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The case of the vanishing morphs

geoff6geoff6 Posts: 250
edited December 1969 in New Users

Hi all,

I've just invested in a fast PC to run DAZ 3D and it was definately worth it but I have a minor bug... Well quite a big one actually and it's this.

I relocated everything to the new PC by downloading everything I've bought so far and the 64bit version of Daz using the download manager. It all seems good and then I transferred existing scenes and characters into a directory where I keep stuff anyway, that was a straight forward 'transplant'.

The issue I'm having is with some of the clothing that characters wore in their subsets.

Morphs I had used to make some clothing fit my characters aren't appearing in the parameters as they did on my other installation. So if I want to put these items on new characters, I can't adjust them to fit as I could before nor can I adjust them on the existing characters.

I'm sure this is a directory thing, the clothing is 'Cosmopolitan girl suit' for a V4.2 character and it was all fine on my old installation.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

G

Comments

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,840
    edited December 1969

    I haven't used V4 much recently, but it seems like there used to be a batch file that you had to run after installation. I don't know if that is still true with the DIM installer or not. Does that sound familiar to you? I hope someone more knowledgeable about this comes along to help. If you search, you may find other threads about moving content to a new computer. I recommend a Google search, because the forum search capability is very weak.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited October 2014

    DZCreateExPFiles-V4.bat is the batch file. This adds the channels to the base V4 figure in order for the morph injections to work

    A DIM installation does run this automatically, The morph files need to go in the same runtime as the V4 base files..

    Post edited by Chohole on
  • geoff6geoff6 Posts: 250
    edited December 1969

    Thanks for that,

    The files all seem to be in the same place, ie public documents / my daz3d library / runtime / libraries. The .bat fil is in the !daz folder under libraries.

    There's definately a problem though as I can't find faceshop though it is installed it doesn't come up where it should and niether does 'lipsinc'.

    The solution is either gonna be blindingly obvious or utterly elusive.

    G

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,613
    edited December 1969

    In DS, can you go to Edit > Preferences > Content Library > Content Directory Manager, expand the "DAZ Studio Formats" and "Poser Formats", and post a screenshot?

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    edited December 1969

    geoff6 said:
    and then I transferred existing scenes and characters into a directory where I keep stuff anyway, that was a straight forward 'transplant'.
    Where were you copying these old scenes and characters from? Was this your old content folder location? If so, there is also a /data/ folder in that same folder which should be merged with the /data/ folder in your new content location.
    Morphs I had used to make some clothing fit my characters aren't appearing in the parameters as they did on my other installation.

    And this is why the /data/ folder is important — the actual morph files for your clothes will have been saved into your old /data/ folder when you saved the clothes as part of a scene. They won't exist in your new /data/ folder.
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