And since they are asking this character preset dial that is created does the configuration file(s) that describe it list the products involved or just the specific files involved? Thanks.

If you click on the gear next to your dial morph it gives all the morphs names you used to create your dial

When you save as a support asset you just need to check the name of your new Dial /Morph  as per screen shot

You can choose which of your content libraries it goes to by using the drop down - You can see mine is being saved into D:/Freestuff/DAZ

The DSF file is created in your library of choice under :

data - daz 3d - genesis 3 - female - morphs - your name

Hope that helps

 

 

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EDIT:

Important - Since I've written this, Fenric has closed his store and given us permission to share the plugins he's made

I have now added links to the 32 bit and 64 bit files for Mac and Windows. Simply put the zip(s) into your DIM Downloads folder (public Documents > DAZ 3D > installmanager on Windows) and run DIM for an effortless install 

Furthermore, Omega Man has offered up the entire Daz3d Fenric plugin collection as a single download  Here

As an added safeguard, the collection is also now hosted at the Carrara Cafe. This from rk66:

With Fenric's permission you can find now the download of his collection at CarraraCafe "Carrara Plug-ins Collection by Fenric" (about 30 MB). The zip file contains also PDF files with more information.

Info > https://carraracafe.com/fenrics-plugins-now-free/

Download here > https://carraracafe.com/download/8967/

Fenric's Tools

I am putting some of these tools to Constant use, while others I still need to explore more - as with many things in Carrara, both things that are included in Carrara Pro as well as after-market supplements. All in all, however, when I was going from laptop to desktop to my home-built workstation I ended up reinstalling Carrara a few times and, each time, if I tried messing around in Carrara before installing my Fenric tools, Carrara just didn't feel right. Fenric has certainly played a huge role in helping me to achieve my goals.

Shader Power Tools

(Download: 32 bit Win | Mac - 64 bit Win | Mac)

...is a combination of many of the tools he sold via his site at prices too low to be sold here at Daz 3d. Bundling them together makes for a beautiful pile of very useful Carrara utilities! It includes the following tools previously sold in his (now closed) store: 

• Shader Doctor
• Skin Doctor
• Advanced Shader Tweaker
• Multi-Shader Editor
• Layer Blending Shader
• Enhanced Color Balance Shader
• Enhanced Color Merge Shader

I use the Advanced Shader Tweaker quite often, but really have to spend some time to get to know and use the others in this pack. They're all very helpful, useful utilities - it just takes me breaking away from old habits and looking at new/different ways of looking at shaders.

BVH/PZ2 Exporter for Carrara 

(Download: 32 bit Win | Mac - 64 bit Win | Mac) 

If this didn't exist, neither would my Swordworks for M4 or AnimationKit for Mil Dragon 2, since I made the animations in Carrara and used this tool to get them into PZ2 files, and then bringing those into DS to create the aniBlocks - which is a fine workflow. Very useful tool, it doesn't work for Triax rigging. But for recording any animations for any Poser-format models, this thing is incredibly powerful! 

• Exports Static Poser format Pose File (PZ2)
• Exports Animated Poser format Pose File (PZ2)
• Exports Poser compatible BioVision Animation File (BVH)
• Configurable Operation
  • Choose whether to include or exclude:
    • Overall Motion (global translation)
    • Joint Rotation
    • Morph Dial Settings
    • Joint Scaling (independent X, Y, and Z parameters)
  • Configure start and end frame range for animated poses

Pose Helper for Carrara 

(Download: 32 bit Win | Mac - 64 bit Win | Mac) 

Again, unfortunately this doesn't work on Genesis or other Triax figures - but I LOVE this tool! So nice to be able to swap pose directions > send left to right, right to left, along with everything else that it does. Being that I still enjoy using Generation 4 and other Poser Format figures (also works with native figures, primitives, etc.,) I find myself using this handy device quite a lot.

•  Left / Right Pose Symmetry based on scene element names
• Morph Zeroing
• Pose Zeroing
• Rotation Setting
• Scale Zeroing
• Scale Setting
• General Scene Option Setting
•  
• Full undo/redo support
• Works on content, native figures, and groups of primitives
• Works across multiple figures and groups

​Carrara Enhanced Remote Control 

(Download: 32 bit Win | Mac - 64 bit Win | Mac) 

Here we go! This bad boy is truly amazing! Faba (fabaone at ShareCG) has some very helpful tutorials and helper (controler) objects at ShareCG, and PhilW teaches us how to use this to let one aileron of an Biplane model control all the other ailerons and the wires that connect them! Really cool! That's in his Advanced Carrara Techniques course via Infinite Skills.

...and Thanks to Omega Man for reminding me of this awesome article on Carrara Cafe: ERC MADE EASY - Enhancing Facial Realism by Conrad3DC

This tool is best explained by the creator himself:

Details

Control a Value
..... With a Value
.........From any object in your scene!
The Enhanced Remote Control suite is a set of behavior modifiers and scene commands that work together to add much needed functionality and control to your animation workflow. It provides the basic functionality of Poser's ERC for creating joint-controlled movement within Carrara. But it also provides so much more, giving you the building blocks to rapidly create advanced, realistic animation.
Control them all: Shaders, light values, position, rotation, morph settings - even other modifiers!

Contains

• Commands
• • Add ERC Modifier
  • Create ERC Chain
  • Add Pin Modifier
  • Delete Keyframes
  • Remove Duplicate Keyframes
  • Jitter Keyframes
  • Change Morph Limits
  • Property Explorer
• Modifiers
• • Pin
  • ERC

 

