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In order to turn off IK for a character, someone has to press it twice or use the shortcut ctrl+k twice. For some reason using it the first time has no effect at all on the 4.12 beta. I assume this is a bug.
I used daz 4.12 beta i was achieving as fast as 12 seconds a frame rendering at 1920 x 1080 in IRAY. I was creating pre rendered back grounds of the kung fu school & I turned them in to 1/4 panes hdr with Photoshop like the older anime animations use to be like . the whole project took about 16 days for 32 scenes or 17,352 frames, one of my faster projects. its a anime animated short its not suppose to be photorealistic. I did this project using beta to see how quick i could do this type of animation.
Belatedly passing on a response from Rob: AniMate is an example of a plug-in using an activation policy, but it uses trial days (30 days function as the full AniMate 2, then AniMate Lite unless a serial is purchased), Trial Usage, mentioned in the change log, allows a plug-in to work a number of times, regadless of time. So a hypothetical importer or exporter plug-in could be used ten times before needing activation with a serial number.
Apparently that was a glitch, after a DS restart it works normally again. But I've never seen it in earlier versions.
Thank you, Richard and Rob, both!
I see we have anew update for beta in our dimms the change logs states a few things i like to ask a questions about
question 1 the log states the following Face Transfer pane,
Does this mean we should re-download and install a update to our Genesis 8 Starter Essentials Male/Female as well as the beta update? i did not see a update for it in dimm
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questions 2? the change log states the following
Uses a "trial usage" activation policy
Huh?! how that work? i don't ever remember seeing any water marks before * confused look*
question3 General Interface
Should we make a back up of our workspace ui before installing this update? is this going to reset things back to default UI ?
Thank you for reading my questions
This is one of the frustrations I face whenever I switch to a new version. I usually recreate my workspace as best I remember it as I'm never sure that any of my saved workspace layouts will work with new/beta versions of DS. When I've tried them, there seem to be glitches which I assume to be incompatibilities between versions.
While I would certainly advise malking a backup of your layout, Update and Merge Menus should not be an issue (except, perhaps, the very first time you use it if your layout is very old)
The Genesis 8 Starter Essentials packages should start showing as updates in DIM soon.
Yes, otherwsie it will complain about missing files I believe
new, or at least newly-used, feature for this pane.
DS 4.12.0.73 (and previous)
Why are consecutive spaces not allowed in file names of rendered images? Even worse, when I try to add words in the middle of an existing file name, it ignores every time I hit the space bar, and runs all the new words together. I'm guessing this is because the next existing character already in the name is space. DS 4.11.0.383 does not have this restriction.
Okay thanks for the clarification on everything, I appreciate it. I downloaded what is available in DIM . I am still not seeing Genesis 8 Starter Essentials yet, so as soon as that shows up I'll install everything at one time . maybe quicker if i go to manual download for the Starter Essentials anyway
Oh & just in case I did make a new back up of my workspace and style settings. Murphy's law and all that stuff...lol
Could you please give us an example re the adding of words which led you to believe that there is an issue? What I've tried seems to work, so clarification would be helpful.
Here is a video. I pressed the space bar between the added words, but the space was not inserted.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4q1nz5ml038gfj5/No%20consecutive%20spaces.mp4?dl=0
I just updated it via Connect.
I just tried Face Transfer with a politician's face and it did a surprisingly good job. This is going to be fun.
So I assume this will be a commercial plug-in available in the store soon? Hope there are more options in the full version, but this is a very nice addition.
You're right, it is fun. Some quick tests - I grabbed a few old Hollywood celebrities from Google image search, ran them through Transfer, and then did a quick render. B&W images give a grey scale texture and grease paint doesn't generate a good texture (yes, I was trying to bust it). The Peter Lorre shows what happens when the original is wearing a hat. And I think the beard on Victor Buono 2 resulted in too rounded a face. But over all, quite effective.
