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Which makes it so we can't set this thing up and walk away, while it runs. They added something to make this more difficult. It has taken me 3 days to convert 30 characters. I think most people would give up on this.
JD
Here is Michael 7 transfered using your product. This time I picked ZERO at the prompt.
The original is on the left. The result in G8 is on the right.
The body looks good...not the head.
This is what I've been getting repeatedly
JD
OKAY.... The plot thickens.....
I found something interesting....in my result...
The head had a morph on it.... for a character called Percy
This character is a add-on for a character called Floyd 8
https://www.daz3d.com/floyd-8
The kicker is....
I don't own either character.
Isn't that awesome?
The problem persists though... when I remove the morph...it looks like some of this Floyd Character is still there,,,, especially around the eyes...crowsfeet and all...
I found the morphs and removed them...
tried again with GUY 7
here is the result ... I did change the texture... post conversion...
JD
That is impossible. You have the morphs on your system. Did you return the product perhaps and it stayed on your hard drive?
Did you look for the new morphs? They are probably there. Without seeing the log of a conversion, I cannot tell you exactly what is happening. What happens often though is that the Controller property for the new character (the one that dials in all the morphs) was not fixed and dialed in. Because of some issue in Daz, the script needs to find the new controller property dsf file it created and patch it. Daz creates it in a certain directory based on your settings. However, the script sometimes cannot find it. If it cannot patch the file, the controller property will not load and cannot be set.
As far as the morphs being wrong. On first run, the script creates a clone (and never recreates it). It is possible that it was corrupted on the first run and introduces bugs into any morph. You need to delete the clone so the script will regenerate it. The clone to delete should be in C:/Users/USER NAME/AppData/Roaming/DAZ 3D/Studio4/CharacterConverterMorphs.
I'm wondering if it's an issue that I don't have DAZ running on my C drive... I don't usually have issues because of this...But you never know...
I was able to fix my Base character for Genesis 8 Male... which was giving me that strange head morph... that percy head morph had a default setting of 100% I had to change the setting back to 0.0% and resave the support asset.
but this was faling for the female characters as well...
I went and deleted the two clones, in the directory you mentioned... I only had a Female genesis 3 clone and a Male genesis 3 clone in there...
I'll keep trying... It just seems after all the processing and waiting... I just wind up with a generic Genisis 8 base character ... it's very strange...
JD
Yeah... So I tried to do a custome g3f....
It's just generating the base g8f over and over...
JD
At the end of the transfer I have three identical g8 base characters... its like the morphs never were applied...
The second image shows the character I was trying to copy
The one on the right... ( I whited out the textures )
The one on the left is the transfer result....which is just the base g8 clone basically...
JD
I am going to need to see the log, to see what the script detects and what it writes out. Also, what are the directories listed in the Daz Studio Formats section of the Content Directory Manager:
Content Manager
That looks odd - usually you would have H:/Documents/Daz 3D/Studio/My Library/ set. You certainly shouldn't have H:/Documents/Daz 3D/Studio/ selected and a number of its sub-folders as that is a set of nested content dirctories and can lead to the incorrect relative path being used. To which of those folders are your installations going?
I agree it looks odd. I would guess the converted morphs are going to H:/Documents/Daz 3D/Studio//data/Daz 3D/...
Yes my installation is on my H: drive Everything should be going there
It looks like I may have had one success.... See log
JD
It looks like it created the morphs, including the head ones:
Though the base data path is H:/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio and not the data folder.
And it looks like it created the controller property successful too
Can you find Gus_G3M_To_G8M in the parameters list? (Or the FHMMichael7, FHMIvan7, FHM-FWSAAiden - you might have to show hidden properties)?
...ran a test with one of my "home spun" G3 characters and it worked perfectly. I did need to reapply the skin and eye mats but that is nothing compared to trying to rebuild everything from scratch. This will be a great help to the workflow.
Thanks for sharing! I am glad it worked for you,,
I'll add that path and see if it helps for future attempts...
I'll try adding the path to "My Library" and see if it helps
JD
I see what is happening now....
It's seems that once the transfer happens. The slider that is created is set to 100%
But this exagerates the result.
If I dial the slider back to 50% and increase the scale... I get a better reppresentation of the original character.
See Image 1
This could be... because the generated character combines a couple attributes to a single slider...
The original character contains a Guy 7 body and a Guy 7 slider
See image 2
The generated character only has the guy 7 body slider... not the Guy 7 slider...
