DocMatter opened this issue on Feb 01, 2019 ยท 8 posts
KarinaKiev posted Thu, 21 February 2019 at 4:54 PM
The real problem here is to separate the "Face Shape" dials from the "Expression dials, which isn't easy.
If you choose one of the simpler "Spawn..." ways as described above, you might end up with a morph which will also zero any expressions applied (or re-inject them if you had any expression applied during save), because all morphs are saved with their current values.
You can see the inverse effect with badly made expressions which reset your dialed face to default if you click them.
So without a script made explicitly for V4, you'ld have to manually edit the pz2 files.
Thus, the other suggestion made to select the head (and after that, the neck too) and use Poser menu "Spawn Morph Target" is an easier way to go. But that also has it's caveats:
ALWAYS make sure that there are NO other morphs applied to head & neck, AND!! that ALL OTHER body morphs AND the scaling (esp. for head & neck) is at their default zero.
Remember that this method only modifies the mesh of the head. Any other adjustments you (or the morphs you applied) made are NOT saved in the new morph target. So if you changed the eye width, height or depth (which make the eyeballs follow suite in the original morph dial) will NOT appear in your spawned morph target, so you must readjust them manually. Not for the faint at heart...
Do yo know how to edit a pz2 file? DO you have Dimension3D's "PoserFileEditor"? https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/poser-file-editor-3/62322
If you don't have it, buy it! It's your Swiss Army Knive to Poser's inner workings.
VERY brief instruction:
Save your figure as an "Expression" to the Face library. ! Make sure that you really only have the morps dialled which are used for the character! Then open the resulting fc2 file with PFE.
In PFE, go to menu "Repair" > "remove unused dials / groups" Click it! and then do the same with "remove unused value parameters"
This will remove all dials left at zero, and only the ones you dialed in will remain.
Save your file under a new name (maybe make a pz2 of it, it works!) and then test the new injection.
Works perfect for me all of the time! Hope that helped.
Karina
P.S.:
Since you're using V4: Have you ever met SASHA-16?
http://sasha-16.forumprofi.de/forumdisplay.php?fid=6