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MetaMixer with add-on help needed-Help: Day 3

wildbillnashwildbillnash Posts: 756
edited November 2023 in Daz Studio Discussion

I just ran over this option in my Daz program and thought I would give it a try. I checked out the videos on how to do it but it only covers what's included in the MetaMixer package. I can't find anything on how to use the add-on package. I had bought a bundle of faces but I have no idea where to go from here. Anyone know of a video, in English and with dialog, that covers it?

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  • wildbillnashwildbillnash Posts: 756

    I just stumbled across the add-on faces, but I don't know how I did it. What is the supposed way to get to them in the shaping folder? They don't show up unless you have the metamixer root checked.

  • wildbillnashwildbillnash Posts: 756
    edited November 2023

    Okay, besides my last question I came up with another one. I found a good video on how to work with Metamixer, though it doens't cover the add-ons and how to save the figure once you are finished. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help you give.

    UPDATE:  I just spent 30 minutes trying to find videos showing how to use Metamixer but not one shows you how to save it.

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  • wildbillnashwildbillnash Posts: 756

    THE NEXT DAY:  Okay, no help so far so I'll add a few more things I've found out. 

    1.  I still can't save the face and I can't find a video showing how to save it. If you can't save it, why use it?

    2.  The best video on using the Metamixer (which also didn't go into saving) mention about using lighting once you finish creating your figure. First, do you need to add lighting? Out of curiosity I saved my figure as a scene subset figure. The end result was a black figure, as in a silohete, a black cut-out, and it was a 3-D figure. It was like my figure was wearing a head-to-toe spandex black, form fitting suit.

    3. If lights are needed, which ones? I tried to use the ones I bought through the years (and there were many to choose from) but none of them worked. It's like I supposed to use light specially made for Metamixer.

  • DaventakiDaventaki Posts: 1,624
    edited November 2023

    Its been a minute since I worked with metamixer, it works with standard lights not sure why default lights wouldnt work all metamixer does is take prebuilt figures and mixes them together and also provides you with some morphs.  The nice thing is you can by the packs and not actually have to own the character.

    Metamixer thread https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/7168206/#Comment_7168206

    PDF Tutorial in you Genesis 8 Female/Shapes/Metamixer  - includes how to save

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  • wildbillnashwildbillnash Posts: 756

    Daventaki, true about the packs. It saves a lot that way.

    After 3 days I finally found the tutorial that came with Metamixer and a video on YouTube that actually covers the saving part, well almost. In both cases what they show does not match what I see in my Daz. But, working between them and making some wild guesses, I saved a face. And it turned out I don't need any special lighting. 

    So you can call this case -CLOSED-.

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