To those who have Premier and the old GenerationX2 system, I ask a little favor: Could you please transfer a G1 morph to G3 and then from G3 to G9 using the new transfer system? Does the transferred morph work well?

The specific version of daz I use is 4.6 pro

I export fugure of subd0 from daz

I didn't subdivide the figure in ZBrush. I just wanted to use ZBrush to scale the size of the figure's upper body and make a subd0 deformation. I imported it back to DAZ but I don't know why the figure shrunk.

And I discovered two things

1. If I just make a raised morph for the back of the figure’s head in ZBrush, don’t change anything else, and then import it back to Daz,
Then use some settings in loader pro:
morph subdivision: yes
subd mapping: facet order
revers deformations:yes
Leave everything else as default
then figure will not
shrink.
All other options I tried resulted in shrinkage of the model if I didn't miss anything.

2. When I export subd2 to zb without changing any proportions, just like the first point is just to make a raised morph for the head of the figure, and then import it back to daz, the morph I imported back in the subd2 state has not been shrunk by daz.
(I used photoshop screenshots to compare the changes in the ears without any morph and after importing and using morph. It has not shrunk).
But at this time, when I adjust the level displayed by daz subd to 0, I will find that the figure at the lowest level has shrunk.

By the way goz is always full of bugs and cannot be stable for a long time and daz transfers files, so I don't use it.

Does anyone know how to solve the problem of morph shrinkage at the lowest subdivision level? plz

I'm about to be fucked to death by daz

For Isolde:

bluejaunte said:

Georgehaze said:

The only thing making me hesitate for a minute in purchasing the Isolde character is wondering what hair that is that she's wearing.....

https://www.daz3d.com/fe-ashlee-hair-for-genesis-9

Customized it a bit. I guess I could make the morph available. Why does this make you hesitant though? Isn't the "dress up" up part half the fun?

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/8744031/#Comment_8744031

No idea for the other character, but you may try to ask in Bluejaunte appreciation thread or directly ping @bluejaunte.

Started with Poser and C4D/Vray as well. Even wrote Daz and C4D scripts to transfer V4 and G3 to C4D in the past. Left C4D when they changed their payment model.

Also used Carrara until Daz bought it and stopped the further development.

When Blender changed the interface, I had a closer look at it and now I climb up the steep learning curve. Diffeomorphic is a great extension to get the base over and enhance it.
Still a lot to learn and it is not easy. I give you that.

Stayed with Daz Studio 4.21 and Blender 4.2. New features are nice, but we should be able to use the existing features first. Went through a lot of tutorials on Youtube and Udemy and decided to share my workflow for dummies. This may take a while though and I hope to share something by the start of the next year.

Had a look at Humanify. It looks great, but I am uncertain about the integration in my workflow. Decided to stay with G8/G8.1. I have a lot of converters to get the old stuff (V4.2, G3) there.

YEAH - I noticed that ominous word "SELECT" too in the Premier tier Coupon description.

The value of the 2 Daz+ coupons to me is that, using one or the other, I am able to get value from the coupons each month when buying either DOs or "old" (not still "NEW") content; in other words, I have MY PICK of ALL PRODUCTS in the store against which I can bring the appropriate coupon to bear.  "SELECT" is a word often used in pop-up and other sales at Daz3d where only certain items from a given vendor, or only certain vendors, or certain categories of products are participating in a sale. Given how disproportionately such "Select" selections tend to be largely full of things I have already or do not ever want, I feel very displeased at the thought of having to spend $25 to get $10 discount -instead of a lower $18 threshold to save $6- but especially since I would be forced to pick through a Daz-selected subset of products, instead of just ANY NON-NEW PRODUCT like the current Daz+ PA Coupon. If I am so constrained in using the PA coupon that most months I don't use it, that's a chunk of value I used to have as Daz+ that I will have lost despite paying much more. Given that according to the Daz DIM (which overcounts true product titles owned since it seems often to count each installation PACKAGE for a single product) I have a library of more than 12000 products (just my Daz store items!) I have already, like many others have said, most all legacy and even newer content so I do not see much value is "giving" me as a perk a bunch of stuff I either already bought or have decisively ignored.  The export tools, for me, who cares.  The coupons and discounts I currently receive from my Daz+ script represent a good value to me, but as nice as it might potentially be to have the ability to do more sculpting/morph creating directly in DS with more control and sophistication than Mesh Grabber etc, the deprecation of the PA coupon and the slight increase to token accrual and discount tier are not sufficient to me at least to double my tribute to Daz simply for the privilege of giving them even more of my money each month. Also: a monthly suck at my bank or CC is just anathema to me nowadays since everybody and everything wants to become one more remora attached to my wallet.  I could see myself at least considering Premier (once my current Daz+ subscription expired) IF there was a choice to PAY ONCE for a year, some real value added in the native tool-set of DS, and the ugly word "Select" was stricken from the PA Coupon and replaced by language the same as the current Daz+ PA Coupon. I really doubt there is much hope that whatever bundles and content that Daz will "give" with Premier will ever be a big plus to me, simply because Daz pretty heavily pushes female characters and female-character oriented clothes and accessories, and I'd value more sets, sci-fi assets and males, male clothes and accessories, which is why the Coupons, discount & token perks and additional DS feature set would have to carry the price tag for me. 

