Zitat von Karina im Beitrag #16

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not sure wht you mean with "sample size" but I guess it's the file size.

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I know why the Faerime dials load into S-16 all under the Morphs group, whereas in a standard V4 they load in neatly organized groups: because the standard V4's CR2 already has the "receiving" groups set up, ready to be populated by an INJ file. Those groups were set up when I ran the DzCreateExPFiles-V4 command after installing the Faerime package.

What I don't know is how to get those "receiving" groups set up for my S-16 base, since the S-16 setup CR2 doesn't seem to be reading whatever got set up via the DzCreateExPFiles-V4 command. And that's fine, since I like the way you organize the groups much better. But I was wondering what I could do to get the Faerime groups into my base S-16 so that I don't have to reorganize all those dials every time I inject the package!

BTW, for sharing snippets of code, you can use free web tools designed for just that purpose, for those posting to forums that have no "code" or "pre" markup. The oldest and most well known is Pastebin, but there are others. You just paste the code there, copy the link, and share the link on the forum post.

I've "reverse engineered" some things to figure out how the CDI Faerime channels and groups get applied to a standard V4 upon loading, and now I've identified all the _Chnnls.pz2, _ERC.pz2, and _Grps.pz2 files associated with Faerime (in the !DAZ folder).

So now I'm wondering if I can just compile those into a PZ2 file like this (with the appropriate version ID and opening and closing brackets, of course):

	readScript ":Runtime:libraries:!DAZ:Victoria 4:head:60-ps_mr599b_Chnnls.pz2"
	readScript ":Runtime:libraries:!DAZ:Victoria 4:head:60-ps_mr599b_Grps.pz2"	
	readScript ":Runtime:libraries:!DAZ:Victoria 4:head:60-ps_mr599b_ERC.pz2"
	readScript ":Runtime:libraries:!DAZ:Victoria 4:neck:61-ps_mr599b_Chnnls.pz2"
	readScript ":Runtime:libraries:!DAZ:Victoria 4:neck:61-ps_mr599b_Grps.pz2"	
	readScript ":Runtime:libraries:!DAZ:Victoria 4:neck:61-ps_mr599b_ERC.pz2"	
	(and so on, for all relevant actors)

I can't see a way to delete the previous post, so I'm replying to it instead. After some more investigations, I've finally figured out how to get the CDI Faerime groups and channels into a copy of the S-16 Base Loader, so that everything is "prepared" to receive full or partial INJs from the CDI Faerime morph package.

The process was rather tedious, as it involved a lot of copying small chunks of groups and channels text from a "standard" V4's CR2 and pasting them into a copy of the S-16 base loader's CR2, across all the affected actors, while taking care not to disrupt the structure of the existing groups and channels. But it worked!

I'm still open to learning about better ways to do this, but I plowed ahead myself b/c I've been waiting on the S-16 2019 release in order to move forward on my graphic novel project, and now I have a lot of work to catch up on!

Do you need a grouping pose just for the head, or are you wanting it for all the affected actors? If you just want a pose to sort the dial grouping for the head actor I can post that as I had made one for that, but I just did it for the head actor, not the eyes, neck, etc. If you would like the pose let me know and I'll see if I can post it. (I have also done this with Vittorio for V4, but only in the Body dials since it has the head morphs there also).

I ended up copying all the groups and "empty" channels for CDI Faerime out of another CR2 and into my baseS-16 CR2, across all the relevant actors (head, neck, chest, eyeBrow, and eyes). But because I don't ever want to have to do that again, I'd love to take a look at your grouping pose file for the head just so I can see how you did it. I can then expand the concept to cover the other actors. If you can't share the grouping PZ2 here, you could use Pastebin and share the link or send it via sitemail on Renderosity. I'm PerpetualRevision there (and also on Gmail).

Thanks for the offer!

Ok, here you go, you'll notice that the morphs unfortunately are named as they are internally, but they are catogorized by type (Ear, eye, etc). This is the file for Vittorio, DT's 184 morphs and CDI/Fairme morphs. Should work though :)

As to what I did, I just opened a V4 with the morphs applied in PFE, and then deleted everything but the channel/groupings for the relevent actor, then saved that as a pose file. I had to zip the pz2 file in order to upload it. Just extract and use (after injecting the fairme morphs)

Forget the last post with the dial grouping. Here is an injection pose you can use on a new sasha (with Aiko 4 Morphs) to use Faerime. You must have Aiko 4 injected also or the erc for the eyes, etc won't work correctly (I checked this must be done with standard V4 also since Faerime was designed for A4).

Note I only did the dial grouping for the head actor. All the others will still be listed under the Morphs group.

As to what I did, I just added readscript statements for all the Faerime requirements and then pasted my dial grouping below that. So now you at least have an example for future reference.

Thank you so much for preparing that file and sharing it! I will learn by studying it, which is basically the same way I learn most things (including web design in the early days, and Poser's material room).

I've never really studied injection pose files that do things like set up groups and channels, I guess b/c I didn't realize they use the same data found in a CR2, but now I know!

I can't use Poser File Editor b/c I'm on a Mac, but at least BBEdit for Mac has some features that make navigating long CR2s less tedious than it would be in a simple text editor.

Again, many thanks!