Richard Haseltine said:

barbult said:

Richard Haseltine said:

barbult said:

Richard Haseltine said:

barbult said:

background said:

Sorry barbult for the OT btw, I'll delete the pic if you wish.

Let's keep Richard a cat here.

It would be confusing to mix species 9and if the Catalympic team found out they might use it as a technicality to exclude me from the team, despite my obvious merits)

I like your Catalympics better than my Catlympics, so I am going to switch. And it goes better with Catalonia (thanks background). Catalympics is easier to say and read. Spell checker still doesn't like it, though. Stupid forum spell checker.

Too pedantic by half, most spell-checkers. Or maybe my typing  just drives them up the wall.

I didn't think you used spell checkers!  

Well, not here because they don't work - unless you flip to Source mode, but then it takes exception to all the HTML.

Enable SCAYT works, but Check Spelling locks up and I lose everything I have typed. 

barbult said:

Richard Haseltine said:

barbult said:

Richard Haseltine said:

barbult said:

background said:

Sorry barbult for the OT btw, I'll delete the pic if you wish.

Let's keep Richard a cat here.

It would be confusing to mix species 9and if the Catalympic team found out they might use it as a technicality to exclude me from the team, despite my obvious merits)

I like your Catalympics better than my Catlympics, so I am going to switch. And it goes better with Catalonia (thanks background). Catalympics is easier to say and read. Spell checker still doesn't like it, though. Stupid forum spell checker.

Too pedantic by half, most spell-checkers. Or maybe my typing  just drives them up the wall.

I didn't think you used spell checkers!  

Well, not here because they don't work - unless you flip to Source mode, but then it takes exception to all the HTML.

FYI to ALL

If you're having any difficulty with animation in Daz Studio (can be a bugger) and you're not sure what to do, you can feel free to hit me up with a PM in this forum. When it properly sends me a PM alert email (I've seen some long periods where this failed(?)) I'm always happy to help if I can - written, video, live stream... whatever

Richard Haseltine said:

barbult said:

Richard Haseltine said:

barbult said:

background said:

Sorry barbult for the OT btw, I'll delete the pic if you wish.

Let's keep Richard a cat here.

It would be confusing to mix species 9and if the Catalympic team found out they might use it as a technicality to exclude me from the team, despite my obvious merits)

I like your Catalympics better than my Catlympics, so I am going to switch. And it goes better with Catalonia (thanks background). Catalympics is easier to say and read. Spell checker still doesn't like it, though. Stupid forum spell checker.

Too pedantic by half, most spell-checkers. Or maybe my typing  just drives them up the wall.

I didn't think you used spell checkers!  

barbult said:

Richard Haseltine said:

barbult said:

background said:

Sorry barbult for the OT btw, I'll delete the pic if you wish.

Let's keep Richard a cat here.

It would be confusing to mix species 9and if the Catalympic team found out they might use it as a technicality to exclude me from the team, despite my obvious merits)

I like your Catalympics better than my Catlympics, so I am going to switch. And it goes better with Catalonia (thanks background). Catalympics is easier to say and read. Spell checker still doesn't like it, though. Stupid forum spell checker.

Too pedantic by half, most spell-checkers. Or maybe my typing  just drives them up the wall.

Richard Haseltine said:

barbult said:

background said:

Sorry barbult for the OT btw, I'll delete the pic if you wish.

Let's keep Richard a cat here.

It would be confusing to mix species 9and if the Catalympic team found out they might use it as a technicality to exclude me from the team, despite my obvious merits)

I like your Catalympics better than my Catlympics, so I am going to switch. And it goes better with Catalonia (thanks background). Catalympics is easier to say and read. Spell checker still doesn't like it, though. Stupid forum spell checker.

Richard Haseltine said:

jmucchiello said:

Wolfwood said:

jmucchiello said:

I filed a ticket. I only now received the robot response "we have your ticket." 

I hope the forum mods are well. :

It is really odd no one had responded at least once.

I hope they are fine and this is just a case of Human Resources mistakenly given a day off to all mods at the same time.

It's company picnic day?

It's get chased by the bears day.  Sorry, several of us have had other calls on our time and didn't check the forums promptly. I have now reported that it isn't working for either group.

I guess that implies "it was no picnic." :)

Fixed for me.

Richard Haseltine said:

jmucchiello said:

Wolfwood said:

jmucchiello said:

I filed a ticket. I only now received the robot response "we have your ticket." 

I hope the forum mods are well. :

It is really odd no one had responded at least once.

I hope they are fine and this is just a case of Human Resources mistakenly given a day off to all mods at the same time.

It's company picnic day?

It's get chased by the bears day.  Sorry, several of us have had other calls on our time and didn't check the forums promptly. I have now reported that it isn't working for either group.

