Hi Richard

Thanks for getting back to me.
I forgot to mention above that I am running OSX 10.8.2.
There are a few Morph folder, however the on I think I'm looking for is:
Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Library/data/DAZ 3D/Genesis/Base/Morphs. Within the Morphs folder are three other folders which are:
DAZ 3D/base
Evolution
Michael 4
Victoria

I can guarantee no changes have been made to any of he folders, so as you can imagine I am confused as to why the content was there a week ago but not now.

I hope this helps Richard and look forward to you suggestions.

Thanks again
Mark

adacey said:

2nd pull (hopefully will go faster than the 1st)

Breaking the house - LA vol.6
Genesis Creature Creator Bundle
Michael 4 Base
Gothic Nights

Hmm, not too bad of a pull, M4 is a bit annoying since most of my content is Genesis, and having MFD stuff twice in a row is a bit rough, such is life.

Tag:adacey#2 "Not every princess gets rescued"

Okay, this one ended up being brutal. Breaking the house has an ivy prop that looks really nice but just crippled my machine for rendering, had to drop it to get it to render in time.

Other products used (think this is all of them):

Breaking the wall
Lord of Battles
Slicer
Hybrid Grunge Shaders
M4 and V4 skeletons
Raw Oagre
Hilly Surround

And just to clarify, there is an M4 base in this scene! I fit almost all of the Lord of Battles armor to M4 and posed M4 seperately from the M4 skeleton. This allowed me to do things like adjust the posing for the armor pieces that were passing through the ground independently of the M4 skeleton.

Hi Mosk :)

It's working ok for me here too..

Try this,...

Open Daz Studio, load Michael 4 using the Power-loaders to add the morphs,. then quit DS , jump back to carrara, and try loading Vlad again.

You will find that most people who have renders using Daz Studio or Poser are indeed using morphs to produce the charater, and Daz 3D models, as in the one Jimmy has posted. This means that you will need to have purchased the original models before you can use the morph packs. A lot of character morphs will also need the addition of the morphs++ pack

Michael 4 is here http://www.daz3d.com/shop/michael-4-base-male-3d-model/ A bundle including the base figure and the Morphs++ is here http://www.daz3d.com/shop/michael-4-complete/

Over the years, I have created hundreds of battle poses for David, but since there haven't been any new accessories for that character in years, I guess I should move on to newer, better supported characters, like Michael 4. The problem is, I would hate to lose all my poses. It took me many, many hours to make them. Is there a way to convert poses that were originally made for one character, so that you can load them onto another character?

I think Gen X can transfer shapes amazingly well, considering how different Genesis and Gen 4 models are topologically. Since Gen 4 is much higher poly and has different topology the shapes will not transfer exactly.

Things to bear in mind are that you will require the basic shape for Genesis that the morph is based on (e.g. V4, M4) and that if the morph uses add on morphs such as Morphs++ you will need these for your Gen 4 model. Some INJ files do not transfer due to the way they are scripted. These seem to be older ones that were made for Poser in mind, but that's just a guess: I've not had problems with newer characters, though. I've also successfully transferred a lot of creature creator shapes for M4, including the animal and alien heads, teeth, hand morphs, and others. Only a few of these morphs won't work (forked tongue is one I remember).

I've had problems with some more extreme body shapes (e.g. very slim H4—although I don't have the H4 shape for Genesis, perhaps that helps). For example, sunken chests which cannot be corrected with Genesis morphs, and problems with eye scaling. These are only a few cases, though.

I think it's worthwhile if you have a good number of Gen 4 characters already, but if you have mostly Genesis stuff it's probably a bit of a luxury. Although I've bought a few Gen 4 characters with the intention of transferring them (and they all worked well), increasingly, new characters are coming out for both generations. I think now it would have to be pretty spectacular one way or another for me to buy a Gen 4 character.

Here are a few comparisons. M4 is at the front. Note that I dialled the Michael 4 shape into Genesis before dialling the Gen X shape. I think you can see that in most cases the M4 has more modelling (although adding a texture will make this less noticeable), but sometimes the transfer can be a bit of an improvement.

