Hello again! I have a question regarding adding morphs to figures. For one character I am using the mike3 to mike2 figure and I added an African American style head to him using only the single head inject mode. I did NOT use inject all head morphs but still the list for ALL the morphs appears in my properties window. Of course, all of those new morph sliders do nothing since I didn't really inject them and it is a REAL pain to scroll through them all. Do you know of a way to either keep this from happening or a way to delete unused morph channels from the figure? Thanks again! Wes Brown

Go over to Daz and get the Dial Cleaner utility from the free, archive area.

There is a way. Download DialCleaner from DAZ - it's free. Start an empty scene. Load mike3 to mike2 and inject the head morphs you want to use. Save the scene. Run DialCleaner, load the scene, let it clean the dials (and make sure to have it make a backup, just in case). Load the scene. Mike now only has dials for morphs you actually injected. Save the morphed Mike to your figure library for later use. This works in Poser 4/PP and Poser 5. In Poser 5, click on the triangle on the right of an "empty" morph channel (those titled "-"). Choose "delete morph". You have to do that for each and every morph, which is quite a pain, so the DialCleaner route is probably the easiest and fastest. Hope this helps, Steven.

I was wondering where that thing went. I was going to recommend it to someone and wanted to give them the URL for DialCleaner, but then I couldn't find it on Daz's site. Yet, in the Freebie Archive alright. Who'd a thunk it.

Thanks guys. I will check it out. Sounds like if you reintroduce any more morphs, all thsoe dials will appear gain...hmmm...very strange. I wonder if this will ever be corrected? One of my favorite features of maya is a menu item called "delete unused channels." It is great! Thanks again!

Actually, I seem to have a problem. The cleaner recognizes the cr2 files like mike 3 and vicki 3, but any that I have saved by adding the figure to my library are greyed out... any hints? Also, is there a way to get this to clean the actual poser file instead of having to save the characer and do all that mess?

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ockham has a python script called alt dial cleaner. I haven't used it so I'm not sure what all it does but it's my understanding it will claen the dials so you can save to the library. As far as grayed out, are you talking about the shrugging man in you library? If so just render to a new window, 91x91, yeah it's small, and save as a png to the folder you have the charater. Give it the exact same name. IE, your figure is called M3 with beard you would save the png as M3 with beard.

No no. When I am trying to open the cr2 file with DIAL CLEANER, the one I made is greyed out while the others (vivki mike etc) are not. Very strange...

OH, sorry, mis-understood :( Have you checked to make sure the figure extension is .cr2 Is is possible that you are using the compressed mode .cz2? Dial Cleaner won't read that.

Hmmm...strange. The extention is correct, but my file Icon is different. Instead of a poser icon, it is an excell icon. Did I save my figure to my library correctly? It appears in my figures pallette and it has the cr2 extention and a png image corresponding to the figure. Maybe if I associate that file type with poser? (But it already IS associated with poser...OTHER cr2 files have the poser icon....!) :(

Have you tried to open the file in wordpad, or another editor that can handle a large file? It should start out looking something like this: { version { number 4.2 } figureResFile :Runtime:Geometries:SLE:SLE_ogre.obj actor BODY:5 If you can load the figure back into Poser you can save it as a pz3 file. That is a scene file, it will contain everything in the scene: figure, props, lights, cameras etc. Then you can run it through Dial Cleaner and Import the document, I belive it's called, when you need it.

As a nubie to V3 I need some help also. Is it correct that the DialCleaner from DAZ hides the dials but does not actually remove the morphs? I was hoping to actually reduce the cr2 file size by removing unused morphs, so I downloaded the MorphDialCleaner by neilp in FreeStuff here that claims to remove the MT's, not just hide the dials -- but could not execute the .exe file in his .zip. (downloaded and tried twice in XPp) Didn't see a readme for neilp's app. Did I miss something?

you are correct about Daz's Dial Cleaner. It just changes the dial from unhidden to hidden. Haven't seen neilp's, off to investigate.