Remove morphs for Genesis and Genesis 2
babybuick2691
Posts: 93
Hello Everyone,
I was wondering since I no longer use any of my Genesis or Genesis 2 male and female characters is there a way to remove the morphs such as shapes from my DAZ Content Library? Here is what I am trying to do, I want to speed up my character load times. I figured since I don't use any of my Genesis or Genesis 2 characters removing the character morphs would help increase my load time for my Genesis 3, 8, and 8.1 characters. Depending on the characters, I will remove some of my Genesis 3 character morphs and just use the skins, materials, clothes, hair, accessories, and props. I just need to know how to remove all Genesis and Genesis 2 morphs for both females and males.
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1. Removing morphs for any figure will NOT affect the load times of other figures.
2. Close D/S before digging through the data folders to remove anything.
3. Are you sure you want to do this? Removing some of Genesis 3's character morphs may reduce load times but may also increase error messages if said morphs are also required by other characters.
Thank you for your response. I no longer use the Genesis and Genesis 2 figures and thought removing shapes or morphs would free up the library because I have over 10 yrs of content starting back when Michael and Victoria 3 was used. However, since I already have problems getting my Genesis 8 female and male characters to load I will just keep the old shapes and morphs.
Okay. To thin the library out - with D/S closed, one can manually dig into the data folders and [first backup the content to a zip folder perhaps] and pick carefully what to delete.
n.b. This is NOT for everybody to be doing please! If one has installed via DIM, uninstalls are done via DIM too. I install manually and know something of how to manually delete stuff but still, ideas are offered "as is" - your computer, your responsibility.
Genesis and Genesis 2 will load faster if "10 years" worth of extra morphs are deleted certainly. I've attached 3 images -- be careful in the data folders, there are 2 for Daz3D, one with a space and one without. In the main one DAZ 3D there are all the figures. Find the one for a particular Genesis number, find the morph folder ... and carefully select the ones you want deleted. I say carefully because some might be for auto-fit clones and things like that which you might want to keep.
When in doubt, don't, do ask ;-)
And if the textures are no longer required, those should be in the appropriate subfolder under Textures under Runtime under My Library.
So if for example I deleted Teen Josie, then those morphs will not load with the figure. The less morphs there are, to a point, the faster the figure will load.
Some figures outside of the Daz 3D morphs folder are reliant on these. For example several characters are based on Victoria 6. So if keeping one of those, then Victoria 6 also should be kept.
Hope this helps. If not at least you know where everything is now ;-)