lowelluk said:

DoctorJellybean said:

Pantros2 said:

Daz Save Guard is not compatible with Daz 4.24

DAZ 3D process was not found. Application will exit.

The photoshop bridge seems to have issues in DIM - the above error might be the photoshop bridge, but I think it is Save Guard.

SaveGuard is a 3rd party plugin, you'll need to submit a report so that it can be checked and reported to the PA.

Can we talk about the utter embarrasment of Daz being in development for 15 years and still lacking a feature so basic as an autosave or font resizing.

Auto save can lead to problems such as duplicate formulas, especially when saving an asset morph and and saving to scene in the same session. 
In fact, every software is in development. When they stop keeping it in development, that software is dead.

Can I ask for a clarification a point about the Merchant Resource terms for Fit Control? It is not entirely clear from the terms as presented in the User Guide as to whether the clothing item has to be for the officially supported base figure.

The resource rules state that it must be a clothing item, be for sale, be saved under a new morph name, and cannot be in a Fit Control directory. But while the specification section states that only Genesis 9 is supported, this is not clear whether this is intended as part of the usage conditions or a disclaimer about the product's default capabilties.

The reason I am asking is that I am developing clothing items that will (at least as an option) support the centaurs, and in many cases these have to be fitted to the centaur geograft rather than the main figure for technical reasons. But because they are then not directly fitted to the Genesis figure, the Fit Control script cannot/will not recognise them.

Particularly as people won't be able to load FC shapes themselves, I want to make sure I've got good adjustment support included. Some of that I'll have to do myself, some of that I want to do myself, but for some things (like supplying a wide range of breast adjustments) it doesn't make sense to reinvent the wheel when Fit Control already has options, and indeed, it's entirely possible to get the morphs on via Transfer Utility.

However, I would like to clarify whether it is legitimate to distribute Fit Control derivatives on clothing for things other than the Genesis base for that Fit Control version.

There's been somthing that's been bothering me for years. Whenever I used makeup on a model, she ends up looking like someone else. For instance, I often use the Face Transfer option and when I try using makeup, the end resuilts is a stranger. Lipstick, brow and mascara makeup is no problem. It'w when I try blush or whatever on the face. Is there a makeup product I can use to enhance my model and not turn them into someone else?

And another thing, when I don't like the results after saving it, is there a way to remove it?

Richard Haseltine said:

That sounds like a proeprty linked to the character is incorrectly affecting the feet - probably in a corrective morph for the left or right eye closed property. Try the minimum shape plus eye closed that you can find that triggers the issue, then in the parametrs pane enable option menu>Preferences>Show Hidden Properties (that's the lined/hamburger button in the top corner, or right-click the tab). The go through Currently used looking at the greyed out sliiders - those will be the corrective morphs - and try zeroing each in turn until you find the guilty party. Now, the question will be whether it is an HD orph or a standard morph - in the latter case it should be fixable, but try identifying the actual property involved first.

thanks, Buddy. I'll go through these steps and see if I can solve it! Thanks!

Okay, I played around a bit and while it's definitely not perfect, it's something. I played around a fair bit with getting different layers to work together but I had a hard time getting them all to mesh together. I ended up going with a dForce Wrap Dress for Genesis 8 Female(s) | Daz 3D and using a different texture. I used a geoshell underneath so that the top wasn't actually open, but there's still a wrap effect. The dress comes with a nice fit adjust morph that, if I set to max, makes it more baggy/lose when I dforce (and come to think of it, I could probably remove the limits and go even further with this). The cape thing at the top (which I might need to fix some of the texture on) is from dForce Empiric for Genesis 8 Males | Daz 3D . Then I added a belt with a pouch from dForce Medieval Barmaid for Genesis 8 Female(s) | Daz 3D . It's definitely not perfect or an exact match, but it matches the general style I think, it's got an asymmetrical hemline, a similar ish little cape like thing, and it's a lot easier to work with than what I was originally playing around with. I think there's still more I might want to do with some of the textures, but this is passable for now! Especially when it's just for me doing random fanart of my own characters. 

Edit: Ugh, the forums seem to be doing that thing again where they don't let you upload images. I'll check back here later and see if I can fix it.

Couldn't get the image to work for longer than 5 minutes (grrr) so I broke down and just posted it to my gallery: Mage Robes Creation | Daz 3D

That sounds like a proeprty linked to the character is incorrectly affecting the feet - probably in a corrective morph for the left or right eye closed property. Try the minimum shape plus eye closed that you can find that triggers the issue, then in the parametrs pane enable option menu>Preferences>Show Hidden Properties (that's the lined/hamburger button in the top corner, or right-click the tab). The go through Currently used looking at the greyed out sliiders - those will be the corrective morphs - and try zeroing each in turn until you find the guilty party. Now, the question will be whether it is an HD orph or a standard morph - in the latter case it should be fixable, but try identifying the actual property involved first.

