Well darn, wish I had known that earlier, LOL. But I have pretty much given up on Headshop anyway because of other issues. Have you tried opening your character's mouth? You get a nasty surprise as the morph dial goes higher! And for fun, turn off the limit on the morph, and then turn it way up and watch what happens.

I'll let you discover what happens.

I think you can use the X-Morphs product to help isolate stop that somewhat. I can't recall if that worked or not. And actually, now that I think about X-Morphs could also help with the eyelash too, though that is a moot point now.

I saw that on a G2 conversion. The tongue was sticking out of the forehead!!! I think it had to do with getting the top of the head located properly. Once I pulled that arc up higher, it went away. Another problem with HS is that you can't go back to step 1 to fix that. You have to start all over from the photo.

50% Head 01, 50% Head 02, 50% Christian Head

Christian's textures (skin darkened) and HD morph (not full strength)

 

50% Head 01, 50% Head 02, 50% Christian Head

Christian's textures (skin darkened) and HD morph (not full strength)

looks really nice. so he's a 150% man. 

Sometimes you can get away with it, depending ;).

Laurie

Wow, I actually finished a entry for this month... it's a Christmas miracle!  

 

What is better than mistletoe?  How about a romantic carriage ride through the snow? 

USED:

M4 and V4

http://shop.aprilsvanity.com/free-items/jamie-hair-model-textures.html ; (Jamie Hair by AprilYSH)

http://www.sharecg.com/v/28534/gallery/5/3D-Model/Simple-1800s-Evening-Buggy ; (Evening carriage buggy (obj))

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/mamomamo_2007/c/5e1cead164d35299732b76397179c8e1/3 ; (mm down jacket for v4 a4 (about 1/4 way down page))

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/mamomamo_2007/c/5e1cead164d35299732b76397179c8e1/1 ; (mmdownjacket for m4 (about 3/4 way down page))

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/?item_id=58290 ;  (home knit texture for v4knitcap)

http://www.sharecg.com/v/18964/poser/Xmas-Quilt-Texture ;  (ness pro quilt texture)

http://www.sharecg.com/v/57731/gallery/11/Poser/Level-Hype_for-Michael-4 ;  (LA3D level hype characters)

http://www.sharecg.com/v/61717/browse/11/Poser/Sandra-for-V4-Base-DieTrying-Morphs ; (Sandra for V4 Base / DieTrying for texture)

http://www.sharecg.com/v/34752/Poser/Beatrice-V4 ;  (Beatrice Head morph)

http://www.sharecg.com/v/27568/gallery/7/Material-and-Shader/Ultimate-Shader-Pack-for-DAZ-Studio-UPDATED_2011 (Georgehaze ultimate shader pack)

http://www.sharecg.com/v/31574/related/7/Material-and-Shader/Super-Shine-TopCoat ;  (Supershine top coat)

http://www.sharecg.com/v/31573/related/7/Material-and-Shader/Super-Shine-Shader ;  (Super shine shader)

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/looks-like-snow/75867 ;  (looks like snow - (No count as it was used for base but not really visible in render))

 

 

Missing in Action:

http://nessrepros.co.uk ;  (patchwork quilt (not working))

http://aziqo.x.fc2.com/poser_freestuff3.html ;   (v4knitcap (not working))

 

Background -  image found on the internet

Rendered in Daz Studio Pro 4 with Reality engine (purchased)

Postwork done in Paint Shop Pro 2020 (purchased) - slight color adjustment, added signature, and some snow flakes!  

No other purchased items used in render.

 

Enjoy!  

 

I ran the script one time and it basically made the Genesis 3 male and Genesis 8 male unusuable on my system. The Genesis 8 male won't completely load or when it does comes out horribly distorted. Most times, though it just crashes DAZ studio. When you go to load genesis 3, it tells me "Duplicate Formuals Found in Files Make sure the content is properly installed. See the log file for more details."

I can't begin to tell you how frustrated this makes me. You can see by the image, what kind of stuff I'm talking about. That's now the default load of the Genesis 8 Male --it automatically loads the morph I tried to transfer now --IF it doesn't crash DAZ studio on me. Not a happy camper at the moment.