If the new charcter slider is set at 100% the result is extreme... 50 % seems to be good with a few tweeks to the scale ... as seen in image 1
JD
The Guy slider is just a control slider; it dials in the morphs (head and body) of Guy all at once (and scale BTW though it looks like you mostly turned it off). I think that might be what is confusing the script is the scale and the negative height are combining to give you the height of the character, and it is getting them wrong somehow.
The good news is that I can get a decent result... just need to do a few tweeks at the end...
That works for me...
JD
I am glad of that
Can you let me know all the non-zero morphs you have dialed in? I want to see if I can recreate it.
On page 22 of this discussion, AnotherUserName reported that a conversion of Jenn HD for Victoria 7 featured "strange, wavy biceps". The comments on this issue ended on the same page without a resolution. I have had the same or a very similar issue with the conversion of Victoria 7 herself and characters based on Victoria 7. When I originally converted Victoria 7 and some other V7-based characters, the arms on the Genesis 8 conversions showed no distortions. After a break I converted a V7-based character early this year and found the wavy arms, which look a bit like the Body Builder morph arms. I then discovered the same arm distortion when converting Victoria 7 again and all the other V7-based characters I tried. Deleting the conversion morphs, renaming the Body Builder morph file, re-starting Daz Studio and running the conversion again made no difference. To cut a long story short, I backed up all files to external hard drives (and inaccessible to Daz Studio), did a clean re-install of Windows on my computer, downloaded DIM and installed just the basics along with Genesis 3, Genesis 8, Victoria 7 and the G3F to G8F converter and made no changes to any settings in DS. I fully expected the conversion of Victoria 7 to have straight arms this time, but no. The conversion still has distorted arms.
There is currently little else besides Daz Studio on my computer. Just to make sure, I uninstalled each of the other applications, deleted the morphs and ran the conversion, but the arm distortion remained. Has anyone had this issue and found the cause?
Screenshot and log file from before the re-installation of Windows attached.
Did you delete the clone before converting a character too? The clone is done once and is located in C:/Users/USER NAME/AppData/Roaming/DAZ 3D/Studio4/CharacterConverterMorphs.
Thanks for replying RiverSoft Art! I tried deleting the clone as well as the morphs just now - no luck, the arm distortion on the converted Victoria 7 is still there.
Oh, I had another thought. I think this script is vulnerable to the stupid Daz change where it asks you now (instead of just doing it) do you really want to restore or zero the figure? You want to ZERO the figure. Make sure the clone and morphs are deleted first.
Yes, the Restore or Zero dialogue does come up. Having installed DS very recently it is 4.24.0.3.
Procedure:
Deleted clone
Deleted previously created Victoria 7 conversion morphs
Started Daz Studio
Followed the manual instructions for Convert Scene Character
Selected Okay in dialogue 'The script has detected this is first time you have tried to use this conversion method' triggered by deletion of clone
Selected Zero in Restore or Zero dialogue
The created conversion still has the distorted arms. Actually I read your direction to use 'Zero' somewhere else in the forum and have used it since.
When I first used the G3F to G8F converter and the arms on the V7 and V7 character conversions were straight, the DS version would have been 4.20, 4.21 or (less likely) 4.22, certainly there was no Restore or Zero dialogue. When the arm issue appeared, the version was, I think 4.23. I then uninstalled 4.23 and replaced it with 4.21, which didn't help. I also tried replacing the new improved version of Genesis 8 with the old version of Genesis 8, which also made no difference.
I think the wavy arms are occuring because there is some wrong height difference on your system. If you load "Genesis 3 Female" and "Genesis 8 Female" into a new scene and then pose the shoulders 45 degrees and negative 45 degrees. Do they line up like this?
The shoulders appear to line up pretty well the same as your screenshot as in attached screenshot from my system. I tried moving G3F to the floor and converting, then moving G8F to the floor and converting, then moving both to the floor and converting, but the wavy arms were present in the conversion in each case (the last option did change the appearance of Victoria 7's head in the conversion).
I was hoping to see what it looks like on your system. If it doesn't look like that. There is a fundamental misconfiguration on your system for one of the figures. You could try and uninstall both figures (and delete the files) and then re-install.
I may have misunderstood something. Attached is a screenshot of the result of loading G3F with shoulders at 45 degrees and -45 degrees, with G8F, in my copy of Daz Studio (the same picture as the attachment to my last post). I haven't been able to paste it into the body of this comment. Is this what you wanted to see to compare with the result from your system which you posted earlier?