DAZ3D opened this issue on Sep 29, 2003 ยท 84 posts
xoconostle posted Tue, 30 September 2003 at 11:35 AM
As others have said (and DAZ didn't,) you should get m3baseUP.exe from the M3 product page, and m3bodymorphUP.exe from the body morphs product page. That way, you'll know that you're getting the correct files for sure. Don't worry about SR1 not appearing on the M2-M3 upgrade page. m3baseUP.exe installs Service Release 1. The new icons will be obvious in your "DAZ People" library. The body morphs update doesn't create new icons, it just does its fix "in the background." It would have been better if Steve had made this clear. It would have been better if the alleged updates at our account pages actually showed up as such, although it's easy enough to just go get them at the product pages. It would also be nice if DAZ could please alleviate the considerable bewilderment and frustration they're causing with the ongoing addition of M3 downloads to our account pages instead of cracking jokes about that issue. There hasn't been any explanation forthcoming, not even a "we're aware of it and are working on it" message. Being very clear may have avoided a flood of e-mails and phone calls to DAZ about all this, I'm willing to bet. I also experienced the ugly distortions with the mesh that Lindsey reported, but that was only before installing the body morphs After installing the body morphs, the "collapsing armpits" (to quote pdxjims) seem to have been fixed. However, I'm also having the problem of the full body morphs not working at all, and am experiencing problems very much like what Lindsey's image shows. I just now tried putting the left shoulder triceps morph at 1.0. It created an ugly triangular distortion. I tried putting biceps at 1.0 ... nothing happened at all. This is a fix? Not for me. I'm certain that I'm not doing anything wrong. These problems are far worse than the ones that occurred before installing SR1 and the body morphs update. Sorry for my soap-boxy tone, folks, but at this point I feel justified. DAZ, what gives? You're slipping in some ways, and people have been noticing for awhile. Clear communication would go a long way towards alleviating the frustrations that people are expresing. Hopefully, you will read about the problems this update is causing with respect instead of defensiveness, and get back to us on the issues. Soon, please.