Is your concern with the lack of morphs to change the shape, or feeling the Sydney body morph is not different enough from the default Genesis 8 Female shape?

For the number of morphs, characters don't usually come with more than the one body morph... in fact I think if you are seeing a chest size morph it comes from something other than Sydney. For a full range of adjustment morphs, I would start with https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-8-female-body-morphs for the body and https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-8-female-head-morphs for the head.

If it's for the Sydney shape, not sure, I am seeing quite a bit of change in the hips, knees, and elbows especially in addition to the chest (I am sure there are adjustments all over, those are just the ones that stand out at first glance). If you liked the shape though, that is what you would expect. Are you not seeing the Sydney shape you expect? If it's not loading properly there could be an installation issue.

Hi everyone!

I'v created a skirt in Blender (around a base, unmorphed G3F character). Imported .obj and run Transfer utility with G3F as source and skirt as target.

As you can see in  the attached pics, the skirt looks perfect in the base pose. Horribly deformed and un-natural in a dynamic  pose. :-( 

What did I do wrong in Blender?

Hi. This is not a morph transfer tool. This only rigs morphs on the figure and ones that lack rigging, be it custom morphs, or ones that have been transferred via an external method. So say you create a custom morph or import a new morph onto a figure. It requires rigging for it to bend properly or handle expressions correctly. That is what this tool is designed to do. It also has a handy feature to instantly save any selected morph with one click and browse to it's location. You can also browse to any selected morphs path if you cant remember where it is located. So if you don't really import morphs, or create characters, then this product wont really be high on your priority list, but to me it is such a convenience. It saves me so much time, especially for resaving morphs I update, or instantly finding the location of a specific morph. Hope that makes sense. 

I'm trying to understand what this product is and does (showing my ignorance). Can it transfer morphs from Genesis to Genesis 2, 3, and 8? Does it transfer full body morphs as in the video, or does it transfer face morphs also? It looks interesting but I can't understand how I would use it.

Morphable boot heels do exist, but they're rare. Dawn's Western Boots over on Hivewire have morphable heels. But then, they're for Dawn, and they're specifically western-style boots, so probably not what you're after. I don't know whether Dusk's boots morph. They might, but I wouldn't count on it, and theycertainly wouldn't morph as much.

I made a little bit of progress on this endeavor, this is with an original model of mine.
I do have an update on some future projects I'm working on however.
This was achieved using displacement and Normal maps, there are still limitations. Click the link below the picture to see the gif.

OUTSTANDING WORK!!!

Please tell me you're planning on selling this as a morph, soon.

Thanks, for investing your time and talent, and for fixing the link.

Generally speaking no; there are some exceptions though. The 'others' you list give a good assortment though, and ghost lights (version 2 for preference, although I use both) also assist with lighting - and certainly an HDRI or two are almost essential. Scene Optimiser is a great time-saver, and especially useful now directories can be selected.

Personally, it is important for a new user to identify the type of scenes they like doing, and choose products according to the style; SciFi, Fantasy, Horror or whatever it may be.

I think that the Genesis 8 (or whatever the latest generation is) morphs released by Daz are almost vital, either the female:

https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-8-female-body-morphs

https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-8-female-head-morphs

and/or male equivalent.

I'd recommend these over any others as there are many figures that might cite these as required, whereas it is rare to see the 200 morphs as a required product. I do recommend the 200 morphs though. With sufficient time, patience and practice, it is prossible to make hundreds of distincive characters using the G8F Body and Head morphs. Certainly Growing Up are very useful even if children aren't a factor. The posture, narrowing morphs are very versatile, and up to about 10% of the Youth Morph make petit figures simpler - but by no means impossible without. Ageing morphs are also very useful - not just for ageing, but for subtle signs of what might be better termed weathering.

No about what? You think they're all useless except for these you've quoted later? I've not understood xD

The Daz Original morphs are already included in the list ^^

The growing and aging morphs are there for who'd like to avoid buying specific bundles with old and young people, that is what I thought I should do to have them a few months ago. I still recall what's like to know nothing of anything, and I think it's better to know that those tools exist! Then, of course, anyone decides if he needs them or not!

The 200 morphs etc. are included as a general option to create your own figures, instead of buying dozens of them! Indeed nowadays I use Skin Builder 8 for the textures, UV swap to use them on males too, and for the shapes I use those morphs and the randomizer!

 

None of them are useless as they are all good products, but essential for those new to the rendering scene? In general, my answer is no.

What some needs: morphs, and some lights. This is presuming they are geared towards creating renders with figures; practicing with figures, more simple scenes makes it easier to get to grips with. G8F or M with morphs, and the freebie hair is a good place to start, but folks get poor results ( I certainly did) and they think the issue is 'buy stuff'.

The problem is both knowledge and experience. The more products available to use, the harder it is to create something one likes - barring a case of lucky accident.

