Fit Control for Genesis 8 Females

I have the same problem with the Genesis 8 Female Fit Control. The Genesis 8 Male Fit control works fine. I believe it has to do with certain characters and morphs loaded with my main directory. Don't know which ones, but it started several months ago.

My work around is to have a small directory containing just a Genesis 8 basic female and Fit control, no clothes or much of anything else.

Load up my scene with characters and clothes from the big main directory and then save it.

Remove the main directory from the list of available directories, leaving only the small directory for Daz to see.

Load the saved file. The characters and clothes are there, but have no morphs associated with them so they'll look different.

Fit Control then runs fine and puts the morphs into the clothes.

Save the file.

Add back the main directory to the Daz list and reload the file.

Kinda clunky, but it works.

Thank you for the suggestions, I've been looking for an excuse to clean up my Daz folder, as it's nearing 200gb. I rarely use the morphs from pre-made characters anyway, I prefer to start from scratch and use something like Genesis 8 Female Head Morphs to mix and match the shape.

Another unrelated question- What CPU is good for Daz? My CPU is the oldest part of my rig and I'm looking to upgrade. I was considering the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, but I'm concerned it might be overkill as I have no idea if Daz will actually utilize 12 cores or not. I might get it anyway for things not related to Daz, but my primary consideration for upgrading is improving Daz performance.

@assetsguy from what I noticed, DAZ does not really use CPU that much during normal use (posing, morphing, browsing and adding stuff etc). When it comes to render DAZ does not WANT to use your CPU if you render with Iray: so if you enough RAM into your GPU it will use the GPU (much faster); if not it will fallback to CPU.

CPU is more important - on the contrary - when rendering with 3Delight, that does not use GPU.

In any case for what I saw, when DAZ needs to use the CPU to render it uses 100% of every thread and core (but you have the option to limit this in the Advanced Render Settings - CPU affinity and limit cores usage).

So, in a nutshell, if you notice DAZ using your CPU when rendering I would still upgrade the GPU because there's no way a CPU will be faster then a GPU (well, a good GPU, of course - no need to say it must nVidia to use Iray).

"There is no fix or workaround for this. All you can do is uninstall figures and morphs which you do not plan to use. Removing most of them will result in characters loading in under 3 seconds and add-ons like Fit Control applying morphs to clothing almost instantaneously." - LivingPixels

I haven't tested this with Fit Control, but you actually can have five million figures and morphs loaded and still load a character in under 1 minute. Just make a scene that has the base Genesis 8 Female in it. Save the scene (I saved mine as G8FBase for simplicity). Then anytime you want to add a new character just load (I prefer dragging) that scene into your new or current scene. Yes, you'll have to navigate to the character(s) in your menu that you want to apply preset morphs and mats from and you lose a little time there, but if you're the sort that likes to have a bajillion characters already loaded without creating other directories to load in and unload (which also takes time) then this is a pretty good workaround.

Male characters don't have anywhere near as many morphs, so you really don't need to make one for them, although it does speed it up a little if you really care. I have tonnes of them loaded including many unusual and monstrous characters and they all load in less than a minute regardless.

p.s. And yes I realize I'm super late to this discussion 😛 Just thought if anyone could benefit from my experience I should point this little trick out.

Yes, multiple figures can be rough on some systems, mine included 🙁 I usually stop around five. I don't know about anyone else's system, but my workaround saves me approximately SEVEN minutes loading a new character into a scene. If I just load a new character using the standard method (that menu with all the face pics) they take on average 8 minutes to load. If I drag the g8fbase.duf into a scene it takes slightly less than a minute to load. Pretty big time saver.

Most full scenes I have with three to five characters load faster than loading a single character. Of course this is just my personal experience with Daz, but it couldn't hurt to try it out on your system and see if it saves you some time. Of course, if you're suffering from lag once everything is loaded that's a different issue.

Another recommendation regarding your "length of time to reset a pose" issue - and this is one I use for myself because I suffer from the same problem - is to get a zero pose. Using the Edit>Zero option does take forever, so I grabbed some pose resets.

I use these and they are free. Check out the artist, they have a bunch for other characters that are quite handy.
https://www.deviantart.com/spyrorue/art/G8F-Reset-Poses-700458001

I totally agree that Daz needs to rework it's program somewhat. Cross our fingers and toes on that one, I guess. I have no workaround for that 😉

Huh, I find that really interesting. I wonder why yours load fast, but mine take forever. I always assumed it was the sheer number of morph options I have installed. But we share the super long pose-zeroing issue, so I thought maybe it was a similar issue for both of us.

Well good luck in finding a solution! Hopefully with a little digging you might find an answer on the Daz forums or from someone else here that has some ideas.