For anyone else who finds themselves with the same problem. What I have found so far is:

I have a Directory Called "G8 Morphs", and it is pretty obvious what it is for. Anyway, after having done many things, such as, strip Daz Studio completely from my machine, download a new copy of Studio and install. Odd thing there? Even though I went to great lengths to get rid of everything to do with Daz from all over my machine, when I installed it, and opened it, there were my Directories, there already!!!!!!

God, Daz is like a Virus!

Anyway, I got to thinking whether it might be a morph causing the problem, not so much in the thigh, but in the Hip. So removed "G8 Morphs" Directory from the Program, re-started it, and, problem cleared!!!!

Culprit? Well at a guess, and it is only a guess at the moment, I think it might be either Zevo's Bend Controls, or, more likely, one of a couple of Genital Morphs I'd added for some extra controls.

I will be gradually adding the Morphs back into the Directory as and when I need to, keeping a close eye on the Hip Parameters.

So..... Problem sort of solved!!

Lyrra at Renderosity has products that will turn M4 & V4 into kids by adding a Child Dial morph. You can use as much or as little of it as you please and so get characters anywhere between Kids 4 age (preschoolers) and teenagers-young adults. But it only works in Poser 10 & up, far as I know.

You cannot create such a morph as extruding would add new vertices.

So the answer is probably self explanatory but, what’s the difference between these products and the SY Clothing Fit Helper Genesis 8 ones, they both seem to transfer the morphs to the clothing?  I own both the clothing for helpers and have both the supermorphers in my cart

the Kids 4 share the same mesh all the Millenium 4 characters are Unimesh so it is in fact possible to create morph targets between them and use their morphs on each other

clothes can be fitted using transfer active morphs

There's no pack similar to Growing Up that I know of, but it's totally possible to create a teen character from them.

For V4, Stephanie 4 morphs help a lot to get a  younger character.

Here are a few examples of character packs including a teen or young teen morph for V4, I'm sure there are others:

https://www.daz3d.com/teen-ashley-character-and-hair

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/sabby-sisters-kimmi-amp-kyrsi/99725/

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/sabby-sisters-ii-carly-amp-chloe/101638/

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/p3d-sarah-and-serena/105446/

Does anybody know if there is any way to do a full body morph in Victoria 4 or Michael 4 to look like a teen, almost similar to the Growing Up morph for Genesis 3?

another way of extending on what Cris says above:  The original UV (surface) maps of your starting object meshes (e.g. clothes) are bound to the *exact* geometry (vertex/polygons) mesh that they were created for. As soon as you change (add, combine, or delete) any points or lines in any object mesh, you must also (somehow) regenerate the UV maps to match the new mesh. None of the mesh editors that I know of do this automatically (could be wrong), but a few tools can be finessed into doing what you'd like to do. (FWIW, Morphs have this same 'exact' geometry constraint - you move vertex points around when making morphs, but you cannot add, remove, or combine them when creating morphs - the ending count and order must exactly match the starting count and order, or the morph import process will fail.)

There are a couple of threads here in the DAZ forums that describe the use of Blender or UVLayout (i think) to load, regroup things, and then weld nearby points as you'd like to do, and save back the mesh with the desired changes also reflected in the UVmaps (which are now different from the originals, but will work as you expect in any rendering context, including D-force). Again, others may have magic tools that do this better. I'm hoping so! I don't believe Hexagon can do this, so any mesh changes like welding mean you have to remap the UVs, or make new ones in Hexagon, or a UV editor like UVmapper, UVLayout, 3DPainter, or most other mesh editors as well. (others who know better can advise as to the benefits of the various tools.)

There's also a good youtube tutorial (sickleyield?) on using DS and D-force tools to 'freeze' things (as if you welded them?). I have an interest in this as well, but no experience using any of it yet. I haven't gotten to that part of my project...