Has anyone heard any info or whispers regarding the possibility of annual-purchase subscriptions for Premier?

Cam Fox said:

SNIP 

 (A big caveat here that the memberships page now says the second coupon is "$10 OFF of $25 on select items" which might be different than the "$6 OFF of $18 on all PA items" Daz+ members are currently accustomed to seeing. ie the new monthly coupon might be more restricted?)

SNIP

 

yuyu.atem said:

Thank you very much! You mean that I would have to drag the upper eyelid to the bttom, even if in base resolution, it looks ok? My 3rd screenshot was in high resomution...

That's right. I ever fixed quite a lot of such issues in Blender and ZB ~ The trick is that you need to wisely use a Mask on lower eyelids, then you can make perfect fixing by using Drag brush to make them closed. Or, visa versa, you may drag lower eyelids a bit upper, to make a close naturally. It always works.

Even in some worst cases, for instance, when fixing some unique creatures... you can give it more dragging, i.e. make eyelids more closed, then in ERC settings, give it Keyed value, i.e. not 100% but 95%, yada yada. There're always some tricks.

If you still cannot make it, PM me the scene file if you don't mind, I'll show you how to do it.

An example: a converted figure from G9 to G8F. You need to fix the eyelids on one-side firstly. After fixing, it should looks like the 2nd screenshot. Then it'll perfectly be closed. Then create the corrective morph on the other side by using Mirroing option in MLP.

(Caveat: I'm barely more than a total noob with Blender)

I have no idea if it'll work in your case (it worked when I created simple full / partial body morphs for clothes), but you can temporarly add a subdivision modifier in Blender, fix the problem with the subvision modifier active, then remove it and export your work at base resolution to be able to create the morph in Daz Studio.

OZ-84 said:

Richard Haseltine said:

In DIM pasting

rx::ci::^Premier -

into the filter box should show the Premier add-ons (I am told). In Daz Studio, once they are installed, you have logged in, and restarted DS, they can be accessed as folows:

Geo Sculptor shows up in Window menu / Panes(Tabs)
Pose converter shows up in Edit  menu / Figure / Pose
Shape transfer shows up in Edit menu / Figure / Shape
DForce manager shows up in Simulation Settings pane / Manage
Render queue shows up on Render Settings pane / Queue

all of the show up ... besides Geo Sculptor... :-(

Geometry Sculptor is in the Tools menu, at the bottom.

You should probably mention in your literature that Shape Transfer is limited to Genesis 3+. I tried to convert a Genesis 2 figure (Belle 6) and Shape Transfer refused to do it.

When loading Scene Subsets that I have saved of pre-formed characters, I get the following error:

2024-10-08 11:23:39.861 [WARNING] :: Could not resolve: /data/Daz 3D/Genesis 8/Female 8_1/Genesis8_1Female.dsf

The file is there.  (see attached).

 It finds other stuff in the /data/,,, folders.

for example:

2024-10-08 11:22:51.041 [INFO] :: Loaded morph deltas: 0m 0.1s - /data/Daz 3D/Genesis 8/Female 8_1 Eyelashes/Morphs/DAZ 3D/Base/bs_EyelashesLengthUniformUpper.dsf

So I'm note sure what its complaining about.

The figures seem to work...

Anyone seen this?

Any thoughts on resolving?

leo04 said:

PerttiA said:

Making the G8 base expressions (and any expressions that are using them) work on G8.1 requires removing dummy/placeholder expressions that are installed to G8.1 morph folders - These dummy/placeholder expression files have no other function than to prevent the base G8 expressions from loading. 

