Mesh questions...

Pook

Afternoon all,

This is probably me being silly, but I honestly can't figure out the answer to this question, and I knew someone on here would be able to help me out a bit...

I'm in the process of sorting through my library to work out what I've purchased over the years, and I noticed that I had quite a few sets of texture packs that I didn't have the corresponding mesh for - most of these would have been Platinum Club freebies which I've picked up, and some which I've picked up in error (it happens - sometimes I go "oooo... pretty...." without stopping to think. One advantage is I now have a wishlist full of stuff, which when I pick up will allow me to use the textures I already have... but I'm digressing here.

I primarily use Daz Studio 4.9, and Gen 5/6/7 figures. I've got a few Gen 3 and 4 figures and items in my collection as well, and I know that you can use the Gen 3-4 stuff with Gen 5+. But this is where my trouble starts...

Take for example the texture "Sepentine" which is for the Malvada V4 outfit. If I want to use this with a Gen 5 figure, would I need just the Malvada V4 mesh, just the Malvada V4 unimesh fits, both of these, or all of the above and something else as well?

Can anyone out there help a confused renderer with a simple explanation of what I need to do please?

Leana

Pook said:

Take for example the texture "Sepentine" which is for the Malvada V4 outfit. If I want to use this with a Gen 5 figure, would I need just the Malvada V4 mesh, just the Malvada V4 unimesh fits, both of these, or all of the above and something else as well?

You would need the v4 outfit only. Unimesh fits are useless without the base outfit and only add morphs to fit it to the various generation 4 bases (A4, G4, S4, ...) so you don't need them if you don't plan to use the outfit on V4.

Genesis 1 base includes an autofit clone for V4, so it's all you would need to fit it to a generation 5 figure. Well, I would recommend owning "Sickle Rigging and Morphing System" too, as it helps with fitting long skirts, but it's not required.

For later versions of Genesis you would need the V4 outfit and the product which provides the V4 autofit clone for G2F or G3F ("Victoria 4 for Genesis 2 Female" for G2F, "Wear them all" for G3F). There again I would recommend owning SY rigging templates for the target figure ("Sickle Dress Rig Genesis 2 Female" or "SY Ultra templates for G3F")

Pook

Thank you for explaining all of that - it makes a lot more sense now!

mjc1016

Leana said:

 

For later versions of Genesis you would need the V4 outfit and the product which provides the V4 autofit clone for G2F or G3F ("Victoria 4 for Genesis 2 Female" for G2F, "Wear them all" for G3F). There again I would recommend owning SY rigging templates for the target figure ("Sickle Dress Rig Genesis 2 Female" or "SY Ultra templates for G3F")

Each new generation contains the autofit clones for the previous generation.

For some items, you don't really need all that ^^^^.  You could just save the V4 item that was just fitted for Genesis, then using the same procedure fit it to Genesis 2 and so on.  Of course, with some items the quality of the fit will go from poor to absolutely horrible...and the above mentioned items may be the only way to get it to fit decently.

Leana

mjc1016 said:

Leana said:

 

For later versions of Genesis you would need the V4 outfit and the product which provides the V4 autofit clone for G2F or G3F ("Victoria 4 for Genesis 2 Female" for G2F, "Wear them all" for G3F). There again I would recommend owning SY rigging templates for the target figure ("Sickle Dress Rig Genesis 2 Female" or "SY Ultra templates for G3F")

Each new generation contains the autofit clones for the previous generation.

For some items, you don't really need all that ^^^^.  You could just save the V4 item that was just fitted for Genesis, then using the same procedure fit it to Genesis 2 and so on.  Of course, with some items the quality of the fit will go from poor to absolutely horrible...and the above mentioned items may be the only way to get it to fit decently.

Good point, you could do v4 to G1 then G1 to G2F then G2F to G3F. But you'll usually get better results (and save quite a bit of time ^^) if you do a direct conversion..