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Really need help with a tutorial that seems to be out of date

darkechibi_04af5cd505darkechibi_04af5cd505 Posts: 0
edited December 1969 in The Commons

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/userguide/creating_content/assembling/tutorials/creating_joint_controlled_morphs/start

This tutorial seems to be out of date could anyone help me by supplying an update to it or explaining what it is that I should be doing as of the most recent version.
Thanks

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,765
    edited December 1969

    I'll point out that the tutorial needs updating. In the meantime, the Property Editor has been replaced as its performance on some systems was unacceptable (it used to take forty minutes to populate with Genesis selected on my machine); now we can put the Parameters pane into Edit mode by right-clicking on it, or from the pane's option menu, which replaces the left half of the Property Editor and the new Property Hierarchy pane replaces the right half of the Property Editor.

    So, having created the morph as before in the tutorial and reached "Step 4: Hook Up the JCM" you need to click the menu button in the top corner of the Parameters pane and select Edit mode, if it doesn't already have a tick next to it, and you need to open the Property Hierarchy pane. Next you find the Goblin morph in the Property Hierarchy and the JCM in the Parameters pane, then you expand the entries under the Goblin morph until you see Sub-Components. Now you drag the JCM from the Parameters pane onto the 2nd Stage heading under the Goblin Sub Components; if you then expand the entry that's been added to the hierarchy you will see the link properties, including the ERC type, which you can set as required. Repeat the steps with the bend control - in this case, find the bend in the Property Hierarchy, expand to get to Sub Components, and drag the JCM onto the 1st Stage heading.

    Aside from being split into two panes, the big changes are that the link properties appear under the property name rather than in a box at the bottom of the dialogue, and that there are now two sub-groups for 1st Stage (add and subtract) and 2nd Stage (multiply and divide).

  • darkechibi_04af5cd505darkechibi_04af5cd505 Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Thank you for the help. This has definitely gotten me a little further but I am a little confused about a couple of things. I drag and drop in the morph to the Second Stage Subcomponent, but the entry "Link" is blank. I do find, however, under Attributes, "type" is "ERC Multiply". Is this the same thing? I assumed it was and continued on but I cannot find anything called Bend Control nor any reference to it besides the tutorial linked to earlier. What is Bend Control? Using the tutorial, I went to the bones in the Property Hierarchy but the bones do not have any kind of a drop-down. Did I do something wrong?
    Your advice and help is greatly appreciated.
    DC

  • darkechibi_04af5cd505darkechibi_04af5cd505 Posts: 0
    edited May 2014

    EDIT: Found my copy of 4.5. trying it now
    Unfortunately I cannot seem to get GOZ to work with the older copy.

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  • darkechibi_04af5cd505darkechibi_04af5cd505 Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Well i went back to 4.6 and tried again. the dropdown on the bones were missing since search was still active. my fault, oops. I found some more help and was able to work it out. due to a few things its not correct but I think I havethe technique now. thanks for all the help.!

  • wqwwqw Posts: 11
    edited December 1969

    Hope to be able to update the teaching, I met the same problem as Darkechibi.

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