Questions on Morphs
Q. What is a morph and how do I use it?
A. Morphs are like plastic surgery. They are alterations to the model. (Guess what the most popular morphs are. Yep, female breast morphs!) When you load a morph, you get a dial that will calculate the difference between the original model and the modified model. The higher the value, the closer the figure will be to the changed model. (Above 1.0, [1.0=100%], the morph extends past the modelled change, keeping it proportional to the difference between the original and the modified figure.)
Loading a morph is easy. Click on the body part to be changed, such as the face. Click on Object: Load Morph Target, then point to the location of the morph on your computer. Give the morph dial a distinctive name. Spin the dial to see how it looks.
Note: You can only use the morph for the figure it was created for. You can not use Victoria's morphs on Posette. (And don't even try Victoria's morphs on the Dork. That's just wrong!)
There are sites with tutorials for creating morphs, such as Traveler's Morph World 3.0.
Q. What are INJectable and REMovable morphs?
A. This was pioneered by DAZ for their Generation
3 figures. (Victoria 3, Michael 3, etc.) Morphs take up a lot of memory,
so DAZ found a way to store the morph information outside the character
file. You load the figure up, go to the Pose library, and inject only
the morphs you need. (Victoria 3 with all the morphs injected is over
100MB! Victoria 3 itself is only about 2MB.)
If you plan to use a figure with the same morphs over and over again, you have a few options. After you inject the morphs you need and set the values, you can:
1) Save the figure to the library.
2) Spawn a full body morph, remove the original morphs, then save that one to the library.
3) Use Injection Pose Builder to create a Pose file that will automatically inject the morphs you want and set their values for you. (You can also write the Pose file by hand, but it's a pain.)
Note: you can not redistribute morphs made using INJected morphs, even if you combine them with your own morphs.
Q. I injected some morphs and nothing happened!
A. Once you inject the morphs, you then
set the values you want. If you don't see the morph dials show up, select
a different body part, then go back to the original one. Poser doesn't
refresh the dial list automatically. I've had a few people tell me that
they have to change rooms in Poser 5 to get the morphs to show up, but
I haven't had that problem, personally. (I have had P5 forget how to use
full body morphs, use the wrong morphs, etc., but the morphs themselves
will show up for me.)
Q. I saved a figure to the library, now
there's all these weird dials whenever I load the character.
A. This can happen with figures that use
injected morphs. The morph names are contained in the figure file, just
not the actual morph information. Morph names are hidden until the actual
morph information is injected into the figure. Unfortunately, sometimes
Poser will unhide those morph names once the figure is saved to the library.
Dial Cleaner (in the DAZ
freebie archive) will rehide the empty morphs. There is also a python
script by ockham that will do the same thing available at Renderosity
in the Free Stuff area. (Python scripts are for PP and P5 only.)