for those like @RawArt, the main appeal (for me) to their products are the unique morphs.  Not sure if this can replicate that, but if not now, eventually it will.  And for me, personally, part of what I enjoy doing is creating morphs and builds from my collection.  There's always a sense of satisfaction when I get something just right. 

Since I was mentioned....I really don't know how this system will impact PA's.

But what I do now is that truely unique morphs like the creatures I make take alot more thought than a dial spin. You have to give alot of creative thought to things such as the muscle structure  that underlies the shape. Just dropping an animal head on a human will just look odd unless the muscles underneath make sense to support it. Even simple things like proportion need to be well thought out to give creatures structural stability and believability. So I would question how well an AI could do that (at this stage of ai development). Plus the unique shapes need alot of CBS so that they pose nicely.

That said, I don't think the craftsmanship that a PA gives to products will be easily replaced.

At least I hope not and I hope that customers are discerning of the craftsmanship we put into our products.

Hi RawArt,

I love your Nagalean figures, but I was rather sad that the female has the hint of a cobra-style hood and can't be retracted, while the male has no means to extend such a cobra hood. I tried using the Yellow to create a cobra hood morph for G9, but the AI just gobbled two of my tokens and gave me petty much nothing. Oh well. So far, I'm not seeing much value for Yellow.

So, I went back to Blender. After three or four tries, despite my learning curve slowing my progress, I quickly knew I was on the right track. Finally nailed it by the end of the day--at least for the male figure.

 Morph @ 0%

 morph applied @ 100%

 morph applied @ 200% -- still looks pretty smooth and good! 

 BTW, when you see this, I suggest you *RUN*!! 

Hope you approve. 

The really important question is, if you are modifying content and add your custom morphs to it, or if you just use it out of the box.
If you don't, you can just reinstall, but if you have modified content you need to back up it and transfer it to your new computer. (Takes almost half of the day for me)

FSMCDesigns said:

murgatroyd314 said:

The "must be logged in and online to use" was already a hard no from me. The bit where you have to use up a (usually paid) token just to roll the dice on whether it manages to get anywhere near what you're thinking of... that's another layer of nope.

Same. I am heavily into AI and many of the online AI apps require a purchase, which is why I use stand alone AI apps. I can generate freely until I get what i want. Having to purchase toekns each time i want to use Yellow is a no go for me, just more attempts at keeping creativity behind a pay wall

Yellow claims to be trained ethically with DAZ assets, but I can do that on my own without the help of AI and personally I want unique characters that DAZ morphs can't create, Any how does it handle HD morphs?

I get that DAZ wants to get on the AI bandwagon and I am all for it, but it seems like the people that are making the decisions are really way behind the curve, especially after my exeriences with DAZ AI Studio compared to other AI apps. DS users need AI tools to make their renders better more than anything IMO and which would be easier than coding AI to create  everything in DS for a user.

I agree completely ^^
 

It would seem that  generative AI is a direct threat to their business model as the majority of their users create still renders.

At this point AI can produce still renders of a quality that far exceeds what one can do with Daz content & Iray renders.
 
Daz  is trying to incorporate AI in a way that keeps users inside their eco system buying content,but here is the problem.

1) They have to monetize their AI with Tiers/fees which could work if their  AI solutions were not light years behind 
other online AI apps in quality or versatility.

2)The newest most powerful GPU hardware is optimized for AI computing hence people like @FSMCDesigns
running local AI apps without paying any fees.

Even if “Yellow” was producing amazingly unique results that were not possible with old fashion morph dailing/sculpting you are still stuck rendering them in a version of Iray that does not even support modern day RTX GPU’s giving existing user seven more of an incentive to just pay for a Midjourney subscription .

3) Finally, At this point what is incentive for NEW users who can afford the latest RTX GPU to buy into the Daz eco system with IRay.

What is incentive for NEW users who canNOT afford the latest RTX GPU to buy into the Daz eco system at all when he can get such amazing still image results with  a service like ,Midjourney or Leonardo AI etc..

paulawp (marahzen) said:

I picked up the free tokens to have on hand, but it appears that I can't use it yet (4.23 only).

