Did you also apply your photograph as a texture to the morphed Genesis # in Daz Studio?

Which # of Genesis did you apply the morph to?

{by the by, there are no images appearing on your post. ? if you posted any or it's the infamous forum glitch?}

I've always loved the legacy animation collections of Reisormocap and GoFigure. There were a few that I didn't think I'd need, so now I'm happily buying those up as well, as I can, to complete my already massive collection.

Bone Minion is a real blessing! Conversions always worked fine for me, but Bone Minion odes such a great job with these more modern rigs with separate bend and twist bones... along with the brilliant job it does with Mixamo downloads after running 3D Universe's Body2Hip script... I'm just overjoyed with the professional motion capture results I'm getting with my new tools!!!

My webinar attendees were so awesome during the first session, and in the Digital Art Live Studio forum afterward, that I made a couple of Bonus Video Tutorials to send home with them for the second session - which was a lot of fun to do for them - even though it took the whole week to do! LOL

One of them is using the Generation 4 Pose Bone Minion to transfer the entire V4 Walk Construction Kit by GoFigure - start to finish, and the other was then to use MikeD's Icon Creator Pro to make thumbnails and tip icons for the whole collection. What a Blast! 

This was my homework I did between the two session of my own webinar LOL

And then, during that next session, I dug deep into it and showed how the whole thing was made. 

The face transfer one was fixed, maybe you still have it in cache.

But yes, the other two are wrong. Basically it seems that they forgot to change the tags and kept those from yesterday's banners.

4.22.0.10 (December 11, 2023)

• Face Transfer (Face Transfer & Face Transfer 2)
  • Extended progress reporting to be more informative about the work being performed
  • Updated inline help - i.e., tool tips
• FBX Exporter
  • Fixed an issue that caused the enabled/checked state of options that depend on the Format chosen (e.g., "Embed Textures (Binary Only)") to be incorrect/ignored during write operations

As crosswind says, if you disable the link from the morph to the joint centres (and possibly alignment) the pivot point may be offset within, or in the worst case completely outside, the morphed shape and as a result when you bend the joint the mesh will stretch out like taffy as it tries to bend centres on the wrong point.

Yes, it corrected some of the issues I was having from the 12/3 version. I haven't tried it on Genesis 8 yet. For me the 12/3 version had asymmetrical issues for the left and right sides of the face. The left side seemed to rotate on the Z axis no matter what face I was doing. The 12/8 version fixed that. Now we just need to fix the head scrunching, the ears, and under the jaw. I may have to go back to Genesis 8 and then transfer to Genesis 9.

I have noticed, that there is some update to Daz Studio Beta in DIM.

I am a bit afraid, if that update does not make something worse with Face Transfer 2.

Probably curiosity will make me push to install it anyway.

@GRFK DSGN Unlimited:

My procedure is just testing a lot of reference images

and choosing the ones, that gives satisfactory results in my eyes.

What I post here, there are a small collection of the trials, I have tested.

All my recent posts are made without any Genesis figure in the scene,

so Face Transfer 2 creates Genesis 9 automatically.

I only choose Female or Male.

PhilW said:

@Artini - you are doing a great job of demoing its capabilities!

Thanks a lot for the comments.

Face Transfer 2 is my go to place in Daz Studio, whenever I have a free time.

Mine don't seem to look that good. I've been doing mine on Genesis 9. The head seems to get squished down vertically. The ears get misshapen. And the top of the head has a slight egghead point to it. And under the chin is practically non-existent. My current fix is to flatten the top of the head and I've transferred the FTS long face morph to Genesis 9 to stretch the face out. And I've also used morphs for under the jaw line to tight it up some. I'd be curious to see what your procedure is to get yours to look so good. I did notice the interface now has a selection of Automatic, Genesis 9, and Genesis 8. I chose Genesis 9, because that was the figure I had in the scene. Should I have done Automatic instead?

There's no way of "batch process of ERC removal" as per the standard functions. You either remove sub-components from a Morph in Property Hierarchy or dial and export the needed morphs to OBJ files one by one and import them via Morph Loader Pro by batch. The latter won't destroy the morphs from the products... Daz Script can automate these process but I don't know if there's an existing script can do these...

I still don't understand why you need to do so... while I just suggest you not do so... and I could only give "clues" as what you want would be rather risky... and the risk will be all on yours. Backup your data folder beforehand.

There's a commercial thread for Xtransfer, maybe it can help you: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/341526/xtransfer-module-1-genesis-3-to-genesis-8-morph-converter-commercial/

Richard Haseltine said:

It may be hidden and 100% by design, for example so that some other properpty can be subtracted from it in another morph to give an inverted value. I suspect that making it 0 is actually going to break something elsewhere. Whata re its subcomponents, from the Parameter Settings dialogue, and what are its exact name and label?

Nothing broke - moving it to zero just brought it back to the base G9 body.  

I also noticed this, and I sincerely hope it's an error. If it indeed turns out to be free, it would be highly disappointing for those who purchased Face Transfer 2 during its pre-release beta debut.

Hi all, the main page states Face Transfer to be Free, but in my cart it shows the discounted price. Error? See attachment.

Figure's joints should follow morph change otherwise if you apply a pose, the figure's mesh or partial mesh may distort. That's why a morph has to be adjusted with rigging to shape then ERC Freezed.

If you want joints to "stay fixed", after importing the morph, don't do ERC Freeze, temporarily. For an existing morph, export it to OBJ and import OBJ as a new morph with Morph Loader Pro, with no ERC Freeze.

This is what I saw in the change log:

• Update to NVIDIA Iray 2023.1.0 beta (373000.714)

  • Minimum driver is 545.84 (R545) on Windows

• Changes merged into 4.22.0.10

DAZ Studio : Incremented build number to 4.22.1.29

But the change log description now posted for 4.22.0.10 doesn't say anything about an Iray change, so maybe that means that only part of 4.22.1.29 (excluding Iray) was merged to 4.22.0.10.The documentation appears to be inconsistent, to me.

Public Beta (4.22.0.10)

• Changes merged from 4.22.1.29

  • Source maintenance

  • Extended Face Transfer progress reporting to be more informative

• Changes merged from 4.22.1.30

  • Source maintenance

  • Updated Face Transfer inline help

  • Fixed an issue in the FBX Exporter that caused the enabled/checked state of options that depend on the Format chosen to be incorrect/ignored during write operations

    • e.g., “Embed Textures (Binary Only)”

DAZ Studio : Incremented build number to 4.22.0.10

barbult said:

paulawp (marahzen) said:

Unfortunately, I can't be sure what is potentially broken in 4.22 vs what is caused by not having everything available as normal in the beta. Sorry, I'm kind of a newbie - certainly with beta, which I have a week's experience using.

Are you still seeing ground shader differences between 4.21 and 4.22? I got that resolverd by properly installing the correct version of all the USX products.

It appears that the ground shader is OK. I created a new USXT scene in 4.21, rendered it and saved it, then opened it in 4.22 beta. The vegetation - cactus and desert scrub - didn't make the trip but the ground shaders look OK. (Many of my plugins aren't available over here in 4.22 beta, but I'm primarily just using it to test Face Transfer 2, so I wasn't worried about that.)

Almost done iRaying (?) mine - I need to look around and see if I can find whether anyone has actually charted the lighting setups used during the series (James Cawley probably has them ).
I retextured Sulu using "Lee for Genesis 8 Male" - it worked pretty well using 3DUK's morph.