HI :)

The iconic shapes are just that, shapes. But what would you skin them with?

The "Shapes" are "Morphs" .... but they're also used as a BASE, for Auto-fit to adjust any clothing designed for those figures, and make it work on Genesis.

They also provide the UV mapping set's for those figures,. so that you can use textures for those figures on genesis.

Once you've installed the Iconic shapes,. you would see slider controls in the parameters section in DS, for Genesis, to allow you to adjust the shape of genesis,.. into Victoria 4, or Michael 4 etc..
these are genesis morph shapes,. they're not additional figures which need to be textured separately.

Hope it helps

Yes, though if you get a character that uses other morphs ( a lot of fourth generation characters use the Morphs ++ sets for the body shape so that clothes stand a chance of fitting) you will need those; however, I think the Homo Erectus sets are custom morphs made in a modeller and included in the product so for those you wouldn't need anything else.

Yes, selecting a UV Set (which means picking how a texture is wrapped around the figure) is done through the Surfaces pane in DS - for something like this all you'd do would be apply the textures, which would look bad for the M4 and K4 sets, then in the Surfaces pane with Genesis selected click the figure's name in the left-hand column, scroll down the list of properties to the bottom and under UV Set choose Michael 4 or Kids 4 as needed (Victoria 4 is the default mapping for Genesis).

This thread was actually in the wrong place, I realised, so I've moved it to Nuts n Bolts.

For P6 and P8 the latest figures that will work are the Gen 4 figures. The base figures are V4 (Victoria 4) M4 (Michael 4) and K4 (Kids 4)
ANd yes you will need these before you add anything extra for them They each have a morphs++ pack, which can be used to create new characters, and are often essential for many character sets that are sold in the store hear, or indeed elsewhere.
Genesis is actually the newest edition the the Daz Figure Family, but can only be used in Poser 9 or Poser 2012. with the DSON importer.
Genesis can of course be used with Daz Studio 4.5, which is currently available at 100% discount.

Hi spswafford
welcome :)

The latest version of Daz Studio 4.5 comes with the NEW (Genesis figure)
I'f you're new to this software you can start out by using that Genesis figure,. and you can expand the creative possibilities by purchasing additional figure shapes, skin textures, clothing and hair.

If you've been using Daz Studio for years , and perhaps started with Victoria 3, Michael 3 or Victoria 4 / Michael 4 models,. then you may already have a library of skin textures, clothing etc... built to fit those figures.

Normally,. (before genesis was developed) the clothing for Victoria 4, would only work on that model,. and the same applies to the other figures such as V3, M3. M4 etc... clothing was built to fit the figure.

NOW,. with Daz Studio, and Genesis,. the clothing for Victoria 4, or 3, can be used on the Genesis figure, and will adjust to fit that model,
If you also have the (Iconic shapes for genesis)
which provide the ability to either change the shape of genesis into one of those older figures,. or have

If you want to use V4/M4 clothing on Genesis, you'll need the (Iconic shapes for genesis) to supply the original shape, so that the new Auto-fit technology, can adjust "older clothing" and fit it to the new Genesis shape.

Hope that makes sense :)

Hello,
My name is Stefan. Sorry if this post is confusing. I have a lot rolling around in my head and I'm trying to get it out in a coherent post.

Recently found and picked up DS 4.5. I just found the tutorials on YouTube tonight.

I have been checking out the stuff in the store and noticed a lot of stuff geared toward V4, M4, and similar. I figure out V4 is Victoria 4 and M4 is Michael 4, an so on. When I did searches for V4 I found things like this,
http://www.daz3d.com/shop/victoria-4-2-complete/
and this,
http://www.daz3d.com/shop/people/women/v4-and-m4-shapes-for-genesis

I'm trying to figure out if one or both are "needed" to get where I can use the other stuff I see for V4. Hopefully this makes sense.

I'm sure I will have many more questions. Have to learn to crawl before you can walk. :)

I have searched for Michael 4 Meta Data but have not found it. I re downloaded but still no Meta Data. I don't see how Victoria 4 and even 3 have Meta Data but not Michael 4.

