Geographic Dawn????

[AlphinaNovaStar]

can Dawn be geographed so she can get a tail or digigrade feet? Or are the feet better with morphs?
How about make Dawn a cyclops or give her a third eye?
I think my night medicine makes me loopy. If I can make geography for Dawn, is it possible to convert them to Dusk or Luna so I can make a whole family of cyclops?

Also if I make it work will it work in both software?

 

[Pendraia]

Yes in ds... that is if you're talking about geografting?

 

[AlphinaNovaStar]

Yes geografting. I am on an iPhone which does not understand what a geograft is or how to spell it.

 

[Bonnie2001]

iPhones know everything.

 

[Pendraia]

Geografts are DS only...poser iirc uses alternate geometry but I don't know how that works...

 

[Semicharm]

Geografts are DS only...poser iirc uses alternate geometry but I don't know how that works...

Poser's alternate geometry is similar to Daz's geografting, except it swaps the geometry of the entire body part (ie Hip or lFoot). The downside to Poser's older solution is that the original body morphs usually were not compatible with the replacement geometry and couldn't easily be transferred to it. Also, the alternate geometry channel(s) couldn't be injected or "graphed" onto an existing figure. They had to be embedded in the original figure file to work properly.

Previous versions of DS used to support this, but was probably dropped because it was no longer compatible with the "unimesh" geometry system they created for Genesis. I think DS actually converts everything to unimesh internally. That's also why Poser PMD morph injections no longer work in new versions of DS, not even with older Poser figures that used them.

 

[Pendraia]

Huh...interesting Semicharm...I knew they worked quite differently but didnt know exactly how. Thanks for the info...

 

[ben]

Poser's alternate geometry is similar to Daz's geografting, except it swaps the geometry of the entire body part (ie Hip or lFoot). The downside to Poser's older solution is that the original body morphs usually were not compatible with the replacement geometry and couldn't easily be transferred to it. Also, the alternate geometry channel(s) couldn't be injected or "graphed" onto an existing figure. They had to be embedded in the original figure file to work properly.

Previous versions of DS used to support this, but was probably dropped because it was no longer compatible with the "unimesh" geometry system they created for Genesis. I think DS actually converts everything to unimesh internally. That's also why Poser PMD morph injections no longer work in new versions of DS, not even with older Poser figures that used them.

The Poser Geometry swapping does work again in Daz Studio 4.9

It didn't as Daz Broke it a couple of time in Ds 3 and 4 -
I spent months filling in bug reports and uploading log files trying to to get them to fix support for Michael 2 and products like the Changing Fantasy Suit for Vicky and Michael - with a couple of other customers we got it fixed in the end - When DS 5 comes out I probably wouldn't count on it working though

 

[RAMWolff]

I wish my brain wasn't so old as I'd love to learn this. My Pan project for Dusk I created digitigrade legs for him with nice hooves and would have LOVED to "solder" those on to him. I tried making them a conformer and that was a disaster so for now I'm stuck with just parenting them to his hip and turning off all his lower body bits to make it look right.

 

[Pendraia]

Thanks for the info Ben...I didn't know that they had fixed it.

 

[Semicharm]

The Poser Geometry swapping does work again in Daz Studio 4.9

It didn't as Daz Broke it a couple of time in Ds 3 and 4 -
I spent months filling in bug reports and uploading log files trying to to get them to fix support for Michael 2 and products like the Changing Fantasy Suit for Vicky and Michael - with a couple of other customers we got it fixed in the end - When DS 5 comes out I probably wouldn't count on it working though

It seems to work now for figures that used the old Poser gens toggle option. In others I've tried so far, the geomChan channel options show up, but none of them work. shrug It's at least progress.

 

[ben]

It seems to work now for figures that used the old Poser gens toggle option. In others I've tried so far, the geomChan channel options show up, but none of them work. shrug It's at least progress.

Hmm. I can only remember a few items that used the geometry swapping - Michaels genitals, Michael and Victorias' Changing Fantasy Suit and an old Changing Hair of some description most by Anton - and a swappable necklace by - sigh I've forgotten his name - think he has a dancing fox as his avatar.

I did try Michael 2 this week so I know he still works and I just tried Michaels' Changing Fantasy Suit and that does still work in Daz Studio -
not all the items have swappable geometry and some bits have to be hidden if you don't want to use them but that's how it always worked.
I'm surprised a lot of the old content still works to be honest.

 

[Pendraia]

Didn't some of Nursoda's figures use alternate geometry also?

 

[daywalker03]

Yes, the DS version of Dawn can have geografts, and I'd love to know how to do the alternate geometry in Poser, since I just finished installing Poser 11 on this PC. It would be useful for my Dawn based figure.

 

[ben]

Didn't some of Nursoda's figures use alternate geometry also?

Not sure about Nursodas' figures - but you did remind me that Smays' Gosha uses alternate geometry for his genitals - he always reminds me of Crazy Frog when they're loaded lol

 

[Pendraia]

Could be that I'm mixing them up... yes been a while.