Fixed

jmucchiello said:

Wolfwood said:

jmucchiello said:

I filed a ticket. I only now received the robot response "we have your ticket." 

I hope the forum mods are well. :

It is really odd no one had responded at least once.

I hope they are fine and this is just a case of Human Resources mistakenly given a day off to all mods at the same time.

It's company picnic day?

It's get chased by the bears day.  Sorry, several of us have had other calls on our time and didn't check the forums promptly. I have now reported that it isn't working for either group.

Flipmode said:

Godsdamnit! 
I just wrote a lengthy post, but the forum decided to time out on me. :(

So, short version:
Thanks @Dartanbeck for doing the "set released" post, much appreciated!
Your praise makes me blush a bit, but it´s always great to read that you enjoy those sets! :)

Well... I don't mean it lightly or underserved. 

You know how it is when you need a service to be done and somebody is consistently doing such a beautiful job of fulfilling their end? You want to let them know that they're doing the right thing, so they know 

I love how cool looking these are, and how efficiently they render - not to mention the fact that they're So Easy (just like the name) to work with!!!

Truly, Flipmode - no need to respond... but Thank You!!! 

Wolfwood said:

jmucchiello said:

I filed a ticket. I only now received the robot response "we have your ticket." 

I hope the forum mods are well. :

It is really odd no one had responded at least once.

I hope they are fine and this is just a case of Human Resources mistakenly given a day off to all mods at the same time.

It's company picnic day?

Godsdamnit! 
I just wrote a lengthy post, but the forum decided to time out on me. :(

So, short version:
Thanks @Dartanbeck for doing the "set released" post, much appreciated!
Your praise makes me blush a bit, but it´s always great to read that you enjoy those sets! :)

jmucchiello said:

I filed a ticket. I only now received the robot response "we have your ticket." 

I hope the forum mods are well. :

It is really odd no one had responded at least once.

I hope they are fine and this is just a case of Human Resources mistakenly given a day off to all mods at the same time.

I filed a ticket. I only now received the robot response "we have your ticket." 

I hope the forum mods are well. :

I have to say, I really love LIE Textures with matching HD Morphs. It can really transform a texture set, and make a cohesive look amongst several different characters. Though, there is no real way to search for such products. I thought about putting together a small list if other people wanted to find something similar. I know that @Esid and @FenixPhoenix have a few products like this as well.

• Dragonscale HD for Genesis 9
• Atlantean HD for Genesis 9
• Troll Stone Skin for Genesis 9

Feel free to add below so I can make a comprehensive list.

Oh, it's very clever trick, I wish I thought about it.

Thank you for sharing it!

I'll edit the problematic .dsx files (and open a ticket, hoping for a fix), but in the meantime, I did it the following way (so I only have to deal with one product and not three):

1. I created a dummy.duf file in an empty library (not sure if it's really needed or if Daz Studio will accept to create a product without any file in the directory)

2. I created a product called Dummy Dummy (then changed it to '0 Dummy Dummy', thinking it would appear at the top of the reimport windows, but I forgot that it's sorted by store first and I have other stores in my database that DAZ3D and Local_User, so a better product is likely Z Dummy Dummy, no relation to Zeddicuss at all, I could also try to make it a DAZ3D product, but I prefer to avoid using the Daz3D store outside of products transfered from elsewhere and distributed without any metadata)

3. I loaded Genesis 3 Female, Genesis 8 Female and Genesis 9 Base (Dev version for G8F and G9, to load them a bit faster) and I selected them in the scene tab.

I opened the metadata data editor, unselected the correct Compatibility Bases, to prevent them from being saved in my dummy product, and saved the metadata (the screenshot was taken while the product was called Dummy Dummy):

4. I opened LOCAL_USER_0_Dummy_Dummy.dsx in my text editor (that file is located in ~/My Documents/DAZ 3D/Daz Studio/My Library/Runtime/Support on my Mac, I suppose it's in a similar place on a Windows computer) and replaced any mention of Genesis 9/Base by Dummy/DummyG9, and so on eve if I don't think it's necessary (if you really want to go as fast as possible, in other word without even to type Dummy to search the root compatibility base, just use 000 Dummy as a root compatibility base, it's very likely to be the first visible).

5. I re-imported 0 Dummy Dummy and voila, Genesis 3/Female, Genesis 8/Female and Genesis 9/Base were back to only use their intended Scene IDs.

6. Then I removed the Dummy root compatibility base, which removed the sub ones in the process, then the dummy product and I got back to a cleaner database 

Thank you again, it was driving me crazy.

Now I just have to alert the nice person who shared free Yoga poses for G9 on Renderhub and who likely has Marley installed too because in the provided metadata, the problematic Scene ID from Marley appears.

