Ugly figures (only?) in DAZ-Studio

NudeFan · 2021-08-04T12:56:32-04:00

Until now this happens twice to me. All trouble causing figures I found in RenderHub, therefore here a short description of the problem, analysis and even a suggestion for a fix. From a certain time I noticed, that some figures I loaded looked more or less ugly, especially very nice figures I bought appeared pretty different to the promotional pictures. Affected were only G8 Females, other figures looked like before. The G8F Base figure appeared also a little different but wasn't ugly. Other figures had mainly strange faces or the pectoral area showed either to large or even inverted breast. Some figures could be accepted, others where that ugly that you can't use them at all. By chance I checked in the first case the 'Currently used' Parameters and saw, that there a figure had been loaded I didn't load. I set the parameters to zero and my figures appeared like expected. Somehow for each G8F figure a shape had been loaded automatically. Since this figure was for free and not really my taste I had no big problems to delete it. Since I had the original ZIP-File for this figure I could reproduce which files belong to it and deleted the correct files. In the second case I bought a bundle with 5 figures where I already had one out of them. So I installed the remaining 4 and checked them out. One figure out of them looked really nice, the others really ugly: Very small, sharp edges in the faces the pectoral area showed almost no breast and for sure not in a nice shape. Since also other figures I checked before appeared ugly after installing that bundle, this old issue came into my mind. But here I did not succeed with checking the 'Currently used' Parameters. So I did something different: I loaded a raw G8F figure, saved it as 'Shaping Preset' (Take care, that this file is uncompressed!) Then I opened it in a suitable editor like NotePad++ and saw a few 1000 line groups like: { "url" : "name://@selection#PBMShouldersSize:?value/value", "keys" : [ [ 0, 0 ] ] }, Now I had to search for the lines where the parameters behind "keys" were unequal [ [ 0, 0 ] ]. To ease this, I simply replaced all strings with "keys" : [ [ 0, 0 ] ] with something like 'Ok' and searched then for the remaining lines with "keys". Beside some issues with the eye lashes I found one line like: { "url" : "name://@selection#Bad%20Girl:?value/value", "keys" : [ [ 0, 1 ] ] }, Then I searched in the studio for the Parameter 'Bad Girl', it was set to 1, I set it to 0 and my figures looked all like expected. Since this figure wasn't for free and it looked beautiful I didn't want to uninstall it. I dig a little in the folder structure of the studio and found under …\Data\DAZ 3D\Genesis 8\Female\Morphs\ a sub folder for the vendor and the figure with a file like 'Bad Girl.dsf'. I opened this file and saw in the first few lines of it a block like: "channel" : { "id" : "value", "type" : "float", "name" : "Bad Girl", "label" : " Bad Girl", "auto_follow" : true, "value" : 1, "min" : 0, "max" : 1, "clamped" : true, "display_as_percent" : true, "step_size" : 0.04 }, Here I changed the "value" to 0 and afterwards all figures appeared as expected again. If you face similar issues, maybe this description may help you to fix it.