Try using the Parameters pane, instead of the Shaping pane.

No morph dials for this there either.

Another way to say what the others have said is, dForce is non-selective. It will attempt to simulate everything vislble. Items that do not have a dForce modifier applied will work as if the dForce Static Modifier was applied and dForce will use those objects to calculate collision—even if the object is "20 feet" away. Leaving these other things visible will slow down the simulation process.

Best practice with dForce is to hide everything not needed for the drape. If a clothing item, for example, doesn't need to drape onto the nearby coffee table, hide the coffee table. And so on.

After you've successfully simulated an object, you can use an option in the Parameters tab to "Freeze Simulation." With that applied, the object will not simulate when running dForce. But hitting the "Clear" button will clear all simulation data in the scene, including those with Freeze Simulation enabled!

If you're feeling adventurous, you can turn the finished simulation into a morph for that object. I've posted a "How To" in my dForce thread here.

I have a mouth expression and an eyebrow expression created using erc.  I erc them both as part of a full face morph.  However if I make changes to the mouth expression by baking/refreezing the erc morph, it will break the full face morph and I have to remake it.  Is there a way to make changes to the mouth morph without breaking the full face morph?

Would the duplicate formula show anywhere in the morph settings or the text in the dsf file so I can figure out which one it is?

you can also use Zprojection in Zbrush or the morph brush in Poser to get a closer approximation from scaled and posed shapes expoirted as obj

or shrinkwrap in Blender

Ok, I found this thread about V4 clone creation. I didn't try it personally, but maybe it would help someone somehow.
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/193296/freebie-how-to-create-a-v4-clone-and-transfer-other-figures-for-g8f-now-with-video/p1

This tutorial uses the fact that G1 has a V4 clone included and basically "transfers" the clone morph to G8, the "V4 to Dawn" case is closer to what you need to do for G8 to Leon.

The basic idea is to create a "G8M shape" (sometimes adjusted to get a better conversion) morph for Leon, save it as a morph asset, then edit the morph asset properties to resave it as a clone morph.

After creating several new custom morphs and saving them as morph assets, I get the following message in scenes using that character. WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & Value in D:/Daz/My Library/Scenes/testscene.duf.

Is there any way to figure out exactly what morph is causing this or fix it without deleting all my morphs and creating them again? 

Ok, I found this thread about V4 clone creation. I didn't try it personally, but maybe it would help someone somehow.
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/193296/freebie-how-to-create-a-v4-clone-and-transfer-other-figures-for-g8f-now-with-video/p1

Another possibility for converting clothes is to make adjustments in Marvelous Designers. I recently saw a tutorial where you export the .obj into Marvelous Designer and load it as clothing. Once you run a simulation, you can basically make the adjustments you need. Then you can save the file back out as a .obj and load into DAZ as a morph file. I was surprised at how well it worked.

J

@Wonderland, this is for you.

Wonderland wanted a render of Lihua without Mrs Chow. I rendered a number of head shots, some of which I'll share here. To start with, here's MC8, wearing Lihua materials:

And here's Lihua, who uses 50% MC8 for the head and 100% MC8 for the body:

And here's Lihua without the 50% Mrs Chow Head:

Mrs Chow has very thin lips and you can see Lihua is compensating for that. The Genesis 8 Female Head Morphs has a "Lips Thin" morph, which could help dial down Lihua's lips. Lihua also depends on Mrs Chow for aging. Without MC8 body dialed in Lihua is much taller, with "younger" breasts, and so on. I did comparison renders of Lihua's body with and without Mrs Chow, front and back, after applying a neutral gray shader. Those four images are in the attached zip file.

I also put clothes on the model. Those @#$% breasts! Even the clothing made for Mrs Chow wants to cling around those droopy protusions like saran wrap. So the next series of image are also head shots.

First, here's Lihua without Mrs Chow:

Now, here's the default Lihua with Mrs Chow still dialed in:

Followed by Lihua with Mrs Chosw dialed out and Grandmother HD Head dialed in at 50%

Using Grandmother HD if you already have her will help age Lihua, but the results could really use  a bit of help for the width of the nose, making the eyes less rounded. Still, it's viable alternative for anyone trying to get the older look, who doesn't have Mrs. Chow.

But I think Lihua is makes a pretty girl/younger woman without MC8, and will work just fine alone, with a little thinning of those lips.

Hi folks. It seems like everything I have bought lately here either doesn't work right, or has special things you have to do to get the thing to work. Just yesterday I had a problem with a new model I bought and it took all day to get tips from you forums folks to get it to work.

Today, I just bought the child morph for Genesis 8 that goes with the Dforce Play Bedroom set. I paid $12.00 for it and I can't get it to do anything. It says it comes with a morph dial for Genesis 8 to dial in the age of the character, but I have found no dial anywhere, I checked the morph section for Genesis 8 and nothing. It says to set the dial to 100%....no dial.  I select the Genesis 8 character and try to apply one of the poses and it just says "error" and does nothing. I have no idea how to get this to work. What ever happened to plain and simple instructions to get something to work. No help, no instructions...