If anyone has the same set of bugged metadata, I can share my Dummy Dummy product if they don't want to do the whole process themselves (but it's a minute or two if you know your way around the metadata editor).

Ron Knights said:

I'll be buying Content Wizard this week.

I recently decided to use DIM to install all my content in the "default" locations or organization. I don't change the PA folders, etc.

I've been manually using "Categories" to organize my content. This is great because all the content stays where it was originally installed.

I'm having a lot of trouble organizing categories because of many similar items that come in different packages.

I tried to provide an example, but suddenly couldn't fine one. (Had a Senior Moment.)

Would Content Wizard allow me to look up a product and find all related items? Or would I need to find some sort of database app?!

CW won't help with that directly. CW helps you get products from other sites into your smart content (with their categories). So, in the sense that your products are available for Daz Studio's Smart Content to search, it helps. But it still relies on Smart Content to do the searching.

TimberWolf said:

It's happening because the character you recently purchased has not been coded/set up correctly. This is fixable yourself if you know what you're doing but I would suggest contacting support (if it's a Daz store character) or the vendor at the store you bought it from if it's not. I'm assuming this is unwanted morphs you're talking about - search for the solution in the forums if you want to fix it yourself as it's been a bugbear for aeons - but as a short-term fix you should be able to dial the unwanted additions out by turning on hidden properties in your parameters pane.

If this is the case it is not just your old character that will be affected - it will be *every* character you load.

You'd think vendors would have figured this out by now!

The OP just said "loaded" they didnt say there was a morph active or that there were any issues/problems.

@background
Since you made him yourself,  why not just change the texture but keep the morph itself?  Wouldn't creating the morph with the texture applied help in getting it close enough, so that when you replace the texture, the character still has some resemblence?  Must admit that while I have a few textures among my content, it's amazing how many times I randomly switch between them, but nearly always end up using the default Victoria 9 texture.  So what I'm saying is I wouldn't let the removal of the photo texture be an issue.  If anything, it will probably improve the look if you were to use a vendor's skin instead since they're generally designed without specular and lighting, whereas if you're using a photo texture, then that almost certainy is not going to look as good as a proper character texture anyway.

Personally I would perfect the morph using the photo texture, then switch the texture, then refine the morph to make it look like who you want, but only do the refining once you've replaced the texture with another that is workable.
 

@All
Just a heads up that the notorious BBC play I mentioned the other day (Brimstone & Treacle) is available in full and without interlace issues on dailymotion.com  If you search for "Brimstone and Treacle (1976)" it should be the first one that appears (with a runtime of one hour and twelve minutes).  That's the proper version and doesn't appear to have been butchered by censorship.  So anyone who's not seen it, now's your chance to view one of the best acted plays ever screened.

EDIT: Too late now, upload removed as is often the case wth that one.

If you're easily offended then best avoided unless you choose to heed Martin's (beautifully written of course) warning:
"If you are a nervous type out there
Switch over, or off, for some calmer air
But you have to be smug or very frail
To believe that no man has a horn or tail"
That's nothing compared to some of the stuff the he says  (the wit and humour is pretty heavy, tonge-in-cheek, and hidden all over the play).  The Devil is portrayed as 'a bit of a lad' hidden behind a polite and very 'proper' exterior.  But regardless of how you come away from it, you can't help but appreciate the quality of acting by all involved, and you'll never forget it because it has a very odd vibe to it that's really not like anything else out there (not that I've seen, anyway).  Worthy of note is that Kitchen (The Devil) and Elliott (The Father) are both "RADA" actors, although the way RADA treated Elliott was (in my opinion) bang out of order.  Needless to say, I'm guessing Elliot's acting in this one must have made "RADA" feel about a millimeter tall over their rudeness towards him!

I'm guessing Potter saw in Elliot what RADA failed to see, because as pointed out, the characters in this are not just incredibly well acted, but perfectly cast as well.  Plays like these are in fact very educational since they teach you how to create stories in such a way as to command the attention of the audience.
Who better to learn from than a master of screenwriting, Dennis Potter.

Just saw this one. I have had similar conflicts in the past, but I do not have this particular product. As you have realized, the metadata file cannot undo Compatibility Base assignments once they are made. What you do is load Genesis 9, then select Edit->Scene Identification. In the dialog, look for Compatibility Base. Click the ellipsis at the far right. This will open the list of all defined compatibility bases. Search for the erroneous string (G9Dragon) (I can't recall if it would be a Compatibility Base of its own or a Sub-Compatibility Base under Genesis 9) and delete the bad reference. This will clear the entry from the database. (There are other ways to access the "Choose a Compatibility Base" dialog)

Don't forget to delete the line from the metadata file, or it will get back in if ever you re-install or re-import metadata.

If you mess it up, you can re-install Genesis 9 Starter Essentials (or re-load the metadata from DIM) to reset any missing parts.