Installing Facegen Pro

rcousineau2007_22c883170d

I just purchased FaceGen Pro from Daz and manually downloaded the installation package. Where do I install it so it shows up in Daz. I just installed the newest version of Daz3d.

Thanks for helping a confused newbie.

Roger in Tucson

BeeMKay

If you have installed DS in the default spaces, then Facegen will connect properly to Studio.

nonesuch00

FaceGen Artist Pro itself doesn't show up in DAZ Studio but what it does when you export the FaceGen morphs generated in FaceGen Pro you choose Genesis, G2M, G2F, G3M, or G3F and it then knows where to save it's morph and texture files by looking at your DAZ content directory root path.

Then after the FaceGen morph you have created is expoorted you either start or exit and start again DAZ Studio and then you load a DAZ People/Figure model that matches the generation of DAZ 3D model you exported from FaceGen Artist Pro. After that you click in the scene tab to select the model you loaded and want to apply the FaceGen morph to and go to the Shaping Tab (by default on the right hand side below the Scene Tab on the top right hand side) and click on the Head shaping submenu entry and to the right you start scrolling done the list of head morphs until you find the morph you created in FaceGen (the parameter you typed in the text entry box in FaceGen when you exported will be what it is called in DAZ Studio) and from there move the slider right until at 100%.

The textures created by FaceGen Artist Pro must be added to the new morphed model you have manually in the Surfaces tab. They are located in in <DAZ Content Directory Root>/runtime/textures/Facegen> if I remember correctly. However, I find unless the person you made a morph of have some sort of special identifying moles, or unusuall identifying marks you can get as good or better results finding a texture set in the DAZ Store that is very similar. That's not always the case though so try both. The texture set FaceGen Artist Pro creates is really not at 100% mapping of the photo but a photo mapped to a texture and then ORed with a generic texture set compatible with DAZ Studio model UV and then the colors altered to match the color it thinks the photo most closely matches in real life so it doesn't necessarily create a texture set that matches the person more than one you might purchase from DAZ 3D Store plus the FaceGen texture set is missing bump maps and all those things that DAZ 3D store models have as part of their material settings. 

rcousineau2007_22c883170d

Thanks for the great answers and information. If it weren't for tutorials on the web and this forum I wouldn't be doing anything 3d.

RBaez4477

I just purchased FaceGen pro and I am having trouble installing it to the proper place in order for it to work along with Daz studio. Am I supposed to install it within the My Daz subfolders? If so, where exactly should it be?