Missing files looking for G8F in G3F folder

HornetBoy

I recently started experiencing a problem when loading G8F (or G8.1F) into an empty scene, in that Daz reports a missing file ... /data/DAZ 3D/Genesis 3/Female/Genesis8Female.dsf

Note that it's looking in a G3F folder for G8F(?)

Grateful for anyone who can suggest what's going on and, more importantly, how to resolve it.

Bejaymac

I suspect you have downloaded a free character called "Anaya" from Renderosity, easiest way to deal with it is just uninstall that character.

HornetBoy

Thank you Bejaymac. I hadn't downloaded that character, but had downloaded a different free character (Kira) from the same vendor. Uninstalling Kira resolved my problem. Thanks again.

ShelLuser

I'm not 100% sure, but I believe that you can fix this while still keeping the character... It seems it places a "Daz 3D/Female" sub-folder within the "Daz 3D/Genesis 3/Female/Morphs" subfolder, and that weird one contains the file "Genesis8Female.dsf" which I believe is causing the problems.

If you remove that bizarre folder entirely you should be able to fix this.

SO:

data\DAZ 3D\Genesis 3\Female\Morphs\DAZ 3D\Female

That's the folder which I suspect is causing all of this.

Bejaymac

I was going to attach an image showing the issue, but the forum software is buggered (yet again).

Inside each morph DSF file there is a pathway that points to the Parent mesh that the morph is meant to work with, the pathway in these files are pointing to the Genesis 3 folder instead of the Genesis 8 folder.

"parent" : "/data/DAZ 3D/Genesis 3/Female/Genesis8Female.dsf#Genesis8Female",

^^^^ That is what line 18 looks like in these files.

"parent" : "/data/Daz%203D/Genesis%208/Female/Genesis8Female.dsf#geometry",

^^^^ That is how they should look

The big problem is that these characters aren't done very well, as they are also missing rigging adjustments, that means facial pose controls like Eyes Closed wont work very well.