I would recommend:

- G8 Head Morph and Body Morph

- A few haircuts. Good hair is rarely available as a freebie. For my female characters I personally like Bronwyn and Miranda, but this is obviously very subjective.

- Heeled shoes are a problem as well, as they can't be used across generations and there aren't many G8 freebies out there yet. I find The Power Pump quite versatile.

Definitely explore the things that come for free with the base program. Other than that, if you want to save money, look into freebies first. There is soooo much out there.

You can create make-up and eye colours yourself if you have a bit of skill with Photoshop. Different skin tones can be made by fiddling around with the material settings. Poses and expressions are also just a matter of time and patience.

Other things I wish I had known from the start:

- Put products from the DAZ shop you're considering on the wishlist, and check back regularly. There's always some sale or other going on, and sooner or later your desired product will be on sale.

- Within 30 days of purchase, you can return any product without giving a reason.

- You can use M4 and V4 products on your G8 figure. You first need to auto-fit the product on a Genesis figure, then from Genesis to Genesis 8.

Good luck, have fun!

another thing to bear in mind is with DAZ figures you are limited by the topology 

only Premier Artists have access to HD morphs

so no third party mesh with more polygons is going to look as good projected onto a DAZ mesh, this is the issue with facegen for example.

also the geograft option which might work using my conforming suggestion to transfer expression morphs over in the transfer utility would also need the mesh UV mapped to load the DAZ textures or transfer Didimo ones over to the DAZ mesh etc.

All of this is quite a lot of work

not impossible though 

I have actually done in myself using the iClone Character creator figures to an extent in that I have made a pair of matching clone shapes and can transfer morphs between them and use Ultimate unwrap 3D repaint to transfer textures.

But it was a lot of work involving moving individual vertices much smoothing modifier collisions and exporting reimporting, posing one rigged figure to line up with another as well as shrinkwrapping in Blender, still not perfect.

G9. Buy it? Well, probably. At least the basic morph and expression sets. Since you won't get all that far without those. 

Victoria... likely, since she'll be the first actual *character* base. 

*Use* it? That's a lot more iffy. A lot will depend on what, precisely, it brings to the table. 

Even more is going to depend on what unique bases get developed for it. I invested fairly heavily in Genesis 1, because it was really much better designed for what I wanted to do than the gen4 bases ever were. And I picked up most of the bases for G2, largely becasuse of those frapping unique UV sets. But I don't think I actually used more than a couple of the G2 bases for any of the characters that I developed for my own resouce library.

I ended up investing reasonably heavily in G3 because DAZ broke the mould and next to nothing was going to be transferable out of the box. But I never actually *used* it until comparitively recently. I'd been stockpiling because I knew that I was probably going to need to move the character library to a more current set of figures eventually (and G3 *didn't* have those frapping unique UVs)

But I never actually settled down and started *using* them until Ollie was released. Ollie, Floyd, Edie and Mabel all turned out to be something that I had evidently been waiting for, and made it worth the comittment to start retooling my library of continuing characters. Since the UVs transfer, I've also backtracked and started using a much larger number of G3 characters as well.

There's no telling what G9 is going to be bringing in that's unique enough to be worth comitting to a whole new paradigm.

My avatar is Aiko 3, wearing a WIP helmet I finally finished making for a Genesis 2 outfit. I don’t think there is a “fat, tired, 50-year-old” morph for Aiko 3 so she’s as close to my real look (see attached) as she’s going to get!

So... it seems like they changed a lot. In an awful way, if I can sorta say it that way
I have been their place about two years ago and don't remember it being broken as much as now.
It wasn't perfect, but they were still manageable to work with DAZ Studio back in the day

Figure I'm trying to get it work is Genesis 3 Female. I was successful upto uploading to Mixamo and have it auto-rigged.
Part I'm having problem is having animated character imported back in DAZ Studio so I can transfer animation onto actual character.

Is anyone having successful experience withit still?
Thanks
 

"ElderOneBlinkRight" is the morph in question. Click on the head, make sure hidden is visible and scroll down, set it to -1.0 and it fixes it. Apparently I have the same figure installed as well. Incidently this causes the same glitch in both DAZ and Poser with the figure. Thanks to all for pointing it out. Character is of course "Elder" by Valandar from here: https://www.daz3d.com/the-elder-one-for-genesis-3-male I have reported the bug to DAZ. Whether they contact Valandar or bother to give a fix, I have no control. 

I downloaded 3rd party G8M & F Grimace morph dials and copied to my LIbrary Content as per folder structure of the files. Data to Data, People to People, etc. But the morph dials are not showing in the Parameters of the figures. I can see them when I go to the Content Library but they show only as icons and don't do anything if double-clicked. Any one have any ideas? Did I load them incorrectly? I'm using Daz on a MAC by-the-way.

Thanks.

Thanks Richard, I did do a mech gear style gear for them. The new Genesis figures have some great monster morphs one is simian but not 100% Gorilla. RawArt's ape world uses genesis figures so all that armor will fit.