For free, for Michael 4 or Victoria 4.

http://mixamo.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cb5be2641d91d7472c890ceb7&id=bffb26d2cf&e=cc1a8ec2c7

Goto "Edit Character" at the bottom left below the dancing characte.r
Click "3rd Party"
Click "DAZ 3D"
Choose M4 or V4

Gangnam Style!

Thanks Mixamo!

No ... unfortunately the creature creator bundle for Genesis only comes with
http://www.daz3d.com/shop/genesis-creature-creator-bundle
Genesis Creature Creator Head
Genesis Creature Creator Bodies

There are no Creature creator addons like for V4 and M4
http://www.daz3d.com/shop/victoria-4-2-creature-creator-add-ons/
http://www.daz3d.com/shop/michael-4-creature-creator-add-ons/

This set includes a close cropped/buzz cut, good for just about anyone...

http://shop.poseraddicts.com/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=3612

A set of short dreads...

http://www.sharecg.com/v/36385/Poser/M4-Short-Dreads-Hair

Another shaved/buzz cut

http://www.sharecg.com/v/62755/browse/11/Poser/SOTOs-Shaved-Hair-for-Michael-4

A woman's hair...it has problems in the preview, but usually renders fine

http://www.sharecg.com/v/50628/browse/11/Poser/Aleona-Hair-FIXED

I did a quick check for texture files for Phoenix1966's Thomas gens, but didn't see a transmap. B for bump, S for specularity, D for displacement, no T. Maybe I missed it.

In another case, Jepe's Ian Pierre, I did find a genital transmap jpg, and just to see, I changed the name, to see what would happen when Studio couldn't find the right transmap jpg.

What happened is I answered "skip" to the file-not-found msg, and the genitals then showed up non-transparent, no seams or overlaps or other odd visual effects. Just visually per-usual-physicality in OpenGL preview. So, what the purpose of that transmap in that case is, I don't see.

I haven't tried to render it yet. My interest was to learn about transmapping, and why a Daz figure like Michael 4 would operate so very differently than other venders' figures.

More questions than answers so far, but the learning is worthwhile.

In Buenaventura action poses, there is a pose of Michael 4 holding a map. The props section doesn't have a map prop.

Where can I get a map prop that's compatible with the Buenaventura action pose?

HI( Boojum :)

If you load the Genesis "Basic female" or "Basic male" as a starting point,. then you can apply Victoria 4 or Michael 4 skin textures to those figures.

As all genesis shapes can be dialed in,. you have the ability to change the Basic male or female to whatever shape you want , but still use V4 or M4 texture sets.

Carrara doesn't have (Live) swapping of UV set's, so you really need to start out by using the figure you need,.. for the skin textures you want to use.

V5, or M5, Gorilla, Troll etc, all use their own UV sets when loaded into the scene.

You can load DUF format shaders. poses, characters or scenes created in DS 4 or 4.5 ... but many shaders and poses now show up in the Smart content,. (if you've downloaded the latest file updates) or if the product is new, it should come in different versions,..

Core, (for DS 4.5 and Carrara)
Legacy (for DS3)
Poser companion (for Poser or Carrara)

Hope it helps :)

Ok so I did save the character I made but I have another questi0n...If you can apply the V4 mats for Ksenia to Genesis and just use the morphs for Genesis to create a new figure what is the purpose of purchasing GenX to get the V4 morphs? I can already use the Genesis morphs, is thee another advantage I am missing? And also I don't have Michael 4 yet, do I need to purchase him if I have the M4 shapes for Genesis?

Kharma

Basically, I started to learn DAZ using earlier versions but had to move away from it. Now, I'm trying to get back to it . I just installed DAZ Studio 4.5 with Genesis. I still have Victoria 4.2 Base/Studio Content/ Morphs installed from the earlier versions; however, I don't have any work based on Victoria or Michael.

Also, I notice that I have Michael 4 in my Content Library. However, unlike Victoria, I don't see Michael installations in Control Panel\Programs... Why is that?

Can I free-up space by uninstalling Victoria 4.2? Are Victoria and Michael still relevant given Genesis?

Thanks for the help.