Genesis 8 Female Loading Without Eyelash or Tears Mats
souji_monaru
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For some reason I can't get any G8F character to load from their native files without having to add them myself. All other textures are loaded fine except for the eyelashes and the tears (or moisture directly along the bottom eyelids). Never used to have this problem, though I haven't done anything special to the files or anything. Genesis 3 Females load fine, and they have the same file structure as my G8 setup.
I hope someone has an idea on how to make this work. The only way I have been able to remedy it is by loading textures and saving them as a character, but I don't know if this adds the eyelashes in the typical "Character Preset" setting or not.
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You are not alone, I get the same thing too; I'm hoping it's not a directory issue as I have mine perfectly consolidated the way I wanted. IE people/Genesis 8/Genesis 8 female; rather than people/Genesis 8+Genesis 8 female+genesis 8 male...
You aren't loading the Developer version of the figure, which is deliberately without the lashes? In Genesis 8 the lashes are a GeoGrafted figure, not part of the base mesh, but most character presets will load them.
So basically, it's up to us to fix manually and for every character what is a glaring oversight in the first place?
When you say G8 characters do you mean those sold here or sold at other stores/freebies, any sold here should work fine (unless the QA team have been sleeping on the job again), can't say the same for anywhere else though, got a bunch of freebies I'm going to have to rework as they don't load the eyelashes.
The problem is that DAZ changed how character presets are created when they launched G8, they added an extra option (see pic) to the character preset save window that by default isn't selected. That option calls a preload script that attaches the eyelashes to G8, it then loads and applies a hierarchical material preset to the eyelashes, has to be hierarchical otherwise it will be applied to G8 rather then the eyelashes.