Features

• Add ERC Modifier and Add Pin Modifier allow you to add the modifiers to the joints of imported Poser figures, which are otherwise locked out of having 3rd party modifiers added.
• Create ERC Chain allows you to create a chain of basic ERC modifiers. The objects in the chain do not have to be children in the tree!
• Delete Keyframes gives you the ability to do a “deep delete” of all of the current keyframes for an object. Set the scene time to the keyframe to be deleted, and select one or more objects to clear. You will be presented with a choice of “Selected Figure” (the default), where every item in each selected animation group will have the current keyframe cleared. “Selected and Children” where only the selected subtrees will be cleared, and “Selected Only”, where only the topmost selected items will be cleared.
• Remove Duplicate Keyframes analyzes the timelines of the selected items. Any keyframe that is identical to both the preceeding and following frames will be deleted. You will be presented with a choice of “Selected Figure” (the default), where every item in each selected animation group will have the current keyframe cleared. “Selected and Children” where only the selected subtrees will be cleared, and “Selected Only”, where only the topmost selected items will be cleared.
• Jitter Keyframes operates on the currently selected keyframes. They will be randomly moved forward or back in time within the limits specified, adding realism to your animation.
• Change Morph Limits allows you to select a morph target and change the minimum and maximum allowed levels. Use this to stop the irritating “snap-back” behavior of morphs on imported Poser content when you attempt to enter a number that is out of range.
• The Property Explorer is there because sometimes it can be difficult to guess what you are trying to do with the ERC modifier. The Property Explorer can help guide you by showing you a list that contains the same set of properties as are available in the ERC setup. Clicking on a property will display its current value, and you have the ability to set a new value by entering it in the “New Value” box and clicking “Update”.
• The Pin Modifier attempts to fix the location of an item in XYZ space. It cannot override the motion of parent items, so it is a best-effort lock rather than an absolute one.
• The Enhanced Remote Control Modifier is the main feature of the product. It allows you to drive any animateable parameter using another parameter as the controller. It is philosophically similar to the ERC facility in Poser, but it is far more powerful. The Carrara ERC modifier can accept any object in your scene as the source of the controller: other figures, lights, cameras, helpers – allowing for limitless combinations. You can even set up your own animation UI with helper objects! and Create dynamic special effects!
  In addition to the normal value operations, it also provides:
  • Late Start: you do not have to start the control at keyframe zero! Specify your starting time.
  • Cut Off: you do not have to try to work around the control for your entire scene – make it stop when you want it to!
  • Delay: Similar to late start, Delay prevents the control from happening for a given number of keyframes. Unlike late start, Delay remembers what should have happened and plays it back!This is quite simply indispensable for realistic animation of tails, ropes, and chains!
  • Decay: you can cause the control to decay over time, becoming less and less.
  • Grow: you can cause the control to be amplified over time, getting larger and larger.
  • Oscillate: you can set the amount of the control to oscillate over time
• Absolute Mode: In absolute mode, the value of the control is used at the point in time it is needed, and the value being controlled is directly modified. The figure being controlled should start at zero pose for best results.
• Relative Mode: In relative mode, the difference in the value of the control from the value it had when the ERC modifier first started working to the value at the current time is used, rather than the exact value. This allows you to do some manual posing of the figure being controlled
• Name That Modifier: You can specify a title for the ERC Modifier, overriding the default of “ERC” so that you can easily keep track of which is which after you have added multiple copies of the ERC modifier to the same object.

This is one of those that I really need to practice using more! This thing is awesome! 

Pose and Shading Tools 2 

(Download: 32 bit Win | Mac - 64 bit Win | Mac)

Again... I need to sit down and play with these. I bought this because I know that I will love using these systems, I just have to take the time to dig in and try them! 

• Pose Transfer Command The main feature, this command will copy rotation, scaling, and transform between different characters. The copy is by joint name, so you can cross between Gen3, Gen4, Smith Micro, and even custom figures if they're named the same way. Copies morph settings between instances of the same character, too! Copies ANIMATION in both standard keyframe mode (faster) and "bake" mode which will capture Physics, ERC, motion path, and IK related movements. Additionally, it includes the ability to invert the value - great for mirroring movements. THERE IS NO UNDO!
•  
• Stack Tweener Ever wish you could oscillate along the bezier spline? This will let you! Stack up to six different sub-tweeners with configurable percentage weight for blending. Need more than six? Just stack in another stack!
•  
• Clear Timeline Command I gave you a "deep" delete with ERC, now here's its brother: Select a keyframe or tweener, and this command will clear out the entire timeline that it is sitting on. THERE IS NO UNDO!
•  
• TowardAway Shader Ever wanted to shade the two sides of a polygon different colors? With this simple shader, you can. White when the normal is pointing toward the camera, black when it is pointing away - this is great for simulating linings in clothing (which is nearly always one-sided).
•  
• Color Balance Shader Is that texture map just a tad on the green side? Colors too vibrant? Have a great prodecural stack that's just a bit too dim? This simple shader lets you adjust R, G, B, H, S, V values of the color result of a sub-shader.
•  
• Color Separation Shader So suppose you want just one channel out of the available color? This separation has two modes: pure, which will extract the red, green, or blue channels. And greyscale, which will give a greyscale representation of Red, Green, Blue, Alpha, Hue, Luminosity, and Saturation. Optionally adjust the brightness of the extracted layer, and even invert the value.
•  
• Color Merge Shader The opposite of Color Separation, this shader allows you to build a new color based on the input of four sub shaders - one for each channel (RGBA or HLSA)

MDD File Format for Carrara 

Download (32 and 64 bit Mac and Win Carrara 7 & 8)

Thanks to Omega Man for sharing this one as I've never really had a need to buy it before (since I do all of my work in Carrara). As time pushes ever onward, I'm glad to have this now - one never knows what one might try to do next, right? ;)

Details

Lightwave Motion Designer Data (MDD) File Format Filter for Carrara

Bring Carrara fully into your animation work-flow!

This plugin provides both import and export support for the Lightwave Motion Designer/Point Oven (MDD) file format. MDD is rapidly emerging as an industry standard for animation data exchange between 3D applications by pairing a standard wavefront Object (OBJ) file with a frame-based description of the animation for that object.

This plugin opens the doors to animation by enabling Carrara to both import and export the OBJ/MDD file pairing.

What's Included and Features

Supported Platforms
Carrara 7: Windows, Macintosh
Carrara 8: Windows (32, 64), Macintosh (PPC, Intel32, Intel64)
Features
Export
Any object can be exported. On export, a pair of files will be created with the same name and different file extensions: an OBJ and an MDD. It will have material definitions, but no shading, grouping, or normals. Textures are not exported.
You may need to scale and/or rotate the resulting file in your destination application.
Import
Two files are required with the same name but different extensions: an OBJ and an MDD. The importer will import the OBJ, and will preserve materials but will remove any groups and normals. Textures are not imported. The MDD will be imported as a sequence of morphs, one per frame, and the importer will place keyframes to turn the morphs on and off. IMPORTANT: You need your default tweener set to "linear", or you must convert the tweeners to "linear" before using the animation. Otherwise, the animation will be badly distorted.
You may need to scale and/or rotate the figure to match your scene.
Also includes
- Presets to assist with import from/export to various popular 3D package
- Facility to save and load custom presets

      

Posing Pack 3 

(Download: 32 bit Win | Mac - 64 bit Win | Mac) 

Here it is! There was a discussion going on just the other day about changing the visibility of an entire hierarchy chain being a pain in the butt! This plugin (I totally forgot about that function) has that capability and a whole lot more! I use this thing CONSTANTLY!

