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G9 skins on older models?

morrisonmpmorrisonmp Posts: 161
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I may just be missing it, but I see products/advice for moving G8/8.1 textures to G9. Has anyone made a utility/tool for moving G9 textures onto G8/8.1 bodies? No matter how much I play with G9, I just don't like it. But some characters have nice materials and I'd love to be able to shift them over. Thanks in advance for any assistance.

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  • joannajoanna Posts: 2,411
    edited February 28

    There is this product: https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-9-uvs-for-genesis-8-and-81-female but as far as I know, no male version was created.

    Edit: But there's also this product: https://www.daz3d.com/uv-swap-for-genesis-81 No clue how and if they would work together (I have both, but not much time to play around, sorry!), but it might be an option.

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  • morrisonmpmorrisonmp Posts: 161

    Cool. Thank you. I was just missing them. I appreciate it.

  • joannajoanna Posts: 2,411

    morrisonmp said:

    Cool. Thank you. I was just missing them. I appreciate it.

    You're welcome! I forgot to add this one, https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-8-uv-swap-male-and-female-base and then the forum went rogue on me. :)

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,463
    edited February 28

    if you have a clone shape, you can fit the G9 skin onto G8 like a bodysuit 

    because eyes, mouth etc are separate 

    then hide the G8 skin with the geometry editor

    (convert it to a prop first under edit figure rigging or it will take forever, your choice whether to leave subdivision on or apply it afterwards)

    https://www.daz3d.com/mmx-genesis-9-clones-for-all

    disclaimer, I don't own that one

    Post edited by WendyLuvsCatz on
  • Matt_CastleMatt_Castle Posts: 3,066

    joanna said:

    Edit: But there's also this product: https://www.daz3d.com/uv-swap-for-genesis-81 No clue how and if they would work together (I have both, but not much time to play around, sorry!), but it might be an option.

    They do not work together.

    The UV swap product gives G8.1M the capacity to use skins on the G8.1F UV layout. The Cayman Studios product gives G8F the capacity to use skins on the G9 UV; it does not convert G9 skins into the G8.1F UV.

  • morrisonmpmorrisonmp Posts: 161
    edited February 28

    EDIT: Scratch that. I finally figured out what I was doing wrong. I got the mouth to work and I couldn't be happier with the results.

    So, the first product: https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-9-uvs-for-genesis-8-and-81-female works great... mostly. It copies the body texture and fixes it to G8 wonderfully. But no matter what I do, I cannot get it to copy eyes or mouth textures. I've tried saving them separately as the product manual suggests, but it just doesn't work. I can't get them to apply. Which is not so much a problem for the eyes - I can just use G8 eye materials, that works fine. But nothing seems to work for the mouth. I've been poking at it all morning and nothing seems to work. 

    I was excited to get this to work. And it sort of does. But without a mouth material... the character still isn't useable.

    Well, it was an idea.

    Post edited by morrisonmp on
  • felisfelis Posts: 6,069

    morrisonmp said:

    So, the first product: https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-9-uvs-for-genesis-8-and-81-female works great... mostly. It copies the body texture and fixes it to G8 wonderfully. But no matter what I do, I cannot get it to copy eyes or mouth textures. I've tried saving them separately as the product manual suggests, but it just doesn't work. I can't get them to apply. Which is not so much a problem for the eyes - I can just use G8 eye materials, that works fine. But nothing seems to work for the mouth. I've been poking at it all morning and nothing seems to work. 

    I was excited to get this to work. And it sort of does. But without a mouth material... the character still isn't useable.

    Well, it was an idea.

    Not sure I understand.

    If you have got the rest converted to G8, why not just add any other mouth/teeth settings to the character? 

  • Cayman StudiosCayman Studios Posts: 1,139

    morrisonmp said:

    EDIT: Scratch that. I finally figured out what I was doing wrong. I got the mouth to work and I couldn't be happier with the results.

    So, the first product: https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-9-uvs-for-genesis-8-and-81-female works great... mostly. It copies the body texture and fixes it to G8 wonderfully. But no matter what I do, I cannot get it to copy eyes or mouth textures. I've tried saving them separately as the product manual suggests, but it just doesn't work. I can't get them to apply. Which is not so much a problem for the eyes - I can just use G8 eye materials, that works fine. But nothing seems to work for the mouth. I've been poking at it all morning and nothing seems to work. 

    I was excited to get this to work. And it sort of does. But without a mouth material... the character still isn't useable.

    Well, it was an idea.

    There should not be a problem with any of the textures provided you have saved them as Material presets from the original character.  I have noticed that DAZ Studio sometimes takes a few seconds to load some of the textures, so if you run the "Apply UVs" script before the textures have been properly loaded that might explain the problem you encountered. 

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