info_b3470fa520 said:

Problem 1: Eyelashes: it is an issue that DAZ should fix, there's no reason why they made eyelash a separate figure in Gen 8

As I understand it the lashes were made separate to help morph makers. In any event, integating them now would break existing morphs and while I iamgine Daz coudl fix store products it wouldn't help end-uers or vendors at other stores.

Problem 2: If you follow manual/tut video, you can see that at the set-up, there is a green semicircle that need to be adjusted to fit the top of the cranium.

Seems, issues had been addressed

 

SlimerJSpud said:

Headshop has two major problems that have not been addressed. I spent some time online with the author, and he was really trying to help, but we couldn't find a solution. When you generate a morph for the head on G8, the eyelashes are not part of the morph, therefore do not fit the finished figure. Unfit and re-fit on the eyelashes used to fix this, but in recent versions of DS, it fails. I opened a ticket on this about a year ago. Daz closed my ticket saying that all support for plugins comes from the author.

The other issue is that the default head shape it gets from the photo flattens the top of the head. It's as if all the vertices in the head get pushed up, except for the dome. It's very unnatural. You can make some adjustments early in the flow, but forget bald characters, or short hair. It won't look right.

 

info_b3470fa520 said:

Problem 1: Eyelashes: it is an issue that DAZ should fix, there's no reason why they made eyelash a separate figure in Gen 8

Problem 2: If you follow manual/tut video, you can see that at the set-up, there is a green semicircle that need to be adjusted to fit the top of the cranium.

Seems, issues had been addressed

 

SlimerJSpud said:

Headshop has two major problems that have not been addressed. I spent some time online with the author, and he was really trying to help, but we couldn't find a solution. When you generate a morph for the head on G8, the eyelashes are not part of the morph, therefore do not fit the finished figure. Unfit and re-fit on the eyelashes used to fix this, but in recent versions of DS, it fails. I opened a ticket on this about a year ago. Daz closed my ticket saying that all support for plugins comes from the author.

The other issue is that the default head shape it gets from the photo flattens the top of the head. It's as if all the vertices in the head get pushed up, except for the dome. It's very unnatural. You can make some adjustments early in the flow, but forget bald characters, or short hair. It won't look right.

Even if the semicircle is adjusted for the top of the head, the shape still won't work for a bald character. The G8 eyelashes are what they are now, so any head shaping plugin that sells in the store for G8 should support these eyelashes. The issues are *not* addressed.

Problem 1: Eyelashes: it is an issue that DAZ should fix, there's no reason why they made eyelash a separate figure in Gen 8

Problem 2: If you follow manual/tut video, you can see that at the set-up, there is a green semicircle that need to be adjusted to fit the top of the cranium.

Seems, issues had been addressed

SlimerJSpud said:

Headshop has two major problems that have not been addressed. I spent some time online with the author, and he was really trying to help, but we couldn't find a solution. When you generate a morph for the head on G8, the eyelashes are not part of the morph, therefore do not fit the finished figure. Unfit and re-fit on the eyelashes used to fix this, but in recent versions of DS, it fails. I opened a ticket on this about a year ago. Daz closed my ticket saying that all support for plugins comes from the author.

The other issue is that the default head shape it gets from the photo flattens the top of the head. It's as if all the vertices in the head get pushed up, except for the dome. It's very unnatural. You can make some adjustments early in the flow, but forget bald characters, or short hair. It won't look right.

Headshop has two major problems that have not been addressed. I spent some time online with the author, and he was really trying to help, but we couldn't find a solution. When you generate a morph for the head on G8, the eyelashes are not part of the morph, therefore do not fit the finished figure. Unfit and re-fit on the eyelashes used to fix this, but in recent versions of DS, it fails. I opened a ticket on this about a year ago. Daz closed my ticket saying that all support for plugins comes from the author.

The other issue is that the default head shape it gets from the photo flattens the top of the head. It's as if all the vertices in the head get pushed up, except for the dome. It's very unnatural. You can make some adjustments early in the flow, but forget bald characters, or short hair. It won't look right.

With some of these products, it seems like the only people who say they work are the ones selling the products.

I think the people who make these products should state that you would probably need the cooperation of the model to create a character that looks like the model. Or if that's too much, they should probably state that you need a 2000x2000 resolution photo of the person looking directly at the camera with no shadows, and hair tied back. Because if all they say is, "Create 3D heads for your characters with photographs with HeadShop 13!" then they seem to imply the software will make things easy. Then when you expect it to be easy, you get comments from people who seem to think something's wrong with you for expecting it to be at least a little bit easy. Never mind that the promo pictures show fairly low resolution images with hair covering part of the face, still getting good results.

I can understand that everything involving DAZ Studio requires a certain skill level to produce good results. But when I click on a dot meant to mark a point on the model's face and I can't just drag that dot to another location, that seems like more of a problem with the interface than the skill level of the user. If I have to run an installer that places files in a location, and then I still have to unzip files into a directory because the installer doesn't install the whole thing by itself, the installer seems like it didn't have much effort put into it. If I have to get on YouTube for instructions on how to use the product then I feel like the product is poorly documented. But I do recognize that YouTube is widely available and including a video with a product download would be problematic due to the file size. I don't see what's wrong with text files and PDF files though.

