Anyone else having the problem of not being able to move the dots after using autodot? I've tried it on two completely different machines and am having the same problem. The first initial 3 dots on eyes and mouth can be moved fine but when it goes to the next screen and auto dots is pressed, the dots seem to lock up.

Superdog said:

I’ve upgraded to Headshop and read the manual but it doesn’t say whether I should uninstall Faceshop 8 before installing Headshop. Can I install Headshop without removing the previous version of Faceshop? If I have to remove Faceshop 8 how do I do this and which files do I need to remove? Thanks for your help!

The only file that needs to be removed (or renamed) is Faceshop.exe in the DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4/bin folder.
Best,
Laslo

I’ve upgraded to Headshop and read the manual but it doesn’t say whether I should uninstall Faceshop 8 before installing Headshop. Can I install Headshop without removing the previous version of Faceshop? If I have to remove Faceshop 8 how do I do this and which files do I need to remove? Thanks for your help!

For those who plan to buy HeadShop - no need to also buy HairShop, it is already included in HeadShop 9!
See pictures below.

Richard Haseltine said:

It is running on Windows 7 - both Jimbow and I are using it. This must be a conflict of some kind with something on your system, security software being the obvious suspect. Have you tried asking for help from the publisher's forum?

I just got back a reply from the owner actually ... and um, well let's just say the support team over here is better.
The situation is unresolved.
Conflicts ... well ? I am running Kaspersky but didn't notice it nabbing anything ... however it did a pretty big hold up on the CMS which I had told to run hoping D/S would find Headshop. It did not. Sigh ...

I have a few more ideas to wade through but anyways since I was and am having problems, thought people might like to be cautious before just buying the program [which was on sale] without trying it first and/or before uninstalling their old version "just in case" it doesn't work for them either. I am relatively confident that I am not the only one with a laptop trying to run some of these neat programs.

Thanks for the reply and the support offer - perhaps we can Skype indeed, but i am not so sure whether i should use the exchange screen option for privacy reasons... I am a journalist focussed on computer topics, so I have some "basic knowledge" :)

2. I updated .net framework, but that made no difference.
1. Both DAZ Studio and Head Shop are installed on C:, and there is enough space for temp files. But my DAZ Library is on another own drive - it's rather large :) Perhaps that is part of the problem - because there are certainly some file path errors. I tried to use the male Genesis 2 figure instead of the female - and voila, the error message "figure not found" did not appear. The process was unsucessful in the end with the same error message something like "Headshop was closed before it could perform the file operation" - but now I was a step further. It was evident that your program/script did not manage to copy the necessary files (fem.obj etc.) into the "model" directory when using the female genesis character. (In case of the male character it was sucessful...) So I copied the files which the "stand alone version" had produced earlier. And voila - no error message; I could process the auto dot and shape dot steps and saved the .obj-File. But unfortunately at the last step, the export back to DAZ was the same error message as given in the male version - no success.
But I have an .obj, which is not so bad at all (but it has no profile modification so far...) and which I can import in DAZ - it has obviously eyes, mouth, ears, but I have no idea how to get this on a genesis 2 body in exchange to the existing head :)

And you did not answer my second question from my former posting - is there indeed no way to to the profile shaping based on a profile photo? As I mentioned already - that would make no sense to me; if I have to do "freestyle modification" I could better use the dial morphs in DAZ.

OK, the issue is that HeadShop creates temp files at two given locations:
Location 1: Users/Username/AppData/Roaming/DAZ 3D/Studio4/temp/FaceShop
Location 2: Users/Public/Public Documents/My DAZ 3D Library/Runtime/FaceShop/fs

These are default locations and if the path is wrong, error may occur in the export back as the plugin won't find the temp file location.
My advice is to use DAZ original location for DAZ libraries. There is also the 30-day money back guaranty, no questions asked.