The dummy/placeholder files are located in;

...\Data\DAZ 3D\Genesis 8\Female 8_1\Morphs\Daz 3D\Base Pose Head\ (255 files, can be more if you have additional DAZ expression packs)
...\Data\DAZ 3D\Genesis 8\Female 8_1\Morphs\Daz 3D\Expressions\ (24 files, can be more if you have additional DAZ expression packs)
...\Data\DAZ 3D\Genesis 8\Male 8_1\Morphs\Daz 3D\Base Pose Head\ (255 files, can be more if you have additional DAZ expression packs)
...\Data\DAZ 3D\Genesis 8\Male 8_1\Morphs\Daz 3D\Expressions\ (24 files, can be more if you have additional DAZ expression packs)

Please make sure you are removing the files from G8.1 morph folders and not G8 morph folders.

Note 1; If you are logging in to DS and letting DAZ Connect (within DS) to install/update your content, you may have these also in an other location that has "\Data\Cloud\" in it's path
Note 2; Do not remove any files from "FACS" or "FACSExpressions" folders

These are the files called "alias_head_*.dsf", correct?

All the files in those folders are there just for one purpose, preventing morphs made for G8 from working on G8.1 

Hello, I have had this same problem for a while. several years ago I tried creating a custom morph and made the same mistake. Now those custom morphs have infected every character I save as scene subset. 
Like the OG poster, when I delete the problem folder all my characters come with missing morphs. Below is an example of new G8 figure with Hourglass morph and then the figure after being saved as scene subset with the same morph now asking to come from the custom morph I made years ago. the file also changes from the original author "P3Design" to my moniker "PhoenixCreed" as highlighted.
Ideally I'd like to get Daz3D to pull the morph from it's original location and stop pulling it from the custom morph. hopefully without having to delete the problem custom morph file and then having to redesign my entire cast.
I've attached a 3rd image showing the error report when the custom morph folder has been deleted.
Thanks!

-PC

It usually means something you do have installed has a link to something you don't - most likely a corrective morph to make whatever is associated with the error play nicely with the morph that is not present. Sine you don't have that morph, it doesn't matter that the coirrection cannot be linked - you can generally safely ignore such warnings.

The plug-ins provided as part of Daz Studio Premier need to be installed, like any plug-in, through Install Manager with Daz Studio closed. In DIM pasting

rx::ci::^Premier -

into the filter box at top-right should show the Premier add-ons and allow them to be installed, assuming that you have the Download Filters set to include plug-ins.

Once installed, open Daz Studio and log in to your account (Connect>Login..., for the plug-in/feature activation you do not need to update metadata though you do if you also wish to download the content that is tied to your membership; that does not include the free bundles, which are not tied to remaining a member). You should then be prompted to restart Daz Studio.

Once DS is running you can find the new add-ons in the following locations:

• Geometry Sculptor shows up in the Tools menu (remember that, like other content creation tools, it disables any GeoGraft's mesh hiding and won't show interpolated hairs for dForce/Strand Based Hair)
• Pose Converter shows up in Edit>Figure>Pose
• Shape Transfer shows up in Edit>Figure>Shape
• DForce Manager shows up in Simulation Settings pane / Manage
• Render Queue shows up on Render Settings pane / Queue

I just want to know why they release a detailed document about daz premier or a video explaining in depth it. It wouldn't take much time to do it. 
i would like to know if the new geometry scuptor can sculpt in hd mesh, if i can split head and body morphs maintaining the hd morphs and the with the shape transfer you can transfer hd morphs.

And what about the blender bridge? Its a new plugin? Its a update from the already existing blender bridge plugin? Can it transfer hd morph and transfer the entire scene with exact settings and position of lights and  camera to blender?

Its just sad they no specified this, but the way the things are going i bet all this new "features" of premier is only for base resolution thats why they make poor a explation of them. And  they had the audacity to remove manfriday plugin from the store.I bet that with the new versions of daz3d you will no longer be able to use the old manfriday plugins. This such di.. move from them. I love daz with all my hearth but they need to stop trying to trick consumers to buy useless things and start creating real useful things like ways of editing hd morphs inside daz,create a real documentation for daz studiobetter cloths for g9, a new render engine, better optimized library and  ui scaling for 4k monitors. And after all that they can create a subscription plan or make daz  only subscription only.

