Hi...it's me again.  :-)

I have a question...well, duh...if she didn't have a question, she wouldn't be here.  ;-)  Nah, I haunt this place...

But my question is:  If I make a custom head for V4 in Zbrush, can this Morphing Clothes program be used to make a file to redistribute the morph only?

I've used Morphing Clothes on my last two freebies, I think, and had wonderful luck.  Just wonderful...the program works like a charm.

And my gut tells me that it could be used to redistribute a custom morph, without including the base mesh (because I can't redistribute Vicky's head obj) -- I just can't figure out how to do it.

Can someone enlighten me?  Can this program do what I'm trying to do, which is make a file to re-distribute the custom head morph only, without including an obj?

Thanks,

Jan

OT:  Thank you, Ariana!  :-)  That was very sweet.  I'll certainly accept the friend invitation, with thanks, and I look forward to more conversation!

BTW, I love your icon!

Back to product...Cage, she's probably right...since the software doc says the closer the fit, the better the morph, Ariana's advice makes sense.  :-)

Y'all know what?  I had no idea this forum was here before I started researching this software.  :-)  So good to meet everyone...

And thanx, D -- for that morph software.  ;-)

Me either, Ariana! :-))) They simply refuse to do what I want 'em to do -- they pull too much, too little, warp the mesh...ugh! Thankfully...hopefully...I'm done with those unless I need something custom. :-) But so far, my major problem has been getting my figures to fit other incarnations of Vicky. :-) Now..that's a snap! There is a god...

That's strange...Lord, why'd I get interested in this thread?

The morph maker made my upper body clothing look better!  :-)))  And I modeled from scratch.

I realize the developer can answer this question better than me, but I remember there are numbers that you can change giving you a 'quicker' morph and a 'smoother' morph. 

Perhaps you could play with those?

Thank you all for helping me...:-)

Okay, I talked to the guy at DAZ -- again -- and he said that DAZ smiled upon add-on content makers, as long as they did NOT use the actual geometry from the V4 figure.  Therefore, if a content maker wanted to make a morph to improve the functionality of an add-on item -- a bodice say -- then that was okay.  And it did not really matter whether the morph was made by man or by machine.

Sorta like what you said, pjz99.  :-)

So I guess I can use this clothing morpher without fear the DAZ team will come after me with their lawyers.  :-)))  (Just because I'm paranoid...that don't mean they ain't after me.)  :-)))

Oh!  Ariana, you will really love this little do-hickey.  It is...totally awesome!!!   And talk about a time saver!  I used to struggle with magnets for hours, trying to get the different looks of V4.

All right, I can go to the grocery store now, with an easy mind.

Thanks!  :-)

I did call DAZ yesterday, and the tech guy couldn't answer that question.  He said that, as far as he understood it, the only way copyright could be violated is if I used the actual geometry in V4, which I most definitely did NOT and never will.  Lordy, that'd be a nightmare to uv map properly -- in Lightwave anyway.

Maybe I should email DAZ...this is confusing...a morph is just calculations, right?  Moving x number of vertices this way and y number that way...I wonder if a 'morph,' in itself, is protected by copyright.  Not that I want to use anyone's but V4's, but...

Still, your software is wonderful!  I saw people mention that it should be part of every content developer's arsenal, so I'm assuming people are using it in the way I mentioned...

So...does anyone else have anything to throw in?  Any..."I've used Vicky's morphs in my commercial clothing and didn't violate any rules?"

Hi,

I tried this product, and it is wonderful!  I have a question though...if I model a bodice, for instance, for V4, am I allowed to transfer her morphs to that bodice and sell the bodice with the transferred morphs -- to save hours of work with the magnets?

I realize I could not transfer another bodice-modeler's custom morphs to my bodice, but since the item is to be modeled for V4 -- and I'm using her morphs to make the item more versatile...

Do you see what I'm asking?  Is it okay to 'make morphs' this way -- with your morph maker?

Thanks,

Jan