...that makes my decision much easier as I am still on 4.21.0.5 which is the last version where Iray supports Win 7 for GPU rendering (not going back to glacial CPU rendering) 

I too have a fairly diverse stable of base characters as well as an extensive library of Morph, Shaping, and Merchant Resource content. for G2 - G8.  I've been creating  custom characters since the Gen4 days, which primarily is for my own story lines, illustrations, and RP game campaigns rather than known celebrities  Like someone mentioned above, a character has to provide something unique for me (for what I call my "gene pool") to purchase them.  It isn't unusual to combine body and head shapes of several different base Daz chanters for the base "figure" to which are applied additional morphs and shaping. 

Yeah it is often painstaking work but the results are worth it.  As I am pretty bad ar at writing prompts I don't think trying the same with AI would come close to what I can do in Daz with the tools I have.  Then again, I'm not working at a "pressure cooker" production job with a tight schedule and the dreaded "deadline doom" hanging over my head.

I'm sure that given time, AI tools like this will improve But i do agree it takes the craftsmanship (which I find is the enjoyable part) out of the process.

[...well that was interesting, just after I clicked Post Comment,, I got an "Internal Server Error 500" instead of the usual 502 Bad Gateway message.]

I had to same issue as everyone else nothing was generating. I changed the prompt nada UNTIL I hit clear and all of a sudden it started applying the morph! Hope this helps!

inquire said:

My late 2013 edition of a Mac Pro has thunderbolt two. The new Mac studio has thunderbolt five. Is there a way to connect the two computers so as to run migration assistant? Is there a way to hook up one of my present external drives with thunderbolts too to the Mac studio with thunderbolt five?

I'm pretty sure TB2 has a different connector type than TB4 or TB5.  So the cables that I've seen won't work.  TB4 and 5 have USB-C type connectors.  You'd need an adapter and I'm not sure if that will work with Migration Assistant.  I was prepared to use my Time Machine backup of the M1 iMac (on an external SSD drive) to migrate everything to the M4 iMac.  Luckily, I found out that I could connect the 2 iMacs together with my TB4 cable and migrate directly to the new iMac.  It did take a while (few/couple of hours?) for the nearly 2 TB of data to transfer and I couldn't use either iMac while the migration was underway.  I did pick up an Apple TB5 cable at Target after the fact.  You can use TB4, 5, and maybe 3 on the newer Macs.  The Mac with the slowest Thunderbolt port will be the fastest speed that you'll get between the 2 Macs.  I *think* you'd be better off by using an external drive and Time Machine to do the migration.  Plus side is you'll have a backup of the Mac Pro in case you need it in the future.

By the way, I did order the new M4 Macbook Air earlier tonight.  Should be getting the 15" MBA with 24GB RAM and 2TB SSD in the new blue color next week.  I'll be giving my M1 iMac and M1 Macbook Air away after that.  If I go for a more powerful desktop Mac in the near future, I'll migrate all the data from my 16" Macbook Pro (Intel i9 processor) and give that away as well.

Lee

no nose said:

Tried it out, but for some reason the morph wasn't applying so I had to try a second time, so that's 1 token I'll never get back. Personally, if we are going to get ai character generators built in, I'd rather have something that does a bit more then just generate a basic morph (which idk if we're even allowed to share or not)

It is a little buggy. I had to hit "Clear" and then "Apply and Save" a second time to get the shape to show up in the viewport.

I don't know what I think of this. I like that it's ethically trained AI, but as a PA I'm pretty ummm... torn... about it. 

Anyway, here's my first and only attempt with it. I asked for a curvy 50s style pinup girl with an hour glass figure. I will leave it up to you to decide if you think it was successful at that or not. The expression is a custom expression. The textures are from MW Flora and the hair is ALO Elysianna Hair.