You don't need to worry about it as long as this morph (Eyelashes Curl) really works if you dial / zero it. But you may try:

- press F2, Clear DSON cache. Reload a G8F or G8M, save the scene... see if it's okay.

- if the issue persists, completely uninstall Starter Essentials packages and reinstall them via DIM.

Questions, and feelings about the offer:

What plugins are in the premiere? -> I already have a few, plus several converters and morph packs. List the plugins and content, please

 A free Character Bundle Each month -> I wasn't going from G8.1 + G8  to G9.  I have just 25 G9 out of 1800, while more than 800++ G8.    Converting G8,G8.1-> G9 could cause problems, I want to see the converters in work first + What about duplicate data?  Will I have 100GB+ in duplicates?

Free Premier Exclusive content (other users can't even buy it) for free each time we release a Character Bundle (Even if you don't buy the bundle!) -> Do you own those items or only have them till you have a subscription?  Could you transport them out to other engines?

Seeing that there is a Premier level of offer and a different DAZ+ offer that could be a selling point. (This is not listed, but it will cause a major problem within DAZ+ members....)

I think the Premier is not for people who have already a large library as some of them are more picky about what to buy next. But for new users just before Xmas, it will be popular for at least 1 month... December

 ps: If they would had said to pay a one-time fee for PA tools, that would have been interesting.   but this is the path of Adobe... 

Crescent said:

I listed a bunch of questions several pages back.  There hasn't been an official answer for any of them.  I have 22 months left on my DAZ+ subscription.  I'm being offered ZERO months of DAZ Premiere in exchange.  Why would I give up all that time for literally nothing, especially since I can't get the time back if Premiere doesn't deliver?  

That sounds odd, it should reflect what you paid for the remaining time plus 1 - please open a Sales Support ticket.

DAZ Premiere claims to have several wonderful tools that I would like to use but I have no idea how well they work nor what exactly they work on (iray only or the old mat system as well, G9 only or also older figures, strand based hair, dynamic clothing, etc.).  I'm not sacrificing 22 months of DAZ+ in the hope that maybe DAZ Premiere's tools will do what I want.  I'd rather flat out purchase tools that I can get a refund on if they don't work rather than play the lottery with this new scheme.  

They are mainly derived from Man Friday's tools (Geometry Sculptor is Mesh Grabber 4) - as far as I can see they do not give access to things you cannot do with other tools, albeit with more work - and I don't think render Queue is tied to Iray, none of the others are. However, they don't give access to HD morph creation/editing or to dForce hair creation/editing either.

If DAZ wants this to work, they need to work with us.  Why not offer those of us with extended DAZ+ memberships something like $5 per month to get the software features while we wait for our DAZ+ memberships to run out?  Sure, we won't get the extra coupons or bundles, but it's better than trying to blackmail us into giving up months (or years!) of current benefits for a month or two of a possibly better deal.

OZ-84 said:

Richard Haseltine said:

In DIM pasting

rx::ci::^Premier -

into the filter box should show the Premier add-ons (I am told). In Daz Studio, once they are installed, you have logged in, and restarted DS, they can be accessed as folows:

Geo Sculptor shows up in Window menu / Panes(Tabs)
Pose converter shows up in Edit  menu / Figure / Pose
Shape transfer shows up in Edit menu / Figure / Shape
DForce manager shows up in Simulation Settings pane / Manage
Render queue shows up on Render Settings pane / Queue

all of the show up ... besides Geo Sculptor... :-(

Yes, I am getting different results in Public Build and general release - it is very strange, I have sent my experience in to Daz.

marble said:

Pancake said:

I reckon this has been asked but I can't find an answer: 

"Integrated export options allow you to easily transfer your Daz content directly to other popular 3D software."

Does this mean we will no longer be able to convert to Unity or Unreal in the free version from now on?
This has been a fundamental requirement in my workflow, and I invested in Daz and interactive licenses specifically because it was free to do so.

 

 

 

Yeah, quite a lot is confusing.

- Is 4.23 free or Premier? I get that the Premier version has the extras but, if so, what does 4.23 basic have over 4.22?

- Are these Premier add-ons just the same as those many of us have already paid for? If so, will those we have stop working?

- Are all new developments, including the ever-receding DS5, going to be Premier only?

 

 

Daz 4.23.0.1 Beta was just posted today for download in DIM.