G8 individual head dials
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I have just started using G8 figures and want to create my own facial expressions. When I use my G3 figures and click on Head, I get individual dials for the parts of the face. Head> Brows> Cheeks> Expressions> Eyes> Mouth and so on.
When I load my G8 figures and click on the Head all I get are the Expressions. Where do I find the individual dials for the head or what items am I missing?
I have: the G8 Female Head Morph and G8 Female Expression programs installed.
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"click on the Head"
Where are you doing this? In the Scene tab? If so, then the behaviour that you are describing is normal - only the pose controls for the head will be shown under the Parameters tab. If you select G8F in the scene rather than just the head, all the available morphs and pose sliders for the figure will be shown under the Parameters tab. You can then narrow that down by expanding the left pain, i.e, choosing Actor > Head > Face, etc., or choose Pose Controls if you only want to pose, rather than morph, the figure.
I am not sure what you are referring to when you say your G3F does not behave as I have described for G8F, because it does - selecting the head in the Scene tab will result in only the pose controls appearing under the Parameters tab, just like G8F. Older figures, like Victoria 4, needed the head selected in order to access facial pose/expression sliders which did not appear in the Parameters tab with the entire figure selected. The newer figures (Genesis, Genesis 2, Genesis 3 and Genesis 8) display all the morph and pose sliders for the figure with the entire figure selected.
If I load both a G3 and a G8 figure side by side. In the Scene tab I click on the G3 head and then open Parameters> Pose Controls> Head: I get the full selection of dials: eyes, cheeks, expressions and so on..
If I click on the G8 head in the scene tab and then open Parameters> Pose Controls> Head: Only Expressions is listed. The other individual dials are not there. I know they have to be loaded, because the Expressions dials work fine on the G8 character.
Select the figure, not the head. Does that have the additional controls?
When I select the figure, I do get the head morph control; so I can give the character a big mouth or slanted eyes. There's still no controls to open the mouth or close the eyes. I've looked at base G8 figure as well as some purhased characters but the results are the same. I tried reinstalling the head morph and expression programs, but that didn't change anything.
Big mouth and slanted eyes would be shapes, under Actor in the Parameters pane. Open mouth would be under Pose Controls.
Under Pose Controls it just has Expressions.
Just those alone, or just those for the head?
Just those alone. Even if I click on the G8 character in parameters and then do a search of "mouth" the results come back with shapes and expressions, still no individual controls. BTW, thank you for taking the time to help.
How did you install?
You know sometimes when you get so fixated on making a problem work one way that you over look the obvious solution?. I uninstalled all of the G8 files and then re-installed them. Now I have all of the facial poses. Thank you for pointing out the obvious solution.
I'm glad that helped.