*I rarely find the "built in " emotion dials useful.

*When used alone they are, but I found out that the combination of emotion dials can make some realistic emotions: It's almost like a recipe: take 0.6 of smile, add 0.2 Fear, and finish it with 0.3 of surprise and you have a pretty smile.
Here is a unmorphed, plain V4 with a good skinshader, Gloria short hair, and the emotionsettings above.
And there are more settings you can combine: evil smile: combine happy and angry,
a mocking smile : happy and disgust, very mad: angry, disgust and surprise. You can use surprise too exagarate emotions, because surprise rarely stands alone: you can have a happy surprise or a nasty surprise or a surprise  when you see how much tax you have to pay.
For quick emotions I find these dials really useful, but for more subtile emotions I use the V4 -Base-settings, and I have to agree that a face morph not always works with pre-baked emotions. Especially the G2-figures are terrible: you can make a nice face with the face-room , but the emotiondials just ruins the moprh.
A lot of patience is aquired to make real emotions, an advice: use a mirror and look mad, or sad or happy and look how your own face change. But beware: if the clock strikes twelve or you'll keep that face. (old dutch superstition)

Best regards,

Bopper.

-How can you improve things when you don't make mistakes?