Jay Versluis
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Saving Corrective Blend Shapes for Body Morphs in Daz Clothing
🕑 Added 2024-03-18 13:30:43 +0000 UTCHappy Monday everyone!
Today I have a quick early access video for you in which I'll explain how we can store Corrective Blend Shapes in our outfit. Much like Joint Corrections, our clothing can distort when we dial in custom shapes that out outfit doesn't know. Once again Daz Studio creates an automatic morph but doesn't always know how to handle this, so it's up to us to make a correction, then save that morph manually.
This can be done one by one, or you can save several morphs together if you've made multiple corrections. It's probably one of the more time consuming things to add to an outfit, but it assures customers don't run into issues. When you buy Daz original clothing, there's a long list of characters that need to be supported. It's optional on other markteplaces, which explains why some cheap outfits don't perform as well as Daz Originals.
- English Version: https://vimeo.com/922069033/f22cb6aa95
- German Version: https://vimeo.com/922068679/30add10407
In other news: Over the weekend I had my main workstation in pieces and installed a new motherboard! That was hard work I don't mind telling you. I had issues with the BIOS losing settings when I switched off power at the socket to keep LEDs on my desk from blinking all night, which pointed to the CMOS battery. That little thing was probably still the original that had been installed when my PC was made, and when I took it out, it measured literally 0 Volts. I've replaced it with a new one that measured 3.3V, but still the settings weren't remembered after power loss.
Turns out the CMOS connector was lose and no amount of voltage was getting to the motherboard. Thankfully I bought an extended warranty with my system, so the friendly folks from PC Server and Parts offered to have the whole PC sent in for repair. That would have left me without a main desktop for a week or two.
I have a backup of course, and a very capable laptop too, as well as my Mac Studio, so it would have been doable - but I all kinds of other things can happen when transporting a 30kg piece of tech, and I decided I'll do the board swap myself instead. What could possibly go wrong, right?
Sure enough the new board arrived on Saturday morning and I took the afternoon off to put it in. The hairiest part was removing all those components to actually access the board and pry it loose from the chassis, but I prevailed. I like taking my sweet time over the smallest details, making notes and taking pictures just in case I can't remember which cable goes where.
Once the board was out, it was time to swap over the 256GB of system RAM stick by stick, making sure they all end up in the same positions as before. Apparently on dual CPU systems it's important to feed RAM into particular alternating slots for best performance, but since I had a template this was relatively easy to do.
Next up were the two massive CPUs and coolers. Those are spring loaded and screwed into the board with four Torx 30 screws, which is something I didn't have a screwdriver for.
Interestingly, that screw is somehow compatible with a simple hex connector I had, but because most screws were recessed at the bottom of the cooler, my beefy extension didn't fit through the holes. This meant I had to use a very fine and lithe screwdriver with a tiny handle, which proved tricky because I needed a good amount of oomph to turn those screws, and that tiny handle didn't allow me to apply that.
To make matters worse, it is vital to unscrew them in a particular order, or else the spring loaded mechanism that keeps several hundred contacts in place on the board might get damaged.
I briefly considered walking into Best Buy, but decided to use all my might and hope the screwdriver wouldn't break, and try for as long as it takes instead. Sure enough, eventually the screws got lose and I could swap the CPUs.
Putting them back in place was also tricky: you have to affix the first screw and keep going (in a particular order), then press hard on the cooler so the last screw can go in and complete the pressure - all the while making sure you're not breaking things.
Once done I had to re-assemble the whole thing, making sure every cable and fan I previously took out was put back in the right place, followed by re-seating all PCIe cards. On this occasion I noticed two additional slots I didn't know I had, and one leftover Torx screw that I found in the box of the motherboard. A spare perhaps? Or something of vital importance?
Who knows, my desktop is up and running again, and so far everything seems fine. I had to have a serious chat with Windows 11 about the fact that this is NOT in fact a new machine, log in again on multiple services multiple times, check if there was a BIOS update and many other things, but it's all working again and I'm super happy about it.
As if that was not enough, I've finished off the day by installing a new XP Pen Display on Julia's desk so that she has a decently large monitor with better colours for her work, but I might leave that story for another day.
Have a fantastic week my people, be creative and enjoy the process with these exciting tools we call 3D Software!
Comments
Shannon St. Claire
Corrective blend shapes is a timely tutorial; I've been running into problems with this and was really either avoiding the article of clothing or doing my best to hide the issue (sometimes just editing the final render in PS). Glad you and The Little Screwdriver That Could got through the build okay...