This thing adds Tree Duplicate to the list of "Edit > Fenric" commands, which allows us to essentially duplicate things which cannot be duplicated! Instead of actual duplication, these Tree Duplicates are their own instances or separate figures, not the memory-saving instances we get from duplicated props and simple objects. But it makes it so we can get exact copies of - yes - Figures!!! So useful for vehicles, rigged building figures, even character figures. It basically (and quickly) pretends to add whatever is selected into the browser (without adding it to the browser) and drags it back into the scene - really fast! But wait... there's a lot more!

This also adds the aforementioned Unlock Figure and Restore Figure! Wanna add a custom morph zone into a locked figure? Unlock it - change it - Restore it! Yup!

We also get the Set Figure Visibility command which, as I've started this tool's description with, allows us to hide entire chains of hierarchy within a figure with a single click! I gotta tell John and Misty!!!

It also adds Change Rotation, which is a command which will go through the whole figure and change ALL of the joint rotations from Carrara's default Quaternion to Angles! So if you've ever loaded in a figure that ends up looking like it's tied in a knot as soon as you start working with it, you now know how to fix it! :)

Details

The Posing Toolkit 3 gives you the power you need to get your work done, unlocking and enabling a number of critical features that allow you to tap into the awesome potential of Carrara!

Have you ever set up the perfect background figure: clothes, hair, accessories, got everything all set and then remembered that Carrara just won't let you duplicate it? Oh, the menu option is there, teasing you - but it's disabled! The Replicator just won't cut it: you need individual poses! Enter the Tree Duplicator: duplicate anything and everything that can be selected in the scene tree!

You've got a nifty new bit of conforming clothing, but there aren't any morph areas! Morphing a posed figure is great, but you need to be able to set the stuff up, right? The new Unlock Figure command opens up the power locked away behind those greyed out menu options. (And you can put things back to the way Carrara expects with the Restore Figure command)

Sometimes, you've just got to hide things! But clicking the awkwardly-located "Visible" checkbox on imported content can be a chore. Just imagine hiding a hand with the fingers... oy! The new Set Figure Visibility command will do the hard work for you, activating or deactivating an entire chain of body parts with the click of a button.

Do rotation options have your custom figures spinning around? Or are Carrara's defaults turning your people into pretzels? Carrara's default "Quarternion" controller is powerful, but also incompatible with just about everything. The Change Rotation command comes to the rescue, changing everything from a single joint to an entire skeleton to the much more compatible "Angles" controller.

What's Included and Features

• Five new scene commands
  • Tree Duplicator
  • Unlock Figure
  • Restore Figure
  • Change Rotation
  • Set Figure Visibility

Fenric's Tools

I am putting some of these tools to Constant use, while others I still need to explore more - as with many things in Carrara, both things that are included in Carrara Pro as well as after-market supplements. All in all, however, when I was going from laptop to desktop to my home-built workstation I ended up reinstalling Carrara a few times and, each time, if I tried messing around in Carrara before installing my Fenric tools, Carrara just didn't feel right. Fenric has certainly played a huge role in helping me to achieve my goals.

Shader Power Tools - is a combination of many of the tools he sold via his site at prices too low to be sold here at Daz 3d. Bundling them together makes for a beautiful pile of very useful Carrara utilities! It includes the following tools previously sold in his (now closed) store: 

• Shader Doctor
• Skin Doctor
• Advanced Shader Tweaker
• Multi-Shader Editor
• Layer Blending Shader
• Enhanced Color Balance Shader
• Enhanced Color Merge Shader

I use the Advanced Shader Tweaker quite often, but really have to spend some time to get to know and use the others in this pack. They're all very helpful, useful utilities - it just takes me breaking away from old habits and looking at new/different ways of looking at shaders.

BVH/PZ2 Exporter for Carrara - If this didn't exist, neither would my Swordworks for M4 or AnimationKit for Mil Dragon 2, since I made the animations in Carrara and used this tool to get them into PZ2 files, and then bringing those into DS to create the aniBlocks - which is a fine workflow. Very useful tool, it doesn't work for Triax rigging. But for recording any animations for any Poser-format models, this thing is incredibly powerful! 

• Exports Static Poser format Pose File (PZ2)
• Exports Animated Poser format Pose File (PZ2)
• Exports Poser compatible BioVision Animation File (BVH)
• Configurable Operation
  • Choose whether to include or exclude:
    • Overall Motion (global translation)
    • Joint Rotation
    • Morph Dial Settings
    • Joint Scaling (independent X, Y, and Z parameters)
  • Configure start and end frame range for animated poses

Pose Helper for Carrara - Again, unfortunately this doesn't work on Genesis or other Triax figures - but I LOVE this tool! So nice to be able to swap pose directions > send left to right, right to left, along with everything else that it does. Being that I still enjoy using Generation 4 and other Poser Format figures (also works with native figures, primitives, etc.,) I find myself using this handy device quite a lot.

•  Left / Right Pose Symmetry based on scene element names
• Morph Zeroing
• Pose Zeroing
• Rotation Setting
• Scale Zeroing
• Scale Setting
• General Scene Option Setting
•  
• Full undo/redo support
• Works on content, native figures, and groups of primitives
• Works across multiple figures and groups

​Carrara Enhanced Remote Control - Here we go! This bad boy is truly amazing! Faba (fabaone at ShareCG) has some very helpful tutorials and helper (controler) objects at ShareCG, and PhilW teaches us how to use this to let one aileron of an Biplane model control all the other ailerons and the wires that connect them! Really cool! That's in his Advanced Carrara Techniques course via Infinite Skills.

This tool is best explained by the creator himself:

Details

Control a Value
..... With a Value
.........From any object in your scene!
The Enhanced Remote Control suite is a set of behavior modifiers and scene commands that work together to add much needed functionality and control to your animation workflow. It provides the basic functionality of Poser's ERC for creating joint-controlled movement within Carrara. But it also provides so much more, giving you the building blocks to rapidly create advanced, realistic animation.
Control them all: Shaders, light values, position, rotation, morph settings - even other modifiers!

