M SubDragon expansion not working

info_83d3d27fdd

Hello, so after I bought the Millennium SubDragon for DS, I purchased the expansion with the different face morphs. They only show up in the right side content library and they don't do anything. A little window pops up for a fraction of a second saying Importing, but nothing happens. Whats going on here?

-Kenny

SpottedKitty

If they don't show up in Smart Content, this item probably has not been updated yet to use Smart Content. Remember, Smart Content is quite new and all the SubDragon models, textures, expansions etc. are not — also remember that DAZ is not finished updating the entire store for Smart Content. The SubDragon LE that comes as part of the starter content does have Smart Content capability, the full not-free version for sale in the store and its add-ons don't (this is definite, I just checked).

As for the "not doing anything", what happens when you click on a morph like this is a dial is added to the figure that lets you set the morph value (for face morphs you usually need to select the head to find the dial, although I don't know what the arrangement is for critters like the SubDragon). Think about it: if clicking on a morph does nothing but apply it at full strength — how could you turn it off, or apply it only a little bit, or add more morphs without doubling up the face morphs? Very quickly you'd have a Frankenstein-like mess.

info_83d3d27fdd

Yeah that makes sense thanks. How exactly do I find the morph that I added? I go to morphs for his head in shaping, but when I double click an expansion morph on the right panel, I still don't see anything happen in the shaping panel.

Jaderail

Older morphs Might only list in the Parameters Tab, they were not set up to load in the Shaping Tab.

info_83d3d27fdd

So I click on the dragon's head, then go to content library, find the morph I want, like rem wolfbane, double click that, window loads it, then I go to parameters, but I don't see anything there about wolfbane.

Jaderail

Rem is Remove the Morph Inj is Inject the morph.

SpottedKitty

The SubDragon was one of the figures that used what's called ExP morphs — also used in V4 and M4 — which needed an initialisation script before you could use the newly installed morphs. Did you use an .exe installer, or DIM, or manual extraction from a .zip to install the expansion?

fixmypcmike

As SpottedKitty notes, if you install using an installer or DIM, then the initialization is done for you. If you extracted the zip manually you need to go to "Runtime:Libraries:!DAZ" and run the DzCreateExPFiles-SubDrgn.bat (.command for Mac).