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UV Set yer face!

murph101murph101 Posts: 68
edited December 1969 in Carrara Discussion

I'm looking for a "UV Set" parameter in Carrara to fix one last detail of importing a face onto a Genesis model.

I have FaceGen, took pictures of my subject, created a 3d head mesh with skin texture. Exported it using their Export module for DAZ.

I go into DAZ, following their steps for importing the shape of the mesh onto a Genesis figure, then the skin texture. It looks misaligned, I tinker, and eventually find that the default UV Set in the Surfaces tab was set to Michael 4. I change that to Genesis Male, and that fixes the problem.

I go into Carrara to do the same since it's my preferred environment. I get the mesh shape, the skin texture, but it comes out misaligned. I've been scouring the (crazy) documentation for a "UV Set" equivalent, but cannot find the beast.

Does anyone know where I can find it?

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  • ncampncamp Posts: 345
    edited December 1969

    As I recall, you cannot manually set the UV Map in Carrara. If you load a .duf that uses alternate UVs, then that will change the UV set. I think you can also set the UVs in Studio, then save the file and open it with Carrara, and the UVs will be correct.

    ncamp

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,237
    edited December 1969

    yes, I have some *facegen" preset .duf files I use with V4 uv for face only and M5 the rest etc

  • murph101murph101 Posts: 68
    edited December 1969

    ncamp said: "If you load a .duf that uses alternate UVs, then that will change the UV set. I think you can also set the UVs in Studio, then save the file and open it with Carrara, and the UVs will be correct."

    So, I tried this recommendation. In DAZ, things look pretty good. I save the model, go to Carrara and attempt to import the .DUF and I get the following.

    Warning: file /data/DAZ 3D/Genesis/Base/Genesis.dsf could not be found
    Error: node /data/DAZ 3D/Genesis/Base/Genesis.dsf#Genesis not found

    I chased down the files it says are missing (in the relative path from the My DAZ 3D Library. The Genesis.dsf file DOES exist in that location. (I'm confused that it's not looking for .duf, but, it matches the error message.)

    I have no problem creating a default genesis character in Carrara, but when attempting to load one created and saved in DAZ, it no worky.

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,583
    edited December 1969

    That's one of the biggest reason I have opted to switch to always using DIM to install ALL of my genesis items. It knows to uninstall when it needs to, I think.

    I am not 100% sure, but I am having a hunch that what you are experiencing is having an older version of Genesis, still installed. Carrara cannot deal with the dsf versions of Genesis. So if you're using a dsf version to make your duf, it's looking for that dsf version when trying to load into Carrara, but Carrara cannot do it, because it requires the dsf version of Genesis.

    Just to see, when you open the My Daz 3D Library, are there two Genesis files that look alike?

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