Phoenix1966 said:

No veil, but there is this recent release and, without the hoop morph/shape, not too period specific: https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-royal-wedding-outfit-for-genesis-9

Also, no veil, but if you retuxtured this gown, it might work until something else comes along: https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-kuj-lace-dress-for-genesis-9

Yep, bought both of those. Thanks for the suggestions!

joanna said:

What they are actually taking away is just the ability to download files directly to your PC to transfer to your Kindle device via cable—something that is becoming obsolete because all of their readers have WiFi build in...

... SNIP...

but let's not demonize phasing out a feature most people had no clue even existed. :)

Well... I've used this feature exclusively for 10+ years, so it was really irritating when I heard they were making these changes. As Elor mentioned, not everyone wants to have wifi switched on. We've got about 8 kindle e-reader devices in use at home, the oldest probably 15 years old? and I have wifi switched off on all of them, especially on the kids' devices. I haven't yet put any new books on them since the change, so I'll have to see how things go...

No veil, but there is this recent release and, without the hoop morph/shape, not too period specific: https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-royal-wedding-outfit-for-genesis-9

Also, no veil, but if you retuxtured this gown, it might work until something else comes along: https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-kuj-lace-dress-for-genesis-9

richardandtracy said:

Well. I have found a couple of good wishlist deals that I snapped up.

On Amazon. For Kindle books of next books in series I've not been able to find in hard copy.

Same here. I bought an audiobook of a book I really enjoyed (library loan) and I wanted to own. Can't pass on a $5 deal like that.

tsroemi said:

Richard, very OT but important - if you love your books, do keep in mind that amazon is now making it abundantly clear that you don't in fact  own any of the ebooks you buy there. I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but as of Feb 26, you cannot make any kind of safe-keeping copies on your PC anymore, and all ebooks you downloaded are 100% subject to any change that amazon feels necessary. That doesn't just relate to the cover art but also the actual content. So don't put your trust in this system, space-saving though it may be. 

That's actually not exactly true. (Coming not only from an Amazon user but an author who publishes via Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing—among other places—and who because of that keeps a close eye on things.)

Amazon was always only selling a license, but now they just make it a bit clearer. If you want to own the files, shop at places like Smashwords. (That excludes any books available in Kindle Unlimited, but those authors made a choice to be exclusive to Amazon).

What they are actually taking away is just the ability to download files directly to your PC to transfer to your Kindle device via cable—something that is becoming obsolete because all of their readers have WiFi build in. So it affects only a very small portion of Amazon customers who have Kindle devices that are over a decade old. (Kudos for making them run so long. My Paperwhite died after 6 years...)

You still can download the files to your PC via their Kindle App for PC and you can then proceed to back up the book files somewhere else by simply copying relevant folders to external drives etc. What changes is that instead of having them in azw3 format, they are now in Kindle App format, so you can only read them in said app. While this might be an unappealing move, it's nothing that other companies aren't doing already: you can only read Kobo-bought books on Kobo app and ereader (the download option is there, but buried deep—just like Amazon's was—and requires Adobe Digital Right Management software), you can only read Barnes&Noble books on Nook or their app, and you can only read Google Play books on Android devices, and you can only read Apple Books... and so on. Basically, they're getting rid of a feature hardly anyone used already and tighetning their ebook ecosystem.

Of course, as an author whose books are in "wide" distribution, I'm happy to direct people to other bookstores (and I did buy a new ereader that runs on Android, so that I can install all the apps, Kindle, Kobo, and my library apps as well vs. being tied to one store), but let's not demonize phasing out a feature most people had no clue even existed. :)

I've been wondering if it's possible to export a FaceBuilder from Blender head mesh to Daz3D and use it as a head morph for Genesis 9? I've attempted to import it using Morph Loader Pro, but so far, I haven't had any success.

You download & install the Yellow plugin via DIM. You'll need to restart DAZ Studio, open the Yellow Window pane, login to the Yellow server using your DAZ 3D credentials, type in a desired morph prompt, "Generate", select the finished morph prompt job and Genesis 9 character, & the click Apply and Save.

The instructions are on the Yellow Advertising/Help page (not the token sales pages).