Well, after trying nearly every setting in Daz Studio and comparing each between Michael 4 and Victoria 4 to see what was different, I found my solution. Here it is, in case anyone else has the same problem:

I had to load Michael (or anything else with this problem) into the scene and select him. Then in the context menu I chose Edit:Set Default Compatibility Bases. In the Compatibility Root box, I clicked on the elipse (...) beside the box and chose Generation 4/Michael 4 from the bases listed. Hit accept, then accept again.

Then, in the same context menu, choose Edit:Scene Identification. Make sure the Compatibility Base (last item) is the same as what you set in the previous step (Generation 4/Michael 4). Click Accept and that's it. Well, almost. You have to close the figure (delete from scene) and reload it into the scene, but from now on, it works!:-)

araneldon said:

This freebie I made might accomplish what you want:
http://araneldon.blogspot.fi/2010/11/mixing-m4v4k4-morphs.html

In the package you will find a Michael 4 CR2 file that accepts both Hiro 4 and morph injections made for Victoria 4.

anikad said:

The reason that happens is because there is a large silent majority of customers who want it - including professional customers, not just hobbyists.
It's a little egocentric to assume that a silent majority reflects your views isn't it? There seems to be an insult aimed at hobbyists in here somewhere. I think most professional customers will only buy what they need for their task, they're not going to be swayed by ooh shiny as much as the hobbyist.

No, actually, it's not. I've been selling clothes for DAZ figures for more than three years now. Things that are more revealing sell more copies, always, without exception. My experience is that they don't necessarily have to be female, though. My bestseller of all time is a set of four pairs of underwear for Michael 4.

Nor is an insult to hobbyists intended, I just frequently encounter the idea that it's the hobbyists doing all the pinup renders and no one else. While the educational customer doesn't want that, there are certainly others who make a living from their renders that do.

A look at advertising in general will indicate pretty clearly that the unclad or lightly clad human body is a common motif.

Just because men like using scantily clad women in everything does not make it right. Sexualisation of women is well studied and discussed topic. Some 3d art seems to extend fetishisation of the female form to the nth degree. I wander into threads and stores and wonder if I haven't stumbled on a hentai site. In any case I can no longer look at certain sites or threads because of the NSFWness of the content.

I agree that it happens. I agree that the lack of equality is not right. And I, incidentally, am female. But aesthetic use of the body is not invariably pornographic. Dove uses mostly naked women in ads that emphasize that women come in different shapes and sizes, and those ads are pitched to women. Athletic wear ads often feature mostly naked sweaty men, and those ads are pitched to men. These are the kind of applications I would hope to see my underwear and other nudity-friendly products used for. I know they also get used for woman-hating porn, but I can't help that.

If you were paying attention, though, there was a bare-chested guy on the front page as well, and DAZ sells a lot of male content that both covers and reveals the body. It's not really fair to say it's all bikini babes.

I was paying attention. However I was distracted by great big boobies while I was looking to get off the splash page. I'm not sure what you're looking at but there is hardly any male content that reveals the body in the same fashion as women's clothing. We don't see men wearing battle armour that has bits cut out to reveal stomachs and wearing high heeled shoes.

Dark Priest? The Faerie set with the tight shorts? Dragonlord (oh look, a big chunk of the right side is missing over the chest)? Jepe's Body Jewels? There's an entire huge bundle of M5 armors that are completely eye candy. Our usual depiction of male sexuality in "armor" is more aggressive and less colorful than our depiction of female, and I think that's unfortunate, but it's not as if it's not there. (*Cough* And it's not as if I don't own most if these. The body jewels are super cute.)

I am having a problem with content added to the Content Manager. I downloaded all of the free Gen 4 figures back when Daz offered them and have installed them in to Daz Studio 4.5. I then added metadata to all of them and added them to the Content Manager to use with Smart Content.

The problem lies with several of the figures being "unselectable" therefore not filtering the Smart Content for that figure. Victoria 4, Aiko 4, Stephanie 4, SheFreak 4, and The Girl 4 all work fine. When I select one of these figures either by clicking her in the scene or selecting her in the Scene Pane, her materials, poses, etc show up just fine in the Content Manager.