Hello all,

Is there is in daz3d/poser a possiblity to take a model and give it cartoonic look? (similar to these looks: http://www.templatesperfect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/14-funny-3d-cartoon-character-by-andrew.jpg)

I'm struggling to think of a good option.

If you delete the geometry of the eyelashes on your morphed G8F in your modelling software you may be able to get the correct number of vertices, but the process could well change the vertex order of the remaining vertices.  In that case, Morph Loader Pro will give results from odd to very ugly indeed.

If your modelling software has an option to create something like  'morph targets' or 'shape keys' from two shapes with the same vertex count, you may be able to create a 'morph target' for G8F representing your desired morph, after deleting the eyelash geometry.  If that process somehow managed to cope with any mismatches in the vertex order, then you could perhaps apply that shape to G8F, export the reshaped G8F to OBJ and bring it into DS via MLP.

Clutching at straws, I'm afraid.  Maybe someone else will have a better idea.

Hi, I need some help. I wanted to create a new morph for G8F after modeling the base figure. However, by accident, I forgot to unparent the eyelashes before exporting--shame on me. So, of course, now every time I try to use Morph Loader Pro I get an unmatching geometry error. I should also add: I was so stupid that I forgot to save the original figure that I exported as an object. So I cannot export it again because only have the object saved. Question: Is there a way to get this fixed by modifying the object and have it match the G8F geometry?

Possibly, but I suspect the "base"/official characters would somehow be more lacking, in terms of morphs/shapes and skins, than G8. Since Aiko 5, it's just been only two morphs (head and body) unless it was a creature/fae base, which had extra morphs. Skins were good until G8, where the default settings make everything practically look the same.

As for PAs, I'm sure they'll take advantage of the advances, and make unique and beautiful characters and/or morph packs.

I generally don't start buying a new generation until six months into it unless there is some huge advantage to it.  G2 over G1 for example, and G1 over V4 simply because I was getting really tired of the cross-morph problem.  I was slow changing from G2 to G3.  I do like G8 better than G3.  Can I say if I will buy G9 before I even know what it is about?  Um, no.

paratransit service is pretty amazing.
they sent my paperwork to nassau county's ABLE ride, coordinated the times and transfer of my body. kinda feel like a sack of potatoes lol
and i have a minor surgery on monday, i'll be traveling toosday with a few stitches. never had stitches before, hope it comes with the ""good"" pills. 
i have to remember not to take aspirin on monday.
bus trips all set, i should be able to relax now.  is all destiny nows.

If you do a search on the internet for 3D models space capsule spacesuit one of the found links will be a NASA web site with various space capsules, satellites, and at least one lunar landing style space suit. You'd need to import as obj into DS and transfer rigging to the spacesuit & fix the surfaces & so on but that is an authentic model of the authentic space suit.

V4 morphs shouldn't have been distributed that way - that's what the ExP morph system was for - but you should be able to load them through Edit>Figure>Morph Loader Advanced. Select the OBJ file, make sure the preset is set to Poser, and I think you will want the matches in selected (vertex order) option.

I don't know what  Iam doing wrong, but I've purceased the growing up female set as well as the girls for growing up morphs. No matter what I do, the morphs don't apply to the character. I feel like I've tried everything. When i adjust the sliders, nothing happens as well. The user manual also doesnt load for the morph addon. All help is appreciated. 

Just successfully completed an upgrade to my computer. For some time my boot and data hard drives have been near capacity, mostly from 3D content. I've had to shuttle things off to other storage disks plus it was affecting the overall performance of the PC during rendering. So I replaced the boot 128gb SSD (which was the affordable option when I built the computer) with a new 500gb SSD and replaced a 2TB data disk with a 4TB. Based on the recommendation of Microcenter, I got an EZ-Dock 3 to transfer the data. You insert the new disk in the dock, hook it up to a USB port, format the new disk, then run Samsung transfer software which cloned the hard drive. This means there was no need to reinstall the operating system or data. After inserting and verifying the computer booted with the new drive, I moved onto the data drive. Since the new data drive was over 2TB, you need to use a different type of partition table (GPT) which makes it a bit more complicated. After formatting the new drive using the USB-connected dock (which took 12 hours), I then removed the original drive from the computer, put both the new and old drives in the EZ-dock, and pushed a clone button on the dock. Four hours later, all the data had been transferred. Unfortunately because it was a clone, the computer was only seeing a 2TB partition so I had take additional steps to expand the partition, and then after swapping the two disks, rename it to the original drive letter. While I was at it, I upgraded from 16 to 32GB RAM. Whew! Glad that's over. Now I can download recent purchases and Daz Studio is much more responsive. 

Loaded K4 via Content Tab/ Morph Loader, added the MB4 Clothes .cr2 via Content Tab with K4 selected.

Duke Hair is parented to the head when loaded with K4 selected, it has morphs for Fit K4 male/ female.

As far as I remember there's an auto-magnetize option in Daz for Generation 4 clothing used with Generation 4 which is set by default.