Access to elements
Dannycoppell
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I just got myself the Michael Alive pack, along witht the required products for it to funtction. The problem, I can't get some of the elements to work,I click on the icon and nothing. I found their in the zipfiles with everything else. How do I access the anatomical elements,even the obvious natural non explicit characteristics like show on the Michael Alive tutorial clip on youtube?
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Do you have the required products - Michael 4, the Michael 4 Morphs++ (which includes the anatomical elements), and the Michael 4 Muscle Morphs? I don't see anything in the Michael Alive What's Included list for the anatomical elements, and there is no file list on the readme page so I don't know what the inoperative files are.
Don't forget, to apply materials and other settings you have to select the target object you want to apply the preset to. I do have trouble with some of the older products & presets too, for instance there was a Duke Hair Product for Genesis I tried to use today & DAZ Studio said basically every texture, transparency, and whatever other maps it needed were missing. It found the mesh though. It's also a common problem for the old 3DU Poser style models.
Yes I did get those required products it stated for the Michael Alive to work. It did download and the icons for the such as Michael4 Morphs++ are there it did does the intent to download when clicked but nothing pops on the morph. The Michael Alive I only have the hand poses and flexing file icon in the library. Yet in the zipfiles and remes the anatomical elements and freaturs are shown in the contant list.
Recently I purchased a Michael Alive,yes I did get the required products for it. How do I get it to work? When I click to see the file their in to see they're in zipfiles. I click on the few icons there are for the anatomical elements and nothing pops on the morph. How do I get them into my libraries to make them work? I can't even give my morph "innards" just past the tongue and then empty like the inside of a manniquine. I read from a blogger here that theirs worked after they found the "mesh" to make them work, how do I find that? The demo on youtube made it look so easy.
Anatomical elements for Genesis figures are a separate geografted part not included with the base figure. You only get those if you buy one of the adults pro bundles for that Genesis figure.
Merged threads.
But that's the thing I have aquired 4 Michael 4 products Base,++,Maps, Starter. Should I consider getting the pro bundle too?
The anatomical elelments should be in the Morphs++ pack AFAICR
Please stop posting new threads rather than replying to this one.
The anatomical elements are a separate zip, which you must isntall, giving a separate figure, you need to load it from the Figures>Daz People folder (the same one as the base Michael 4) and conform them/fit them to Michael 4.
How do I do that? How do go about installing the zips? Well I select a figure then click on the icon while set on the figure, and nothing. I can't even give them a minor obvious physical characteristic when a dude comes of age and starts to sound different from a kid. But their all in the zipfiles. I have the icons for both michael 4's products in the Daz people,material folders but when clicked on like for the skin textrs. only the download symbol pops on then nothing. Do I miss something in the intent?
Materials are materials - chnages to the surfaces of the models after they are loaded. The folder names sound as if you have installed only the Daz Studio materials, not the base figures which are in Poser format. The best way to inbstall is to use the Install Manager.
Would unistalling then reinstalling them with install mgr. might solve the issue?
You need to make sure you have all parts installed - as I said above, it sounds as if you lack (or are not loading) the basic Poser files, which are in a separate zip and so have a separate entry in Install Manager.
Thank you! It worked! It took alittle trying,effectively they were on separate down. Now I got another problem, how do I conform anatomical elements on other figures? Well,I was experimenting and when I click on one onto my like Genesis2/3 a panal pops up saying "searching folders" and another panal that says what you want to support as to which and then it just sits and "idles" in downloading mode, and it won't let me click on anything or out to cancel the process.Do I need to get still another product to "bridge" support between the figures?
Applying the anatomical elements to another figure is not going to be simple - and will remove the additional bones that make the figure psoable in this case (I also seem to recall that the scrotum attaches to the thighs and stretches when the legs are posed). What you do, if you want to try, is set the Source figure to Michael 4 and probabnly leave the item type unspecified - though if you don't have the Michael 4 for Genesis 2 Male you will have to convert to Genesis and then save as a figure asset (File>Save as>Support Assets>Figure prop Asset), then convert that to Genesis 2 Male.