However, Michael 4, Hiro 4, Freak 4 and The Kids 4 have the Actor selection greyed out (in the drop-down box of the Content Manager) and says "No Selection", thereby showing no content for them in the Content Manager.

I can load the figures through the Content Manager, but once loaded they are not showing as a selection. Make sense? I set up the metadata exactly the same as I did for the Victoria characters, but they are not working like the girls do.

I have removed the metadata, uninstalled, reinstalled, etc for these characters, and I have used the Content DB Maintenance to remove invalid paths, but to no avail.

Do I have outdated/bad files? These figures are no longer free, so I don't know what to do. I like the Content Manager and want to use it for all my figures. I know about using the File Manager, but don't want to go that way if I can help it.

I have also stopped and started the Content Management Service, so that isn't the problem.

I tried searching the forum and the knowledge base, but no luck. Any help would be great.

Brian

MelanieL said:

And the next pull:
139 = Valiant for Michael 4
164 = GIS Terminal
430 = Fortune Teller 1930 for V4
721 = Battle Maiden

TAG:MelanieL#2

Title: Do we want to see the future?

When a mysterious traveller offers to show them a glimpse of their future, space adventurers Vicky and Mike are a little nervous about the prospect. "What do you think, Mike? Do we want to know?"

Also used:
Starman morph from Supersuit SciFi Pack (Genesis fortune-teller)
Pure Hair Classic and Elite Texture Marie (Genesis V4 shape)
Wildmane Hair and Elite Texture Sol (Genesis M4 shape)

Any renders or animations that you do using DAZ Studio are yours to do with what you like. There are no restrictions on renders, but only renders. You cannot supply the figures (meshes) along with the render, just the render itself.
The item you linked to does not have any clothing. It is a set of Materials for Genesis, and Michael 4

Could someone make simple walk cycles for Luke 3 and michael 4 please? something around 100 or more frames. Thank you!:)

This freebie I made might accomplish what you want:
http://araneldon.blogspot.fi/2010/11/mixing-m4v4k4-morphs.html

In the package you will find a Michael 4 CR2 file that accepts both Hiro 4 and morph injections made for Victoria 4.

ketthrove said:

Renderonesio said:

ketthrove said:

Renderonesio said:

Hi

I have two important questions:

1- I have installed DSON importer for poser and I have observed than genesis character does not import Michael 4 body morphs proportion, ( neither V4 morph ), however in daz 3d studio I have those morphs. Is any way of importing the morphs to DSON genesis poser?

2- Poser Genesis character, does not include IK chain, is possible to activate the IK parameter it?

The first can happen if the content directory that contains the morph is mapped in Studio but not in Poser. If you own Studio and Poser it is best to have the same directories mapped in each if they contain Genesis content. By the way if this is not the case, you'll want to set a unique cache location for the Poser that is different from the Studio one, or they will continually invalidate each other's morph caches and take longer to load each time you switch programs.

The second would have to be setup in Poser's setup room. To do this make sure subd is off on genesis and there is nothing geo-grafted to it. Then do the normal IK construction steps in the setup room. After setup just re-enable subdivision and you IKed Genesis.

Hi:

In my case the problem is that and did not have installed V4 and M4 shapes for Genesis. I have installed this items and the problem this solved ;-)

In this moment I am testing a setup for the ik chain.

Other question:

Is It possible to import a morph created with facegen for genesis, from daz studio to poser genesis

greetings

If you save a scene or scene subset in Studio of Genesis with your morph applied, and generate the Poser Companion files. Or it may be easier to save a "Morph Asset" in Studio. It will make the morph available to all your Genesis that map the location where you saved the asset.

Thank, I,m very happy for the moment :-D

Renderonesio said:

ketthrove said:

Renderonesio said:

Hi

I have two important questions:

1- I have installed DSON importer for poser and I have observed than genesis character does not import Michael 4 body morphs proportion, ( neither V4 morph ), however in daz 3d studio I have those morphs. Is any way of importing the morphs to DSON genesis poser?

2- Poser Genesis character, does not include IK chain, is possible to activate the IK parameter it?

The first can happen if the content directory that contains the morph is mapped in Studio but not in Poser. If you own Studio and Poser it is best to have the same directories mapped in each if they contain Genesis content. By the way if this is not the case, you'll want to set a unique cache location for the Poser that is different from the Studio one, or they will continually invalidate each other's morph caches and take longer to load each time you switch programs.