Can anyone help me with this? (BTW, I do not have the Dforce play bedroom model, but I don't think it requires you to have it .)

https://www.daz3d.com/child-morph-and-poses-for-dforce-play-bedroom

 

Select the figure, go to the shaping tab and look at 

• Genesis 8/Female/Morphs/Dobit/Play Bedroom/PlayBedroomChild.dsf

• /People/Genesis 8

Ok....I loaded Genesis 8 female figure. I went to the shaping tab and I selected Genesis 8 and opened it. No morph dials anywhere, No dobit, no play bedroom. Just ears, eyes, arms, etc.

At least two of my actors are not working. Primarily, I instaled the Nancy Pro bundle. The actor shows as well as all parts (body, head, etc.) but when I load it, it appears to be the default G8. I can use some changes - materials like lips, make up, nails do load but the head and body shape does not. It shows Nancy at 100% under Actor in Parameters. Loading the Nancy full shape, Nancy body, Nancy head does not change anything. This has not happened to me before. Am I missing a basic thing like loading some morph or checking some box? (The other character not loading is Star 2.0) If I load, say, Serenity, it works correctly. So does Mrs Chow. Any tips? I did not find an answer when I searched the forum.

I am running a Mac Mini under macOS 10.14.3

Daz Studio version 4.10.0.123 Pro Edition (64-bit)

Definitely agree that the latest release is supposed to be Britney Spears, literally couldn't be anyone else based on the resemblance of the texture used.

As we know, some of these likenesses aren't accurate in terms of the actual shape of the morph, so they may look like other people. But it is definitely intended by the artist to be Britney Spears.

Hi folks. It seems like everything I have bought lately here either doesn't work right, or has special things you have to do to get the thing to work. Just yesterday I had a problem with a new model I bought and it took all day to get tips from you forums folks to get it to work.

Today, I just bought the child morph for Genesis 8 that goes with the Dforce Play Bedroom set. I paid $12.00 for it and I can't get it to do anything. It says it comes with a morph dial for Genesis 8 to dial in the age of the character, but I have found no dial anywhere, I checked the morph section for Genesis 8 and nothing. It says to set the dial to 100%....no dial.  I select the Genesis 8 character and try to apply one of the poses and it just says "error" and does nothing. I have no idea how to get this to work. What ever happened to plain and simple instructions to get something to work. No help, no instructions...

Can anyone help me with this? (BTW, I do not have the Dforce play bedroom model, but I don't think it requires you to have it .)

https://www.daz3d.com/child-morph-and-poses-for-dforce-play-bedroom

 

Select the figure, go to the shaping tab and look at 

• Genesis 8/Female/Morphs/Dobit/Play Bedroom/PlayBedroomChild.dsf

• /People/Genesis 8

Today, I just bought the child morph for Genesis 8 that goes with the Dforce Play Bedroom set. I paid $12.00 for it and I can't get it to do anything. It says it comes with a morph dial for Genesis 8 to dial in the age of the character, but I have found no dial anywhere, I checked the morph section for Genesis 8 and nothing. It says to set the dial to 100%....no dial.  I select the Genesis 8 character and try to apply one of the poses and it just says "error" and does nothing. I have no idea how to get this to work.

I think I may have to have the Dforce play bedroom for it to work. Gonna go get it now. Wish me luck!

https://www.daz3d.com/child-morph-and-poses-for-dforce-play-bedroom

i'd prefer akin to k4 toddler morph before a woman figure, just my 2 cents

One downside to owning as much content as I do for MALE figures, be it Genesis 1, 2, 3, or 8, with every character and product I buy, on loading a BASIC Genesis male, have you ever looked at what is inside of the empty figure?  It loads literally hundreds of dials and product bits which I may have installed at some point, but will never or have never used.  You have no choice.  If you installed something that has morphs for a male figure, it loads those bits into the figure whether you want it or not.  This is bloating, and for those who have slower machines or don't realize this, Genesis 3 or 8 male is filled with stuff you don't need.  
Having a standalone figure - not loading up all the stuff from your Genesis runtime into the basic figure, is a big advantage - it's lightweight, will render most likely faster, and isn't carrying excess baggage you will never use.

Just one of the pluses to having a standalone figure that doesn't carry the weight of every installed Genesis character/morph/dial...

I'm excited to see what I can do with this new figure, and where he can be taken.  Growing pains are to be had, no question there, but you never know what you can accomplish until you try.

Antonio

Thank you all for your nice comments! I am not going to make the same morph for Genesis figure. I can only promise to make more content for this particular figure in future.

I will be happy to do anything I can to help you with ideas, suggestions and creation of add-on products for this endeavor.  

Antonio

Thank you so much for your kind words and for offering help! I would be more than happy if other vendors make some clothing and hair for him or something else while I keep working on this and other projects.

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but I'd like to see the automatic bone adjustments in the eye areas fixed when the new generation arrives. Both Gen3 and Gen8 had a problem with that and it was a pain when I tried to create custom morph sets.

Thank you all for your nice comments! I am not going to make the same morph for Genesis figure. I can only promise to make more content for this particular figure in future.

I will be happy to do anything I can to help you with ideas, suggestions and creation of add-on products for this endeavor.  

Antonio