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Did you carefully read the included readme?

So you fit to the GP shell, not GP itself. Though there is another issue that will hopefully be addressed in a future update. It appears that adding other grafts changes the shell properties enough that Growler no longer recognizes the shell correctly and stops following the shell.

Well I spoke too soon.  Tried to apply the new hair to my Bettie May model and got the same error as above when trying to apply ot the shell.  Ran some additional tests and can not apply the strand p[ased hair and fit to/parent in place to the Golden Palace shell if the model already has Headlights, Breastacular, or Lickalicious installed on the model.  Not that big of a deal of you are starting out with a new stock model but a BIG problem if trying to apply to a model that has already been dial spun and color shells changed to match nipples, etc.

Originally Posted by: lightBLUE

Sorry for not replying earlier.
This happens if you're using the older version of Golden Palace, the product is made for the new version.
If you have downloaded the new version of Golden Palace and this still happens, please let me know so we can figure out what might be the problem.

Tried to PM you with additional issues found when I did some testing but it says your PM box is full and will not accept my message.

Originally Posted by: lightBLUE

Sorry for not replying earlier.
This happens if you're using the older version of Golden Palace, the product is made for the new version.
If you have downloaded the new version of Golden Palace and this still happens, please let me know so we can figure out what might be the problem.

While using another version of the product that strand based hair is attached to can cause problems, (I know this was the issue with Causam's bikini hair as it was built for Golden Palace while most users were trying to use it with Golden Palace v2) it is not the issue in this case.

The issue, at least that I am seeing, seems to be that adding other grafts to the figure, changes the shell properties enough that Growler no longer recognizes the shell correctly and stops following the shell. Or if the grafts are added before the Growler it gives the same message that is shown in BillyBen's first post. The message about the geometry not matching. I think what is happening is as the grafts are added or the shells are loaded it surveys all the surfaces of the figure and adds them to the shell properties thereby changing the shell properties enough so that it no longer matches what growler is looking for to match.

Current solution is to just use the Growler on figures with only Golden Palace and no other grafts, however there are many of us users that tend to stack up on the lovely grafts available (I know at a minimum my ladies are getting a genital graft and breast or nipple grafts) so the issue pops up because the additional surface parameters being added to the shells, which is sadly just how Daz Studio handles shells, and while there is Meipe's lovely shell corrector scripts to fix the white parts created from multiple shells. The additional properties added to the Golden Palace_Shell when other grafts are used just seems to break the connection between Growler and the Golden Palace_Shell.

Example of what I was doing while testing. Loaded G8F, loaded Golden Palace v2, loaded shell, loaded Growler 16, fit growler to Golden Palace_Shell, Loaded Zeddicuss' Plus Size Model morphs, started going through Plus Size Model Poses, at this point everything is working fine and Growler is following G8F like a well trained puppy. Found a pose that I thought would look great with Breastacular's collision settings, so loaded breastacular, added the invisible gloves, loaded the nipples morphs. Set collision items, and hit the pose. Rendered. Then tried some other poses. I find out Growler is no longer following. So I go back and keep reloading things and retrying variables to figure out why it stopped following, was it the collision settings, was it the invisible gloves, was it an issue with multiple shells, after an hour of reloading and trying out variables, Growler following seems to break the moment additional grafts are added, and knowing how Daz Studio works and after loading the grafts first and then trying to fit to growler to the Golden Palace_Shell and getting the geometry not matching message, I can only surmise that the additional surfaces added to the Golden Palace_Shell from the other graft(s) is throwing off the scripting being used to recognize the Growler is being fit to the right object in the scene.

Originally Posted by: lightBLUE

Sorry for not replying earlier.
This happens if you're using the older version of Golden Palace, the product is made for the new version.
If you have downloaded the new version of Golden Palace and this still happens, please let me know so we can figure out what might be the problem.

I had this problem suddenly crop up today. Not sure what happened, but it only went away after I uninstalled and re-installed both GP and Gen 8 Starter Essentials. GP was suddenly broken and not conforming to the figures. Every existing file I opened, plus newly created files, had the same problem. Even G8 standard gens were not working properly. After reinstalling the content, things are back to normal.

GG looks great, and in my opinion, more natural then Jungle Jewels in most situations. However, unlike Jungle Jewels, Golden Growler is extremely finicky to work with.

For some reason, JJ doesn't have the problem of flying off into space when you move the character or apply a commercial pose. At this point, the only reliable work flow I have been able to come up with for GG is to get your character completely posed, then apply GG before you render.

Originally Posted by: FuegoAhegao3dx

I used this fix for LightBlues Growler for dicktator, but I think this will work for all his products. 

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Load the default Goldenpalace/or/dicktator prop and the hair model you want into the scene. Do not fit either to anything.

Select the hair product in the scene tab. Go to the 3bars with an arrow icon in the top corner. Go to edit->rigging->convert prop to figure

Select accept. Weight mapping doesn't matter as we will be taking the figures and transferring it to the hair.

With the hair figure now selected go to the same 3 bars with an arrow icon we selected earlier. Now go to assets->transfer utility.

With the genital prop as the source and the hair prop as the target transfer it.

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There you go! The hair can now be fitted the normal way and follows the figures posing and morphs. This is the way most content creators fit clothes and hairs and such to figures. Not sure why LightBlue doesn't do it this way, maybe it breaks the hair for certain situations but it works 100% of the time for me. I hope LightBlue reads this and does this for future releases...

Made a gallery with some pictures if that will help here

This works... thank you so much!

in my case the pubes sunk ever so slightly into the surface of the character but scaling them up a touch brought them back out.

Tested whilst using headlights on poses and animations!