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Measure Metrics is missing dimension changes

wildbillnashwildbillnash Posts: 756
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Up until a week or two ago I was able to change the dimensions of my figures within Measure Metrics.  For instance, if my figure is 70.8 inches tall I could click on a button to the right in the 'height' column and be able to change it to 65 inches tall.  Now that option is no longer available.  What happened?  All I have to the right of each columns is the option to change from inches to feet to dimensions in metric, as well as something that has to do with the ages of the figure, which is also new.  Clicking on that option seems to do nothing.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,828

    Are you sure you are not thinking of the Figure Metrics script?

  • wildbillnashwildbillnash Posts: 756
    edited October 2019

    Figure Metrics is Measure Metrics, as the photo below shows.

    What is used to show was the section with the drop down options to change to feet, inches, or the metric system was not as wide and just to the right of each was where you could check to be able to make changes, if I remember correcty.  Now I don't see any place where you can make changes.  You have to know the height of your model and change the scale; by using trial and error you search for the height, or size, you want.

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  • wildbillnashwildbillnash Posts: 756

    Here's an update.  There were some changes to the program.  I found I know have to include the check boxes by clicking on the configurations tab and changing the measurement status to scale.  When I click back on the Measurements tab the checkboxes appear.  But there is still a bug with this update/change.  I can change the height, click accept, and my model will change to that height, but only for a few moments.  Then it will either change height again slightly or go back to its original height.

    What gives?

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,828

    Figure Metrics is a PA script that uses (and comes with) Measure Metrics - I wanted to be sure that I undrstood what you were doing. Yes, you need to have a property selected for at least one measurement to get the ability to set a target value - and by default you should have that, if it was blank on a clean install that would suggest a more deep-seated system issue. The age setting (which I hadn't remembered was there) change the untis to be proportional to the number of heads, a standard artistic reference.

    On the things resetting, is this while the script is running or after closing it?

  • wildbillnashwildbillnash Posts: 756

    It changes after clicking Accept.  Just did some experimenting and found something interesting.  If I change the age to, say, a 10 year old and change the height to say 55 inches, and then click Accept, the program reset the dimensions to the average size of a 10 year old, 52.5 inches.  Now, if I change a genesis 8 figure height to 62 inches and click Accept, the figure shrinks to that height.  Now, if I increase the bust and/or hip circumferences then the height increases as well.  Another words, no well endowed females allowed.  If you increase or decrease the hips, busts, or waists then the height changes with it, even when you don't check the box for height.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,828

    What changes will depend on the morphs associated with the measurements.

  • wildbillnashwildbillnash Posts: 756

    Sorry, not following.  I have another idea to check on.  I Just didn't have this problem before two weeks ago.

    As for the morphs, I'm just using the basic genesis 8 female.  Nothing else added on.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,828

    I meant that most morphs will, potentially, affect more than one measurement so if you use one to match a certain measurement then others will also change - it is possible to get a situation where two adjustments end up fighting each other as the script iterates.

  • wildbillnashwildbillnash Posts: 756

    Okay, so, if I just use the basic genesis 8 female figure, is there any morphs involved?  Or so you mean when I change the height of the figure that is considered morphing?  I just played around with it some and noticed when I chose a child's option in Measure Metric, like 10 yr old, the image shrinks but does not get younger looking.  I end up with a full grown genesis 8 female the size of a ten year old.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,828

    Any property you use to achieve a match on a measurement would be subject to my comment, not just literal morphs. Scaling fro height will also increase width and breadth, for example.

    Yes, that is my understanding of how the age options work - they change the proportion but not the shape.

  • wildbillnashwildbillnash Posts: 756

    I'll just have to do it the long way using the body morph and 200 plus.  I just wish the morphing program came with instructions.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,828

    http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/plugins/measure_metrics/start

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