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[Tutorial] How to fit GeeGee hair to G3F

a-sennova-sennov Posts: 331
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If you want to use GeeGee hair with G3 Females read this: http://a-sennov.deviantart.com/journal/Tutorial-How-to-fit-GeeGee-hair-to-G3F-694813489

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  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,844

    I don't see why you can't just load it, then positon it in place and parent it. You could even add a smoothing modifier and collision if you need a tighter fit. I do this for all hair that isn't made for the figure I am using, from V3 to G8, works fine. If you plan on using it again and again, then save it as a figure asset after parented

  • Zev0Zev0 Posts: 7,122

    What FSMCDesigns said.

  • almahiedraalmahiedra Posts: 1,365

    For somebody programming coping/paste text and files, search and replace can be useful for some type of automatic batch process.

  • a-sennova-sennov Posts: 331
    FSMCDesigns said:

    I don't see why you can't just load it, then positon it in place and parent it. You could even add a smoothing modifier and collision if you need a tighter fit. I do this for all hair that isn't made for the figure I am using, from V3 to G8, works fine. If you plan on using it again and again, then save it as a figure asset after parented

    I often export figures to FBX and use "Merge clothing into figure skeleton" option, it works correctly only on fitted clothes/hair. Parenting will produce unneeded complexity in skeleton which will give you problems when you'll want to import back to DS, say motion.

    Also long hairs are often rigged to collar bones (not in case of GeeGee).

     

  • a-sennova-sennov Posts: 331
    GiGi_7 said:

    For somebody programming coping/paste text and files, search and replace can be useful for some type of automatic batch process.

    Currently it's the first and only product that I felt the need to fit in such way. If there'd be more - I'd made some utility to save me some clicks :) Also there might be a way to do the same thing buried deep in Studio UI and I simply cannot find it.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,101

    a lot of things can be fixed in notepad hacks even Genesis 3 compatibility with Carrara if one knows where to look, I wish more people who can cared.

  • a-sennova-sennov Posts: 331
    th3Digit said:

    a lot of things can be fixed in notepad hacks even Genesis 3 compatibility with Carrara if one knows where to look, I wish more people who can cared.

    I didn't look into it but I'd guess it's those 'spline_tcb' ops have to be changed to linear approximations :)

  • sapatsapat Posts: 1,735

    Asking this cuz Ima DS dummy....Why won't the GeeGee hair just autofit like other stuff?  Load it, then tell it the hair was designed for G8, say it's a shoulder length hair and hit ok.  That's what I do for all my other hairs.

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,844
    sapat said:

    Asking this cuz Ima DS dummy....Why won't the GeeGee hair just autofit like other stuff?  Load it, then tell it the hair was designed for G8, say it's a shoulder length hair and hit ok.  That's what I do for all my other hairs.

    It probably would, but many times you lose the morphs and/or the quality of the mesh when autofitting

  • a-sennova-sennov Posts: 331
    sapat said:

    Asking this cuz Ima DS dummy....Why won't the GeeGee hair just autofit like other stuff?  Load it, then tell it the hair was designed for G8, say it's a shoulder length hair and hit ok.  That's what I do for all my other hairs.

    It has extra bones for side bangs, they will be lost.

  • RobotHeadArtRobotHeadArt Posts: 917
    a-sennov said:
    sapat said:

    Asking this cuz Ima DS dummy....Why won't the GeeGee hair just autofit like other stuff?  Load it, then tell it the hair was designed for G8, say it's a shoulder length hair and hit ok.  That's what I do for all my other hairs.

    It has extra bones for side bangs, they will be lost.

    Transfer Utility can be used to perform autofitting but it offers more control over the process.  If you use Transfer Utility with the Merge Hierarchies option it will preserve the bones.

     

  • Daywalker DesignsDaywalker Designs Posts: 3,586
    a-sennov said:
    GiGi_7 said:

    For somebody programming coping/paste text and files, search and replace can be useful for some type of automatic batch process.

    Currently it's the first and only product that I felt the need to fit in such way. If there'd be more - I'd made some utility to save me some clicks :) Also there might be a way to do the same thing buried deep in Studio UI and I simply cannot find it.

    http://www.deviantart.com/journal/Tutorial-Convert-Clothing-G3-to-G8-G8-to-G3-686682065 gives you an idea, courtesy of SickleYield.

  • a-sennova-sennov Posts: 331
    daywalker03 said:
    a-sennov said:
    GiGi_7 said:

    For somebody programming coping/paste text and files, search and replace can be useful for some type of automatic batch process.

    Currently it's the first and only product that I felt the need to fit in such way. If there'd be more - I'd made some utility to save me some clicks :) Also there might be a way to do the same thing buried deep in Studio UI and I simply cannot find it.

    http://www.deviantart.com/journal/Tutorial-Convert-Clothing-G3-to-G8-G8-to-G3-686682065 gives you an idea, courtesy of SickleYield.

    As I said, there IS way to do it via UI :) One thing thou - all manipulations with compatibility bases require DAZ CMS to be running, my way is simple direct manipulation with text files.

  • a-sennova-sennov Posts: 331
    edited July 2017
    RobotHeadArt said:
    a-sennov said:
    sapat said:

    Asking this cuz Ima DS dummy....Why won't the GeeGee hair just autofit like other stuff?  Load it, then tell it the hair was designed for G8, say it's a shoulder length hair and hit ok.  That's what I do for all my other hairs.

    It has extra bones for side bangs, they will be lost.

    Transfer Utility can be used to perform autofitting but it offers more control over the process.  If you use Transfer Utility with the Merge Hierarchies option it will preserve the bones.

     

    Yes, but weight maps will be changed and not for good. See yourself:

    Edit: well, if you uncheck "Weight maps" but check "Merge ..." it seems to work fine :)

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