that's my problem with it... i actually based the morph on several people i know including a girl i've known since she was still a kid... even now at 20 she complains that her size 1 jeans are falling off... i wanted to do a figure other than the 5'10, 25 something amazonian type that everyone does... my g/f is only 5'4 and 120... and she still gets carded when she goes drinking at 30years of age because she doesn't look as old as she is..

go ahead and turn my mini-tut into a pdf if you like... i've already sent an email asking for my account here to be discontinued... but other users will get some serious bennefit from it i'm sure and i don't wanna see it lost... i'll continue to add new items to sharecg in my portfolio there and will be continuing to post from time to time over on the Daz site forums

I am sadly announcing that i am going to be closing my account here on rendo... after carefull consideration over the last few months... take care all... (if you have an questions i can still be reached via sharecg and my email included with my downloads...)

appearently my character morph image in my gallery was considered in violation of site rules... it's been removed... had not meant to offend

There was a set of facial barbells for v4... but could easily be shifted and manually parented to other body parts as well.... but darned if i can remember where i got them... try digging around renderotica.... also try looking here in rendo's freestuff area and maybe Most Digital Creations... adam's site has may have stuff like that... not sure

basic instructions for rigging.. lets see..

Step one... build your model as though for poser... grouping items into groupings as you model (these will be used as the "bone" groupings in skeleton set-up to rig the skeleton) and save the model out with the groupings saved (do not merge the groupings on export!)

make sure when you export the model you export at 1 to 1 scale (100% size) and that when you created it that it is in scale at that point with what ever figure it's intended for... also make sure that you set the siz relationship to "Feet" or "ft" so that it will be saved in poser scale (i covered this in my mini-tut for conforming items briefly and most of the instructions i give there apply to standard rigging as well)

Step 2...Import your new model into Skeleton set-up in Daz (as per importing the object in my mini-tut) and drag the new geometry into the "relationships" window... this will display the bones groups of the figure as a skeleton...

once you have the basic bones showing... drag each bone and drop it on whichever bone it should attach to (ie drag the "foot" bone down to the "shin" and drop it in place)... this creates a child bone with the groupings... continue this till all bones are fitted to those they need to attach to untill all your "bones" are in place...

Most of the instructions in my mini-tut also apply to rigging save that you have to group the skeleton yourself rather than importing one from a pre-rigged character...

after all the bones are set select "Create Figure" and follow the instructions in my mini-tut for saving the cr2... and that will have the basic figure set... works basically the same as the way you do conforming items in my tut up till this point... export the new cr2 as "base figure" and save as per instructions...

After that comes the hard part... i'll have to do a full tut at some point here because trying to explain this next part gets tricky and it'll be easier to follow with some pics and examples... you'll need to use the joint editor tool to set up joints and set the rotations and such properly so that things will bend where they should instead of flying all over the screen... lol

to edit the joints you'll have to load your newly created cr2 in daz (as you normally would for a pre-made figure (import the cr2 from daz's main menu) then open your joint editor tool and select the joint you wish to edit... that will give you the edit options... from there it's a matter of shifting the center-points for the joints so that they match with where the joint should be (all joint centers and ends start loaded on the "floor" of the scene and need to be moved into place using the X, Y, and Z position sliders...) and it becomes even more fun from here... lmao... you'll have to tune up the center and end points and establish rotational orders etc...

I'll do a full tut on this at some point but i'm pretty well tied up with other projects just now.. bear with me and i'll see what i can do...

Yw and Ty Madbat...

lmao... isn't a day goes by i don't at some point curse gates, windows and my comp gremlins in general... lmao

aint technology grand?.... lmao...

Seems to have alot of issues all over... runtimes don't hold as set properly and a whole host of graphics related glitches and probs... the forums here and just about everywhere are full of people trying to sort out glitches and issues... yay fun... lol

that's the other thing i'm not impressed with... lmao... now that they've switched to a pay/free combination and have basically re-written daz from scratch we're back to square one with glitches and probs... or is it just me?

lol... yeppers... and a few good tuts never hurt anything

just a quick question to the forum moderators... how would i go about getting this tut sticky'd or preserved over in the tut's section for reference purposes for users and members?