Let us know if you find anything that helps!

cheers,

--ms

(edited to clarify)

Free additional side part morph and presets for newly released Delphi Hair is available here http://shop.aprilsvanity.com/delphi-hair.html 

Nothing to do with the character query above, but I just got Bblythe Hair and noticed this rather obvious gap in the hair at the top when viewed from the side. Is there some adjustment morph I'm missing that would fix this, or should I just get a refund?

I just bought it and thought it looked very nice, thenI looked at it from the side and noticed the same issue.

Nothing to do with the character query above, but I just got Bblythe Hair and noticed this rather obvious gap in the hair at the top when viewed from the side. Is there some adjustment morph I'm missing that would fix this, or should I just get a refund?

Looking forward for this script geting released. This will ease up things with morph mixing and give new possibilitys.

I allready talked about some similar here:

• Product Suggestions > Morph Dform
• Daz Studio Discussion > A morph mask field / moving morph

While in the mean time I think it is all based on this Attenuate function of the MorphLoaderPro. These Tutorial Videos descripes this methods.

TUTORIAL - Creating a Genesis series Full Body Morph for DAZ Studio Pro 4.10 by RKane_1

Using a Mask when Importing Morphs - Xenic101

New Morph Tools Intro - Josh Darling

George, Ollie, Edward, Old Chap and Base G8M + the two basic Morph packs... giving you some nice little wheels... 1000s of different males ready to roll... add to that a couple Freebie Figures or cheap ones to cover different skin tones and the number of possibilities increase exponentatially...

All the "different" females out there aren't really that different, with some exceptions, but there seem to be many, many, many users who lack something that would allow them to use some basics to make their own figures.

It's a bit like pre-made food. Some people only buy such stuff because they think it doesn't take so long to prepare as "proper" food (which is basically wrong...) and others because they think they can't cook (which is also basically wrong, given the number of recipes, cookbooks etc available - everyone could (!) learn to prepare tasty, healthy food).

And we shouldn't forget the one basic principle of a market: it gets produced what people are buying (or what the producers expect the people to buy...)
As one of the main markets for 3d figures in the more recent times isn't longer the artistically inclined clientel but the evergrowing market of web comics with more or less "adult" subjects, there is a need for way more scantilly dressed females than for ordinary looking males. Most parts of those males' bodies usually aren't even shown, except for their reproduction organs, and, like in most adult films, nobody bothers how they look like anyway, as they usually all look the same - muscular hunks - anyway.

Sure, so long at the runtime/DSON/auto_adapted folder is preserved.  I used the DSON importer for years before I installed Studio about two years ago.

In fact, one can convert the saved figures into native Poser figures, although the use of the Transfer Active Morphs to clothing script is lost in the process (one can transfer the morphs in Poser Pro, but it's not as handy as the script)...

Amelia is cute!  She will make a heck of a warrior if she is starting now.  Keep an eye out for the morph packs for G3 to go on sale.  They can discount pretty good.  Also look for Sickleyields faces for G3f when her shop goes on sale.  I believe she has Faces of Africa, Asia and Europe.  Lolla Lane has some lovely body morphs for G3f as well if I remember correctly.  Also, lyoness's morphs are always good.

wow, he might be able to pass without them even seeing him.  Just a suggestion but maybe put something brightly colored on him so he stands out a bit from the floor.  Really cool idea, can't wait to see where you go with it

@agent unawares has a Transgender morph linked in their signature: http://fav.me/dbyyndq for G8.

 

The preview show female breasts, I'm looking for something more masculine and less transgender.

But I will try it, thank you

the one sitting down in the preview is f2m, so it looks pretty good, IMO.

It's perfect, thank you very much !

@agent unawares has a Transgender morph linked in their signature: http://fav.me/dbyyndq for G8.

 

The preview show female breasts, I'm looking for something more masculine and less transgender.

But I will try it, thank you

the one sitting down in the preview is f2m, so it looks pretty good, IMO.

@agent unawares has a Transgender morph linked in their signature: http://fav.me/dbyyndq for G8.

The preview show female breasts, I'm looking for something more masculine and less transgender.

But I will try it, thank you !

@agent unawares has a Transgender morph linked in their signature: http://fav.me/dbyyndq for G8.