Theoretical Question about Face Morph plugins
Catherine3678ab
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We seem to be getting quite a collection of face plugins available, i.e. Face Transfer, HeadShops, FaceGens, etc.
Question is theoretical because no I don't own them all yet, but am wondering, are they all compatible if one did? Or is one or another going to hog the resources or whatever, disabling others? [there are some DVD/CD burning softwares that do things like that]
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FaceGen Artist Pro is not a plugin but a stand alone program. It can create morphs for Genesis, G2F, G2M, G3F, G3M, G8F, and G8M. It is preconfigured to output your morphs in the standard DAZ Content location after you name the morph and choose which generation of Genesis the morph will be for.
It produces the most accurate geometries for it's morphs but can still be badly wrong. I've tried all 3 you list. All of them are highly dependent on having a picture that they can extract accurate geometric data from and that doesn't mean pictures that we prefer or seem to be the highest in photographic qualities. You want to avoid applying any sort of color, contrast, brightness or other filters on photos you will be using as it usually reduces the accuracy. Of course, if the photos are celebrity photos found via image searches you have no control over that.
Thankfully. Really shouldn't be able to easily copy a person's likeness without their permission imo.
Actually that's the purpose of buying licensed materials in the first place ;-) Models signed release forms.
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... okay right so what I have so far is not conflicting, am contemplating adding one or two more from the store but no rush. Thanks for the feedback.
get a morph randomizer https://www.daz3d.com/simtenero-randomizer
and 200 head and face morphs https://www.daz3d.com/200-plus-head-and-face-morphs-bundle-for-genesis-8-female-s-and-male-s
Passing on the randomizer, but thanks for the HU on the morph bundle. Been waiting for that to go on sale and missed that it was ... so now it's mine too :-)
give it a month, and you will be getting the randomizer, having the amount down low, is good to making a whole family in 10 minutes, or making 1000 charectors for a game
you can get an interactive licence for the gen 8 base models on the store somewhere
https://www.daz3d.com/growing-up-bundle-for-genesis-8-female-s-and-male-s
https://www.daz3d.com/aging-morphs-bundle-for-genesis-8-female-s-and-male-s