Contains

• Commands
• • Add ERC Modifier
  • Create ERC Chain
  • Add Pin Modifier
  • Delete Keyframes
  • Remove Duplicate Keyframes
  • Jitter Keyframes
  • Change Morph Limits
  • Property Explorer
• Modifiers
• • Pin
  • ERC

 

Features

• Add ERC Modifier and Add Pin Modifier allow you to add the modifiers to the joints of imported Poser figures, which are otherwise locked out of having 3rd party modifiers added.
• Create ERC Chain allows you to create a chain of basic ERC modifiers. The objects in the chain do not have to be children in the tree!
• Delete Keyframes gives you the ability to do a “deep delete” of all of the current keyframes for an object. Set the scene time to the keyframe to be deleted, and select one or more objects to clear. You will be presented with a choice of “Selected Figure” (the default), where every item in each selected animation group will have the current keyframe cleared. “Selected and Children” where only the selected subtrees will be cleared, and “Selected Only”, where only the topmost selected items will be cleared.
• Remove Duplicate Keyframes analyzes the timelines of the selected items. Any keyframe that is identical to both the preceeding and following frames will be deleted. You will be presented with a choice of “Selected Figure” (the default), where every item in each selected animation group will have the current keyframe cleared. “Selected and Children” where only the selected subtrees will be cleared, and “Selected Only”, where only the topmost selected items will be cleared.
• Jitter Keyframes operates on the currently selected keyframes. They will be randomly moved forward or back in time within the limits specified, adding realism to your animation.
• Change Morph Limits allows you to select a morph target and change the minimum and maximum allowed levels. Use this to stop the irritating “snap-back” behavior of morphs on imported Poser content when you attempt to enter a number that is out of range.
• The Property Explorer is there because sometimes it can be difficult to guess what you are trying to do with the ERC modifier. The Property Explorer can help guide you by showing you a list that contains the same set of properties as are available in the ERC setup. Clicking on a property will display its current value, and you have the ability to set a new value by entering it in the “New Value” box and clicking “Update”.
• The Pin Modifier attempts to fix the location of an item in XYZ space. It cannot override the motion of parent items, so it is a best-effort lock rather than an absolute one.
• The Enhanced Remote Control Modifier is the main feature of the product. It allows you to drive any animateable parameter using another parameter as the controller. It is philosophically similar to the ERC facility in Poser, but it is far more powerful. The Carrara ERC modifier can accept any object in your scene as the source of the controller: other figures, lights, cameras, helpers – allowing for limitless combinations. You can even set up your own animation UI with helper objects! and Create dynamic special effects!
  In addition to the normal value operations, it also provides:
  • Late Start: you do not have to start the control at keyframe zero! Specify your starting time.
  • Cut Off: you do not have to try to work around the control for your entire scene – make it stop when you want it to!
  • Delay: Similar to late start, Delay prevents the control from happening for a given number of keyframes. Unlike late start, Delay remembers what should have happened and plays it back!This is quite simply indispensable for realistic animation of tails, ropes, and chains!
  • Decay: you can cause the control to decay over time, becoming less and less.
  • Grow: you can cause the control to be amplified over time, getting larger and larger.
  • Oscillate: you can set the amount of the control to oscillate over time
• Absolute Mode: In absolute mode, the value of the control is used at the point in time it is needed, and the value being controlled is directly modified. The figure being controlled should start at zero pose for best results.
• Relative Mode: In relative mode, the difference in the value of the control from the value it had when the ERC modifier first started working to the value at the current time is used, rather than the exact value. This allows you to do some manual posing of the figure being controlled
• Name That Modifier: You can specify a title for the ERC Modifier, overriding the default of “ERC” so that you can easily keep track of which is which after you have added multiple copies of the ERC modifier to the same object.

This is one of those that I really need to practice using more! This thing is awesome! 

Pose and Shading Tools 2 - Again... I need to sit down and play with these. I bought this because I know that I will love using these systems, I just have to take the time to dig in and try them! 

• Pose Transfer Command The main feature, this command will copy rotation, scaling, and transform between different characters. The copy is by joint name, so you can cross between Gen3, Gen4, Smith Micro, and even custom figures if they're named the same way. Copies morph settings between instances of the same character, too! Copies ANIMATION in both standard keyframe mode (faster) and "bake" mode which will capture Physics, ERC, motion path, and IK related movements. Additionally, it includes the ability to invert the value - great for mirroring movements. THERE IS NO UNDO!
•  
• Stack Tweener Ever wish you could oscillate along the bezier spline? This will let you! Stack up to six different sub-tweeners with configurable percentage weight for blending. Need more than six? Just stack in another stack!
•  
• Clear Timeline Command I gave you a "deep" delete with ERC, now here's its brother: Select a keyframe or tweener, and this command will clear out the entire timeline that it is sitting on. THERE IS NO UNDO!
•  
• TowardAway Shader Ever wanted to shade the two sides of a polygon different colors? With this simple shader, you can. White when the normal is pointing toward the camera, black when it is pointing away - this is great for simulating linings in clothing (which is nearly always one-sided).
•  
• Color Balance Shader Is that texture map just a tad on the green side? Colors too vibrant? Have a great prodecural stack that's just a bit too dim? This simple shader lets you adjust R, G, B, H, S, V values of the color result of a sub-shader.
•  
• Color Separation Shader So suppose you want just one channel out of the available color? This separation has two modes: pure, which will extract the red, green, or blue channels. And greyscale, which will give a greyscale representation of Red, Green, Blue, Alpha, Hue, Luminosity, and Saturation. Optionally adjust the brightness of the extracted layer, and even invert the value.
•  
• Color Merge Shader The opposite of Color Separation, this shader allows you to build a new color based on the input of four sub shaders - one for each channel (RGBA or HLSA)

MDD File Format for Carrara - This is the one Fenric Tool that I do not (yet) own.

Details

Lightwave Motion Designer Data (MDD) File Format Filter for Carrara

Bring Carrara fully into your animation work-flow!

This plugin provides both import and export support for the Lightwave Motion Designer/Point Oven (MDD) file format. MDD is rapidly emerging as an industry standard for animation data exchange between 3D applications by pairing a standard wavefront Object (OBJ) file with a frame-based description of the animation for that object.

This plugin opens the doors to animation by enabling Carrara to both import and export the OBJ/MDD file pairing.

What's Included and Features

Supported Platforms
Carrara 7: Windows, Macintosh
Carrara 8: Windows (32, 64), Macintosh (PPC, Intel32, Intel64)
Features
Export
Any object can be exported. On export, a pair of files will be created with the same name and different file extensions: an OBJ and an MDD. It will have material definitions, but no shading, grouping, or normals. Textures are not exported.
You may need to scale and/or rotate the resulting file in your destination application.
Import
Two files are required with the same name but different extensions: an OBJ and an MDD. The importer will import the OBJ, and will preserve materials but will remove any groups and normals. Textures are not imported. The MDD will be imported as a sequence of morphs, one per frame, and the importer will place keyframes to turn the morphs on and off. IMPORTANT: You need your default tweener set to "linear", or you must convert the tweeners to "linear" before using the animation. Otherwise, the animation will be badly distorted.
You may need to scale and/or rotate the figure to match your scene.
Also includes
- Presets to assist with import from/export to various popular 3D package
- Facility to save and load custom presets

      

Posing Pack 3 - Here it is! There was a discussion going on just the other day about changing the visibility of an entire hierarchy chain being a pain in the butt! This plugin (I totally forgot about that function) has that capability and a whole lot more! I use this thing CONSTANTLY!

