miked123 opened this issue on Mar 14, 2005 ยท 29 posts
duckmango posted Wed, 23 March 2005 at 2:35 PM
Howdy miked123: I was writing this while you posted: I picked up a megaionstorm product (for a BillyT swimsuit) from the Rendo marketplace because I didn't own any pbm-only clothes that could be used for testing purposes. Well, after following his/her readme and making the new cr2 with the pbm morphs, I'm seeing a problem. Basically, for any body part, there are more similiarly named morph dials than I anticipated. For example, in the chest, there's a pbmBreastSize5_rc and a pbmBreastSize5_lc, which of course is mentioned in the readme you posted. However, there's also a third dial that's simply named BreastSize5, which frankly, I didn't expect to see. So, following megaionstorm's readme, the script will have to ignore the dial whose name matches the FBM in the figure and find the pbm dials. However, for the Barbarian1 morph, in the chest there's dials named 'Barbarian1', 'pbmBarbarian1_rC' and 'pbmBarbarian1_ab'. (There's probably a 'pbmBarbarian1_lc' as well.) Anyway, again according to the readme, the script is now supposed to find the Barbarian1 dial and ignore the pbm dials -- pretty much the opposite of the BreastSize5 morph. So basically, I didn't expect these excess dials in the body parts -- you don't see these things in the Daz's morphing clothes that I own. I was anticipating a script that only needed some simple matching and copying between the figure's FBM dial name and the clothes PBM dial name; now it's "well, if the FBM has 'breast' in it, follow rule 1; else, follow rule 2". The upshot of this is : 1) Since megaionstorm products actually don't have any FBMs in the clothes, the beta I posted won't do anything on them. But, FWIW, it's works great in P5 on clothes with matching FBMs to the figures. 2) Is some sort of fitting script for megaionstorm products still doable? Sure, but it'll be only useful for that merchant's product line, and as long as the merchant maintains the morphing/naming conventions. The script is going to look more like a kludge, but it's still doable. 3) Honestly, I started to think that I'd drop this script and leave this problem for megaionstorm. (No, I haven't contacted him.) But you know, since I'm extremely skeptical that anything I write will have any impact on anyone's buying decisions, and since I'm just killing time until my P6 arrives, I think I'll still work on it. Have a good one...I'll post something if it looks promising.