You can leave the content where it is, and then somewhere in D/S4.x tell it where to look for content. [it's not on this computer so ? the exact terms atm]

As some may or not know, yes I was working on a tutorial for legacy rigging in D/S for a short dress on V4. Apparently the best result end result so far is not going to please very many people. So I have been trying all the ways I know of to make handles for a short skirt and that also is not working out very well in D/S4.6. Not that I ever mastered "handles", but still ... if time is money might want to consider the tutorials sold here for rigging in Poser.

One can stop at the hip bone and make all the poses, shapes required for the skirt as morphs. Rather time consuming but it's possible. One canNOT change the name of the bones on the Figure Setup Tab. One canNOT change the rigging of the thigh bones [what I was using to make handles] except to raise them straight up to the "belt" height [belt = hip]. On the Scene Tab one can rename the thigh bones to be "handles".

Next rock on the road: the "reset pose" feature, resets the figures to poses they do not load at. QuickStart and the BlankV4 have their feet flat. Translation into the clothing means the skirt goes wonky in the usual places. In checking the Parameters "per bone", there are a couple of settings for each "thigh/handle" bone that need to be manually reset to "0" for the clothing to look right. Those options tend to be not there when the item is "fit to" the figure.

So I tried another idea ... to model the dress "adjusted" and that's a no-go too. It then stays in the wrong place. BUT I noticed that the "shortcut" some of us use from time to time in Hexagon to get a unit together without loosing the uvmaps does NOT work with clothing items. The top was okay [chest and abdomen welded in D/S]. But the skirt was not [because the 2 "thighs" are not going to weld to each other as the rigging doesn't work that way]. This can be good news or bad depending upon what type of outfit one is designing. Bad if you're wanting a nice skirt. Good if you're wanting a skirt that will split in half down the middle ... but there is still then the front "V" issue to deal with ... maybe another day ... in the meantime, the fastest way to deal with those is to reload the item.

pruiz posted at 11:12AM Sun, 03 July 2016 - #4274450

Thank you Boudicca36. Does anyone know where the "full Optitex plugin" - paid version may be obtained?

It's a purchase item from Daz3D.com Once purchased, a new serial key will be in your Account on the Serial keys page. Open D/S as Admin and under the "about Plugins", there should be a place available to add the key.

One obtains updates on any product sold here [as far as I know] simply by downloading it again from your Account.

I'll hedge a guess that if you either provided a link [if it's from this site] or tell people where you got said item, then maybe somebody might be able to take a look at the item.

You're welcome, good luck ;-)

Happy you got something working there!

To manually update the DIM one used to go into one's Product Library and manually download the installer. Then right-click on the installer and run it as "Admin". The update normally took care of previous editions.

When updating any of the editions, be sure to also nab updated installers for the PostgreSQL and any other of the purchased plugins. Now I have NOT myself gone to this latest edition however in the past IF the DIM installer [or whatever they're calling it now] was among the items being updated [usually is], THAT I would always have to "install manually" because between the AV and OS, there was no way it was going to be permitted to run something to update itself. Once the manual install was done though, then DIM would work as expected [and log-in].

For those using D/S, I trust everybody is aware that one can use Genesis and the legacy shapes to get a head start for modeling clothing for the legacy items. Few pros and cons for the end result. Pro, stays in one piece :-) Con, no inj/rem morphs unless something has been developed I'm not aware of. [I still use D/S3 to make those]

Okay ... it's taking too long for a company which claims it will reply within a couple of working days to do so ... so that set of tutorial images has been scrapped.

Heat waves are getting rather extreme so creating more will have to wait until time and weather permits.

"In case" anybody is wondering, yes I do have another set of images ready to start editing for pasting into a tutorial HOWEVER the permissions request on a matter is taking longer than expected for to receive an answer. That's probably not a good sign so eventually may have to scrap it and work on another one HOWEVER we're also getting an early start on some heat waves which means the 'puters will be down quite abit.

1. I am not staff just another customer like you.
2. First time orders have to wait - it's a one time event - for the payment process to be manually checked first. Might take a day or so. Not to panic, the download link will be available as soon as possible.

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Glad you found the other post then too. Future orders are available right away :-)

I don't have said Photoshop and bridge however D/S has an image cache system. Possibly saving the new image with a new name and loading that will work for you.

atpo posted at 11:38AM Sun, 12 June 2016 - #4272221

Very thanks.

You are very welcome.

samsiahaija posted at 11:22AM Sun, 12 June 2016 - #4272226

boudicca36 posted at 1:51AM Sun, 12 June 2016 - #4272193

Not defending the setup lol ... just saying that one can check the "contributors" page, and then click on the "freestuff" link that's with each artist.

I don't know all of the contributor's names by heart. I probably could find Anthony Appleyard's ancient diver characters or something like that, but I would not look for any specific artist, (I think I only know about 2% by name) but rather for things that come in handy, which may or may not be very unexpected things I never knew I was looking for; stumbling upon unexpected treasures. In this case, I would look for freebies exclusive for Poser 8 to 11, published between 2010 and 2016, as I never picked those up, but I don't believe this site has a search engine qualified for something like that. And currently, browsing back through freebie history comes at a full stop in January 2016; the site currently no longer allows digging further back than that using the 'What's New" setting.

You don't need to know their names, "all" contributors page just grows longer and longer the more you scroll down it. As artists tend to specialize one can certainly [eventually] find the ones they favour and bookmark those free areas.