There's the Royal Eastern Dragon for Daz Dragon 3. It's older, so doesn't have dhair, but it is a very nice addition to the base dragon figure. I used it (minus the beard/fringe, for whatever reason) in the render below quite some time ago, but haven't done anything dragonish for ages, so had almost forgotten about it. Thanks for the post, as it reminded me. Gonna go play with dragons now.  I hope that helps you, if this is what you're looking for.

I imagine it wouldn't be too difficult to use the strand-based hair tool to add hair that you can adjust and style to match different poses.

 

It's not bad, but it's a little dated. I can see texture stretching across its belly scales, its head and face are wrong, and it's pretty obvious that it was a morph of a non-Chinese dragon. Imagine what could be made now!

ETA: That render is beautiful!

Hi, I've perused a little bit of the existing threads about this question. I'm not sure if they're the exact same as what I'm asking - the closest thing I found was this thread. Basically, I've got a number of shape morphs (including the basic G3F body morphs) that I always tinker with whenever I create a new character. What I do usually is I browse through the (large) list of morphs I have to find the ones I need, but I wondered whether there was an easier way to find them. I realized today that there was actually a 'favorites' button for morphs, though from what I read, these favorites are lost when you reload the scene, or for a new character. Apparently, people in the various threads recommend making a Character Preset, which I've tried, but it's not working for me. I'd like to know what I'm doing wrong. Just to confirm, this is how I've been doing it, I don't know if I'm missing anything:

-Add a G3F character to the scene;
-Go through the body morphs and favorite the ones I want in the "shaping" tab;
-"Save as/Character Preset" (with the figure selected);
-Keep "shape settings" and "material settings" checked, and save in a backup folder;
-Move the new .duf file (and .duf.png) to my Daz Library, under Presets/Characters;
-And then open the character preset in a new scene. Favorites don't appear.

I've also tried saving under Presets/Shaping, merging with an existing character instead of loading as a new one, and I've tried saving as a "Shaping Preset" (without touching any of the default options). No dice. Only thing I haven't tried for now is the "Save as/Support Asset/Morph Asset" option, but the threads didn't mention that one.

Is it still possible to save morph favorites? All I'm really asking is for a way to group the morphs I usually use in a single location. If there was a way to group morphs within subfolders, that'd be fine, or to categorize morphs like you can do assets, that'd be also fine.

Anyone have any idea? Appreciate the help.

Since this happens with every G8F character, I went back to the G8 Essentials and loaded the base G8F figure and the error appeared. So the developer in question must be DAZ. Considering this happens to everybody, why wouldn't it be fixed? Or is it possible that it is one of the morph packages, and if so, how would one track it down?

If I want to make G8/V8 morphs in Blender where's a good place to start?

I know how to use Blender but I'm clueless as to how to make morph targets and G8 is all very new to me.

in advance thanks.

Hi. What exactly happens when you try and rig a GenX morph with Shape Rigger? Does it hang? Can I see the Olympia morph bone rigging issue? I assume it's the body morph?

The update should fix rigging inconsistancies we found with GenX morphs..

No but thank you for trying. I am not saying that the default is 100%, I am saying that if I set the "eyes closed" pose to 100% her eyelids are crashing into eachother by about .20. This is a problem if you make characters, your eyelids have to close perfectly and my base figure is now messed up such that I can't. I need to get the default back.

As I explained I think I messed it up by memorizing the figure (accidentally) with eyes closed pose on it to a value of .20 or 20%. I can't just dial it back for a couple reasons but let's say the important one is I need it to be the exact default and not my estimated .20. Also try to open the eyes by using eyes closed at minus values and you will see that I cannot dial back that particular pose, it doesn't go less than zero.

The eyes closed has the upper limits set at 125%, so perhaps that’s how things got messed up? I always reset the upper limits to 100 before I make the eyes closed corrective morphs. 

If you memorized it, can you not look at the default values and see what they are set to when you load g8f? If they are non-zero you can reset them to zero. 

Alternatively you could reinstall the g8 starter essentials. If it’s not a custom morph that you have linked to the eyes then I think that ought to fix the problem.

