Nonesuch,

The vert first thing I'll be doing with Iray is figuring out a better way to do the SSS than what we have now. Not that what we have inst great, but I'm convinced we can go further.

Sorel,

The problem is that its very difficult to truly discern just how light or dark a skin tone might be. So much depends on the lighting, sin ce human skin does absorb some light where other surfaces int he room might not.

What I am saying is there are varying degrees of whiteness, and blackness or whaterness to skin tones. So really just how light or dark your renders should appear is hard to say, both can be correct.

As promised here are some recent examples of what I am doing. Scattering direction is -0.25 in all cases. There are medium and dark skin tones. Please forgive the lifeless expressions and posing. I didnt see the use in spending hours tweaking a pose when the study at this time is merely the skin surfacing.

All rendered in Octane 4. Genesis 1

First Image and second image use the same texture, however the roughness is slightly greater in the first Image which creates a nice sheen on the skin. However the second image closeup I decided to lower the roughness.

You will notice that Second Image and Thrid image are the exact same morph, but with a medium skin tone. For crazy fun sake I applied that exact same medium skin texture to a female.

I'm very happy with my current hair shader, and with Carrara's implementation of hair.

So how am I doing in terms of realism? Feedback is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time.

The zero will be the default sahpe, that's unavoidable - a moprh is a set of deltas, changes in the positions of the vertices that give the shape when the morph is set to 1. For values other than 0 or 1 the deltas are multiplied by the vlaue to give an offset for the vertices, and that defines the new shape. That means that -1 is moving the vertices the same distance as but in the opposite direction to 1. You could certainly create a controller that was linked to the morph, but added -1 to its value, which woudl look like what what you want (0 would be the inverse morph, 1 would be base shape, 2 would be the actual morph - you could even get that in a 0 to 1 range by multiplying the controller by .5 and adding -.5) but the underlying behaviour would still involve a negative value for the actual morph, whic I suspect is what the game would see and reject.

Daz 4.10

genesis 3

There is a game in unity that doesnt support negative morphs values. I do not know why (i'm not developer tho)

So imported daz model to unity game only can use morph values from 0 to 1.00

But in Daz Studio we also have -1.00 value.

I had an idea to push the limits of values to positives. So the default value will not be zero but 1. And minimum value will be 0 but not -1. And Maximum value will be 2 but not 1.

I've opened settings and tried to move it but still the program thinking that zero is default value.... How to change that? i need to make her head to be default size by my own value "1"

Are these perhaps fiels rferring morphs you haev converted from a previous generation (the GEN 4 G8M is suggestive)? If you have two properties with the same name (say, a converted version of a morph from a previous generation and one native to the current generation) then that would trigger the warning for the second instance of the name encountered in loading.

Hallo zusammen

ich bin ein kleiner Hobby 3D Nerd und noch relativ neu in der DAZ Welt. Mein Wurzeln liegen eigentlich bei Poser. Da aber die gute Vicky 4.2 doch so langsam in die Jahre gekommen ist bin ich seit gut einem Monat bei DAZ gelandet. Der Umsteig war nicht sonderlich schwer soweit so gut. Da ich aber die meisten Renderings in Cinema 4D erstelle habe ich einpaar fragen bezüglich des FBX Exports speziel zu den "Morph Export Rules".

Gibt es irgendwo ein Dokumentation zu den Rules?

Oder wie erstellt man eine Regel das nur aktive Morphs (Wert größer 0) exportiert werden?

Da ich nichts für mich brauchbares gefunden habe, dachte ich mir "Hey was solls nimmst du halt alle Morphs mit" nur meint mein Computer oder DAZ? NOPE! und steigt nach einer gewissen Zeit beim Export einfach aus.

Bei gebackenen FBX Files gibt es keine Probleme von einpaar Texturfehlern mal abgesehen (aber die gibts ja fast überall)

Also falls wer Tips und Tricks zu den Morph Export Rules hat wäre ich äußerst dankbar wenn man sie mit mir teilt.

vielen Dank im Vorraus

Rudi

Hey everyone,

I've got a bit of an issue since my re-installation of Windows 10. Now, when I load my G8M start file (my own created file with base figure, profile lighting etc) I am getting an error box approximately halfway through loading the scene:

If I load any other fgure, it loads perfectly well with no errors.  It is only when loading a scene file containing a G8M figure that this happens.