Regarding profile template picture: I understand the need for such by a small percentage of advanced users. This is something we will add in the next release.
Laslo

Abalone LLC said:

mgessat said:

Of course I would prefer if it would work... (Hi Laszlo... :) )

(By the way - of course I am working with the actual DAZ 4.8 version; Windows 7 64bit on a state-of-the-art-system :))

There are some caveats:
1. Both DAZ Studio and HeadShop need to be installed on the C: drive (HeadShop creates temp files on C).
2. I had one case where the net framework was not updated (DAZ 4.8 requires update).

My suggestion is:
Call me to figure out what causes the issue (650-302-0894). We can Skype and exchange screens too (skype name lasloves).

Thanks for the reply and the support offer - perhaps we can Skype indeed, but i am not so sure whether i should use the exchange screen option for privacy reasons... I am a journalist focussed on computer topics, so I have some "basic knowledge" :)

2. I updated .net framework, but that made no difference.
1. Both DAZ Studio and Head Shop are installed on C:, and there is enough space for temp files. But my DAZ Library is on another own drive - it's rather large :) Perhaps that is part of the problem - because there are certainly some file path errors. I tried to use the male Genesis 2 figure instead of the female - and voila, the error message "figure not found" did not appear. The process was unsucessful in the end with the same error message something like "Headshop was closed before it could perform the file operation" - but now I was a step further. It was evident that your program/script did not manage to copy the necessary files (fem.obj etc.) into the "model" directory when using the female genesis character. (In case of the male character it was sucessful...) So I copied the files which the "stand alone version" had produced earlier. And voila - no error message; I could process the auto dot and shape dot steps and saved the .obj-File. But unfortunately at the last step, the export back to DAZ was the same error message as given in the male version - no success.
But I have an .obj, which is not so bad at all (but it has no profile modification so far...) and which I can import in DAZ - it has obviously eyes, mouth, ears, but I have no idea how to get this on a genesis 2 body in exchange to the existing head :)

And you did not answer my second question from my former posting - is there indeed no way to to the profile shaping based on a profile photo? As I mentioned already - that would make no sense to me; if I have to do "freestyle modification" I could better use the dial morphs in DAZ.

Curved Design said:

Abalone LLC said:

Greybro said:

Abalone LLC said:

Testing it right now.
I suspect that as an official DAZ release it has no issues (was tested by DAZ as recently as 2 days ago).
I'll keep you updated.
Laslo

My purchase will be pending this resolution. I will say that the tutorials look great and it seems you are close to realizing such a long dreamed of "make myself in Poser" product. I hope you great success with this product.

OK, we definitely tested HeadShop 9 with the public release version of DAZ Studio 4.8.
It works fine:-)

Attention: Please make sure that DAZ Studio installs on the C: drive. We had a customer who had issues when installing on an other, auxiliary drive.

I have a Mac but I have also the Windows 10 beta running! If I buy the Windows version now... When the Mac version eventually comes out do I have to pay the full price again to get it?

Not at all. Same key works on both Mac and WIN:-)

Abalone LLC said:

Greybro said:

Abalone LLC said:

Testing it right now.
I suspect that as an official DAZ release it has no issues (was tested by DAZ as recently as 2 days ago).
I'll keep you updated.
Laslo

My purchase will be pending this resolution. I will say that the tutorials look great and it seems you are close to realizing such a long dreamed of "make myself in Poser" product. I hope you great success with this product.

OK, we definitely tested HeadShop 9 with the public release version of DAZ Studio 4.8.
It works fine:-)

Attention: Please make sure that DAZ Studio installs on the C: drive. We had a customer who had issues when installing on an other, auxiliary drive.

I have a Mac but I have also the Windows 10 beta running! If I buy the Windows version now... When the Mac version eventually comes out do I have to pay the full price again to get it?

Greybro said:

Abalone LLC said:

Testing it right now.
I suspect that as an official DAZ release it has no issues (was tested by DAZ as recently as 2 days ago).
I'll keep you updated.
Laslo

My purchase will be pending this resolution. I will say that the tutorials look great and it seems you are close to realizing such a long dreamed of "make myself in Poser" product. I hope you great success with this product.