The second would have to be setup in Poser's setup room. To do this make sure subd is off on genesis and there is nothing geo-grafted to it. Then do the normal IK construction steps in the setup room. After setup just re-enable subdivision and you IKed Genesis.

Hi:

In my case the problem is that and did not have installed V4 and M4 shapes for Genesis. I have installed this items and the problem this solved ;-)

In this moment I am testing a setup for the ik chain.

Other question:

Is It possible to import a morph created with facegen for genesis, from daz studio to poser genesis

greetings

If you save a scene or scene subset in Studio of Genesis with your morph applied, and generate the Poser Companion files. Or it may be easier to save a "Morph Asset" in Studio. It will make the morph available to all your Genesis that map the location where you saved the asset.

ketthrove said:

Renderonesio said:

Hi

I have two important questions:

1- I have installed DSON importer for poser and I have observed than genesis character does not import Michael 4 body morphs proportion, ( neither V4 morph ), however in daz 3d studio I have those morphs. Is any way of importing the morphs to DSON genesis poser?

2- Poser Genesis character, does not include IK chain, is possible to activate the IK parameter it?

The first can happen if the content directory that contains the morph is mapped in Studio but not in Poser. If you own Studio and Poser it is best to have the same directories mapped in each if they contain Genesis content. By the way if this is not the case, you'll want to set a unique cache location for the Poser that is different from the Studio one, or they will continually invalidate each other's morph caches and take longer to load each time you switch programs.

The second would have to be setup in Poser's setup room. To do this make sure subd is off on genesis and there is nothing geo-grafted to it. Then do the normal IK construction steps in the setup room. After setup just re-enable subdivision and you IKed Genesis.

Hi:

In my case the problem is that and did not have installed V4 and M4 shapes for Genesis. I have installed this items and the problem this solved ;-)

In this moment I am testing a setup for the ik chain.

Other question:

Is It possible to import a morph created with facegen for genesis, from daz studio to poser genesis?

greetings

Renderonesio said:

Hi

I have two important questions:

1- I have installed DSON importer for poser and I have observed than genesis character does not import Michael 4 body morphs proportion, ( neither V4 morph ), however in daz 3d studio I have those morphs. Is any way of importing the morphs to DSON genesis poser?

2- Poser Genesis character, does not include IK chain, is possible to activate the IK parameter it?

The first can happen if the content directory that contains the morph is mapped in Studio but not in Poser. If you own Studio and Poser it is best to have the same directories mapped in each if they contain Genesis content. By the way if this is not the case, you'll want to set a unique cache location for the Poser that is different from the Studio one, or they will continually invalidate each other's morph caches and take longer to load each time you switch programs.

The second would have to be setup in Poser's setup room. To do this make sure subd is off on genesis and there is nothing geo-grafted to it. Then do the normal IK construction steps in the setup room. After setup just re-enable subdivision and you IKed Genesis.

Hi

I have two important questions:

1- I have installed DSON importer for poser and I have observed than genesis character does not import Michael 4 body morphs proportion, ( neither V4 morph ), however in daz 3d studio I have those morphs. Is any way of importing the morphs to DSON genesis poser?

2- Poser Genesis character, does not include IK chain, is possible to activate the IK parameter it?

I've got a problem with the eyelids of Michael 4.
It seems that their pose can't be exported. For the first time I need a point a view where you look in the eyes from beneath.
That's why i haven't noticed this error before. Unfortunately I couldn't find a solution for closing the eyelids after exporting the model.
Here's what I mean:

http://www.imagebanana.com/view/x144r7gl/augen_vergleich.jpg

Has anyone had the same problem and knows how to fix this?

Okay...I have an oddball question. I have begun working on a Samurai/Yakuza project and I'm wanting to add the traditional body/arms tattoos.
For example -- the pics 2, 3, 4 & 5 from Way of the Samurai However, most of the tattoos mats/products require older morphs/add ons...example: Jinn for V4 Male Vittorio requires a mod to convert V4 to male. Or Immortal Ronin requires Michael 4 morphs

I have Victora 5, Michael 4 & 5, and several of the Genesis mods. Will the add on v4-and-m4-shapes-for-genesis solve some of these issues or will I need to go back and pick up each and every mod? Additional, I have run into a problem that one of the products I picked up a few weeks ago requires m4-elite-ethnic-faces -- could I just get the newer ethnicity-for-genesis-bundle and solve that problem?

