Can anyone from DaZ explain how to use these morphs properly? Are they meant to be joint controlled morphs, and if so, how are they best utilized in terms of settings?

What they are: the same as FBM except that they are contolled by one morph in the group - rather than a bit of script in the Body section. This is all new, but the way I think about it is like this: a breast morph that only involves the two collars and perhaps the chest, can be controlled by a morph in the central location (usually chest) and by turning this dial all are set (both breats). This is really useful for a morph like elbow fix. It involves the shoulder and forearm. The joint to bend at the elbow is a forearm channel. By having the controlling morph also a forearm morph both parts of the morph can be set as they were intended to be set from the same place as the joint channel. That is, you can do the fix while you and moving the joint. The knee fixes and both shin controlled. (DAZ saw what I did not - a way to do the squat morph. - It is not a JCM - the way Poser works now, it can not be a JCM.) The pbm designation on the morph dials is meant to inform that the morph is not supposed to be used in isolation. The Faery morphs, Narrow hip - all of the FBM morphs are supposed to be set from their central dials only. These morphs span several groups and if they are nor set all together, the seams between the groups get busted. One gets too large or too small in relation to its neighbor. DAZ is attempting an education process with this. It is evident from the large number of characters out there with busted seams, that the way to use these morphs is not widely understood. Every morph in a FBM or PBM should have identical settings.

The easiest way to enforce this, would be to just hide the dials of the constituent morphs in each group and only have the Body FBM or control PBM dial visible. But, unfortunately for this plan, when the five lines of ERC control is added to a morph channel, it can no longer be hidden. You can set to value to "1" but Poser ignores it.

It looks like it might be an idea if DAZ released a small user guide for Vickie 2 because these kinds of questions are going to be coming for a while. Heh, a user manual for a model, what a concept. (G)

Thanks Jaager. I was puzzled over these still not 100% but trial and error are some of the best ways to learn (ugh) I like Questers idea. DAZ post a user guide for your new victoria creation.

I am pretty sure that if the morph name starts with PBM it means : set this with another morph, do not use this one. DAZ did something interesting, a lot of the morphs are both FBM and PBM. The central PBM morph is itself controlled by a FBM dial in BODY. It is a chain- no necessary , but it offers more options. If they had done as I suggested, this would be foolproof. If you set the limits on the morphs to min = 0 max = 1 and set the force limits to "4" the morph behaves no matter what you do. But if you leave the default limits -10000/10000 and you turn the FBM and then turn the PBM or an individual morph - you can get it all arsy-varsy (P O'B). DAZ did not wish to limit the user. I say, if you do not know how to fix this limit, you have no business going outside it to begin with. And then we have the cross-talk problems coming on.