 

I found out what was going on. The script when you launch it, on the Favorite Morphs Tab, the Content Directory defaults to the bottom directory listed in your Content Directory Manager. If you don't change it to where you launched your G8M From, then you get the weird messages and have all the issues. It took me a while to figure out what was going on because the log wasn't very helpful in tracking down where the hiccup was occuring. I was only able to find the .DSF that was causing me all the trouble by scanning my entire computer --that's when I found that it was saving everything in a different content directory than what I expected. After deleting those morphs and closing out of Studio and going back into it, I was able to run the script without an issue this time. So if anyone else was having this issue --check your Content Directory Location on the Favorite Morphs Tab.

Maybe it's due to me using the "City Limits Lite" layout (heavily customised), but... I don't have a "Favourite Morphs Tab". It's not an option in the list of panes (tabs) under the "Window" menu option. 

Well darn, wish I had known that earlier, LOL. But I have pretty much given up on Headshop anyway because of other issues. Have you tried opening your character's mouth? You get a nasty surprise as the morph dial goes higher! And for fun, turn off the limit on the morph, and then turn it way up and watch what happens.

I'll let you discover what happens.

I think you can use the X-Morphs product to help isolate stop that somewhat. I can't recall if that worked or not. And actually, now that I think about X-Morphs could also help with the eyelash too, though that is a moot point now.

X-Morphs is now Shape Splitter for anyone who's curious.

Well darn, wish I had known that earlier, LOL. But I have pretty much given up on Headshop anyway because of other issues. Have you tried opening your character's mouth? You get a nasty surprise as the morph dial goes higher! And for fun, turn off the limit on the morph, and then turn it way up and watch what happens.

I'll let you discover what happens.

I think you can use the X-Morphs product to help isolate stop that somewhat. I can't recall if that worked or not. And actually, now that I think about X-Morphs could also help with the eyelash too, though that is a moot point now.

I ran the script one time and it basically made the Genesis 3 male and Genesis 8 male unusuable on my system. The Genesis 8 male won't completely load or when it does comes out horribly distorted. Most times, though it just crashes DAZ studio. When you go to load genesis 3, it tells me "Duplicate Formuals Found in Files Make sure the content is properly installed. See the log file for more details."

I can't begin to tell you how frustrated this makes me. You can see by the image, what kind of stuff I'm talking about. That's now the default load of the Genesis 8 Male --it automatically loads the morph I tried to transfer now --IF it doesn't crash DAZ studio on me. Not a happy camper at the moment.

 

I found out what was going on. The script when you launch it, on the Favorite Morphs Tab, the Content Directory defaults to the bottom directory listed in your Content Directory Manager. If you don't change it to where you launched your G8M From, then you get the weird messages and have all the issues. It took me a while to figure out what was going on because the log wasn't very helpful in tracking down where the hiccup was occuring. I was only able to find the .DSF that was causing me all the trouble by scanning my entire computer --that's when I found that it was saving everything in a different content directory than what I expected. After deleting those morphs and closing out of Studio and going back into it, I was able to run the script without an issue this time. So if anyone else was having this issue --check your Content Directory Location on the Favorite Morphs Tab.

Will2power delete the XTransfer folder on your G8 in data..To do this, Load G3, then open script go to browse Xtransfer morphs and delete the folder on G8. Now on G3 to get rid of the duplicate ID morphs, go to the data of the product you tried to transfer and delete any morph that has XT prefix. All will be reset now. In the update this will all be automated if there is an issue with a transfer. I will PM you a new version to try.

Woah! Lots of good info @outrider42. I'm trying that now.

To the previous comments, I did not find any autofollow settings to change on the eyelashes.

Not the lashes, the morph you created. Click on the little cog wheel on the upper right to open the parameter settings, there is a check box for auto follow.

Argh! I wish I had found that sooner. This seems to work without the Hexagon detour. In both cases, it was necessary to unfit the eyelashes, then refit them. Since the HS plugin is creating the morph, why didn't it set autofollow on, I wonder?