Thanks...any help/suggestions on this subject would help.

Not sure but this is the best Comic book pose pack for the guys http://www.daz3d.com/shop/michael-4-comic-pose-construction-set

And the next pull:
139 = Valiant for Michael 4
164 = GIS Terminal
430 = Fortune Teller 1930 for V4
721 = Battle Maiden

ETA: Oh, and a catchup:
Kaputcha "Back to Back" - nice use of the mix and feeling of action.
mhossack "Contemplation" - nice summery lighting and render.

Go to "Runtime:Libraries:!DAZ" and run DzCreateExPFiles-M4.command
Then load Michael 4 from the original .cr2 in "Figures:DAZ People".
See if the dials appear now.

Hello fellow Dazittes,
I have Michael 4, Michael 4 Morphs, and I just installed Michael 4 Muscle Morphs

everything is showing up in my figures menu in Poser 9, and I have clicked on the INJ add buttons
but the total body morphs are not showing up in my Parameters Menu.

I have tried the "This Product uses ExP Technology, see here for installation instructions." link on the product page but the link isn't working.

thanks

Dorseyland said:

I'M A-PICKIN' AND HE'S A-GRINNIN'

Dungeon Construction Kit by midnightrider at Sharecg (registration required)
http://www.sharecg.com/v/43050/gallery/11/Poser/Dungeon-Const.-Kit

MICHAEL 3
http://download.cnet.com/Poser-DAZStudio-3D-Models-Pack/3000-6677_4-10579249.html

Gregor morph by Doc Voodoo at Planit3D
http://www.planit3d.com/source/poser/gregor/gregor.html

Teddy Boy Hair by Gerald Day at Fast3D (just over halfway down)
http://fast3d.co.uk/kathindex.htm

Noose by Gwynplaine at Sharecg (reg req)
http://www.sharecg.com/v/49514/View/11/Poser/Noose-and-Hook

Martin D45 by Music4u2u at Sharecg (reg req)
http://www.sharecg.com/v/49153/View/11/Poser/Martin-D45-Guitar

Shrunken Head by Traveler at RuntimeDNA
http://www.runtimedna.com/Shrunken-Head.html

MICHAEL 4

Joker head morph by joequick at Sharecg (reg req)
http://www.sharecg.com/v/44896/gallery/11/Poser/M4-Standalone-Joker-Headmorph

Edward mat by MayaX at Sharecg (reg req)
http://www.sharecg.com/v/52361/View/11/Poser/Edward-M4

Down Jacket by MamoMamo
http://mamomamo.candypop.jp/Freestuff/CCP013.html

Bucket Hat by Daramski at Sharecg (reg req)
http://www.sharecg.com/v/13148/View/11/Poser/Bucket-Hat-Prop-for-Poser

Fingerless Gloves by EdgeVerse at Sharecg (reg req)
http://www.sharecg.com/v/46093/View/11/Poser/Fingerless-Gloves-for-M4

Magatama toothed necklace by Zippo at Lab108 (9th item down)
http://lab108.x0.com/lab108/accessories.html

Cigarette Holder by Adam Thwaites at Most Digital Creations (10th item down)
http://www.most-digital-creations.com/free_poser_poses_textures_morphs_props_39.htm

ALSO USED

Irish Fiddle by Music2u4u, a Freebie Challenge prize in 2011

Deadly Matador hand spikes, bracelets, a Vacasoft DAZ forum challenge prize in 2010

MF Jacket by Kobamax came from his now-defunct site:
http://www.k2.dion.ne.jp/~kobamax/
... and doesn't appear to be on his blog:
http://enjoy-poser-imaging.air-nifty.com/blog/

This is so darn funny, I would have to qualify it even if it didn't have enough freebies! What some may not notice...he is playing the guitar upside down with Wolvarine fingers...too funny! The guy behind him really looks like he is enjoying ever moment of his terror!

You forgot to list the banner on the guitar face as a freebie....from here!

check your pm box for some nice entry gifts.

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