I would suggest taking it case by case - most eye movements should not affect the hijab, so you'd probably zero those maps,, but some facial flexions (I'd guess cheeks and maybe forehead) would and should be supported by rigging or a morph or both.

Daz Studio will use autofollow, i.e. it will create a projected morph, based on the mroph(s) you have applied to your character.

Else you can create a specific morph for that character.

@DoctorJellybean - I don't plan on making a morph with Frank Sinatra's likeness in the near future. I have a list of 20 leading ladies and men (10 of each) in my mind that I plan to make and that is more than plenty. Afterwards, I'll take a nice break and then I was thinking of making a couple of "character" actors for G9 such as Peter Lorre, James Cagney and Edward G. Robnson. We'll see. Life has its own plans. 

Yes - at a basic level make the model, ideally around the base figure shape, import it as OBJ (use the same preset for exporting the figure as an OBJ for Blender and reimporting the finished clothing/hair, that way everything will be scaled and oriented correctly), then use Edit>Figure>Transfer Utility with the original figuer as the Source and the imported OBJ as the Target. That will be very basic, but for clothing that is closde to the skin or short hair it may be good enough - in many cases, though, you will then need to adjust the weightmaps that control hoiw the model responds to bends and add morphs linked to the ebnds to improve the look. You could also just apply a dForce Modifiers to the imported clothing and use a simulation to drape it.

You're using G2M.. G2M has no separate nose morph in the starter package. If you've installed some shaping products incl. nose morphs, you just filter by 'Nose', then you'll see them all, and the Group / Path they belong to will be highlighted.

Better show us a screenshot... but as a straight-forward suggest - :

- You better make a hair cap. You may refer to some SBH hair products. It's not difficult to make a scalp as it's just a geometry fitting on the head top with a Cutout Opacity map. Use a modeling software to make one, or adopt a scalp from a product and modify it to have a 'proper edge' aliging with your SBH. Import to DS and conform it to the figure with Transfer Utility. Finally make a proper Cutout Opacity map (or modify one) and asign to the scalp.

- There's no way to make a hair cap with SBH editor but you can use it to make a 'separate layer of hair' as the hair cap, with proper 'gradient length' and 'density', etc. That'll take some time... but the cons is : the more SBH layers you have in the veiwport, the more resource it'll consume and make your Viewport laggy when Preview PR Hairs...

OP must have it otherwise he could not open that plugin pane... The last time I used it was nearly 5 years ago... After transfer, you load G3M, in Parameters pane, there should be a group named 'Generation X' under 'Actor', all the transferred morph should be there. Could you find the baby's morph there?

Ps: Recommend a tutorial from COF if you've not seen it before - : https://www.sharecg.com/v/82334/view/3/Text-Entry-Tutorial/COF-GenX-Plugin-Tutorial

JustPlayNoName said:

Hello all,

I have not yet fully understood the concept of daz. It would be nice if someone could give me a link to an article or answers.

Does daz work like a lego set, where I have to buy several bundles to put something together?

Yes and no. Generally characters are sold as basically the naked figure with skin, eyebrows and eyelashes. Some may come with expressions for the face, most won't. Some may come with options for different ages of the same character (particularly Daz's own characters). Clothing, hairstyles, accessories and other character related items such as makeup, skin detail modifications such as freckles tend to be sold seperately. Morphs to change the body shape are also sold separately.

Sets, such as street scenes, buildings, landscapes, come complete as you see them. Same with vehicles, animals, etc. There are also tools for creating landscapes, scattering objects, optimising renders, you name it. Daz has it's own language (Daz Script) which isn't a million miles away from javascript if you're familiar with that but it's poorly documented.

If you can model in Blender you can make anything you're capable of, export to a format like .obj or .dae and import your creations. You can make whatever you want really. Making your own clothing is a long and complex topic; if you want to do it to a high standard it will take you some time to fully understand and master this aspect.

Are there any free bundles? I found some websites on google that offer free daz art. But is that legal? Or is it only allowed to buy from the original daz shop?

You can buy whatever you want from wherever you want, import whatever you want from free sites. There are no restrictions. Be aware that products from stores that don't check and validate Daz content may not work as you might want them to without a lot of additional effort. Most are fine. 

To what extent can I create a bundle myself? If I design a piece of clothing in blender. I have a static object, can I simply transfer this to daz? Daz has a lot of advantages, for example that the clothing adapts to the character, which my blender design wouldn't have automatically. Or do I need the right script for this, which I can apply to my work?

