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Ideal Beauty Shapes: Knees and Elbows for Genesis missing files and not working

DavidGBDavidGB Posts: 565
edited December 1969 in The Commons

(After a forum search, I posted about this on the end of another thread without noticing it was in the New users help forum. I think it's better here and with a thread title naming the product.)

I bought and installed Ideal Beauty Shapes: Knees and Elbows for Genesis last night, and have just been having first look at using it.

This product appears to be completely broken, due to the apparent absence of a number of needed files.

First (with Basic female applied), if I turn the CJSUseKnees and UseElbows to 100% and bend the forearms and shins, nothing happens, The correction morphs for this product do NOT apply.

With the Use… at 100% and the limbs bent, if I show hidden morphs and find the dials for the actual correction morphs for the knees and elbows I can MANUALLY dial up those morphs, and Genesis does morph accordingly, but it is not working automatically.

Working my way through:

1 I get a lengthy stack of errors noted in the log.txt on loading Genesis. There is one for each actual correction morph file in this package, each error being that the channel named in a formula in the file which the morph is supposed to link to cannot be found.

2 Looking in the parameters windows for the UseKnees and Use Elbows and the actual correction morphs, I note that there’s absolutely no sub-component/controller linkage between the morphs and the forearm and shin rotations. Consequently there’s no surprise the morphs aren’t applying on bending shin and forearm.

3 Examining the actual .dsf data files, their contents, and comparing with the log.txt error messages, it appears there are a bunch of files missing, those being the ones that presumably would connect to the joint rotations.

The formulae in the actual correction morph .dsf files contain linkages to CJSKneeBend 1 and 2, left and right morphs/channels, and CJSForeArmBend 1 and 2, left and right morphs/channels. These channels would presumably be linked to the shin and forearm rotations, so in turn the actual morphs would be activated as the shin and forearm are rotated. However, there are no such morph .dsf files in the product as downloaded, and all those error messages in the log.txt file on loading genesis are specifically errors for each actual correction morph that the appropriate CJSKneeBend and CJSForeArmBend the morph is supposed to link to cannot be found.

So, basically the product is useless as distributed, and the problem appears to be, as far as I can see, that a bunch of.dsf files are missing from the distribution from DAZ, those missing files being:

CJSForeArmBend1L.dsf
CJSForeArmBend2L.dsf
CJSForeArmBend1R.dsf
CJSForeArmBend2R.dsf
CJSKneeBend1L.dsf
CJSKneeBend2L.dsf
CJSKneeBend1R.dsf
CJSKneeBend2R.dsf

all of which should be in /data/DAZ 3D/Genesis/Base/Morphs/CJ-Studio/Ideal Beauty/ but all of which are missing.

Again, every actual correction morph contains a formula linking to one of those .dsf files listed above, but those .dsf files listed are not in the product download.

I hope this can be fixed quickly so the product can actually work.

Comments

  • BBlogoBBlogo Posts: 54
    edited December 1969

    Glad to see I'm not the one having problems with it. I get worse bendings when dialing the fixes.
    And after reading your post I also miss the files listed. Just redownloaded the zip installation file today and still the same :(

  • DavidGBDavidGB Posts: 565
    edited December 1969

    The PA posted in the other thread about this that he/she/they were looking into it and would produce an update ASAP. Unfortunately that probably means a delay while DAZ QA supposedly check the fix before it's released as an update to us mere customers.

    Mind you, seeing as DAZ QA let the completely broken original release through, I have no faith in the Q of their A, and would rather DAZ just put the update up as soon as they get it and let me check it rather than them.

  • CJ-StudioCJ-Studio Posts: 26
    edited December 1969

    Okay, fixed product is available in store.

  • DavidGBDavidGB Posts: 565
    edited December 1969

    Yes, I've redownloaded and installed, and it does now work. Nice results - especially good as I'm sticking with Genesis and not moving to Genesis 2 Female.

    Thanks.

    Any more of these on the way? While the Genesis shoulder bending is streets ahead of V4, it could still do with a bit of tweaking, for instance. :)

  • CJ-StudioCJ-Studio Posts: 26
    edited December 1969

    DavidGB

    I planning return to Genesis after finish G-2 current product.

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