Is there a way to rescue a .duf that went crazy?

[Dakorillon (IMArts)]

I was working on a mane, working on individual mane pieces to resize and reshape them for a project. and suddenly the whole screen went white. I went back and saved each of the pieces again as scene subsets and then restarted DAZ, that usually fixes stuff, only now the icon is totally white! I was able to get two of the pieces to reload, although their icons are all white, too. But if I load the Mane it all goes white again. If I delete the mane, the other two pieces are still there. I have done HOURS of work on this, so wondering if there is a way to rescue it? Thanks.

 

[Dakorillon (IMArts)]

Okay, did a bunch of research on the DAZ forums and found you could open duf files with 7zip. I did that, and found a weirdness, in that a bunch of lines that should be 0,1 or 2 had "true" in them and one had 8.5! I did a find and replace with "1" and saved and it's working now! Just in case anyone else has problems like this, I thought I would post the answer.

 

[Dakorillon (IMArts)]

Okay, if you save a morph in DS, where does it go to? How do I find it and apply it?

 

[Leana]

How did you save it? As a morph asset? If so the morph file should be in the data folder for your figure, under Morphs/<your name>/<product name>, as <your morph>.dsf
It should be available from the parameter pane when you select your figure

 

[Dakorillon (IMArts)]

Okay, I'll look for it. Yes, as a morph asset.

 

[Pendraia]

It will show up in the parameters where ever you have placed it. It's also possible to edit the path so you can change where it shows up.

 

[Dakorillon (IMArts)]

lol. That was the issue! I didn't know where it was placed! But, I have found them now (I have 3 now). Thank you!

 

[Pendraia]

: )

 

[Ken1171]

I have a similar question about DS. - I have saved a non-TriAx figure to the library, and it creates the "auto-generated" data folder with all the morphs. But if I edit one of them, we cannot save it as a morph asset. We get an error message claiming it can only be done if I convert the figure to TriAx. How can we save edited morphs in non-TriAx figures?

 

[Pendraia]

Not sure Ken...I've only ever done it with a triax figure or Genesis 3. Have you used legacy rigging or is it a prop?

 

[RAMWolff]

From what I know of Ken's project it's an imported cr2. I added some ideas to his main thread.... seems most of them are not going to work.

Ken, if your still in a quandary about this go to the DAZ 3D forums and ask there. I'm sure more knowledgable, maybe even Richard Haseltine may know how to help you.

 

[Pendraia]

Good advice Ram...Richard can solve most things if it is possible to do he will know.

 

[Kerya]

I have a similar question about DS. - I have saved a non-TriAx figure to the library, and it creates the "auto-generated" data folder with all the morphs. But if I edit one of them, we cannot save it as a morph asset. We get an error message claiming it can only be done if I convert the figure to TriAx. How can we save edited morphs in non-TriAx figures?

Does this help? Legacy morphs?

 

[Ken1171]

What they say is that we can't save morphs unless the figure is Triax. They suggest exporting back to CR2 using DS, which would somehow preserve some kinds of morphs, but currently I am having trouble saving ERCs with multiple keys. Whenever I freeze ERC for one key, it seems to forget all the others. Once I solve that, I can come back to the morph saving issue.