This thing adds Tree Duplicate to the list of "Edit > Fenric" commands, which allows us to essentially duplicate things which cannot be duplicated! Instead of actual duplication, these Tree Duplicates are their own instances or separate figures, not the memory-saving instances we get from duplicated props and simple objects. But it makes it so we can get exact copies of - yes - Figures!!! So useful for vehicles, rigged building figures, even character figures. It basically (and quickly) pretends to add whatever is selected into the browser (without adding it to the browser) and drags it back into the scene - really fast! But wait... there's a lot more!

This also adds the aforementioned Unlock Figure and Restore Figure! Wanna add a custom morph zone into a locked figure? Unlock it - change it - Restore it! Yup!

We also get the Set Figure Visibility command which, as I've started this tool's description with, allows us to hide entire chains of hierarchy within a figure with a single click! I gotta tell John and Misty!!!

It also adds Change Rotation, which is a command which will go through the whole figure and change ALL of the joint rotations from Carrara's default Quaternion to Angles! So if you've ever loaded in a figure that ends up looking like it's tied in a knot as soon as you start working with it, you now know how to fix it! :)

Details

The Posing Toolkit 3 gives you the power you need to get your work done, unlocking and enabling a number of critical features that allow you to tap into the awesome potential of Carrara!

Have you ever set up the perfect background figure: clothes, hair, accessories, got everything all set and then remembered that Carrara just won't let you duplicate it? Oh, the menu option is there, teasing you - but it's disabled! The Replicator just won't cut it: you need individual poses! Enter the Tree Duplicator: duplicate anything and everything that can be selected in the scene tree!

You've got a nifty new bit of conforming clothing, but there aren't any morph areas! Morphing a posed figure is great, but you need to be able to set the stuff up, right? The new Unlock Figure command opens up the power locked away behind those greyed out menu options. (And you can put things back to the way Carrara expects with the Restore Figure command)

Sometimes, you've just got to hide things! But clicking the awkwardly-located "Visible" checkbox on imported content can be a chore. Just imagine hiding a hand with the fingers... oy! The new Set Figure Visibility command will do the hard work for you, activating or deactivating an entire chain of body parts with the click of a button.

Do rotation options have your custom figures spinning around? Or are Carrara's defaults turning your people into pretzels? Carrara's default "Quarternion" controller is powerful, but also incompatible with just about everything. The Change Rotation command comes to the rescue, changing everything from a single joint to an entire skeleton to the much more compatible "Angles" controller.

What's Included and Features

• Five new scene commands
  • Tree Duplicator
  • Unlock Figure
  • Restore Figure
  • Change Rotation
  • Set Figure Visibility

If you're wondering about any of these, please ask! I may know what you need to know - if not, I might be able to find out ;)

Fenric's Tools

I am putting some of these tools to Constant use, while others I still need to explore more - as with many things in Carrara, both things that are included in Carrara Pro as well as after-market supplements. All in all, however, when I was going from laptop to desktop to my home-built workstation I ended up reinstalling Carrara a few times and, each time, if I tried messing around in Carrara before installing my Fenric tools, Carrara just didn't feel right. Fenric has certainly played a huge role in helping me to achieve my goals.

Shader Power Tools - is a combination of many of the tools he sold via his site at prices too low to be sold here at Daz 3d. Bundling them together makes for a beautiful pile of very useful Carrara utilities! It includes the following tools previously sold in his (now closed) store: 

• Shader Doctor
• Skin Doctor
• Advanced Shader Tweaker
• Multi-Shader Editor
• Layer Blending Shader
• Enhanced Color Balance Shader
• Enhanced Color Merge Shader

I use the Advanced Shader Tweaker quite often, but really have to spend some time to get to know and use the others in this pack. They're all very helpful, useful utilities - it just takes me breaking away from old habits and looking at new/different ways of looking at shaders.

BVH/PZ2 Exporter for Carrara - If this didn't exist, neither would my Swordworks for M4 or AnimationKit for Mil Dragon 2, since I made the animations in Carrara and used this tool to get them into PZ2 files, and then bringing those into DS to create the aniBlocks - which is a fine workflow. Very useful tool, it doesn't work for Triax rigging. But for recording any animations for any Poser-format models, this thing is incredibly powerful! 

• Exports Static Poser format Pose File (PZ2)
• Exports Animated Poser format Pose File (PZ2)
• Exports Poser compatible BioVision Animation File (BVH)
• Configurable Operation
  • Choose whether to include or exclude:
    • Overall Motion (global translation)
    • Joint Rotation
    • Morph Dial Settings
    • Joint Scaling (independent X, Y, and Z parameters)
  • Configure start and end frame range for animated poses

Pose Helper for Carrara - Again, unfortunately this doesn't work on Genesis or other Triax figures - but I LOVE this tool! So nice to be able to swap pose directions > send left to right, right to left, along with everything else that it does. Being that I still enjoy using Generation 4 and other Poser Format figures (also works with native figures, primitives, etc.,) I find myself using this handy device quite a lot.

•  Left / Right Pose Symmetry based on scene element names
• Morph Zeroing
• Pose Zeroing
• Rotation Setting
• Scale Zeroing
• Scale Setting
• General Scene Option Setting
•  
• Full undo/redo support
• Works on content, native figures, and groups of primitives
• Works across multiple figures and groups

​Carrara Enhanced Remote Control - Here we go! This bad boy is truly amazing! Faba (fabaone at ShareCG) has some very helpful tutorials and helper (controler) objects at ShareCG, and PhilW teaches us how to use this to let one aileron of an Biplane model control all the other ailerons and the wires that connect them! Really cool! That's in his Advanced Carrara Techniques course via Infinite Skills.

This tool is best explained by the creator himself:

Details

Control a Value
..... With a Value
.........From any object in your scene!
The Enhanced Remote Control suite is a set of behavior modifiers and scene commands that work together to add much needed functionality and control to your animation workflow. It provides the basic functionality of Poser's ERC for creating joint-controlled movement within Carrara. But it also provides so much more, giving you the building blocks to rapidly create advanced, realistic animation.
Control them all: Shaders, light values, position, rotation, morph settings - even other modifiers!

