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Changing My Character's Height

SetaliaSetalia Posts: 49
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I'm having difficulty changing my character to the desired height.

I have Genesis 8 Body Morphs and Measure Metrics. My character's base is Genesis 8.1 Female. Currently, the height is slightly less than 180 cm. I want to make her shorter, at 160 cm. But I'm only able to shorten her down to 166 cm (sliding the height to 100%). If I enter 160 in the height field in Measure Metrics, it makes her taller at 193 cm, and sets the height slider to -100%.

Do I need another morph to accomplish my goal, or is there something else I need to do?

Thanks,

Seta

 

Comments

  • TogireTogire Posts: 414

    You can always ignore the limits when applying a parameter. Click on the gear above your parameter and you have an option for parameter settings and then you can turn the limits off.

    Note that it is not guaranteed to give good results. Maybe the height slider calls other parameters that are limited and the results maybe weird. Or the overall figure may seem not properly balanced for a short character. But it is svery simple to test.

  • SetaliaSetalia Posts: 49

    This solved my issue. Thanks.

  • SquishySquishy Posts: 460

    What I do to get a pretty drastic change in height is dial down the scale for the character root object and then increase Head Propagating Scale and some other dial fiddling to get the proportions looking reasonable. Short people generally don't have smaller heads than tall people and there still needs to be about the same amount of room in the torso for organs and stuff but it's not quite as simple as making the legs shorter. I have a bunch of examples of this in a free collection of shape presets I gave away a little while ago:

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/564111/generations-g8f-shape-presets

  • SquishySquishy Posts: 460
    edited May 2022

    You might be wary of fiddling with scales like this but I have not found any problems with any content I've made or used relating to bone scales, DAZ figured out how to make this work a long time ago and they use bone scaling all over the place internally, it works fine.

    e: oh yeah, there's a lot of different height measuring thingies out there, I use this one (free on DeviantArt):

    https://www.deviantart.com/spyrorue/art/MWall-2-0-for-Daz-Studio-793218213

    Post edited by Squishy on
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