Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Stephanie 4 out..DAZ

thefixer opened this issue on Jun 24, 2010 · 198 posts


kobaltkween posted Fri, 25 June 2010 at 2:10 PM

no, i think you've misunderstood.  that wasn't a problem.  again, that sort of thing was really, really simple to do with search and replace.   like, literally 3 or so second's work each time.  i wasn't building, just editing.  much simpler.

what was a PITA to keep track of was what belonged to what.  Alice is a no brainer because she uses all the extra channels.  so without some sort of trick, she's won't play nice with others.  but NGM and NGM petite use a set that overlaps with the corvas shoulder fixes.  so i had to shift the shoulder fixes (iirc?  or was it the other way around?), and then keep everyone else off of all  those channels. 

it's not something that comes up if you either only use DAZ morphs or only use a couple of custom morphs. or even morphs that create their own channels on the fly.  but as soon as you use a lot of custom morphs at once, they start stepping on each other's toes.  and then the whole sets of files need editing.  which isn't a huge deal, but instead of the free-for-all created by the marketplace, i have to play traffic cop and create some order.  preferably an order that makes some kind of sense to me later.

as a for instance, i gave 10 community dials and 10 of the DAZ dials DAZ doesn't use to Rebelmommy morphs.  not all of them are filled, and maybe never will be, but i'm setting them aside just in case, because all of my Rebelmommy characters came with custom morphs.

it wasn't a technical problem.  not once i figured out what was happening, at least. it was a logistical one.

i did no scrolling whatsoever.  again, just search and replace batch edits.  really dead simple.  i don't think i needed to do anything remotely as complex as you do. 

that said, dealing with Alice is a technical issue.  without knowing some specifics, i can't really figure out a good way to do it.   oh!  that was the one time i did end up scrolling.  looking for the max number of community and daz channels.  frankly, i expected the information to be on her wiki, but no dice.   i couldn't find the information in the DAZ forums, either.  i was surprised, since it seemed like such a basic feature spec.