Contains

• Commands
• • Add ERC Modifier
  • Create ERC Chain
  • Add Pin Modifier
  • Delete Keyframes
  • Remove Duplicate Keyframes
  • Jitter Keyframes
  • Change Morph Limits
  • Property Explorer
• Modifiers
• • Pin
  • ERC

 

Features

• Add ERC Modifier and Add Pin Modifier allow you to add the modifiers to the joints of imported Poser figures, which are otherwise locked out of having 3rd party modifiers added.
• Create ERC Chain allows you to create a chain of basic ERC modifiers. The objects in the chain do not have to be children in the tree!
• Delete Keyframes gives you the ability to do a “deep delete” of all of the current keyframes for an object. Set the scene time to the keyframe to be deleted, and select one or more objects to clear. You will be presented with a choice of “Selected Figure” (the default), where every item in each selected animation group will have the current keyframe cleared. “Selected and Children” where only the selected subtrees will be cleared, and “Selected Only”, where only the topmost selected items will be cleared.
• Remove Duplicate Keyframes analyzes the timelines of the selected items. Any keyframe that is identical to both the preceeding and following frames will be deleted. You will be presented with a choice of “Selected Figure” (the default), where every item in each selected animation group will have the current keyframe cleared. “Selected and Children” where only the selected subtrees will be cleared, and “Selected Only”, where only the topmost selected items will be cleared.
• Jitter Keyframes operates on the currently selected keyframes. They will be randomly moved forward or back in time within the limits specified, adding realism to your animation.
• Change Morph Limits allows you to select a morph target and change the minimum and maximum allowed levels. Use this to stop the irritating “snap-back” behavior of morphs on imported Poser content when you attempt to enter a number that is out of range.
• The Property Explorer is there because sometimes it can be difficult to guess what you are trying to do with the ERC modifier. The Property Explorer can help guide you by showing you a list that contains the same set of properties as are available in the ERC setup. Clicking on a property will display its current value, and you have the ability to set a new value by entering it in the “New Value” box and clicking “Update”.
• The Pin Modifier attempts to fix the location of an item in XYZ space. It cannot override the motion of parent items, so it is a best-effort lock rather than an absolute one.
• The Enhanced Remote Control Modifier is the main feature of the product. It allows you to drive any animateable parameter using another parameter as the controller. It is philosophically similar to the ERC facility in Poser, but it is far more powerful. The Carrara ERC modifier can accept any object in your scene as the source of the controller: other figures, lights, cameras, helpers – allowing for limitless combinations. You can even set up your own animation UI with helper objects! and Create dynamic special effects!
  In addition to the normal value operations, it also provides:
  • Late Start: you do not have to start the control at keyframe zero! Specify your starting time.
  • Cut Off: you do not have to try to work around the control for your entire scene – make it stop when you want it to!
  • Delay: Similar to late start, Delay prevents the control from happening for a given number of keyframes. Unlike late start, Delay remembers what should have happened and plays it back!This is quite simply indispensable for realistic animation of tails, ropes, and chains!
  • Decay: you can cause the control to decay over time, becoming less and less.
  • Grow: you can cause the control to be amplified over time, getting larger and larger.
  • Oscillate: you can set the amount of the control to oscillate over time
• Absolute Mode: In absolute mode, the value of the control is used at the point in time it is needed, and the value being controlled is directly modified. The figure being controlled should start at zero pose for best results.
• Relative Mode: In relative mode, the difference in the value of the control from the value it had when the ERC modifier first started working to the value at the current time is used, rather than the exact value. This allows you to do some manual posing of the figure being controlled
• Name That Modifier: You can specify a title for the ERC Modifier, overriding the default of “ERC” so that you can easily keep track of which is which after you have added multiple copies of the ERC modifier to the same object.

This is one of those that I really need to practice using more! This thing is awesome! 

Pose and Shading Tools 2 - Again... I need to sit down and play with these. I bought this because I know that I will love using these systems, I just have to take the time to dig in and try them! 

• Pose Transfer Command The main feature, this command will copy rotation, scaling, and transform between different characters. The copy is by joint name, so you can cross between Gen3, Gen4, Smith Micro, and even custom figures if they're named the same way. Copies morph settings between instances of the same character, too! Copies ANIMATION in both standard keyframe mode (faster) and "bake" mode which will capture Physics, ERC, motion path, and IK related movements. Additionally, it includes the ability to invert the value - great for mirroring movements. THERE IS NO UNDO!
•  
• Stack Tweener Ever wish you could oscillate along the bezier spline? This will let you! Stack up to six different sub-tweeners with configurable percentage weight for blending. Need more than six? Just stack in another stack!
•  
• Clear Timeline Command I gave you a "deep" delete with ERC, now here's its brother: Select a keyframe or tweener, and this command will clear out the entire timeline that it is sitting on. THERE IS NO UNDO!
•  
• TowardAway Shader Ever wanted to shade the two sides of a polygon different colors? With this simple shader, you can. White when the normal is pointing toward the camera, black when it is pointing away - this is great for simulating linings in clothing (which is nearly always one-sided).
•  
• Color Balance Shader Is that texture map just a tad on the green side? Colors too vibrant? Have a great prodecural stack that's just a bit too dim? This simple shader lets you adjust R, G, B, H, S, V values of the color result of a sub-shader.
•  
• Color Separation Shader So suppose you want just one channel out of the available color? This separation has two modes: pure, which will extract the red, green, or blue channels. And greyscale, which will give a greyscale representation of Red, Green, Blue, Alpha, Hue, Luminosity, and Saturation. Optionally adjust the brightness of the extracted layer, and even invert the value.
•  
• Color Merge Shader The opposite of Color Separation, this shader allows you to build a new color based on the input of four sub shaders - one for each channel (RGBA or HLSA)

MDD File Format for Carrara - This is the one Fenric Tool that I do not (yet) own.

Details

Lightwave Motion Designer Data (MDD) File Format Filter for Carrara

Bring Carrara fully into your animation work-flow!

This plugin provides both import and export support for the Lightwave Motion Designer/Point Oven (MDD) file format. MDD is rapidly emerging as an industry standard for animation data exchange between 3D applications by pairing a standard wavefront Object (OBJ) file with a frame-based description of the animation for that object.

This plugin opens the doors to animation by enabling Carrara to both import and export the OBJ/MDD file pairing.

