tj_1ca9500b said:

Do we have a Volodymyr Zelenskyy celeb lookalike yet?

Fairly certain the answer is no... but, people (on social media) have already cast Jeremy Renner to play him should there be a movie. I believe Magnus1781 did a Renner head morph... might be a good start? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

McGuiver said:

Wendy,

so it sounds like I can't make the bone movements into something "like" a morph target, where I would have a dial named grasp that would move all the fingers and thumb into a grasp at once.

i will use your suggestion of shift selecting. Thanks!

Steve,

What I gather is that if they are imported in Poser format, they will retain their bones and morphs in Carrara?

 

depending on the figure, some have pose controls, if it is your own rigged figure you can create NLA clips with just those bones ticked to reuse 

to use NLA you need to create an animation group for your figure

Wendy,

so it sounds like I can't make the bone movements into something "like" a morph target, where I would have a dial named grasp that would move all the fingers and thumb into a grasp at once.

i will use your suggestion of shift selecting. Thanks!

Steve,

What I gather is that if they are imported in Poser format, they will retain their bones and morphs in Carrara?

 

I know there will be no definitive answer and you can say it's up to my skills in DAZ to make a character's smile natural. But after a couple of years, I found that some figures required tons of efforts to make her smile natural, if possible at all, while others are just as easy as fiddling with a couple of morph dials. Thus, I gotta ask this. What are your best Genesis 8 female models for natural smile?

jjoyner said:

jjoyner said:

Until about three weeks ago or so, I had the problem of DS taking 2 - 3 minutes to close out of Task Manager and be available to launch again.  I mostly play around with simple scenes with perhaps one figure. About three weeks ago, I noticed that DS was closing out in just several seconds.  I just loaded three base Genesis 8 figures and closed DS and it was gone from Task Manager in just a few seconds.

prixat said:

Is this different from staying in task manager permanently? That was happening to my install until the (free) Octane plugin was removed.

@prixat's post about Octane jogged my memory that it was three weeks ago that I purchased and installed Accelerator for UltraScenery and had problems with it crashing and freezing Das Studio.  After several posts and replies in another forum, the solution was to uninstall Octane and untick it as an installed plugin in Daz Studio.  That instantly cleared my problem with using Accelerator for UltraScenery but also coincides with Daz Studio no longer taking several minutes to clear from memory/Task Manager.

 

As soon as I decided that Octane was not for me, I uninstalled it and removed the plugin check-box tick. I still get slow shutdowns though so I might have a look at trying to find all those duplicate morph files. I know there are Windows find utilities that can discover duplicates by a varietry of comparison criteria.

Taoz said:

Certain poses can cause mesh distortions, at least with G8, but I don't know it that's the problem here.  

Here's a shot of "Currently Used" morphs from the non-HQ version of Lilith 6, I'm not seeing anything red/locked here, neither with Aiko 6.

I haven't got anything like that in my morph parameters section at all. 

I've added a screenshot of my Currently Used morphs with Lilith 6 loaded. There's something like 1440 of those red ctrlrig morphs in folders for Genesis, G2F, and G2M.

Genesis 3 and 8 are unaffected. 

Greetings, I recently learned how to export Genesis 8 as an obj and open it in Blender to make morphs. The problem I have many times is while sculpting the face/lips it somehow distorts the teeth and jaw that is behind the morph I produce, this causes major poke through when I use expressions. Since I'm also new to Blender, I can't seem to figure out for the life of me how to fix or modify the teeth since its hidden behind everything else. I want to also make teeth morphs in the future.
TL;DR - How do you isolate/Hide everything else in blender in order to work on the teeth? Also is there a way to sculpt the main body of G8 without touching the Teeth behind it? A way to freeze the geometry or something?

Not a sculpting tool, but  using the "Mesh>Merge>Collapse" (in Edit mode) selected pixels will not remove geometry, the number of pixels will remain the same. But the vertex order must be respected too, and collapsing pixels means no more pixels order.

