Is G3 the new V4 ?

wolf359

 Another issue is that mixamo animations and other free 
BVH can't be applied to Genesis 8. Hopefully, someone will come 
up with a script for that. Those animations could've saved
 me a lot of time if I had enough Genesis 1 or 2 content. 

This issue is largey solved ,
filter your Mixamo & other third party BVH through  Genesis 1.

Works better than the various scripts and is FREE
and works for the MALES as well.

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3675321/

The hands get a bit strange but easily fixable if you have invested in the graphMate&keyMate plugins 
(as any smart Daz studio animator should)

There should be a link to a fixed "T-pose" for the G8 lower arms
in the linked thread

PM me if you can find it.

 

Richard Haseltine

benniewoodell said:

Hi Richard, 

Maybe you would know this since you mentioned 4.11. I have all these G3 characters from buying the G8 bundles this past year, but I find myself only using G8 for animation because the posing works way easier in terms of being able to use the power pose thing. All the joints are movable there, whereas with G3 figures, I can't get them to move with the power pose. Is this something that's been changed in 4.11 and G3 can be posed with the power pose? It would be amazing to be able to use the characters than more just a background character that doesn't need to move that much, there's so many cool characters I have. Thanks! 

In both 4.10 and 4.11 the PowerPose pane can be edited (right-click menu) to add new features to older figure - the Genesis 8 template is locked, but the older ones are all generic and editable as I recall.

johranshadi

wolf359 said:

 Another issue is that mixamo animations and other free 
BVH can't be applied to Genesis 8. Hopefully, someone will come 
up with a script for that. Those animations could've saved
 me a lot of time if I had enough Genesis 1 or 2 content. 

This issue is largey solved ,
filter your Mixamo & other third party BVH through  Genesis 1.

Works better than the various scripts and is FREE
and works for the MALES as well.

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3675321/

The hands get a bit strange but easily fixable if you have invested in the graphMate&keyMate plugins 
(as any smart Daz studio animator should)

There should be a link to a fixed "T-pose" for the G8 lower arms
in the linked thread

PM me if you can find it.

 

I found the file thanks! That's just brilliant! I too have been saving the pose presets with Genesis 2. I can't wait to get home and test this method on G8. Thanks again!

Mouser

With the RSSY clothing converters I've moved everything to Genesis 8.

benniewoodell

Richard Haseltine said:

benniewoodell said:

Hi Richard, 

Maybe you would know this since you mentioned 4.11. I have all these G3 characters from buying the G8 bundles this past year, but I find myself only using G8 for animation because the posing works way easier in terms of being able to use the power pose thing. All the joints are movable there, whereas with G3 figures, I can't get them to move with the power pose. Is this something that's been changed in 4.11 and G3 can be posed with the power pose? It would be amazing to be able to use the characters than more just a background character that doesn't need to move that much, there's so many cool characters I have. Thanks! 

In both 4.10 and 4.11 the PowerPose pane can be edited (right-click menu) to add new features to older figure - the Genesis 8 template is locked, but the older ones are all generic and editable as I recall.

Awesome, I'm going to run home after work and give this a try! Thank you! 

wolf359

I found the file thanks! That's just brilliant!
I too have been saving the pose presets with Genesis 2. 
I can't wait to get home and test this method on G8. Thanks again!

Glad to help.
Understand this:  you MUST use an animated .duf file saved from Genesis 1 only
to have G3/G8 accept the motion using this method.

Happy animating