Lost morphing abilities
Cat Army Girls
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I am a total newbie to Daz and have been playing around with it the past few days. I searched a bit on this form and various others, and did not find anyone else with this problem.
Basically I lost some abilities after going crazy and installing lots of new content.
I lost the ability to morph, add facial expressions, click on "hand" and manipulate hand motions, facial expressions and most annoyingly on any of the figures such as Basic Male and Genesis I lost almost every option under "Parameters" the only option now is, "Basic Male" with the slider, I used to have about a dozen different options to manipulate my actors appearance, now it's all those options are gone.
Anybody have any clue what the heck is going on and how I can fix it? I uninstall everything, reverting back to scratch and my morphing abilities are still MIA. Is it a setting? or did I install content that might removed the options? please help I am lost.
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No one wants to take a shot in the dark here?
Here is a screen shot of what I mean see the only option is "Basic Male" with the slider, I used to have dozens of options. Any clue?
Try right-clicking on the tab of the Parameters pane - do the missing morphs then show up? If not, or if you don't want to run with hidden parameters on all the time, all I can suggest is reinstalling Genesis Starter Essentials. I can't think of anything, other than deleting the morph files, that would wipe the rest of them out and leave only Basic Male.
Still no luck ... I even completely uninstalled Daz and cleared all my library folders, then even after re installing from scratch with just the basics still the same problem. I think what might of happened, is when I installed Micheal 4 and the Micheal 4 muscle morphs something got messed up with Dazes database. I tried to reset the content database then re install, and still same result. I have no clue what to do at this point, seems like something that is rooted deep in the registry, in which case my best bet is re installing my OS. and then re installing Daz which I am really trying to avoid.
How did you install Genesis Starter Essentials, yourself or by using the DAZ Install Manager (DIM)?
Do you have the library you installed to listed in the Content Directory Manager (Edit > Preferences > Content Library > Content Directory Manager)
If you used the DIM, you can load it, go to the Installed tab, right click on Genesis Starter Essentials, and select Installed Files, and that will tell you where Genesis was installed into. There is really no need to reinstall your OS at this stage.
I used the Install Manager for starter essentials, but what I just remembered I was in the downloads folder within (C:\Users\Public\Documents\DAZ 3D\InstallManager\Downloads) the other day and might have removed some things, while playing around with installing third party content. Perhaps I accidentally deleted files pertaining to starter essentials? What I did this time, and what might turn out to be another big waste of time is, I cleared out the "Downloads" folder refreshed install manager so I could re-download all owned content. Now I am just waiting for it to all download again so I can try to re-install it all, see if I get a different result.
It is not only actor morphs I'm missing, I am missing expression morphs, hand morphs (like the group hands, eyes, cheeks, etc ...) This is for all of my owned figures including V6.
Did this ever get resolved? I just installed DS on a brand new computer and installed all of the content from DAZ, and I am experiencing the exact same issue. I load up Gia, Genesis 2 Female Base, Genesis, etc., and there are no expression morphs, no body morphs, nothing. I have tried uninstalling the content and reinstalling it and it made no bit of difference.
I did not do any tweaking to the install procedure, I allowed the DIM to install everything at its default settings.
Never assume an installer's default install location is correct. In Studio go to Edit/Preference/Content Library (tab)/Content Directory Manager (button). Take note of the path listed under DAZ Studio Formats, this is the path DIM should be set to install to.
Thank you so much. I purposely installed all my content to the D: drive, but Studio was referring to the C: drive where apparently it can access just the most basic stuff, thus faking me out. I just mapped it to the D: drive and now when I load in Genesis 2 she has morphs! Hurrah! Very much appreciate you prodding me into looking at my paths.
More precisely, never assume the DIM default content install location matches the D|S default content load location, especially not in a pristine newly-installed system. I can be persuaded to agree with the decision to have the DIM install to a new location, but I have to wonder about the decision to have D|S not check for different DIM settings. I've been told this is now at least partly fixed, but for a long time a lot of people switching over to using DIM have been confused by their "vanishing content".
Daz Studio at install (ALL installs that are CLEAN as in no saved preference files left) auto default to the Content folder it creates in it's Paths.
That path is built at each install and will need to be changed to any Content path you actually use at any CLEAN install.