There isn't really any scripting as such involved. Studio will create that for you. However, there is a learning curve in understanding how clothing models are applied to figures. A quick Google search will show up many videos on YouTube that walk you through how to create clothing from scratch in Blender, Cinema 4D, Modo, Maya, Max, Zbrush, all the usual suspects. What most of us lack is the ability to create said clothing (!) so if you have this talent, you will be happy with Daz Studio.

There are bundles to buy in which you can morph the body. From a certain
repertoire, you can create your own character (at least in terms of shape) very freely?
So would it be enough to create a character with the right 3,4 bundles, similar to MakeHumans, and then transfer it to Blender and rig and create poses yourself?

Daz Studio's main function is to create. pose and render custom figures. I don't see the point of exporting this out to Blender unless you want to use the real-time renderer. You can create poses yourself by manipulating every joint in a skeleton yourself. Pose sets are also available to buy but they will need adjusting if you morph the character away from the base.

So how much do I really have to buy to finally create my own individual characters? Or is this simply not intended for this and you are supposed to buy and adopt entire art parts from other artists?

This one really is 'how long is a piece of string'. If you can create morphs yourself in Blender and import them into Daz (this too can be complex - many free tutorials available) you won't need to spend anything. If you can create hairstyles and clothing yourself, you won't need to buy anything. However, the Daz store often sells items ridiculously cheaply. Really, really cheap. Look every day - there will be something for a few dollars it would take you tens if not hundreds of hours to make yourself. So cheap that it would be pointless to spend a lot of hours making your own. If you want 'instant character' - you'll have to spend something. Pick your choices carefully and it won't be a lot.

This brings me to my last question, the legal use.
With all the bundles you can pay extra for licenses. If I buy the part, can I legally use the characters or objects in my game?
And if I don't buy the licenses but create my own character from a purchased bundle by bodymorphing and using my own material, for example. Can I then call it my art and use it legally free?

Yes, it's your art with no additional licenses needed as long as you don't use the actual 3D model in something like Unity or Unreal and rig it there. You'll need the interactive license for that. That useage is still really, really cheap compared to what you'd pay for a quality character in the Unity Asset Store or the Unreal Store. If you render in 2D, it's yours, you can use it in whatever you like, including commercial applications or games. For example, you can create (and we have) a complete point-and-click adventure in 2D using Daz and homebrew assets, some animations and, sadly this is the bit that puts it beyond the realm of the average hobbyist renderer, an indepth knowledge of something like Unity or Unreal and C sharp or C++.

I run a small company of 5 people. We make interactive adventure/mystery games using Daz (and a couple of other tools) on the Android and IOS stores. We make enough to support all of us very comfortably. People think of it as a hobbyist's tool but if you put the effort in, you can get successful commercial results out of it. There are people who do book covers, illustrations for books, comics, visual novels, games, all sorts of artwork.

Daz Studio is not a toy or a throwaway 'amateur's' package. It can be used like that but it offers so, so, so much more if you're prepared to learn.

Hope this helps :)

Do you have all the necessary add-ons? I'm happy to be corrected about this, but my understanding is that you need add-ons for all the intermediate steps to transfer from one generation to another.

Yes, she is lovely and why I kept my suggestions to the characters who most closely matched her people. Morph sliders can modify them further closer to reality.

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sazzyazzca said:

You may have to combine multiple hairs to get the look you're going for, and you may have to make parts of some hairs invisible. You may also need to use a utility to mirror a hair. I've done it several times, even with hair made for other figures. I just parent instead of fit to.

These ones either have some "springing out" type curls or are fairly curly. You'll have to check the promos and morph listings to see if they have what you're after.

https://www.daz3d.com/harlow-hair-2

https://www.daz3d.com/fane-hair-and-character-for-genesis-8-female-s

https://www.daz3d.com/calais-hair-and-ruff

https://www.daz3d.com/stella-hair-for-genesis-3-and-8-females

https://www.daz3d.com/julius-hair-for-genesis-2

https://www.daz3d.com/nesena-hair-for-genesis-3--8-females

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-romantic-curly-hair-for-genesis-8-and-81-females

https://www.daz3d.com/primavera-hair-with-dforce-for-genesis-8-females

https://www.daz3d.com/despoina-hair

https://www.daz3d.com/frovida-hair

https://www.daz3d.com/ursula-hair-for-genesis-3-8-and-81-females

https://www.daz3d.com/gloriana-hair-for-genesis-3-8-and-81-females

 

Oh thank you!
I had been mulling over the dForce Romantic Curly Hair for Genesis 8 and 8.1 Females, But it would have to be "Beehived" and not sure if it could be manipulated for that "OTT beauty queen" hair.
Ill try a few hair combos. I have a few of those so....
It may be worth a merchant thinking about making that Hair though, I could see it being popular in the "Pinup" group

yuyu.atem said:

Ok, I understand, thank you very much!

