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timepants

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So if anybody else here dabbles in daz, do you have any experience using turbo loader and its utilities?
 
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timepants said:
So if anybody else here dabbles in daz, do you have any experience using turbo loader and its utilities?
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I've been using it for a short while, and it certainly helps to speed up the character loading process. Basically it just scans your content folders for morph files and groups them by product/root-folder. If you disable characters it essentially simply renames the extension of the morph file(s) so Daz3D no longer loads it. Once you have loaded a say genesis 8 female figure however, Daz3D caches the morph's it detected. So if you disable a morph, after loading a figure for the first time, the morph will still be loaded until you close down Daz3D and restart it. Although I haven't tried it, the other way around is said to work. So if you have all your morph's disabled and load a Genesis 8 Female, and then enable one or two morphs these will be loaded when you load a new figure in the scene. So adding morphs is sort-of dynamic, but removing them isn't.

You don't have to enable/disable morphs manually all the time, since you can save selections as Turbo Loader presets. For example I have a preset for all my favorite Genesis 8 Female characters, and another preset for Genesis 8 Characters from Games, and another one for Creatures and Sci-Fi Races.

One minor problem I had with it is that it didn't find most of the icons for the products I had installed. I manually installed all my content, so that's probably the problem. But, even after having Daz update all the meta-data in the database, most of the products Turbo Loader detected didn't have any icons. This is a minor issue however, since it does nicely show the path where the morphs are found, so it's pretty clear what morph's it is talking about.

It also has a scene morph detection utility, which can scan a scene for the morphs used within it. You can then save this out as a Turbo Loader preset and load it with the scene. I have never used this feature however, so I'm not sure if the preset gets loaded automatically or not when you load the scene, but I think it's a manual step. I'm also not sure how it behaves with something like Render Queue, so no idea if you can load a preset before starting the Queued Render.

One thing that might or might not be apparent, but is pretty cool, is that Turbo Loader also works with "detail morphs", like Skin Folds and Creases, Aging Morphs and Growing Up morphs, and with Expression Morphs. This last group can especially grow large since almost every Daz character comes with a bunch of them.

Honestly, I'm quite happy with it. I mostly just have my favorite characters preset enabled and barely have to switch. Now my Genesis 8 Female loads within a minute again instead of taking 5 minutes to load. When on discount the application also isn't very expensive, and the time saved loading characters was well worth it's price IMHO.

Also, since it only renames the extension, it's a pretty harmless utility. If it would no longer work for some reason you could manually do a find/replace to replace the extension it uses back to the original one manually.

Hope it helps, and if you have further specific questions feel free to DM me and I'll see if I can answer them for you.
 
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GeekyLion said:
I've been using it for a short while, and it certainly helps to speed up the character loading process. Basically it just scans your content folders for morph files and groups them by product/root-folder. If you disable characters it essentially simply renames the extension of the morph file(s) so Daz3D no longer loads it. Once you have loaded a say genesis 8 female figure however, Daz3D caches the morph's it detected. So if you disable a morph, after loading a figure for the first time, the morph will still be loaded until you close down Daz3D and restart it. Although I haven't tried it, the other way around is said to work. So if you have all your morph's disabled and load a Genesis 8 Female, and then enable one or two morphs these will be loaded when you load a new figure in the scene. So adding morphs is sort-of dynamic, but removing them isn't.

You don't have to enable/disable morphs manually all the time, since you can save selections as Turbo Loader presets. For example I have a preset for all my favorite Genesis 8 Female characters, and another preset for Genesis 8 Characters from Games, and another one for Creatures and Sci-Fi Races.

One minor problem I had with it is that it didn't find most of the icons for the products I had installed. I manually installed all my content, so that's probably the problem. But, even after having Daz update all the meta-data in the database, most of the products Turbo Loader detected didn't have any icons. This is a minor issue however, since it does nicely show the path where the morphs are found, so it's pretty clear what morph's it is talking about.

It also has a scene morph detection utility, which can scan a scene for the morphs used within it. You can then save this out as a Turbo Loader preset and load it with the scene. I have never used this feature however, so I'm not sure if the preset gets loaded automatically or not when you load the scene, but I think it's a manual step. I'm also not sure how it behaves with something like Render Queue, so no idea if you can load a preset before starting the Queued Render.

One thing that might or might not be apparent, but is pretty cool, is that Turbo Loader also works with "detail morphs", like Skin Folds and Creases, Aging Morphs and Growing Up morphs, and with Expression Morphs. This last group can especially grow large since almost every Daz character comes with a bunch of them.

Honestly, I'm quite happy with it. I mostly just have my favorite characters preset enabled and barely have to switch. Now my Genesis 8 Female loads within a minute again instead of taking 5 minutes to load. When on discount the application also isn't very expensive, and the time saved loading characters was well worth it's price IMHO.

Also, since it only renames the extension, it's a pretty harmless utility. If it would no longer work for some reason you could manually do a find/replace to replace the extension it uses back to the original one manually.

Hope it helps, and if you have further specific questions feel free to DM me and I'll see if I can answer them for you.
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Thanks for the in depth info. A big concern I have is its interaction with render queue. If the morphs only get disabled until daz restarts it could be a problem since render queue closes and reopens daz after each render. Unless the turbo loader preset is automatically applied before a scene loads it appears that I'll either have to manually render each image instead of queueing them up, or alternatively not use turbo loader. Neither of those situations is ideal.
 
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