So I guess it's up to me to mention the elephant in the room that these types of software don't actually work. For one, I haven't ever seen even a reasonably realistic rendition of a reconisable face by such, and for two, the human brain is so finely tuned to pick up on inperseptable nuences of facial recognition that one can not even hope to reproduce anything true-to-life from shoving a bit geomery around on a standardised base figure. And even if that was remotely possible, once the face was manipulated into an expression it would be even less recognisable as true and convincing. The best we can currently do is spending hundreds of hours in ZBrush sculpting a static face with originally made textures and no rigging like we see on CGSociety. And things will remain there for the foreseeable future because this software is simply not up the challenge it claims to be.

Agreed. It's why I rarely look for celebrity morphs or get excited about them even though I would love to have them.

I would have thought that with as long as this software has been out there (headshop, faceshop, etc), there would be at least a few commercial packages released based off this tech and there hasn't that I am aware of.

It works very well on Genesis 3 but not Stephanie 5...well not yet so far. Without doing much I pretty much re-produced a perfect model, Helen Flanagan.

In the picture she had heavy almost white makeup which I left.  The problem where the hair had been on the sides, I touched up with the Colour option.

...Well actually nothing happened with the Colour Tab, so I went into Materials and after a few seconds of playing around, using the tutorial I touched up the sides where the hair had been.

As I hadn't used the autodots which I like btw, in Daz, used my morphs to tidy up things, like her nose which was slighlty thinner IRL.

 It worked very well, I never had a previous version of Headshop and steered away from it due to previous reviews, so you may already know this. However  this looks good so far. If I could find where my screenshot went....the body colour I have not figured out yet.

I have attached a copy of my screen shot from inside Daz before rendering.

Hey Darth, can you report how well HeadShop 10 works once you get it going?

Works well enough just a bit of trouble with the textures and I see no options for ageing for Genesis 3.

Hey Darth, can you report how well HeadShop 10 works once you get it going?

Hi all

I've downloaded Headshop 10, where would I find the license key that I am being asked for on installation?

Many thanks

I just purchased HeadShop 9 at Daz3d.com and installed.

When I ran HeadShop 9 in the Daz studio 4.8(stable official, not beta) after loading Genesis 2, a popup window poped up, saying "No surface configuration has been recorded for this figure. Surface selection will need to be applied manually".

I clicked "OK" and HeadShop window came up.

Then I assigned a Morph/Texture name and selected "Face" and "Lips" in Surface selections, and "Head" in Geometry to morph settings, and click "Accept". (I read your manual)

Then again a popup window came up saying "HeadShop closed before it could creat the necessary files..."

I clicked OK, and the popup disappeared, and nothing happened.

Please let me know what to do.

Thank you in advance.

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I found the solution.

I updated "frame dot net"(through Windows update), and HeadShop is working normally.

I get exactly the same errors with Mac 9.2. I obviously don't have Windows Update nor can I find anything equivalent to 'Frame dot net'.

Well, I have 30 days to fix this I guess.

Does anyone have 9.2 Mac running on DAZ 4.9, El Capitan?

Well, it looks like the mono framework has done the right thing and moved its install path from /usr/bin (no software should EVER use that) to /usr/local/bin. This plugin however uses the post install script to symlink the corrected path to the old one that should not be used. El Capitan won't stand for that. Of course, you can disable System Integrity Protection to symlink mono but I'd rather not. I'm not that happy about having mono on my system in the first place but that I can live with. But software using /usr/bin? I'm very unlikely to accept that. The Headshop plugin needs to be updated to use /usr/local/bin/mono rather than /usr/bin/mono if that's what's going on. Is this a possiblity?

Update: I disabled SIP to see if the symlink in /usr/bin would solve the problem and it did. That's the only workaround until an update is made to use mono from /usr/local. If you do this don't skip turning SIP back on after running post-install. I've read posts by devs saying that as devs they need to turn it off. I disagree, I'm a dev and I want it on. I want to know what software is doing questionable things and I don't want to allow those things to happen unchecked.

I just purchased HeadShop 9 at Daz3d.com and installed.

When I ran HeadShop 9 in the Daz studio 4.8(stable official, not beta) after loading Genesis 2, a popup window poped up, saying "No surface configuration has been recorded for this figure. Surface selection will need to be applied manually".

I clicked "OK" and HeadShop window came up.

Then I assigned a Morph/Texture name and selected "Face" and "Lips" in Surface selections, and "Head" in Geometry to morph settings, and click "Accept". (I read your manual)

Then again a popup window came up saying "HeadShop closed before it could creat the necessary files..."

I clicked OK, and the popup disappeared, and nothing happened.

Please let me know what to do.

Thank you in advance.

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I found the solution.

I updated "frame dot net"(through Windows update), and HeadShop is working normally.

I get exactly the same errors with Mac 9.2. I obviously don't have Windows Update nor can I find anything equivalent to 'Frame dot net'.

Well, I have 30 days to fix this I guess.

Does anyone have 9.2 Mac running on DAZ 4.9, El Capitan?

The one that threw me was Headshop http://www.daz3d.com/headshop-10-win
Isn't that a store where people buy rolling papers, etc?
BTW, that Tropical outfit would be like wearing a big fishing lure with the chains and hanging jewelry for the belly button...

Any opinions yet of the new version ?

http://www.daz3d.com/headshop-10-win

Seriously, why only 2048x2048 resolution?

Release is scheduled for July 13 for both HeadSHop 10 WIN and HeadShop 10 WIN Upgrade (from HS 9).

Any word on headshop 10?

error message "Exception error in application..." "File name may not be zero". Ok. The HeadShop program window appears, on the left side a white area with diagonal red cross.

I have this same problem in 4.9

Brief advice to all HeadShop 9 users: if you have difficulty clicking on "Autodots", an easy fix is to change your screen resolution. Very high screen-resolutions may make it difficult to click on small dots. The solution: right-click on your desktop background and lower your screen resolution (for example from 1900x1200 to the next lower, like 1600x900). It will work.

In HeadShop 10 we made the dots larger, so it should work at any resolution.

Laslo

Cool 3D prints from HeadShop 10

just looked still got in my inbox the thanks for genesis 3 male support offer. BTW took advantage of the last deal and grabbed the bundle and couple other things doing a lot of pa flash sales building up to something maybe, Ivan is about to come out as is Urban Sprawl 3 so Stonemason teases actually read headshop 10 too thinking these and some others will be some massive promo sale wonder if creature creaor 3 coming of and horse 3 and cat/dog2 and Aiko 7

I also noticed that DAZ has HeadShop 9 WIN now on sale 51% off:-)

I did not see a response to the question of how much HeadShop 10 costs to those who have previous versions. Like If I bought 9 right now on sale, what happens when 10 releases? Is it a free upgrade?

I also noticed that DAZ has HeadShop 9 WIN now on sale 51% off:-)

Does Headshop change the shape of the mesh or just map photos as textures? (or both?).

Both. This one was made from Genesis 2 Male using HeadShop 10.

Does Headshop change the shape of the mesh or just map photos as textures? (or both?).