If it’s the character morphs or eye correctives that are triggering on the default g8f then you would need to set them to default of zero and correctly set up the links .

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Hey Zev0, really like XTransfer so far. I have a bit of an issue. Like some people here, I transfered a GenX2 character. Olympia 6. When posed, the bones go all over the place. Now, I already own also Morph Rigger Plus, so I used it to fix the bone problem but was denied to re-save over the XT. Tried it again with Gen 3 Male this time. Bones issue are less noticeable when posed, still can't overwrite with Rigger.

My question, will a future update for XTransfer have certain elements of the other the plugin or at least be less restrictive to alternate fixes?

Thanks.

Pictures available. public>my daz lib>data> contains nothing other than autoadapted data.
Install genesis started essentions 
load Genesis
warning duplicate formulas found 
sample text.
2019-12-14 02:13:06.433 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\sdksource\fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5995): Duplicate formula found linking xEnd & HFS_Shapes_Head01 in /data/DAZ 3D/Genesis/Base/Morphs/HellFishStudios/HFS Shapes/HFS_Shapes_Head01.dsf.
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the issue is there are no items found when searching the daz library with the words "hellfish" or "HFS"... 
Where is it looking 
I know the genesis is in the right folder because uninstalling it removes it from my daz library in the content window and installing it puts it back and that's the icon I clik on to install genesis 
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above warning from the logfile and each test has started with an empty log file. (there are actually multiple warnings about the same morph).
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We know that Daz will sometimes hold on a texture despite it being replaced. 
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the test was run by closing daz unintalling the gen starter, checking the daz 3d folder to make sure it's empty, reinstalling it, starting the program and loading genesis which is where the dup formulas message appears. 
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the current state of the daz 3d library consists of only those items installed by genesis starter  --- Which eventually I will custom install because it loads the tutorial files also. 
but for now there's nothing but the auto adapted folder and those items installed by genesis starter..  Since the auto-adapted folder is in the daz library folder and according to windows there are no files in the library folder with hellfish or hfs.. 
pretty certain daz is looking elsewhere or is creating a cache somewhere .. that I would like to be able to clean out. 
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thank you for you time once again..  
And yes, somewhere along the line I'm looking forward to not communicating with you for six months 

Was able to finally pick this up and give it a try.  I can say my first transfer went well.  I haven't tried any of my GenX transfers yet, just a straight Rune 7 HD for G3F to G8F.  Im pretty excited about the transfer; it looks great, the only difference I noticed was the HD details are not quite as detailed on the transfer.  Another thing im excited about is the eyes are not irregular shaped (ignore the texture I didn't save the one I changed so its hard to tell in this picture, plus I didn't turn the render settings up)  no offense against RiverSofts product because I do love thier stuff also but the irregular eye thing caused me to really not use the product much.

Thank you for mentioning the irregular eyes... I wasn't sure if it was just me getting this problem with the alternative product. This is just one reason why I'm so enthusiastic about XTransfer. The only issue I've had with XTransfer is converting a GenX2-transferred Gianni 6. Everything I've XTransferred so far, that was native G3, has come to G8 pretty much perfectly. 

Is there a good tutorial specifically for how to load a customized V4 or M4 character with all of their morphs into the GenX transfer program? (And how to find that morph

I don't know if it's "good" exactly. But back in 2015 I did write up a tutorial of my own on this plugin because I always found the original documentation to be confusing at best.

Please note that is has not been updated since I first put it up. It only covers up through the G2M/G2F figures, but the basics should apply the same to the G3F/G3M. I keep trying to get around to updating it for current usage, and I just haven't been able to get the time to do it.

My version of the tutorial is a zip file that contains both a written format (it's a .RTF, so most word programs should open it just fine - like MS Word, Open Office, etc). There's also a screenshot tutorial which is a bit quicker to digest and shows the process visually. The written format is very long, so take it in small bites, I guess.

If you want a PDF version, Dr. Jellybean over on ShareCG converted it to a PDF as well. And that is linked on the ShareCG page with my original format.

https://sharecg.com/v/82334/gallery/3/Text-Entry-Tutorial/COF-GenX-Plugin-Tutorial

I know it won't answer every question, but maybe it will help some folks with it. This is a utility that I used like crazy with my art before everything got insane with my offline life. I've converted M3/V3 characters as far forward as the G2M/G2F's. So yeah, I'd say the plugin is very worth it. Your mileage will vary, depending on what morphs you are converting and what sorts of limitations each figure has. But I've had very good luck with it up to this point.