What's Included and Features

Supported Platforms
Carrara 7: Windows, Macintosh
Carrara 8: Windows (32, 64), Macintosh (PPC, Intel32, Intel64)
Features
Export
Any object can be exported. On export, a pair of files will be created with the same name and different file extensions: an OBJ and an MDD. It will have material definitions, but no shading, grouping, or normals. Textures are not exported.
You may need to scale and/or rotate the resulting file in your destination application.
Import
Two files are required with the same name but different extensions: an OBJ and an MDD. The importer will import the OBJ, and will preserve materials but will remove any groups and normals. Textures are not imported. The MDD will be imported as a sequence of morphs, one per frame, and the importer will place keyframes to turn the morphs on and off. IMPORTANT: You need your default tweener set to "linear", or you must convert the tweeners to "linear" before using the animation. Otherwise, the animation will be badly distorted.
You may need to scale and/or rotate the figure to match your scene.
Also includes
- Presets to assist with import from/export to various popular 3D package
- Facility to save and load custom presets

      

Posing Pack 3 - Here it is! There was a discussion going on just the other day about changing the visibility of an entire hierarchy chain being a pain in the butt! This plugin (I totally forgot about that function) has that capability and a whole lot more! I use this thing CONSTANTLY!

This thing adds Tree Duplicate to the list of "Edit > Fenric" commands, which allows us to essentially duplicate things which cannot be duplicated! Instead of actual duplication, these Tree Duplicates are their own instances or separate figures, not the memory-saving instances we get from duplicated props and simple objects. But it makes it so we can get exact copies of - yes - Figures!!! So useful for vehicles, rigged building figures, even character figures. It basically (and quickly) pretends to add whatever is selected into the browser (without adding it to the browser) and drags it back into the scene - really fast! But wait... there's a lot more!

This also adds the aforementioned Unlock Figure and Restore Figure! Wanna add a custom morph zone into a locked figure? Unlock it - change it - Restore it! Yup!

We also get the Set Figure Visibility command which, as I've started this tool's description with, allows us to hide entire chains of hierarchy within a figure with a single click! I gotta tell John and Misty!!!

It also adds Change Rotation, which is a command which will go through the whole figure and change ALL of the joint rotations from Carrara's default Quaternion to Angles! So if you've ever loaded in a figure that ends up looking like it's tied in a knot as soon as you start working with it, you now know how to fix it! :)

Details

The Posing Toolkit 3 gives you the power you need to get your work done, unlocking and enabling a number of critical features that allow you to tap into the awesome potential of Carrara!

Have you ever set up the perfect background figure: clothes, hair, accessories, got everything all set and then remembered that Carrara just won't let you duplicate it? Oh, the menu option is there, teasing you - but it's disabled! The Replicator just won't cut it: you need individual poses! Enter the Tree Duplicator: duplicate anything and everything that can be selected in the scene tree!

You've got a nifty new bit of conforming clothing, but there aren't any morph areas! Morphing a posed figure is great, but you need to be able to set the stuff up, right? The new Unlock Figure command opens up the power locked away behind those greyed out menu options. (And you can put things back to the way Carrara expects with the Restore Figure command)

Sometimes, you've just got to hide things! But clicking the awkwardly-located "Visible" checkbox on imported content can be a chore. Just imagine hiding a hand with the fingers... oy! The new Set Figure Visibility command will do the hard work for you, activating or deactivating an entire chain of body parts with the click of a button.

Do rotation options have your custom figures spinning around? Or are Carrara's defaults turning your people into pretzels? Carrara's default "Quarternion" controller is powerful, but also incompatible with just about everything. The Change Rotation command comes to the rescue, changing everything from a single joint to an entire skeleton to the much more compatible "Angles" controller.

What's Included and Features

• Five new scene commands
  • Tree Duplicator
  • Unlock Figure
  • Restore Figure
  • Change Rotation
  • Set Figure Visibility

If you're wondering about any of these, please ask! I may know what you need to know - if not, I might be able to find out ;)

EDIT: Hmmmm... this looks pretty useful, now that I see it. I'm going to copy this over to my Learning thread as well as the Carrara Information Manual thread ;)

Having some kind of issue. I installed genesis 2 male and female starter essentials, updated genx2 plugin, addon for genesis 2, and addon for genesis 3. Attempting to transfer V4 morphs to genesis 3 female. Here is the log I get

 

GenX - Transferring morphs.

Creating clone morph ...

Loading figure ...

R:/G3F Content/data/DAZ 3D/Genesis 3/Female/Genesis3Female.dsf

Creating intermediate clone morph ...

Loading figure ...

R:/My Library/data/DAZ 3D/Genesis 2/Female/Genesis2Female.dsf

Creating intermediate clone morph ...

Loading figure ...

Error loading figure.

Error creating intermediate morph from clone.

Error creating intermediate morph from clone.

Error creating morph from clone.

 

Richard: right, but I didn't mean saved scenes, I just meant in terms of updating the G3F one has loaded in Daz Studio. E.g., I remember someone recommending using a trick to "refresh" a loaded copy of G3F, i.e., to get a morph added to the asset hierarchy AFTER G3F was loaded to show up in DS. The trick was to load a character preset, then "undo" it; the character preset would force G3F to "refresh," i.e., force the new morph dial to show up, and it would remain after the character preset itself was undone. I was wanting some quicker way to "refresh" a loaded figure in this fashion. But it turns out, it didn't take long to hunt down the problem.

K, I've narrowed it down to a handful of JCM morphs that look like they were created by genx. Weird part is, they were in Morphs/Daz 3d/Base; I thought genx only put morphs into the GenX folder. I'd certainly prefer it that way. I'm definitely going to have to make sure not to transfer controller morphs willy-nilly with genx in the future.

Thank you. When saving the morph asset do I need to check mark anything but the name of the figure? Also where is in my library is this saved once I'm done?

One last thing, the dial shows up the parameters tab, but not the shaping tab. Is this correct?

Is there a quick way to "refresh" G3, so that morphs added into data/Daz 3d/Genesis 3/Female/Morphs show up in the copy of G3F that's loaded into a scene? I know loading a character will do this, but that's the opposite of "quick" IME. Something is wrong with my install of G3F; when I bend her shin, her knee develops this huge divot. I reinstalled G3F Starter Essentials and disabled every genx morph, no luck. Then I moved the entire Morphs folder up out of the Daz folder structure, and her knee is back to normal. I have a ton of morphs, so I'm going to need a way to quickly update G3F in a scene to check as I add morphs back in, if I don't want to go nuts in the process. Or some other method altogether, if anybody has any suggestions.