OK, we definitely tested HeadShop 9 with the public release version of DAZ Studio 4.8.
It works fine:-)

Attention: Please make sure that DAZ Studio installs on the C: drive. We had a customer who had issues when installing on an other, auxiliary drive.

mgessat said:

Of course I would prefer if it would work... (Hi Laszlo... :) )

(By the way - of course I am working with the actual DAZ 4.8 version; Windows 7 64bit on a state-of-the-art-system :))

There are some caveats:
1. Both DAZ Studio and HeadShop need to be installed on the C: drive (HeadShop creates temp files on C).
2. I had one case where the net framework was not updated (DAZ 4.8 requires update).

My suggestion is:
Call me to figure out what causes the issue (650-302-0894). We can Skype and exchange screens too (skype name lasloves).

kissbass said:

Excuse me.

Will you sell the "HeadShop 9 Upgrade (from FaceShop 8)" at DAZ3D.com?

Or, Are you sure that you want to sell it on your site only?

Thanks.

I was waiting for this product since the announcement in February and I purchased it today. I admit I was sceptical because the "solutions" so far were not very convincing... To be honest - they did not work...

My first impressions now are unfortunately a bit "mixed" :) I started with the stand-alone icon/program on the desktop. My first irritation - is there no way to load a profil photo to setup the profil modification? This is the common standard in poser and in all products which tried to deal with the "photo-to-3D"-task in the past - I have no idea how I could manage to setup the profil line without the photo reference... Perhaps I overlooked something?

Anyway - I did a first experiment with only the frontal view and saved/exported the result as *.obj

Then I started the plugin in DAZ as it is described in the manual - when I selected "load existing *.obj" and selected the *.obj I produced before I got the error message: "The selected *.obj-File was not created by HeadShop. Using this file may still work, but it is highly recommended to use .obj files created in HeadShop." Aha.

Then I have to select a texture map - I select the one which was created before. Error message "One or more of the files had no effect." / "An unexpected error orrured while creating this morph." Aha. Finito. End of show.

Another try. I select "Create New HeadShop OBJ." I select a *jpg source, a new directory. Error message "DAZ model not found." OK. The photo appears. I select "Female" - Button "Next" - 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. Fine. If I try to load the *.hds file I produced in the beginning another "exception error".

That's not bad for a product which costs 70 $... :) Fortunately I can give it back within 30 days :)

Of course I would prefer if it would work... (Hi Laszlo... :) )

(By the way - of course I am working with the actual DAZ 4.8 version; Windows 7 64bit on a state-of-the-art-system :))

Abalone LLC said:

HeadShop 9 was tested and runs on Studio 4.7.
Studio 4.8 is not officially released and so still has a different file structure, which will not work with HeadShop.

Actually, Studio 4.8 is no longer in Beta. It was officially released about a week ago.and is the only version of Studio 4 now shipping.. Studio 4.7 is no longer available even for those of us who previously had it and upgraded.
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/56756/

Will HeadShop be updated for Studio 4.8 in the near future?

HeadShop 9 was tested and runs on Studio 4.7.
Studio 4.8 beta has a different file structure, which will not work with HeadShop.

If you have issues with Studio 4.8 Released, there's a fix suggested by a reader:

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

HeadShop 9 is finally shipping at the the DAZ store - complete with DAZ Install Manager installer.

It also features HairShop included: use and fashion hairs within HeadShop!

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.

=======================

I found the solution.

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

Marty01 said:

Release Date? Mac Version? Upgrade Pricing? Thanks!

Happy that this finally came out!

http://www.daz3d.com/headshop-9

Is the current version of Headshop 9 compatible with DAZ 4.8?

If not, when is a version coming that is DAZ 4.8 compatible?

Excuse me.

Will you sell the "HeadShop 9 Upgrade (from FaceShop 8)" at DAZ3D.com?

Or, Are you sure that you want to sell it on your site only?

http://www.abalonellc.com/headshop-9-upgrade-from-faceshop98.html

Thank you.

I've upgraded to Headshop and read the manual but it doesn't say whether I should uninstall Faceshop 8 before installing Headshop. Can I install Headshop without removing the previous version of Faceshop? If I have to remove Faceshop 8 how do I do this and which files do I need to remove? Thanks for your help!