creating a new character from an existing one

kurtmurphy1

How do you know which characters you've added to a Genesis 3 model? I want to take an older character Genesis 3 and match his look to an new Genesis 3 character. I DON'T simply want to duplicate it bacause certain features aren't loading correctly onto it. I've created a new Genesis 3 character and added the features that I want, but now I want to also add the character and parameters of the older Genesis 3 model on it.

But when I create a new Genesis 3 model, it seems to add every character that I've ever bought in the Parameters menu; and when I look at my old Genesis 3 model, it also has every character that I've ever bought. Some parameters on my old Genesis 3 model (pot belly, tough guy head) AREN'T in my new Genesis 3 parameters... How do I add those? I tried copying the 'tough guy head' but it simply copied the old pose.

So, simply put, how do I discern which character I'm using?

thank you...

Richard Haseltine

You don't, unless it's a single-morph character or a character with a master slider driving others (in which case the slider tells you). http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/metadata/list_products_used/start will tell you which products have been used, but it won't tell you which preset was applied to use them (of course in many isntances the textures will tell you, but not always and not if you've mixed materials from one with shaping from another).

When you load a native DS figure like a Genesis all of the morphs will be available as sliders - any that show on one figure but not the other are custom morphs created from dForms or by import through one of the Morph Loaders.

kurtmurphy1

Richard,

Thank you for responding and sorry, I’m really ignorant when it comes to this….

<<You don't, unless it's a single-morph character or a character with a master slider driving others (in which case the slider tells you).>>

What’s a single morph character? None of my characters seem to have a master slider, so I doubt that they are.

<< http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/metadata/list_products_used/start will tell you which products have been used, but it won't tell you which preset was applied to use them (of course in many instances the textures will tell you, but not always and not if you've mixed materials from one with shaping from another).>>

Is this something that I load separately? How do I use it?

<<When you load a native DS figure like a Genesis all of the morphs will be available as sliders>>

I THINK I understand…. By morphs do you also mean characters that I’ve downloaded? When I add a Genesis 3 male, all my various male characters that I’ve downloaded show up in the parameters menu, which really doesn’t make sense to me.

<<Any that show on one figure but not the other are custom morphs created from dForms or by import through one of the Morph Loaders.>>

Is there a way to find out where the morphs originate from?

How would I find where ‘tough guy head’ is? It’s on one Genesis 3 character, but not on another. Is there any way to copy it to my new Genesis 3 model? I tried copying and pasting, but it just pasted the model’s pose. I find this very confusing about Daz. I’ve searched the Content, but it doesn’t show up.

thank you!

Richard Haseltine

By single-morph character I meant somethign like Victoria 8, or indeed many characters in the store, where you will have a slider at 100% that does ll the shaping (or which drives other moprhs to do the shaping). In that case you can be fairly sure that the name on the slider is the character used.

Download the script (there's a link above the text box) and drag it into the Viewport with the scene you want to catalogue loaded (you can also use File>Merge, or if you place the script fiel in a content directory you can access it through the Content Library pane).

Yes, every character and shaping set is listed, so that you are able to mix and match to create the look you want.

The script I linked will tell you which product the active morphs are from.

I don't knoww hy you would see a shape on only one figure, unless it was soem kind of custom morph.

kurtmurphy1

Thank you for the info.... I'm still unsure on a lot of this. I just don't understand why I can't select one character and paste to another......

Richard Haseltine

That should work, if they are the saem base figure - try Edit>Paste>Paste Figure Shape