Thanks for explaining the breast morph, Thorne.

...would the Chest Adjustments from Growing Up work?

I've had poor luck with that. My guess is you'd either have to make your own custom morph or fix any clothing issues afterwards.

Old Julie was great - a default morph with a flat chest and then 4 different breast morphs - very easy to use the character shape to make a variety of younger or older characters.

Thanks for explaining the breast morph, Thorne.

...would the Chest Adjustments from Growing Up work?

So this makes 'working with Carrara' a really powerful workflow if we want to make things for Genesis 1, 2, 3 or even earlier generations, which may also benefit from using Carrara > Daz Studio via Morph Loader Pro

Say we want to make a shirt. So we model it around the base Genesis figure. We load it into Daz Studio (from an exported OBJ from Carrara) and use the Content Creation Tools to automagically rig it to work with Genesis. 

Now we dial up a character that we need to use, and the shirt doesn't seem to look the way we want it to. Perhaps it's too tight in some places, even if there's no poke-through, it just doesn't look how we want it to. No problem!

Go back to Carrara and load in Genesis, the shirt, and dial Genesis to the target shape. Now simply edit the shirt model to the exact shape we want it to be.

*** I've never actually tried this, but I've heard that, if we enter the "Animation" tab in the vertex modeler, we can work with a model which has been altered by a morph or a pose - or any combination of those. If that's true, we could save a bundle of time by using the conforming shirt that we've already fit to Genesis, tweak the auto-generated shape, and export the new shape! Again, Josh has videos that explain the DS end of things. He's excellent, and is also a Daz 3d dev!

Making JCMs for clothing has some added steps, as seen here

Without actually watching the above videos through, I can say that, in Carrara, we can do things MUCH differently with far LESS headaches! Gotta just LOVE Carrara!

First of all, we don't need to export a base resolution mesh as OBJ. As a matter of fact, we don't need to export anything from Daz Studio.

Instead, we just LOAD genesis into Carrara and work with it from there! This makes it immensely comfortable. It already loads default in Base Resolution at the model level, with a SubD Smoothing of 2 at the render level. 

So let's say that we need to make a Joint Controlled Morph (JCM) to correct something that gets messed up at a specific pose situation, or to create a shape that we wish to occur at that specific pose. We begin by watching the following video, so we know what to do within Daz Studio with the morph that we create - However, when Josh exports out of Daz Studio, we will instead just apply that same pose in Carrara. Then we conduct our mesh deformation within Carrara, using whatever means we want, and then export Genesis as an OBJ to be imported (just as Josh does) using Morph Loader Pro, and follow the rest of his directions... works like a charm!

Now, I said that we can use 'whatever means' in Carrara - that is still only a theory of mine - as I have only ever tried using the vertex modeler. But I'd imagine that any feature of Carrara that can deform the mesh, like a magnet, modifier, or whatever, might just export the OBJ deforemed... which is all we need. It would be fun to experiment with some of these other options - although I find the Vertex Modeler to be so incredibly easy - that's my goto tool! :)

If editing any of the Genesis figures is your fancy, I strongly suggest checking out Josh Darling's YouTube Channel!

Yeah, I've been eyeing Mary Jane by Second Circle - she looks STUNNING: https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/mary-jane-for-g3f/114752/      

She's on sale right now and I really want her. Sadly though, I'm pretty broke and don't think my hubby would let me get her. lol I really wish Second Circle sold her here, I could add her to my wish list and wait it out and I'd be sure it would go on sale again, probably even cheaper. As for Rendo, I have no idea how often their items go on sale so I wouldn't know if/when she'd be on sale again. Oh well, I don't even have Teen Josie 7 - so she probably doesn't look nearly that good without the base morph. lol Sour grapes and all that. :P

Solasylphid
 

"Jo-Jo" is a mixture of morphs on the Genesis 2 Female base, starting with the Girl 4 morph I created with GenX. Here's what I used

The Girl 4: about 71%
Coral Ears: 100%
Eruanna Base: 100%
Karynna: about 54%
Aiko 6 Head: about 11%
Youth Posture: 100% (from Growing Up)
Thin: about 30%
Bodybuilder: about 11%
Fitness: about 56%

Also, I had to adjust the jaw as it poked through the chin. And I used a number of breast morphs for smaller size without distortions and several morphs to increase her waistline.

(The "Solasylphid" race/species is something I made up, and plan on using in an upcoming book. For that reason, I've used the copyright notice on the gallery page.)

 

RE: eyes distortion and custom morphs.  Might be useful resources for a number of people.  I still haven't found the ne that I actually have in mind, so will follow up with that later.  Meanwhile, some good info below

Some Guides for morphing Genesis - might help when joint or feature out of alignment
1a - daz content guides
http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/userguide/creating_content/modeling/tutorials/pbms/start
and
1b - daz content guides
http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/userguide/creating_content/assembling/tutorials/custom_parameters/start

"By convention, Expression morphs are displayed on the Posing tab. These include morphs to adjust the positions of the eyes and lids, and morphs such as “Nose Wrinkle.” These are controls meant to be usable with any character."

2  Sickleyield (uses Blender)

3  Winterbrose

4  another morph with head distortion

5a forum discussion 1
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/6483/tutorial-creating-a-genesis-g2f-g2m-full-body-morph-for-daz-studio-pro-4-6-by-rkane-1/p1
5b forum discussion 2
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/1866/P45/#140176

Ha, the Daisy Dukes are so popular :D

I wonder why?  I was going to do something with the struggle pose, but had to try out the Daisy Dukes first. With this body morph and pose they didn't fit very well at first, but it could all be corrected with the provided morphs.

 

Thanks for a fun product!

A little cheeky perhaps?? LOL  You are welcome!

Yep so many character morphs and combinations it is hard to cover them all.  That is why I put in so many adjustment and fit morphs.

 

Can someone tell me the name of the dolly used for this package? Or perhaps the morph? It's the perfect character figure I've been looking for. Thanks in advance, Denise

This way works and I have used this method several times.: -

Apply your saved preset or create your custom character

Right-click on the Parameters pane and from the menu put it in Edit mode

Right-click in the group you want to contain the new controller and select Create New Property

Most of the options should be OK, you may want to adjust limits and the path,& give it a name

Right-click on your new property and select ERC Freeze - this should have the new property listed as the controller and the morphs used in your preset/character listed as the controlled properties if it looks OK click Accept.

Zero your character & test the controller assuming it works as expected set it to zero  and save (File>Save as>Support Assets>Morph Asset.)