Richard Haseltine said:

You can't export an HD morph, so if you need detail that goes beyond what the  base shape allows then you need to bake that sculpt to normlas or displacement.

Sorry im really new to these, what do you mean bake?

You can't export an HD morph, so if you need detail that goes beyond what the  base shape allows then you need to bake that sculpt to normlas or displacement.

It isn't possible to literaslly save a simulation, the best you can do is turn the current state into a morph and use that as a starting point for a new simulation - but that would almost certainly be noticeably  gliitchy as it would lose all the information about energy and momentum from the earlier steps, it would just be starting from rest in the new shape.

Hey folks,

So I've got a massive (thousands) library of animations I've made for G8.  I'm trying to formulate a gameplan for converting them to G9 using the tools I currently have.

I've got a couple of good ideas to start, but there's a ??? at some point in each.
I've got Universal Pose Splitter (which doesn't handle G9 yet) and all of the Zev0 Pose/Batch Pose converters.

Zev0 doesn't work on animations from what I can tell, thus UPS.

1. UPS the animation to "custom list of frames" that is actually every frame so I get a G8 pose preset per frame and not a G8 animation preset.
2. Batch convert this group of G8 pose presets to G9 pose presets with Zev0
3. ???? Is there an easy way to load a series of pose presets as a series of keyframes other than "load 0...next frame, load 1...next frame, load 2..."

EDIT: The second option "just works" out of the box but...it's per pose with neither save nor batch functionality

1. n_alexandru's fantastic free pose converters which DO convert animations, but with no save/batch and I BELIEVE no way to handle pose morphs since most authors, even if they release the same product on multiple generations, change the names of the morph per generation
2. repeat until I'm old and grey

I don't have any of RiverSoftArt's bone minions, but it's on my list of things to do to use my own pose transfer scripts to convert them to G8F and possibly then onto G3F & G9.

Thank you for the vote of confidence in the poses.

Regards,

Richard.

ETA 1 July 2025: I've converted five of the poses to G8F, had to tweak a couple of the poses a little, and was able to change Pose 2 so the character's arm pointed straight up, G8F rigging seems better at the shoulder than G2 and the results look more realistic. Should be able to get Underwater 07 looking as I originally wanted too, with the arms straight out front ready for a breast-stroke arm movement.

well no idea if in right place but i just bought to day 3 of FPE Artisan Mask Okami for Genesis 8 and 9 and 2 an 2 other mask in same line up  , my problem is  i thought  these were morghable in way would fit non human face  if this not the case then i need get  money back , as thought i could morph each of maskinto ne mask reshaping into new form  but they doint seam to morgh cant see any diel mode  ,if there is way to doit simple  then i need help  but if not  then i bought pointless  items  , like if wanted make tengu bird warrios  the mask doint fallo the shape of the charecters , or werwolf   

Finally pulled everything together to nerd out and give my geeky character the Doctor Who fangirl cosplay she so richly deserves
New assets:

TARDIS: https://www.daz3d.com/historic-police-box

backdrop: https://www.daz3d.com/back-alley  (currently in Outlet for the lower tier; the gas mask graffiti was already there! Added the White Wolf off to the side as a decal node. Also hid some of the stuff on the side of the building because it was irrelevant visual clutter)
coat: https://www.daz3d.com/classic-trenchcoat-for-genesis-3-male-s (comes with a nice flare morph, had to parent to the jacket and then use geometry editor to hide some persistent pokethrough bits)

suit: https://www.daz3d.com/trading-floor-outfit-for-genesis-3-male-s (works remarkably well as long as you fit the jacket to the shirt)

sneakers: (not new, but for the sake of being complete) https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-capsule-wardrobe-01-for-genesis-9 with https://www.daz3d.com/capsule-wardrobe-01-texture-addon

Sonic screwdriver: freebie from Sketchfab

Imago said:

Ragazzuoli, qualcuno sa dirmi quali figure sono supportate nel sistema di transfer dei morph dell'Alpha? E' solo G8 a G9 o arriva anche un pò più indietro?

Nessuno sa rispondere al quesito? 

The bridge works well with the exception that it doesn't properly adjust the heel height.
While the conversion is happening, I notice that the figure gets "reset" back to a lower height. Once the transfer to UE5 is done, it sets it back up.
Sadly this results in the heels in UE5 sinking into the ground. Is there a way to "freeze" this before export?
 