I think Face Transfer, though it has it share of problems, does seem to come the closest to the goal of being good. It seems even closer with the addition of Face Transfer Shapes.

I actually have some sets of high-res multi-angled images from models (we're talking about hundreds of images here per set), and must say I haven't been too happy with facegen/headshop results. In my opinion, the biggest problem is that facegen and headshop try to make a model based on only 1 image, which is technically near impossible. It would be better if it required at least 2 images: one from the front, another from the side to accomplish this. A third image taken from above should help finetuning even more. For really good results, We'd need about sixteen images circling around the model, even better if combined with even more images taken from different vertical angles as well (we're quickly reaching over sixty images here..) Oh, and since models do tend to move ever so slightly, it'd be better if all those images were shot at the same moment. So that's sixty+ high res cameras.

And that's why it's so hard (and usually also expensive) to find these imagesets. Some studios more publicly sell their older ones nowadays, since they lack support for even newer technology (mocap data, even higher resolution images, and some other stuff). But, as long as we're trying to make a 3D model from one single single-angle image, results will be mediocre.

Paradigm said:

With all respect to their creators, Facegen and Headshop generate results that aren't worth the time it takes to install the plugin. Is there anything that actually produces something that doesn't look like a highschool art project?

The problem with these apps is the quality of the results you get are based off the quality of reference images Low quality or missing profile images results in poor morphs.

That problem would be much improved for FaceGen/Headshop and hence the customers if Genesis 9 male and female (I guess because it's not going to happen for Genesis 8) raised significantly the number of polygons on the head/eyes/face.

With all respect to their creators, Facegen and Headshop generate results that aren't worth the time it takes to install the plugin. Is there anything that actually produces something that doesn't look like a highschool art project?

asian_treasure said:

Laslo was amazing in helping me with Headshop 13. I'm a happy customer!! Thanks again!

Laslo was amazing in helping me with Headshop 13. I'm a happy customer!! Thanks again!

asian_treasure said:

i have tried the following:

I would try two things:

1. Pls. reset the Preferences to default as shown in the picture

2. If that does not work, create a folder on C;Users/My Documents/My DAZ 3D Library/Runtime/People

and copy Gen 3 or some other in that folder. Launch Studio by double clicking on Gen 3 Female DSON file.

and still get Headshop Directory "fs" could not be created because the selected figure does not have a valid runtime folder."

Headshop13 works with Genesis 3,but not Genesis 8. Help!

P.s. I did add a runtime with genesis 8 male and genesis 8 female, still no success.

Skype tech support call/screen share scheduled for Tuesday

asian_treasure said:

i have tried the following:

I would try two things:

1. Pls. reset the Preferences to default as shown in the picture

2. If that does not work, create a folder on C;Users/My Documents/My DAZ 3D Library/Runtime/People

and copy Gen 3 or some other in that folder. Launch Studio by double clicking on Gen 3 Female DSON file.

and still get Headshop Directory "fs" could not be created because the selected figure does not have a valid runtime folder."

Headshop13 works with Genesis 3,but not Genesis 8. Help!

P.s. I did add a runtime with genesis 8 male and genesis 8 female, still no success.

i have tried the following:

I would try two things:

1. Pls. reset the Preferences to default as shown in the picture

2. If that does not work, create a folder on C;Users/My Documents/My DAZ 3D Library/Runtime/People

and copy Gen 3 or some other in that folder. Launch Studio by double clicking on Gen 3 Female DSON file.

and still get Headshop Directory "fs" could not be created because the selected figure does not have a valid runtime folder."

Headshop13 works with Genesis 3,but not Genesis 8. Help!

Mark_e593e0a5 said:

No, some products don't. But usually, they are stand-alone products that install as seperate programs on your computer, e.g. like Headshop. If the product contains 3D contents, it should appear in DIM.

Note that Headshop shows up in Daz Install Manager even though it won't properly install that way. 

No, some products don't. But usually, they are stand-alone products that install as seperate programs on your computer, e.g. like Headshop. If the product contains 3D contents, it should appear in DIM.

This is one example with no DIM downloads. https://www.daz3d.com/headshop-13-with-lovechild-macintosh. The product has a macOS installer and requires manual download from the product page.

I think you click on "Start Headshop" which should be at the bottom of the Edit menu.

I am trying to do a Donna D'errico face on a default G8F figure but without much luck so far, can anyone experienced with Faceshop (I guess any edition as I'm sure the process is the same in all) tell me what I am doing wrong here? you can see in the final image it does not look like her facially much at all (lol). I'm not expecting anything perfect but at least to resemble her at all would be nice at this point.

From left to right in the pics are the stages of how I selected the options so pls someone familiar with the process point out what I'm doing wrong.

did you press the export button at the end of headshop session? it seems like it created a new face object on your scene. usually at the end of headshop sesssion, press export and it will merge with your genesis figure gensis 3 or 8 only

So, what is the objet test donnnnn?
see the eyeball next to that object? Try clicking that eyeball (to make that object invisible)... is the figure beneath it JUST a Genesis 8 Female character? 
It has been so long since I used Head Shop - and the version I used wasn't for G8F. But, what you need to do is take a G8F character, apply the Headshop Morph you created to THAT character, and then apply the skin created by Headshop to that character. There wasn't an object. that was attached to the figure.