I have checked the error log, and see the following large block of text:

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2018-10-24 08:48:34.048 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:34.141 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:34.236 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:34.330 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:34.424 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:34.521 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:34.615 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:34.709 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:34.804 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:34.897 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:34.991 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:35.085 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:35.179 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:35.273 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:35.366 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:35.460 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:35.553 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:35.646 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:35.741 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:35.835 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:35.927 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:36.021 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:36.115 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:36.208 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:36.302 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:36.395 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:36.488 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:36.583 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:36.677 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:36.771 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.
2018-10-24 08:48:36.865 WARNING: fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(5970): Duplicate formula found linking Value & !Aging Head Controller in G:/1 - PEOPLE/3 -  START FILES/GEN4 G8M START.duf.

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I can see there is a problem with one of the aging head morph packs I have purchased, but as I recall there is more than one. It doesn't seem to specify an exact product - is there any way of pinning it down so I can remove this annoying error?  I mean to say, it's not affecting the perfoemance of DAZ, it's just an annoyance when opening a file containing a G8M.

Thanks in advance

John

How can I save the morph with the image png card so that it stays. I am trying to create a character for my store.

So I have custom morphs for Genesis 8 they are in place but every time I reload 

DS the images for my morphs do not show, and for one morph it has a question mark for the name the label shows the name but all of a sudden the name shows a question mark. So I go to paramters for the morph and change the name to its name load the image for the body, but after saving it nothing is there and the image is still there as well as the  morph .

I bought 8 additional Vladimir items, and I still paid $41+ for the Pro Bundle. But I've had A LOT of glitches go in my favour, for WAY more than $3+; so, I'll just be happy that I've got a new G8M skin that looks so good and a morph that doesn't make me ask, "Why?!"

Issue:

Now I get what is wrong, you are using a way too smale scle for the Halo 5 Male techsuit. You must have imported it in the wrong scaling compared to a default Genesis figure. You can also see it by the Floor grid the distance to the next grid line seems very far away behind the figure. The distance from one grid line to the next is 1 Meter. I guess your Halo 5 Male techsuit figure is currently about 10 cm high like a plastic toy figure. Thasts why you get all kinds of issues by zooming and such and the controlls acting too sensitive. The "invisible barrier cutting into the mesh" is actualy called the clipping distance of the Persepective view. You don't have this in the Orthographic views. The clipping distance tells the view to hide geometry that is too close to the Persepective or Camera view. Even on regular scale this clipping distance sometimes seems too big but you can't control it there is no setting for it. On Cameras you can change the Frame With and the clipping distance will become less noticable.

Solution:

Also load in a Geneisis figure into the scene, scale the Halo 5 Male techsuit up with the general scaling transformation in Parameters pane until its about the same size of the Genesis Figure. Next hide everything but the techsuit and export this mesh as OBJ keep an eye on the export Scale should be Daz Default Scale 100% (1 unit = 1 cm). But instead of starting over to rig this new mesh you could try the following. Open the Morph Loader Pro and load the exported OBJ mesh with the native Daz scaling as a morph and dial it up on the current figure. Next go to the Joint Editor and choose Adjust Rigging to Shape this should fix the current rig representing the propper scale. Then go to the Joint Editor Tool Settings pane and Memorize Figure Rigging. Next go to Edit > Figure > Geometry > Update Geometry and choose the exported OBJ. Again choose the Daz Default Scale 100% (1 unit = 1 cm) now everything the rig and the mesh is fixed to the propper Daz scaling. You can still use the morph you created as a "reverse shape" by dialing it downt to -100% and you get the toy figure scaling from before if that was what you intended to do.

Phew, just getting to this comment. It's funny even if you hadn't left the suggestion about the wrong scaling, that's what I was gonna try.  Sucks though, might have to try this tommorrow night. Need to get some sleep for work tommorrow. Thanks for the help! ttyl.

If look like this seems trousers became smaller and he became invisible man 

Can you screenshot how fit clothes without apply morph and sequence of morph you apply? 

I simply loaded the character and the outfit, then applied the fit controls to the character. Once that was done, I set "down all" to a value of 150. No other modifications were made. It should have worked!

The hair morph should go from short to long so it looks good on any Genesis character that can now graduate with honors... Make sure it has a tassel morph too for switching sides.  Thanks in advance... Wouldn't hurt to include a dforce unisex gown to go with it...

I made a robe yesterday in Carrara and Zbrush and successfuly used the following method to add movement morphs 

I imported it in place then rotated the figure and outfit

I used the geometry editor tool to assign parts to new temporary surfaces, in my case right sleeve and skirt

I added a dforce modifier to it

I slid the dynamics parameter on the main surface to zero and ran a sim

rotated it back hid my figure

exported that object to use as a morph target

in morphloader I used attenuate by surface and right to left to add movement morphs to both the skirt and sleeves

this can be done with existing clothes too obviously not just stuff we model

I did a render of just the statuette's face.