Don't use the Collapse utility for a morph, you'll end with a "failed to create morph" message while using Morph loader pro.

Instead you can scale down the selected pixels to a very small value (ie .001), it will almost collapse the pixels but the vertex order will remain.

And here is the V shape morph I made for the Lincoln shirt's front collar, just extract the zip file to your Daz3d content folder.

Hello can someone help me please? Because I can't register to download the free morph pack. Registration is simply not possible.

I know the basic procedure to edit the G8F in Blender (exporting the G8F in its zeroed position, without any morphs, clothing or eyelashes; avoiding adding or removing geometry in Blender, using the Morph Loader Pro to load the changed file). I made a few simple tests and it worked fine. My question is: can I use any tool I want in Blender's sculpting toolbar except the ones that add or remove geometry, or do I need to take other precautions to avoid errors when loading the morph back at Daz? If so, which precautions? Thanks!

gitika1 said:

I take it that this does not work with older versions, such as 4.12?

 

Loading script: E:/Daz 3D Content/Scripts/Projection Morph Manager/Projection Morph Manager.dse

Failed to load script: E:/Daz 3D Content/Scripts/Projection Morph Manager/Projection Morph Manager.dse

 

It doesn't seem to, as I get the same error.  That's a big disappointment given that I've never seen any mention of a version limit and I can't think of any reason for one given that the manager works with all the Genesis line figures.  

Honestly, given how many DS users are now faced with the dilemna of either getting the new features or crippling the expensive graphic cards they bought specifically for rendering in Iray, I'm wondering if making add-ons that are dependent on the newer versions of DS may not be one too many straws on the digital camel's back.  I can't help but notice, for instance, that for the first time ever, DAZ isn't crowing about how popular their latest generation of figures is, with the new buzzword being "versatile" instead, while, weirdly, the write up on G8.1 on the Technology page under Figure Evolution doesn't even mention any of the new features of the G8.1s themselves, while the base G8 gets the accolades for being most versatile figure ever developed...  

McGyver said:

Years ago there was a goat related thread here at DAZ... and then in 2019 someone started another one...

The links to DAZable goats in the 2019 thread are all dead and the really old goat thread is lost to wherever the old DAZ forums were entombed.

The best I can offer is this: https://www.philosophersegg.com/shop/index.php?rt=product/product&product_id=125

The bundle is supposed to contain the morphs and textures to turn the old DAZ sheep into a goat.

I believe the original goat thread ended when Sparky released the above goat morph and everyone seemed satisfied with it.

(Please note that the bundle contains a lot of animal head morphs for M4, but the goat pack is meant for the DAZ sheep, to turn it into a goat)

I thought there was another DAZ/Poser goat, but I can't find it anywhere, so I probably hallucinated it.

Well, there's 3D Universe's cartoon goat, which is actually not that bad except for some proportion issues.  If someone with some skill did some morphs to make the proportions more realistic and added fiber hair, it could actually work fairly well. Has anyone ever asked 3DU about making a new version?  There's also the old Poser pygmy goat from SmithMIcro that Renderosity now offers for individual sale, but like so many of those old poser animals, it's not exactly great.    

McGyver said:

Years ago there was a goat related thread here at DAZ... and then in 2019 someone started another one...

The links to DAZable goats in the 2019 thread are all dead and the really old goat thread is lost to wherever the old DAZ forums were entombed.

The best I can offer is this: https://www.philosophersegg.com/shop/index.php?rt=product/product&product_id=125

The bundle is supposed to contain the morphs and textures to turn the old DAZ sheep into a goat.

I believe the original goat thread ended when Sparky released the above goat morph and everyone seemed satisfied with it.

(Please note that the bundle contains a lot of animal head morphs for M4, but the goat pack is meant for the DAZ sheep, to turn it into a goat)

I thought there was another DAZ/Poser goat, but I can't find it anywhere, so I probably hallucinated it.

