Is there any kind of a utility to automatically remove morphs with no values from a unimesh CR2? For example, I like to load all the body and face morphs into V3 when turning her into a character. Once I've finalized the character, I'd like to automatically remove any morphs that I didn't use (with zero values). Is there any way to automatically do that? Thanks.

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Ockham has some python scripts to remove empty morph dials. Maybe you'll find what you're looking for there.

PhilC's Poser Tool Box has a python script that spawns a new morph target of each part so you can REM all the morphs you used or did not use to create the character. I think I paid $39 or something like that to buy it at his site and it was worth it even for someone like me who really has not much money. The other tools in the set are great too. Here above is a SP3 character made with all the SP3 channels injected. Tool Box spawned morphs to all the body parts and set them to 1.0. I used the REM pose to remove all the DAZ morphs except the basic expressions etc. that the SP3 is base has. Then I created the Full Body Morph and used the Tool Box button to zero all the figure's morphs including my new one so I could dial up the character with the Full body Morph. http://www.philc.net/

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The free upgrade, which the beta testers are just giving a finale once over, includes this option.

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Thanks for those suggestion. I'll definitely consider them when I get into P6. But I should've been more specific. Is there any third-party utility that will do this for P4 figures?

Yes, the Poser Tool Box will work with any figure. In fact I did most of the development using the P4 figures as test models.

I meant in Poser 4. (No Python in Poser 4.)

Injection pose builder over at DAZ will read all of the non zeroed morphs in a character and spit out a custom injection morph pose which will only load those morphs. the added bonus is that this injection morph pose is fully distributable. IPB is a seperate program so it will work with any version of poser.

And cheap too for Platinum club members. How is IPB different from Injection Magic?

Won't Dial Cleaner clean the unused dials? It's in DAZ's Free Stuff.

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Dial cleaner will hide empty morph channels but will not actually remove morphs that have been loaded and are unused. as far as the difference between IPB and injection magic, they are very similar programs and do almost the same thing but injection magic offers the ability to add blank injection channels to a figure. that is the main difference.

Yes it does. Thanks for pointing it out :)

Yes, Dial Cleaner really does what you want, and it's free!

True, if azl just wanted to hide the dials. However, as wdupre pointed out, Dial-Claener does not actually remove the morphs, so the .cr2 does not become any smaller, it that's what azl was looking for.

I guess IPB seems to be the best choice then.

Perhaps azl didn't originally describe what was desired? Injection Pose Builder is a tool you use to share or sell characters you've already made. People apply the resulting INJect & REMove files to their base characters. You have Pose files, not the characters themselves. This is useless if you don't want to share or sell characters. If all you want is a character saved into your Character Library, you want Dial Cleaner.

It sounds like it will be time to dig out the credit card when PhilC gets the new Toolbox out. I was inches from buying the first release, and someone grabbed my hand. M

I just did a test. Zeroed a Posette with the joint parameter box button. Morphed it. Exported the mesh to the P4 Nude Woman geometry folder as "test.obj". Opened the Posette .cr2 it EditPad Lite and searched for ".obj". Changed figureResFile :Runtime:geometries:P4NudeWoman:P4NudeWom.obj to figureResFile :Runtime:geometries:P4NudeWoman:test.obj and save as PosetteTest.cr2 in my People character folder. Opened it and there was my character. the rigging was working, the figure was posing well, and the morph chanels on the .cr2 were still working. The idea is that with a Unimesh figure maybe you could do this and have the .cr2 of the "Blank" figure character repointed to the new character. Obviously to redistribute you would need to package the edited .cr2 with an encoded object.

How did you get the Posette so lifelike looking?

I have a figure in the marketplace from back in 2000 when I was TOSed from a bunch of providers for simple non-sexual Poser nudity. I am not so proud of it being in MP given it was pre-V2 and is getting old, but people still use it for "supporting characters" and animation, some who just have old computers. I use it for scenes where the "sets" or "scenes" takes up huge memory. I only sold it since I could not get it hosted, and I only set the price as I did because that was half what a single head only Posette character sold for back in those days. I guess I don't regret it though since the money I get at MP is the only money I have for Poser content since I became disabled. I recently updated the male and female "morf" characters... I think the female update has a bunch of genital morphs and some facial expressions added to the face sculpting morphs. It has Full Body Morphs for teen, ancient, and fat that can be dialed in at intermediate values. The figure above is 0.2 young and 0.3 heavy and the waist set 90% x-scale. The texture above is by Loseth Stale available as a freebie at http://home.online.no/~kjellil/Index-AllStuff.htm and which probably has a lot to do with it... his textures are utterly amazing. They far surpass any commercial Posette textures I think. Stale also has a wonderful morphing Posette you will see there (but it does not take standard P4 textures I don't think) and Poser's Little Helper which I believe makes INJ character morphs from a single exported geometry, I am not sure, my computer is quite old and won't run the application.