My morphs for Michael 4 aren't working in Poser 13. Any ideas?

Is this a new install of the morph package?

No. But i tried re-installing the morphs, but that didn't work.

When you say they don't work what do you mean? The store-bought M4 morphs? Something you made and saved? Are the morphs in the same runtime as the M4 figure? Are they initialized?

The V4 and M4 morph packages come with a BAT file that creates the morph dependencies so that the morphs work.

You SHOULD find it in the Runtime > Libraries > !DAZ folder. The filename is something like DzCreateExPFiles-(charactername).BAT

Run that batch file and a whole pile of files will be created while the DOS window displays the progress. Hopefully the morphs will work after that.

When I add a morph from the library, the morphs don't show up under morphs in the parameters tab. The morphs I'm referring to are the original ones that came from Daz when Mike 4 was launched. I will give the BAT file thing a try. thanks!

Yeah that BAT thing was the first introduction to what we now know as INJ/REM morphs. The base CR2 had placeholders for the morph data in it, but in order to actually ADD the morph data into the CR2 you had to run that BAT file. IIRC, all the "Millenium 4" figures had those BAT files.

That SHOULD make them work. If not, something else is amiss.

Yep, they did. When I acquired them, I was told they need to be installed in the same runtime the main figure was installed, plus run the BAT files. I went ahead and injected them all into a M4 figure, then saved that figure to my library so I don't have to do it all over again. Did the same to V4 before Sasha came out.

AFAIK the injection files also MUST not be compressed.

So if you let Poser compress (all) your runtime(s) to save space, these injection files must be uncompressed separately again.

That might be something to note, however, the OP does not elaborate any further about how the files were manipulated before this problem.  To offer this solution without further information may confuse the user.

I've always had to copy the !DAZ folder in Libraries into the main Poser runtime when I install a new version of Poser. Poser doesn't seem to find it if it's in an external runtime.

It's much easier to activate the morph channels and save the figure back to the Library so you can use it from any runtime.

It's much easier to activate the morph channels and save the figure back to the Library so you can use it from any runtime.

For some reason that doesn't work very well for me. Even with the same version of Poser, I often have to re-inject the morphs in a saved figure.

When I loaded a saved M4 for the first time in Poser 13, it gave me an error message about being unable to find [morph names]. Copied the !DAZ folder over from Poser 11, and all was well.

hborre posted at 8:08 PM Sat, 6 May 2023 - #4464496

It's much easier to activate the morph channels and save the figure back to the Library so you can use it from any runtime.

For some reason that doesn't work very well for me. Even with the same version of Poser, I often have to re-inject the morphs in a saved figure.

When I loaded a saved M4 for the first time in Poser 13, it gave me an error message about being unable to find [morph names]. Copied the !DAZ folder over from Poser 11, and all was well.

I always have "use external binary morphs" unchecked. It's less buggy than it used to be, but as of Poser 11 I've still had it occasionally nuke hours of work due to corrupting the file. The last time, I had ten figures, all dressed and posed.

I ended up going through the CR2 in a text editor, and removing all the calls to external morphs. The file opened then. The figures were all in their default settings, so I had to re-create all the characters, but it was better than having to dress and pose them all again.

I always have "use external binary morphs" unchecked. It's less buggy than it used to be, but as of Poser 11 I've still had it occasionally nuke hours of work due to corrupting the file. The last time, I had ten figures, all dressed and posed.

I ended up going through the CR2 in a text editor, and removing all the calls to external morphs. The file opened then. The figures were all in their default settings, so I had to re-create all the characters, but it was better than having to dress and pose them all again.

What's the advantage of creating that external file? Even if it works, it seems like it just creates the opportunity to accidentally separate two files that are useless without each other, not to mention cluttering up folders.

What's the advantage of creating that external file? Even if it works, it seems like it just creates the opportunity to accidentally separate two files that are useless without each other, not to mention cluttering up folders.

The BAT fix worked! Thanks. After reading your reply, I remembered that you did have to activate something from Daz before you could use the morphs.