I haven't yet tried it on the G8's or G3's, but I can't imagine it would be too much different thn G1 or G2's.

This is what I covered in the tut :

-- Converting from a .duf file (performing .cr2 export)
-- Converting from V4/M4 or V3/M3 to Genesis
-- Converting from Genesis to G2F or G2M
-- Converting Morph Dials Only

Anyway. I'll stop rambling. Hope this helps someone.

I use him all the time .I did not see any iray mats included so You will need to convert him to iray. I just use the Default g2m Iray mats , that come with the genesis 2 essentials  . there are no special body morphs scott is just the character dial shape of his own shape based of micheal 6.  scott default textures are 3dl comes with bump and trans mats for the muscle morph look.

 I rendered a couple quick renders using a cake one HDR  and included a screen shot the character morph dials so you can decide for your self

Subdragon has a mesh resolution slider under parameters tab why isn't there one for Dragon3 and the Blue Dragon morph? How do I lower the resolution of this mesh?

All the characters come with normal maps that have usually have the same details as the hd morphs. The difference is being a morph you can mix it with anyone and the HD actually adds detail to the geometry, where as normals maps dont displace the geometry at all.

OK thanks. Still wondering why this is the only G2 character that was rendered in iRay and if his textures were updated...

Scott 6 and Callie 6 were both shown with Iray in their promos, that's about time Iray was just added to the public build and right after them we got Vicky 7 and Genesis 2 was over and done with. I'm almost sure Scott 6 was the last of the male line for the generation which is a shame because he seems to have been short lived because of it, but was one of the best males for Gen2 Male imo :) As for have textures been updated, to the best of my knowledge they haven't, but I could very well be wrong with that.

There was another thread a while back where a customer said that they also wished to purchase Aeon Soul's Alice. In such threads, I have always wondered why some users don't set aside one day to recreate a desired shape with all the morphs they own. I did this a while back when I attempted to make Alice for myself, and I have done it again because someone mentioned the lame excuse, "What about a male version?"

I had originally tried to do a FaceGen version but the eyes were distorted in the morph. Instead, I lined up G8M with the G8F with the "Alice" head shape, which I had tweaked and made a male. DAZ Galleries link [x].

What I don't like with this attempt is the skin of choice. Should've been "smooth and blemish free" like the female version so they'd truly be equals. I will see if I can re-render him again. She is still using the Davinia skin, except I applied Maxx's skin shaders on her and that's why she doesn't look kinda grayish/corpse-like.

All the characters come with normal maps that have usually have the same details as the hd morphs. The difference is being a morph you can mix it with anyone and the HD actually adds detail to the geometry, where as normals maps dont displace the geometry at all.

OK thanks. Still wondering why this is the only G2 character that was rendered in iRay and if his textures were updated...

EUREKA!

I restarted from the beginning, finally deleted all the bad morphs and followed the video tutorial. This time, I made sure to do the card assignment BEFORE saving morph assets contrary to what the video tutorial showed and that seemed to do the trick. My cards stuck and I have a G3F that shows up on the stage loaded from its preset in the expected morphed shape.

HOWEVER, a new problem has arisen - the shape presets don't work as expected. They only work when the main controller of the head and body subcomponents is set to 0 and I have no idea what is going on with that. Any ideas?

I may have to start a new thread for that topic...

Was able to finally pick this up and give it a try.  I can say my first transfer went well.  I haven't tried any of my GenX transfers yet, just a straight Rune 7 HD for G3F to G8F.  Im pretty excited about the transfer; it looks great, the only difference I noticed was the HD details are not quite as detailed on the transfer.  Another thing im excited about is the eyes are not irregular shaped (ignore the texture I didn't save the one I changed so its hard to tell in this picture, plus I didn't turn the render settings up)  no offense against RiverSofts product because I do love thier stuff also but the irregular eye thing caused me to really not use the product much.