And mebbe cinsider updating the dson bring back poser customers and carrartists. Imagine all of the back catalog all of a sydden working in poser. 

It's not the dson part that makes G3 and later not work in Poser out of the box, it's the change in weight mapping. And support for that is entirely up to the Poser development team.

plus, aren’t Poser and DAZ competitors? if so, it's possible that DAZ did this for competition reasons.

Just as a reminder, Daz created the DSON importer so content using their proprietary rigging tech (TriAx) could be used in Poser, and before that they had tried to work with Poser owners so that they could integrate TriAx support in Poser (which Poser owners chose not to do as they didn't want to depend on somebody else's tech, which is totally understandable even if it's too bad for customers). And before Genesis all their content was created primarily for Poser.

With G3 Daz switched to an industry standard for rigging (dual quaternions) instead of their own tech so that it was easier to transfer their content to other software. There's nothing stopping Poser owners to add support for dual quaternions rigging if they want to, it's not even proprietary tech this time. But that's not something that Daz can do via their DSON importer.

You mean there's more than one cat breed?  That would be something to see.
Russian, Persian, Siamese, Sphynx, American, Himayalan, Egyptian, Burmese, Siberian, etc...

We're definitely going to need a Pallas's Cat morph. And a Sand Cat.

"The floof is strong in that one."

Can we get a female Daz Dog 8?????? Why are they all male????? Kind of hard to have a dog couple while both of them have noticable junk under their bellies...

Generally speaking no; there are some exceptions though. The 'others' you list give a good assortment though, and ghost lights (version 2 for preference, although I use both) also assist with lighting - and certainly an HDRI or two are almost essential. Scene Optimiser is a great time-saver, and especially useful now directories can be selected.

Personally, it is important for a new user to identify the type of scenes they like doing, and choose products according to the style; SciFi, Fantasy, Horror or whatever it may be.

I think that the Genesis 8 (or whatever the latest generation is) morphs released by Daz are almost vital, either the female:

https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-8-female-body-morphs

https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-8-female-head-morphs

and/or male equivalent.

I'd recommend these over any others as there are many figures that might cite these as required, whereas it is rare to see the 200 morphs as a required product. I do recommend the 200 morphs though. With sufficient time, patience and practice, it is prossible to make hundreds of distincive characters using the G8F Body and Head morphs. Certainly Growing Up are very useful even if children aren't a factor. The posture, narrowing morphs are very versatile, and up to about 10% of the Youth Morph make petit figures simpler - but by no means impossible without. Ageing morphs are also very useful - not just for ageing, but for subtle signs of what might be better termed weathering.

No about what? You think they're all useless except for these you've quoted later? I've not understood xD

The Daz Original morphs are already included in the list ^^

The growing and aging morphs are there for who'd like to avoid buying specific bundles with old and young people, that is what I thought I should do to have them a few months ago. I still recall what's like to know nothing of anything, and I think it's better to know that those tools exist! Then, of course, anyone decides if he needs them or not!

The 200 morphs etc. are included as a general option to create your own figures, instead of buying dozens of them! Indeed nowadays I use Skin Builder 8 for the textures, UV swap to use them on males too, and for the shapes I use those morphs and the randomizer!

Generally speaking no; there are some exceptions though. The 'others' you list give a good assortment though, and ghost lights (version 2 for preference, although I use both) also assist with lighting - and certainly an HDRI or two are almost essential. Scene Optimiser is a great time-saver, and especially useful now directories can be selected.

Personally, it is important for a new user to identify the type of scenes they like doing, and choose products according to the style; SciFi, Fantasy, Horror or whatever it may be.

I think that the Genesis 8 (or whatever the latest generation is) morphs released by Daz are almost vital, either the female:

https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-8-female-body-morphs

https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-8-female-head-morphs

and/or male equivalent.

I'd recommend these over any others as there are many figures that might cite these as required, whereas it is rare to see the 200 morphs as a required product. I do recommend the 200 morphs though. With sufficient time, patience and practice, it is prossible to make hundreds of distincive characters using the G8F Body and Head morphs. Certainly Growing Up are very useful even if children aren't a factor. The posture, narrowing morphs are very versatile, and up to about 10% of the Youth Morph make petit figures simpler - but by no means impossible without. Ageing morphs are also very useful - not just for ageing, but for subtle signs of what might be better termed weathering.

I would like g9 to have separate visibility toggles fir hip and pelvis, individual toe parts visible toe toggles , separate mat zone for inner nostril. A uv map that doesnt have deep v in back. Give her new toenail beds on left foot first middle and lil toe. There is something wrong with them toes which shows when using vicki 8 morph in daz's other software. 

Would luke all the g9 uconic characters to have scaling separate dial please dont put scaling and fbm in only one bidy mirph dual.

would like dragon 4 face rigged. Or sell a tutorial on how to face rig.  

I wanted to see how these would look if you used the Geometry Editor Tool to create a new material zone for the toes, using the existing polygon shapes.