I didn't want to change the body shape. I assume it is in keeping with the Art Deco look as is, and changing the body would undoubtedly result in a lot of pose tweaking to fit the prop. But I did change the face. I dialed the V8 Head morph to zero and then dialed P3D Hailey in at 50%. From there I added in some head morphs of my own, created from G3 males, and tweaked with G8F Head Morphs.

Here's the end result:

Seen from this angle, the choice to use the short afro hair makes more sense, I think.

I wanted to mention this so anyone reading this thread could see how easy it is to make their statuettes unique without a lot of hassle.

Wonderful result and very unique. I love the overall look. 

P

I just connect my iPhone to my USB port on my laptop & then copy/paste my entire iPhone photo directory to my laptop; then I delete the pictures from my iPhone. 

 

The problem with that was I have so many photos, it just sat there spinning and spinning. After ten minutes, still hadn't started loading. With the Simple Transfer, it was blindingly fast. :)  So yep, I did try that USB route first.  

ADORABLE frog!!!!

If you get Dropbox or iCloud you can automate the whole thing over WIFI...

Skirts (and the like) can't really be rigged using only the Transfer Utility, they need one or more of

• posing bones that move the skirt around; SickleYield has templates for many figures which include these or you can add and weight your own additional bones
• morphs for leg movements, created by sculpting or simulating in an external application, set as needed
• a dForce Modifier simulated within Daz Studio

to see larger version click link to my gallery and the magnifying glass

this is a seperate hd morph that comes as part of the Zelera 8 HD morph

Zelara 8 Alien Hd

https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/669731

It's like a invisible barrier cutting into the mesh of the figure.

Issue:

Now I get what is wrong, you are using a way too smale scle for the Halo 5 Male techsuit. You must have imported it in the wrong scaling compared to a default Genesis figure. You can also see it by the Floor grid the distance to the next grid line seems very far away behind the figure. The distance from one grid line to the next is 1 Meter. I guess your Halo 5 Male techsuit figure is currently about 10 cm high like a plastic toy figure. Thasts why you get all kinds of issues by zooming and such and the controlls acting too sensitive. The "invisible barrier cutting into the mesh" is actualy called the clipping distance of the Persepective view. You don't have this in the Orthographic views. The clipping distance tells the view to hide geometry that is too close to the Persepective or Camera view. Even on regular scale this clipping distance sometimes seems too big but you can't control it there is no setting for it. On Cameras you can change the Frame With and the clipping distance will become less noticable.

Solution:

Also load in a Geneisis figure into the scene, scale the Halo 5 Male techsuit up with the general scaling transformation in Parameters pane until its about the same size of the Genesis Figure. Next hide everything but the techsuit and export this mesh as OBJ keep an eye on the export Scale should be Daz Default Scale 100% (1 unit = 1 cm). But instead of starting over to rig this new mesh you could try the following. Open the Morph Loader Pro and load the exported OBJ mesh with the native Daz scaling as a morph and dial it up on the current figure. Next go to the Joint Editor and choose Adjust Rigging to Shape this should fix the current rig representing the propper scale. Then go to the Joint Editor Tool Settings pane and Memorize Figure Rigging. Next go to Edit > Figure > Geometry > Update Geometry and choose the exported OBJ. Again choose the Daz Default Scale 100% (1 unit = 1 cm) now everything the rig and the mesh is fixed to the propper Daz scaling. You can still use the morph you created as a "reverse shape" by dialing it downt to -100% and you get the toy figure scaling from before if that was what you intended to do.

I don't mind paying for an upgrade license across generations.  But, I think that if you've bought the product for previous generation(s), you should be paying a heavily discounted upgrade price to just have the same morph or skin set applied to the new generation.  And, I don't think that terms should change retroactively...meaning, if I have an open use for a product for G3F, then buy the G8F upgrade, the artist offering the MR shouldn't change the terms from one generation to the next.

Oddly enough, is someone were to make a good open use, skin set that allows use for freebies (most say only for commercial character creation), they'd probably sell a lot.  It'd be nice to have a go to freebie skin set.

I agree that a good set of MR license standards would be good.  However, I agree with Wil that some products lend themselves more to open use, while others are generation specific.    It's not a single solution.  But, standards for each category could be set.

As to the OP...I apologize for not really addressing the issue of organizing MRs.  Since there is no standard tag, it really falls to us end users to go through our product database and do the organizing one at a time.  This is something that I really need to do as well.

If look like this seems trousers became smaller and he became invisible man 

Can you screenshot how fit clothes without apply morph and sequence of morph you apply?