 

@Lindsey woould you  mind posting your step to convert presets?  I have had little success in using the GenX preset tab 

Thanks

I have to admit I've only use the pose converter a long time ago just to try it out and at that time it worked on a set of Freak 4 expressions.  At that time I had all of my content installed with DIM and the conversion worked.  Now that I have DAZ content installed with DAZ Connect with the exceptions of a few Gen4 products such as Victoria 4 Creature creator morphs with were installed with DIM.  I received errors it was looking for morphs which are probably in my DAZ Connect folders.  A few did work so I'll give you the steps I used to convert the expression morphs that came with the Girl 4 pro bundle.

1. On the GenX2 pane/tab, and click the Presets tab.

2. Click on the Add Pose button and drill down to a Gen 4 folder with expression presets, in this example I used Girl 4 expressions that came with the Girl 4 Pro Bundle.  To load all of the files in the folder, select the first .fc preset, hold the shift key down and select the last .fc preset.  Click on the Open button to load the presets into GenX2.

3. Shape: Select Victoria 4 from the drop down list

4. Target: Select the Genesis figure to transfer the expressions to.  I used Genesis.

5. Preset Folder: Click on the Path button and select a folder to save the converted expressions.  You can create folder(s) on the fly if needed.  In this example I wanted the save poses to go to E:/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Library/People/Genesis 1 Female/Expressions/Converted Expressions/Girl 4/DAZ's Girl 4/

6. Translate:  Click on the items to transfer.  I select all three choices, just because.. ha!  Morphs, Scalings, Eye Transforms.

7. Click the Translate Button to transfer the expression presets.

You should see generated .duf presets with icons in the folder selected in Step 5.  As previously mentioned GenX2 did throw out error messages looking for Victoria 4 morphs on my system, but some of the converted expression presets worked. I'm pretty sure if all of my DAZ content was installed with DIM, I wouldn't have received error messages.

I've attached a pic of applying Girl 4 (left) expression 13  on 3DU Jasmin for Genesis (right).

Woah! Lots of good info @outrider42. I'm trying that now.

To the previous comments, I did not find any autofollow settings to change on the eyelashes.

Not the lashes, the morph you created. Click on the little cog wheel on the upper right to open the parameter settings, there is a check box for auto follow.

Actually you can do a LOT inside DS IMO. Start by creating a high poly primitive plane. After that there are several ways to go, using dFormers, using a push modifyer weight map, using mcasual's free script that generates height morphs from grayscale images you can make yourself in PS or GIMP, using dForce to drape the plane over primitives and then creating a morph from the draped shape, to name a few...

That's the easy part. The hard work is making textures/finding shaders to get the desired look;)

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/mcjelevate

I ran the script one time and it basically made the Genesis 3 male and Genesis 8 male unusuable on my system. The Genesis 8 male won't completely load or when it does comes out horribly distorted. Most times, though it just crashes DAZ studio. When you go to load genesis 3, it tells me "Duplicate Formuals Found in Files Make sure the content is properly installed. See the log file for more details."

I can't begin to tell you how frustrated this makes me. You can see by the image, what kind of stuff I'm talking about. That's now the default load of the Genesis 8 Male --it automatically loads the morph I tried to transfer now --IF it doesn't crash DAZ studio on me. Not a happy camper at the moment.

 

 

Thanks for your update.

One thing I always noticed about the morphs - and this is not exclusive to your products by any means - is that when morphs are used in combination, they tend to become extreme. So a simple fold down of the front waist area becomes a huge flap of cloth reaching the knees or beyond. Have you found a way of restricting this mesh stretching or is that just an inevitable consequence? I had similar problems with the Hongyu bikini strings and again with some ribbon hair morphs used in combination (hair mesh becomes freakishly expanded).

Morphs are simple in that they move a vertex in a liner direction.  The results are cumulative so mixing them can produce strange results.  

Hi, all! I'm looking for a pair of pants, preferably slacks, for Genesis 8 male that can be unzipped without undoing the top button. I've found a few that can be completely opened, but not one with just the fly. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I feel like I kinda hi-jacked your thread.  So to make up for it here is a morph for you to try on the G3M JeanZ.  Hope it works for you.

Cheers!

