Getting Started

empty.pz2 is for transferring morph data over from a .cr2 file. it contains empty channels for head, neck, rEye, lEye. This specific file is designed for V4 but can be used on other models, you just need to make sure the body parts are named correctly.

There are several ways to create custom morphs and their INJ files but I’m only going to cover two.

First Way – Magnets & Morph Tool

1. You may use dials, magnets, or morph tool to create a custom character. After you have arrived to a morph that you want to keep, select the HEAD, and click “spawn morph target” from the OBJECT menu. This will create a dial at the bottom of the parameter dials window. it will be set at 0 initially. -DONT CHANGE IT-
2. Select the neck > OBJECT menu > spawn morph target. It will create a dial in the neck for you. now, SAVE your .PZ3 scene file.
3. Once saved, click on the upper right arrow of the parameter window and select “RESTORE”. this should empty out V4′s dials. if it doesn’t, set them all to zero. This includes all magnet and morph tool dials created.
4. Now select her head, and set your custom dial to 1, same with neck.
5. Save to the figures library. This creates a CR2 of your character with morph data and settings in tact.
6. Follow the screenshots attached below.

Second Way – load from .OBJ

1. Select the head > OBJECT > LOAD MORPH TARGET. Locate the .obj you morphed in an external program.
if you get an error about wrong # of vertices, something is wrong with your obj, either you left teeth, tongue, eyeballs, or some sort of body part or prop in when you exported and it will fail.
2. Once you have loaded the OBJ, a new dial will appear. Set it to 1, save to figure library, and follow the screenshots attached below.

Right click and select “download linked file”

Additional Notes

DAZ3D offers software to make this a little more ‘point and click’ friendly, but since they are old it may take some additional effort to setup the library files. If its requested, I will write a tutorial up on how to use these programs too.

1. Injection Pose Builder (windows only)
IPB Libraries for V4/S4/A4/G4/Elite/Muscle/Creature Downloads: 571 times
2. Injection Magic (windows only)
Injection Magic V4 Definitions Downloads: 553 times

Well I would love to help people learn these great programs but really, I have no idea what you want to know. So if you’ve got any questions, please leave them in the comments and I’ll do my best to help out.

I’ve taken my simple shader settings from this post and turned it into a shader preset. I’ve included a basic light set as well. These settings do not require any plugins.

Unzip to~
Windows: “C:\DAZ\Studio\” ( or whichever drive you have it installed )
OS X: “Applications\DAZStudio\”

Skin Shader

The skin shader can be found under “content\Shader Presets\VexSkin\”.

To apply the shader, make sure you have your skin texture applied to your model. Open the surfaces window and select all of the “Skin” parts ( lips, face, torso, limbs, etc ) and then go to your Shader Presets library and SHIFT + DOUBLE CLICK the “VexSkinShader” preset. This should apply the shader settings without changing your texture.

Light Set

The lights can be found under “content\Lights\VexLights\”

Preview

Preview of Shader and light set on Elite texture Lana from DAZ3D . Click for larger view.

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Click for link!

This tutorial uses Lyrra’s A4 Mag set from DAZ3D. You can use this technique to add morphs to your own clothing items as well.

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