Loading a series of pose presets as keyframes for want of converting animations between generations

mmdestiny

Hey folks,

So I've got a massive (thousands) library of animations I've made for G8.  I'm trying to formulate a gameplan for converting them to G9 using the tools I currently have.

I've got a couple of good ideas to start, but there's a ??? at some point in each.
I've got Universal Pose Splitter (which doesn't handle G9 yet) and all of the Zev0 Pose/Batch Pose converters.

Zev0 doesn't work on animations from what I can tell, thus UPS.

1. UPS the animation to "custom list of frames" that is actually every frame so I get a G8 pose preset per frame and not a G8 animation preset.
2. Batch convert this group of G8 pose presets to G9 pose presets with Zev0
3. ???? Is there an easy way to load a series of pose presets as a series of keyframes other than "load 0...next frame, load 1...next frame, load 2..."

EDIT: The second option "just works" out of the box but...it's per pose with neither save nor batch functionality

1. n_alexandru's fantastic free pose converters which DO convert animations, but with no save/batch and I BELIEVE no way to handle pose morphs since most authors, even if they release the same product on multiple generations, change the names of the morph per generation
2. repeat until I'm old and grey

Leana

Not sure you've seen it but this free pose converter supposedly works for animations too: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/605941/genesis-1-2-3-8-9-to-genesis-2-3-8-9-pose-converter-updated-2025-01-03/p1

mmdestiny

Leana said:

Not sure you've seen it but this free pose converter supposedly works for animations too: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/605941/genesis-1-2-3-8-9-to-genesis-2-3-8-9-pose-converter-updated-2025-01-03/p1

Haha seems we just got crossed up, I just put an edit in with Option 2.  Check back on the OP for the struggles I have with that. 

Leana

Cross post indeed ;)

Regarding your original question, I suppose it would be possible to write a script which would automate the "go to frame N, load pose N" steps if you gave it a collection of poses with the frame number in the name.

mmdestiny

Leana said:

Cross post indeed ;)

Regarding your original question, I suppose it would be possible to write a script which would automate the "go to frame N, load pose N" steps if you gave it a collection of poses with the frame number in the name.

I'm sure you're right, though my Java is...rusted through.  Still, it seems odd that this many years into the software there isn't SOMETHING out there (or native) that simply loads presets in sequence.  We can already load multiple presets at once, seems like the logical next step to...well...step key as you do so.