So, when a new model is created, specific sliders are created too? How do they create?

Reshape the mesh in a modelling/sculpting applciation without chnaging the resolution or adding/removing parts, then use edit>Figure to launch one of the Morph Loaders (usually Pro) and import the new OBJ, using the same preset as the original OBJ export so thats cale/axes line up correctly, as a new morph, Using GoZ avoids the Export/Import dialogues. PAs making content for the store can bring in morphs that work on higher resolution versions of the model, for HD morphs, but that isn't available to the rest of us.

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G9 Female Normal Make-Up - https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/93530/g9-female-normal-make-up

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CRP Standing Cute Poses 1-8 - https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/93477/crp-standing-cute-poses-1-8

Sunflowers HDRI - https://hdrihaven.com/hdri/?h=sunflowers

B&B Bedroom for Daz - https://sharecg.com/v/98910/favorite/21/DAZ-Studio/BB-Bedroom-for-DAZ

One Bedroom House (Loveseat) - https://www.sharecg.com/v/88378/related/21/DAZ-Studio/One-Bedroom-House-update

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Pink and white abstract painting (2) - https://unsplash.com/photos/O9SoTdFD1gA

Flowers and Hearts for Mothers Day Shaders (Wallpaper and Comforter) -  https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/flower-amp-heart-shader-set-for-mothers-day/85162

No Count:

Genesis 9 Expressions - https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-9-expressions

Sphere Primitive (Bubble)

Paid:

SY InvisiLights Iray - https://www.daz3d.com/sy-invisilights-iray

I tweaked the materials, the lights and the pose.  Set up and rendered within Daz Studio Iray.  Very minor Postwork in Pixelmator, mainly color corrections.

When I go into the shaping section, there is not a nose section, so I don't know how to control the morph of the nose:

You may have to combine multiple hairs to get the look you're going for, and you may have to make parts of some hairs invisible. You may also need to use a utility to mirror a hair. I've done it several times, even with hair made for other figures. I just parent instead of fit to.

These ones either have some "springing out" type curls or are fairly curly. You'll have to check the promos and morph listings to see if they have what you're after.

https://www.daz3d.com/harlow-hair-2

https://www.daz3d.com/fane-hair-and-character-for-genesis-8-female-s

https://www.daz3d.com/calais-hair-and-ruff

https://www.daz3d.com/stella-hair-for-genesis-3-and-8-females

https://www.daz3d.com/julius-hair-for-genesis-2

https://www.daz3d.com/nesena-hair-for-genesis-3--8-females

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-romantic-curly-hair-for-genesis-8-and-81-females

https://www.daz3d.com/primavera-hair-with-dforce-for-genesis-8-females

https://www.daz3d.com/despoina-hair

https://www.daz3d.com/frovida-hair

https://www.daz3d.com/ursula-hair-for-genesis-3-8-and-81-females

https://www.daz3d.com/gloriana-hair-for-genesis-3-8-and-81-females

Not sure of what you mean... but sliding a dial(s) of nose morph is a sort of 'control'... a nose morph is triggered by another dial is also a sort of 'control', so on and so forth. What is it that you want?

The geoshell acts as the bonnet. That is part of the hijab set.
https://prnt.sc/JoOAf3hA90fK
Anyway, I've found solution for the bonnet poke through, by adding the value of collision offest.
Richard's suggestion seems right regarding the poke through of the cloth.
My hijab previously of has collision layer of 1. My cloth has collision layer of 21 by default.
Probably that's what keep causing the poke through.
And maybe the added value of collision offset also help in this regard.
Poketrough no more

The hijab has implemented the morph to make it bigger to accomodate thick clothing.

This problem is solved.

I wish to modify Daz character with ZBrush. 

I know in ZBrush i should not add geometry, but i wish to make morphs and also i wish to modify the painting (with polypainting) in ZBrush.

I see documentation about making morphs with ZBrush, but i don't see if is possible transfer UVs from Daz to ZBrush, then modify the painting in ZBrush and return back to Daz Studio.

Not exactly... Normally a garment with dForce can well collide with other clothing underneath. For your hijab, you could make its initial shape a bit larger (or make a unique morph) as usually there are some other clothing under it. Just reserve some space for them to drape and collide.. There'll be rarely poke-thru after simulation even with default settings on dForce engine and dynamic surfaces.

Ps -: for such a simple dforce case other than smoothing collision, you don't need a geoshell, or a static dforce modifier...