EDITED TO ADD: I found this, but it's $30 and not that great looking...

https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/3d-model-goat-poser/780075

 

I doubt anyone wants or needs them, but because of that original goat thread I created a Goat Shack and some goat related accessories... they are very old and dated now, but they can be found in my ShareCG gallery by clicking on the banner beneath this post.

 

I've  actually seen those. I'm hoping for something more current. We had pigs and sheep recently, so a goat is not too much to wish for, I hope. And might as well chickens and turkeys, and a whole barnyard. 

I don't know if anyone else has come across this, but the Lilith 6 body morph on my computer isn't posing as it used to. Having said that, it's been a while since I've used Lilith 6.

The problem is that her arms wrinkle and crease around the shoulders (it looks like there's something living under her skin), and her arms are clipping her body (I've attached images, just incase I'm not explaining it well).

I've tried converting her, but the issue is being carried over to G8F.

I have no idea where to start when it comes to trying to correct this (if it can be corrected).

I'm trying to get back to using Studio, but all I seem to get is very frustrating hurdles being thrown in my way. :(

I'm using 4.16.

EDIT: Just tried uninstalling and reinstalling character/morphs, it hasn't made a difference.

barbult said:

Zevo has Skin Folds and Creases.

I, uh, apparently already purchased this. I guess it wasn't showing up because it requires activation. It gets me part of the way there.  The Fitness morph helps too.  Still would like to hear any other suggestions.  In the meantime, I've also spotted a morph set by SuperMassive over at the other place I might try once they have another store sale.

Thanks for the pointer.  This certainly helps <3

A lot of models don't have a lot of definition at the back.  Does anyone know of a set of morphs that would include some that give some more detail in the upper back?  Thinking of a touch of shoulderblade, for instance.  There's the Emaciated morph, which has some, but that changes the whole body and would require a whole bunch of other corrections.  HD morphs would be preferable, but I'm interested in any.

Thanks in advance.

Bejaymac said:

I'm using DS4.15, if you are using a newer version then those errors may have been altered, or worse hidden from the log.

What you have done has stopped the missing file warnings, and the product should now work. However you still have a product with a poorly done "parent" issue, that file needs to be found and either the product removed or fixed.

I couldn't find any other error in the log file of my DAZ 4.20. But I found the offending package by tracking what I installed recently. It was one of those free morph packages. After looking into those files and replacing that wrong string in every file, The error message was no more without the dummy folder. Thanks for your help and advice!

mambanegra said:

HLEET_3D said:

@RL_Media : thanks for the win11 feedback :)

I'll try this product : https://www.daz3d.com/turbo-loader-for-genesis-8-and-81

Maybe it will help me out with the long time opening my figures.

Thanks everyone for your help

Any luck? I considered this when it first came out, but I've moved my data to a separate, faster drive (don't have space on that drive for the entire runtime) and wasn't sure if it would work for me. 

Hello, I bought/tried it.
It's not bad but I ended up re-activating most of my morphs ... so I don't know if it will be good enough for you.
But when you deactivate most of the morph, it is effectivly faster to load your figure !  

It will be a little challenge to enable/disable the figure morph that you need for your specific scene (it will often ask you that you lack of some content when you load a scene without the morph that you need ... that's annoying !) ... that's why I ended up re-activating all the morph at the end.
To be honest, maybe you should wait for a sale on this one.  You will need some hours to get used to the scripts to activated for both : genesis male & genesis female (there are 2 scripts to handle for this matter).

Maybe if the developer of the script could have done something like : before loading scene or figure to force load the morph needed if thoses weren't checked as "to keep" instead of leaving the default error message of daz studio when the morph doesn't exists. That's a bit too manual in my opinion ; you don't want to hinder your creativity with bugs before even starting, you see what I mean ? :)

I take it that this does not work with older versions, such as 4.12?

 

Loading script: E:/Daz 3D Content/Scripts/Projection Morph Manager/Projection Morph Manager.dse

Failed to load script: E:/Daz 3D Content/Scripts/Projection Morph Manager/Projection Morph Manager.dse