Face Distorting on One Figure

echristopherclark

Anyone have any idea what's happening to her face in this screenshot. When I saved the file, she was fine. When I reopened it, this happened. I tried recreating the figure from scratch and re-posing. That worked until I closed and re-opened. Then the face got distorted again.

SixDs

Hard to say, but my guess would be that you are doubling up on the morphs - that tends to be the result of forgetting to set the morph to start at 0%. As a result, when you move the slider, it starts at 100 % and goes up from there. But I'm only guessing - the screen capture doesn't show a uniform distortion, so it might be something else at play.

echristopherclark

SixDs said:

Hard to say, but my guess would be that you are doubling up on the morphs - that tends to be the result of forgetting to set the morph to start at 0%. As a result, when you move the slider, it starts at 100 % and goes up from there. But I'm only guessing - the screen capture doesn't show a uniform distortion, so it might be something else at play.

Thanks. I though I'd figured it out by deleting a couple of Auto Shape Enhancer products and starting from scratch. Did 4 hours of work and thought I was good. But no. Here I am again. This time it happened after I ran a dForce simulation, but that wasn't something I'd done any of the other times. I can't for the life of me figure out the pattern. I'd just stop using Daz altogether if it wasn't for the year-plus of work (and thousands of dollars on products) I've invested.

Tempted to do a clean install of the whole program, but I'm not even sure that will fix it at this point.

nonesuch00

echristopherclark said:

SixDs said:

Hard to say, but my guess would be that you are doubling up on the morphs - that tends to be the result of forgetting to set the morph to start at 0%. As a result, when you move the slider, it starts at 100 % and goes up from there. But I'm only guessing - the screen capture doesn't show a uniform distortion, so it might be something else at play.

Thanks. I though I'd figured it out by deleting a couple of Auto Shape Enhancer products and starting from scratch. Did 4 hours of work and thought I was good. But no. Here I am again. This time it happened after I ran a dForce simulation, but that wasn't something I'd done any of the other times. I can't for the life of me figure out the pattern. I'd just stop using Daz altogether if it wasn't for the year-plus of work (and thousands of dollars on products) I've invested.

Tempted to do a clean install of the whole program, but I'm not even sure that will fix it at this point.

I set it in the other thread but select the head, select all children (of the head), control-E (that will restore all head & head child shapes & poses). if not do the Zero all head & head child shapes & poses instead. Then reapply head shapes & poses to get back where you were.

You need to manually update Auto Face Enhancer because it has bug fixes but the distribution of those bug fixes in a product update isn't being properly handled in DIM. There is a thread in the forums for Commercial produts with a thread for Auto Face Enhancer & I outline what I had to do to manually update Auto Face Enhancer (for Genesis 8 Female). The AFE for G8M works.

Don't forget, after applying an AFE attachment to your G8F, to right click & copy the G8F surface, then select the AFE geoshell attachment, right click, and paste the copied G8F surfaces to the AFE attachment geoshell.

echristopherclark

nonesuch00 said:

echristopherclark said:

SixDs said:

 

I set it in the other thread but select the head, select all children (of the head), control-E (that will restore all head & head child shapes & poses). if not do the Zero all head & head child shapes & poses instead. Then reapply head shapes & poses to get back where you were.

You need to manually update Auto Face Enhancer because it has bug fixes but the distribution of those bug fixes in a product update isn't being properly handled in DIM. There is a thread in the forums for Commercial produts with a thread for Auto Face Enhancer & I outline what I had to do to manually update Auto Face Enhancer (for Genesis 8 Female). The AFE for G8M works.

Don't forget, after applying an AFE attachment to your G8F, to right click & copy the G8F surface, then select the AFE geoshell attachment, right click, and paste the copied G8F surfaces to the AFE attachment geoshell.

Thanks for following up (in both places). I ended up doing a clean install before I saw your message. I think AFE may be the culprit here, and I'll just choose not to install it this time around. The question I have is: do you think I can use any of my old saved scenes, or will they have the AFE bugs baked in? And if I open one, is it just going to contaminate my whole system and make me have to start over again?