Oh yeah. You should probably also save the character with the "Big Bella" morph in it to the library also.

This only deals with getting the clothing to fit your character in its default pose. Hermit Crab has already given tips for simulation.

For the fitting, the best thing to do is combine all those individual morphs into one single dial in V4, and then spawn that morph into the clothing. Here's a step by step:

1. Save your project before you continue. Then, with all your individual character morphs dialed in, and the figure in its DEFAULT ZERO POSE, choose Figure > Spawn Full Body Morph.

2. Assign a name to your character. In my example I named her Big Bella. 

3. After you name the character, verify that the morph appears in the BODY actor under the name you assigned. Then choose Figure > Zero Figure. NOTE, this will set all of the individual morphs to zero (which is what you want to do). So if you haven't previously saved the project do so before you zero it out.

4. Dial the individual "Big Bella" morph to 1. It should look exactly the same as the individual morphs you had dialed in, but now it's only one morph! Easy!

5. Conform your clothing to the character. This should be the base, unmorphed version from the library that fits default V4. Just drag and drop from library to conform to your figure.

6. With the clothing selected, choose Figure > Copy Morph From. Select V4 if it isn't automatically selected.

7. Deselect ALL MORPHS in the dialog, and then make sure ONLY your "Big Bella" (or whatever you want to name it) is selected. Then choose OK to copy that morph to the clothing.

8. With the clothing selected, dial the "Big Bella" morph to 1. It SHOULD fit, for the most part.

9. If you need to touch up the morph some, go to the Parameters Palette, and click the right arrow next to your "Big Bella" morph in the clothing. Choose Edit Morph.

10. Use the Fitting Tools (not the fitting room) to touch the morphs up.  

11. With the BODY actor of the clothing selected, switch to the Properties tab. There will be a section called "When conforming." Check all the options. The "include morphs" option, especially, will cause the clothing to automatically follow whatever you have your "Big Bella" morph set to.  

12. Save your outfit to the library for future use. It's usually a good idea to save the clothing with all morphs turned off (set to zero).

Video link below (no sound)

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/uyhaiuas2oo4le7557gyo/Character-Clothing-Morph.mp4?rlkey=09pmo7vxz8d5nys0srokst0ce&st=pleeitsh&dl=0

jksafe said:

barbult said:

@jksafe Are you creating the morph and looking at the dialed in morph, or are you simulating and then changing tools, without creating a morph before changing tools? (Sorry if it seems like we keep asking the same thing over and over. It just seems like some step might be accidently missed.)

1. Add Beach Style Long Hair to the Genesis 9 figure.

2. Select the Geometry Selection Tool

3. Run a dForce simulation using dForce Archmage.

4. Select Beach Style Long Hair Strands and run Loop Master

5. Swttch from Geometry Selection Tool to any other one

6. See Screenshots in the post above

After step 4, the morph is there. Everything looks great. Then, I switch tools, and the issue I showed in the screenshots occurs.

The screenshots show the dialed in morph on frame 1 with 2 different tools selected.

I'm confused. I may misunderstand what you are trying to achieve.

1. Are you trying to create a single morph that represents the result of a hair simulation? You said "After Step 4, the morph is there." That implies to me that you created just one morph ("the morph"). I may be putting too much emphasis on the word "the" being singular.
2. Or are you trying to create a whole series of hair morphs that you can animate in a loop, like I did in my YouTube Autumn Bob Style Hair animation? Edited to add: After running Loop Master, i ran dForce Animator before switching tools, to generate the morphs for my animation. Maybe that is a step you are missing????

barbult said:

@jksafe Are you creating the morph and looking at the dialed in morph, or are you simulating and then changing tools, without creating a morph before changing tools? (Sorry if it seems like we keep asking the same thing over and over. It just seems like some step might be accidently missed.)

1. Add Beach Style Long Hair to the Genesis 9 figure.

2. Select the Geometry Selection Tool

3. Run a dForce simulation using dForce Archmage.

4. Select Beach Style Long Hair Strands and run Loop Master

5. Swttch from Geometry Selection Tool to any other one

6. See Screenshots in the post above

After step 4, the morph is there. Everything looks great. Then, I switch tools, and the issue I showed in the screenshots occurs.

The screenshots show the dialed in morph on frame 1 with 2 different tools selected.

@jksafe Are you creating the morph and looking at the dialed in morph, or are you simulating and then changing tools, without creating a morph before changing tools? (Sorry if it seems like we keep asking the same thing over and over. It just seems like some step might be accidently missed.)