Random "missing pieces"

Roman_K2

You might like to try dialing in some of the morphs and HD settings from the older characters like Mabel?

Re: Marbleʼs comment in the thread in the Daz Studio forum about age settings for Genesis 8, I have installed Mabel 8 for Genesis 8 Female on two separate computers and there doesn't seem to be any geometry associated with it, in the Content pane.

So if I load G8F and click on Mabel 8 under "Characters", only mats -- special texture files -- appear to be available.

Is this a common problem? Missing pieces of this and that??? I think I have a few prop "sets" where there is no actual scene in the Content pane, just individual props. I'm thinking Merlin's Sepulchre here but I believe there are others, eg. I could have sworn that Sepulchre had a one-click scene that came with it.

So... the bottom line is I seem to be picking things up here and there, from the store and then later on when I actually try the prop or model, it's not all there.

????

barbult

Mabel 8 is just a morph of Genesis 8 Female. The morphs are in the data folder, which is not a user facing folder (i.e. use doesn't interact with it directly and it isn't shown in the Content Library). You will find morph sliders for Mabel 8 in the Parameters pane. The preset to load the Mabel 8 character will load Genesis 8 Female, dial the Mabel 8 morph sliders automatically and apply the Mabel 8 materials. Does that not work for you?

Roman_K2

Aha! So that’s how it works. That may explain why it worked one time but not the next time I tried it. It's different from other G8 figures then? I'm thinking Mr. Woo here; for that one if I'm not mistaken you load G8M and then you apply the character morphs and textures.

Thanks!

Looking at the store page again, Merlin’s Sepulture product definitely comes with pre-loaded scenes. I wonder what happened to mine! Just curious...

PerttiA

barbult said:

Mabel 8 is just a morph of Genesis 8 Female. The morphs are in the data folder, which is not a user facing folder (i.e. use doesn't interact with it directly and it isn't shown in the Content Library). You will find morph sliders for Mabel 8 in the Parameters pane. The preset to load the Mabel 8 character will load Genesis 8 Female, dial the Mabel 8 morph sliders automatically and apply the Mabel 8 materials. Does that not work for you?

Mabel 8 should have a "Character" file;

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/51997/file_list

/People/Genesis 8 Female/Characters/Mabel 8.duf
/People/Genesis 8 Female/Characters/Mabel 8.png
​/People/Genesis 8 Female/Characters/Mabel 8.tip.png

SpottedKitty

Roman_K2 said:

It's different from other G8 figures then?

All characters for the Genesis 8 Male/Female figure work the same; a morph and set of textures that apply to the base Genesis 8 figure. And they all have two ways of loading them into your scene; click on the character preset, which loads the figure plus the character morphs and textures, or load the base G8 then load the separate morphs and textures.

Note that there are three different ways a character appears in the store, which might be confusing you:-

• <name> 8 for Genesis 8 Male/Female — the "named base" characters, always sold along with Starter and Pro bundles of related hair, clothes, other characters, etc. as part of a "theme" (although sometimes the theme connection gets stretched like old chewing gum...)
• <name1> for <name2> 8 — a dependent character based on the shape of a "named base"; there's usually a couple of these in the Starter and Pro bundles.
• <name> for Genesis 8 Male/Female — not dependent on any other "named base" character, and almost never part of a Starter or Pro bundle (although recently a few of them have begun to appear in their own bundles with hair, clothes, etc.)

barbult

PerttiA said:

barbult said:

Mabel 8 is just a morph of Genesis 8 Female. The morphs are in the data folder, which is not a user facing folder (i.e. use doesn't interact with it directly and it isn't shown in the Content Library). You will find morph sliders for Mabel 8 in the Parameters pane. The preset to load the Mabel 8 character will load Genesis 8 Female, dial the Mabel 8 morph sliders automatically and apply the Mabel 8 materials. Does that not work for you?

Mabel 8 should have a "Character" file;

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/51997/file_list

/People/Genesis 8 Female/Characters/Mabel 8.duf
/People/Genesis 8 Female/Characters/Mabel 8.png
​/People/Genesis 8 Female/Characters/Mabel 8.tip.png

Yes, that is exactly what I was referring to in my statement (emphasis added) "The preset to load the Mabel 8 character will load Genesis 8 Female, dial the Mabel 8 morph sliders automatically and apply the Mabel 8 materials. "