 

This is a known issue with Headshop, at least I know of it, and wrote about it in my review of Headshop. I complained about this the moment Headshop 11 released, and I see it has not been fixed yet. Hmmm. The bad news is there is no way to fix this inside Daz Studio. This is NOT about auto follow or anything like that. Whatever Headshop does, the morph it creates will never ever follow the shape. This is more than just the eyelashes being effected. Other things are effected as well, like how the model will wear hair and any fitted head props. It is as if Daz has no indication the morph has changed.

Any conforming prop you apply will act as if it is on the default G8 head, not your new morph!

BUT, there is a way to fix it. The way to fix it is by exporting the head morph out of Daz to another app, and the import the morph back. The easiest way is to just use the Hexagon bridge from Daz. If you have ever used the Hexagon bridge before, that would help a lot and you should know what to do. If you have not used it, it is not hard at all. Using the bridge means you do not have to worry about all of the export/import settings like you would if you exported the OBJ out for Blender or something. Also, you do not need to do any modeling or sculpting. Unless you just really want to.

Anyway, here is what you do.

So in a fresh clean scene, load the Genesis 8 Dev Load model. The Dev Kit is not the same as Genesis 8, it loads without lashes and a couple common morphs (like the navel). The Dev Kit is included with the G8 Starter Essentials if you don't have it somehow. 

Dial in your Headshop morph. Now send to Hexagon.

You do not need to do anything in Hexagon. Before taking the next step, switch back to Daz and reset your G8 figure. If you did use the dev load, then all you need to do is dial the head morph back to 0. If you feel confident you can also use Edit Mode to delete the Headshop morph completely from Daz. You don't have to though. But I would, because you'll never use it again.

Now  switch back to Hexagon, select send to Daz. You are done with Hexagon now.

You should see a pop up in Daz. You want to save this as a morph. If you deleted the Headshop morph before you sent back the Hexagon head, then you can use the same name. But if you did not delete the morph, then you need to make the name different in some way. You can pick the location of the morph. Make sure to click reverse deformations and switch it on.

After that, you'll get the new morph, and you will find that when you apply eyelashes they work correctly.

However, you still need to save this new morph, so save it as a morph asset.

It might sound like a lot, but it really isn't. Its like a minute or two tops, and most of that is waiting for stuff to load.

One last thing, its not necessary but it is a good practice, to perform 'adjust rigging to shape' before saving it.

Doing this will fix 100% all of the issues I mentioned.

thing is, you can kitbash morph together some great looking characters. The probklem I have is with the skin textures. More of those would be cool., especially with scars, and a lot of detail. 
This is Tennessee but with a couple of other chasracfters dialed in and T dialed back to 50%. Then I added Maxx HD Head and Body. The texture is from someone else as well. 

I personally don't care too much about textures - I'm just going to make a bunch of cute characters in G8. I noticed that a lot of aiko figures have that 'old playstation/dreamcast' character look sometimes. They'll morph perfectly with some of my characters. I even have some really nice custom anime heads and such. I might start a gallery here or something.

Here's a simple quicky I've done to test the Trading Floor Outfit for Genesis 3 Male (https://www.daz3d.com/trading-floor-outfit-for-genesis-3-male-s) as the Thenth Doctor's costume.  The texture comes from the Classic Suits: Shader Presets and Merchant Resource by Canary3d (https://www.daz3d.com/classic-suits-shader-presets-and-merchant-resource).  The morph is fantastic though, if I can use another Doctor's catchphrase , and I can't thank RKane_1 enough for the skin and hair sugestions that makes it so easy to get an amazing result.  

Just finished a commission for Noomi Rapace:

https://www.deviantart.com/tritiumcg/art/Noomi-Rapace-Head-and-Body-Morphs-for-G8F-823206624

There's also two head morphs for sorta "celebrities" (as in don't google them at work!) Alia Janine and Hitomi Tanaka:

https://www.deviantart.com/tritiumcg/art/Alia-Janine-Head-Morph-for-G8F-821323629 and https://www.deviantart.com/tritiumcg/art/Hitomi-Tanaka-Head-Morph-for-G8F-819861473

The JeanZ do not have the specific morph described above were you unzip without undoing the top button.  I am in the process of converting the JeanZ to G8 (female and male).  While the auto-fit works pretty well is does't work to my satisfaction.  I will see about adding this type of morph.

Cheers!

With or without dForce?

BTW - your JeanZ are always a must buy for me.