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Some basic questions re Morphs

HylasHylas Posts: 5,071
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Hey there! I have some basic questions regarding Morphs.

1) I already have "G8 Male Body Morph" and "G8 Male Body Morph". If I now buy a male G8 character, for example "Orc Brute for Genesis 8", can I morph that characters face and body? Or does it only work on the basic G8 figure?

2) What is the difference between, say, G8 Male Head Morphs and 200 Plus Head and Face Morphs for G8 Male? I imagine the more expensive product offers more dials?

3) If I were to install both "G8 Male Head Morphs" and "200 Plus Head and Face Morphs for Genesis 8 Male", I would probably just get a jumble of mostly redundant dials? (Not that I'm planning to do this, I'm just curious.)

4) If I were to deinstall "G8 Male Head Morphs", what happens to all the faces I had created with that product? Do they remain?

5) If I were to make a "Shaping Preset" file I created with "G8 Male Head Morphs" available for download, does the file work for everybody, or only people who also have "G8 Male Head Morphs" installed?

Thank you so much for your help! Cheers!

 

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,804
    Hylas said:

    Hey there! I have some basic questions regarding Morphs.

    1) I already have "G8 Male Body Morph" and "G8 Male Body Morph". If I now buy a male G8 character, for example "Orc Brute for Genesis 8", can I morph that characters face and body? Or does it only work on the basic G8 figure?

    You can, as far as the software goes, freely mix morphs. Not every combination will look good, especially if dealing with morphs that radically reshape the mesh, but there's nothing to stop you trying

    Hylas said:

    2) What is the difference between, say, G8 Male Head Morphs and 200 Plus Head and Face Morphs for G8 Male? I imagine the more expensive product offers more dials?

    More dials, and also different dials.

    Hylas said:

    3) If I were to install both "G8 Male Head Morphs" and "200 Plus Head and Face Morphs for Genesis 8 Male", I would probably just get a jumble of mostly redundant dials? (Not that I'm planning to do this, I'm just curious.)

    I don't think there's much overlap since most people making add-on packs will assume buyers will have the core Daz morphs. The morphs are grouped in the property panes, they aren't all jumbled together (unless you click the All group).

    Hylas said:

    4) If I were to deinstall "G8 Male Head Morphs", what happens to all the faces I had created with that product? Do they remain?

     

    5) If I were to make a "Shaping Preset" file I created with "G8 Male Head Morphs" available for download, does the file work for everybody, or only people who also have "G8 Male Head Morphs" installed?

    No, when you save a preset or scene it stores pointers to the morphs used and their values, so it won't work correctly if the morphs are missing.

     

  • HylasHylas Posts: 5,071
    edited August 2018

    Thanks you for your answers! That clears some things up for me. yes

    ETA: I've been playing around with the head morphs a bit, and I can see how more dials would be useful. Damn, stop taking my money, DAZ!

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  • CGHipsterCGHipster Posts: 241

    Hi, I will chime in saying that I have shamelessly bought a tonne of morph sets and they all work together and I have not seen any that overlap something like parameter name.  Although specific figure morphs like a character morph for say Lucas 8 will always look better on Lucas but will still work on another G8 figure.

    You can blend any morph sets together to get some interesting new figure shapes and even creatures if you unlock limits in the parameters tab.

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