a) I just tried it & I purposely picked the same 3 old university IDs I had used when I 1st used FaceGen and it's done a better job I think. I'm not considering textures yet. UPDATE: wrong
b) I tried a 2017 photo that was quite large and I think but am not sure, that it has again done a better job but I have compared in detail yet. Again textures not considered. UPDATE: wrong
c) Pushing the boundaries I decided to have 5 G8M all with Face Transfer used on them and decided one of the pictures used to do a Face Transfer and then switch to another picture and did a Face Transfer on the same G8M I will change back to the original picture I had used to do a Face Transfer on the same G8M and low and before instead if left the original G8M allow and instantiated a new G8M to apply this Face Transfer too! A runon sentence for sure but so now there are 6 G8Ms in my viewport. If it makes a different after a few tests on the 1st 3 G8M I have in the viewport I started getting messages I have only 3 Face Transfers left. However that message didn't happen until after 4 or 5 practice Face Transfers and a couple of renders. Thinking I had did something wrong I saved those 3 Face Transfers successfully. So now this bug I just explained on c) is on G8Ms using a maxed out Face Transfer (if it makes any difference to DAZ 3D's debug efforts). UPDATE: bug really exists
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OK, so I looked more closely. I removed the textures, looked around at different angles at the models using the same texture set and then it became clear:
a) For the old IDs the job it does is about equivalent. The problem both have is the face details are shaved off and flattened and quite noticeably so. Those were typical small institutional polaroid pictures from IDs the late 1980s.
b) for the new hi-res picture it does worse. Despite all the seeming detail a model digital camera would give the face transfer model wasn't any better quality than the Face Transfer morph from the 3 photo IDs for the 1980s. It was flattened with geometry details shaved off. Those details were not expressions or wrinkles that were erased but nose shape, lip shape, chin shape, under lower lip, eyes, all easily noticeable with a bit of systemic compairitive effort. So that leads me to think that rather than the actual details not being available to use that FaceGen & Face Transfer are making the same general algorithmic mistake. Maybe the algorithm is too aggressive in erasing what it thinks are expressions and wrinkles (although the old photo IDs were very expressionless and wrinkle free).
1) FaceGen allows for a side profile picture and use of that improved the quality of the morph by correcting the debt of the morph's geometry created from the frontal view still details are missing. It's like it could do to 3/4 view photos as well. Or maybe lighting that would expose all the detail (and I don't mean skin texture type details) those algorithms are missing.
c) The textures are matched to the photos, well they wear made entirely too deep a brown, of course that means they are almost 100% definitely wrong. It's probably more appropriate for DAZ here to
1) Make normal and bump maps for the face passed on the photo
2) Have a popup that offers the user to choose the skin tone for the diffuse map and color adjust that as the diffuse map color - maybe they need to only create a series of lie layers for the diffuse map and use the color chosen as the base color.
d) Yes, the bug named about with a new instance being created is real. Odd though it did not create a new instance each time I did a similar thing in testing Face Transfer on other instances of G8M
So not bad but definitely not something that's going to replace FaceGen Artist Pro for quality without much more quality improvements than that initial public beta.
I guess I will try to replicate the definite bug I found in the next week but I'm starting to accumulate a lot of bug reports.
Same issue~ Now in this case the only way is to type a character/word first then put the cursor before it and type a space...
I want to express my gratitude to the developers of the Daz Studio. I want to thank them for optimizing version (4.12) to spin scene in viewport has become much easier compared to version (4.11). Good work done! I am very glad, now it will be possible to create bigger scenes in the Dazstudio.
This is....super fun ! It is , like FaceGen not a straight out the box perfect morph or texture but with work tweaking your output you can def make use of this !
Thanks.
Please do report it. In the meantime, if you want to do an insert, place the cursor after a space before a letter and you can then enter a space after the new text.
The Genesis 8 Starter Essentials never did show up in my DIM. but it does on the manual page.
I also notices some new templete files and a new mimic iles as well . lots to down load.
what is the powr pose templete? do we need all these templete files installed as well?
A LOT of updates have the package set with the netadata tag of ONLY 'connect avialable' and since I decline to use connect I have not selected the options in the filters, you may have the same issue?
Thanks Simon , yea I do not use connect either. I did do a manual search in the DIM and I also hit the refresh a bunch of times but i was still getting nothing was showing up . I was able to download everything through the manual account mananger. I'm just sure if i need all those templete's if im not creating content.
Face Transfer works only on Genesis 8 figus according to the release notes.
The male & female essential for Genesis 8 do show up in DIM. they are about 250MB each.
yes they just showed up in mine too a few minutes ago. but now its to late i already donwloaded and installed them manaully through my daz account mananer
Reported: Request #307812