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V4 not showing up in my "Shaping" panel

ericolsenericolsen Posts: 350
edited December 1969 in The Commons

Hi guys, does anyone know what exactly needs to be installed (I'm using the DAZ install manager here) for V4 to show up as a shaping option for Genesis? I've installed V5 with the DIM and it shows up correctly in the Shaping panel, but after installing V4 it does not. This is after I installed the "V4.2 base" product, which the DIM is placing in the same library area as it did V5. Is there another V4 product I need to install for it to show up in Shaping? I

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  • scorpioscorpio Posts: 8,413
    edited December 1969

    Victoria 4.2 is not a morph for Genesis but a figure.
    If you want V4.2 for Genesis you can either transfer the shape with GenX or use this which are morphs for Genesis
    http://www.daz3d.com/v4-and-m4-shapes-for-genesis

  • ericolsenericolsen Posts: 350
    edited June 2014

    Thanks for replying; well, actually I just bought Genx and I'm trying to transfer over a V4 face to Genesis. I went through the tutorial and I did create a morph that shows up now for Genesis, but seems to do very little. The manual said that V4 needs to be selected in the Shaping panel for the morph to work correctly, and V4 doesn't show up in the shaping panel (just v3 and v5 do). So I thought maybe I needed to install V4 again to a new location for DS to pick it up correctly.

    The Genx manual says: "Important: While all morphs work somehow on any shape, you will only get the original shape if
    you apply the transferred morphs to Genesis after setting the base shape of the according legacy
    figure (e.g. Victoria 4). Legacy morphs are not included in GenX2, but the clone morphs for
    legacy figures are automatically transformed into real morphs by GenX2."

    So how do I set the base shape of Genesis to V4 if it's not in the shaping panel?

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  • ericolsenericolsen Posts: 350
    edited December 1969

    scorpio64dragon said:
    Victoria 4.2 is not a morph for Genesis but a figure.
    If you want V4.2 for Genesis you can either transfer the shape with GenX or use this which are morphs for Genesis
    http://www.daz3d.com/v4-and-m4-shapes-for-genesis

    So, is genx by itself enough for transferring a morph from V4 to Genesis? If so, I'm not sure what the Genx manual means when it says "you will only get the original shape if you apply the transferred morphs to Genesis after setting the base shape of the according legacy
    figure (e.g. Victoria 4).".

  • icprncssicprncss Posts: 3,694
    edited December 1969

    ericolsen said:
    scorpio64dragon said:
    Victoria 4.2 is not a morph for Genesis but a figure.
    If you want V4.2 for Genesis you can either transfer the shape with GenX or use this which are morphs for Genesis
    http://www.daz3d.com/v4-and-m4-shapes-for-genesis

    So, is genx by itself enough for transferring a morph from V4 to Genesis? If so, I'm not sure what the Genx manual means when it says "you will only get the original shape if you apply the transferred morphs to Genesis after setting the base shape of the according legacy
    figure (e.g. Victoria 4).".

    No it isn't. To transfer morphs from V4 to Genesis, you need both GenX and the V4 Legacy Shape for Genesis. This is a separate product. It does not matter if you have the V4 figure. They are not the same.

  • ericolsenericolsen Posts: 350
    edited December 1969

    Ah, okay, thanks, that's what I needed to know. Here goes another $5 off my next $30 purchase!

  • ericolsenericolsen Posts: 350
    edited December 1969

    Yes the mophs look good now after getting the v4 shape for genesis.

    Does this mean I also need to buy the v4 shape for genesis 2 if I want to transfer morphs? I mean on top of the genx addon I know I would need to get.

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