I also tried to replicate the stitch pattern of the edges of the shoe, but I'm not the best at that.  I didn't do too badly, but it's not perfect.

I also discovered the 'point/square toes' morph and the 'sole thinkness' morph.  There's also heel shape morphs, but I didn't mess with those in this render, other than to adjust the angle of the base of the heel to match the thicker soles.

Anyways, here's how it looks...

The 'toe zone' isn't quite as cool as the 'swept back angle' of the black/white/black texture that comes with the product, but it doesn't look too horribly bad.  Setting up the stitch pattern took a bit of trial and error though, as the 'top edge' of the new material zone requires a 'wavy' edge.

The other colors are showing how the other material zones are separated.  The interior of the shoe has a couple of zones as well, but I didn't mess with those.

It'd be much faster to just modify the colors on the black/white/black texture maps to suit your needs, but I wanted to do things the hard way. Plus, now I've set up the zones, so I can just adjust the toe color using the Surfaces tab for my shoes. 

I'm thinking that it's not kosher to share the files though, as that'd be sharing the .duf file for the shoe... Same deal with the texture maps (I modified the existing ones, thus I don't think I could share those).  But, at least others can see how a toe material zone might shake out if they did this themselves using the Geometry Editor Tool.

Anyways, my main point here was to show off a couple more of the shoe morphs.  I'm sure these were showcased in the product page, but yeah it's just one more reason why these pumps are so cool!

There is a way to add icons to morph dials. You can find more info here: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/314691/adding-icons-to-morph-dials

Thanks. In fact I started that thread but I had missed the reply by NorthOf45. This is indeed a subject for a possible script/plugin. I would certainly pay to be able to add icons to the many dials that do not include them.

On the morphing front, there's also the free Sickleyield morphs that you can use to fine tune torso, leg, etc. length.  They are designed to supplement the morph sets available through Daz3D.

https://sharecg.com/v/91888/view/21/DAZ-Studio/SY-200-Morphs-for-Genesis-8-Head-and-Body

While most of those are great, imo, I would not recommend using the Legs Length one. It distorts the upper teeth really badly and makes it look like she's being impaled through the mouth:

So far that's the only one I found an issue with though and I enjoy using them a lot. I just wouldn't recommend using that particular morph.

The leg length in the G8F body morphs works well though, although... I feel that if you use it without considering the figure as a whole, then the results can look odd.

I love A3 Melody! I would really love to see an A3 Melody type morph for G8F. 

The closest thing available is Lady LittleFox's "Thistle".

https://www.daz3d.com/thistle-for-posey-and-petunia.

Her face mixed with the feline body shapes from DarioFish's "HFS Ultimate Shapes for G8F"...

https://www.daz3d.com/hfs-ultimate-shapes-for-genesis-8-female

...might result in something roughly similar.

Can't Melody with the "Furries for..." morphs by Capsces work in Studio?  I ask only because I'm a "holdout", still working in Poser, so I honestly don't know.  I mean, if it can, why worry about a "latest and greatest"?

Sincerely,

Bill

Oh, I don't have the "Furries for..." morphs but I'm sure they'd probably work in Daz Studio, it's just that I have next to nothing for A3 and the vast majority of the stuff I have is for G3 and G8 (and thankfully just about everything G3 is easily usable with G8). 

I tried picking up Cleo the Cheetah Girl for Genesis 8 Female but she doesn't seem to come with a tail (despite several promos showing her with a tail) - at least not that I could find. And I'm a bit disappointed with the mats. 

I'd shoot for trying to create one from scratch but my sculpting skills just aren't what I'd like them to be for shooting for a product of that nature. Usually morphs that deviate that far from the base mesh tend to need a lot of JCMs and I'm not that great at that yet. Plus I'd have no clue how to create a tail and how to rig it and everything. Hopefully someday I'll have the skills for something like that, sadly I don't think I'm "there" yet. lol

I'll have to try the Thistle and HFS Shapes mix. Thank you! :)

I love A3 Melody! I would really love to see an A3 Melody type morph for G8F. 

The closest thing available is Lady LittleFox's "Thistle".

https://www.daz3d.com/thistle-for-posey-and-petunia.

Her face mixed with the feline body shapes from DarioFish's "HFS Ultimate Shapes for G8F"...

https://www.daz3d.com/hfs-ultimate-shapes-for-genesis-8-female

...might result in something roughly similar.

Can't Melody with the "Furries for..." morphs by Capsces work in Studio?  I ask only because I'm a "holdout", still working in Poser, so I honestly don't know.  I mean, if it can, why worry about a "latest and greatest"?

Sincerely,

Bill

Anyone have problems with the rig half-ass working? The lower half will work fine with the Control Curves, but the upper body won't move, at all. Ironically, the rig works fine if you transfer a motion file in motion builder.

I love A3 Melody! I would really love to see an A3 Melody type morph for G8F.