Transferring expressions from G2F to G3F

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• Ghosty12 Posts: 2,080

  November 2017 edited November 2017

  Sorry my bad on that did not see that you already had GenX.. :( With expressions it can be a hit and miss affair, they don't always work due to how G3 is setup, while some work great others don't.. 

  So long as you name it the new expression differently it should not bork the G3F with duplicated dials, and bare in mind should..

  One thing that I have found is that I have a better time transferring V4 expressions than G2..

  Post edited by Ghosty12 on November 2017
• 3Diva Posts: 11,973

  November 2017

  Just try it with ONE morph with the same name and if it messes something up, remember where you saved the morph and delete. 

   
• Uthgard Posts: 878

  November 2017 edited November 2017

  Yeah, I was hoping somebody had braved the waters before me and had some suggestions, but, onwards to adventure! Thanks, notheless.

  Edit: After a bit of tinkering, here are my registered findings, compiled for the sake of future generations. Transferring a morph with the same name doesn't break anything, as Studio is able to diferentiate between them. The problem is that the pose preset doesn't recognize it, I guess it may be able to if I start moving things around, but then I risk causing the kind of errors I wanted to avoid. There's a much safer, though laborious, alternative: load the expression preset you want, right click on GenX and tell it to load current figure values, right-click and select "transfer: on for non-zero values" and transfer as a single morph. You'll need to do it for every single expression, which is a pain, but it's possible. Maybe someone with a bit of scripting knowledge can automate the task, but lesser mortals will have to contend with the tedium of rinse and repeat.

  Post edited by Uthgard on November 2017
• Ghosty12 Posts: 2,080

  November 2017

  Uthgard said:

  Yeah, I was hoping somebody had braved the waters before me and had some suggestions, but, onwards to adventure! Thanks, notheless.

  All you can do is try and see if they work, just know that for some reason some expression transfers work better than others, main issue I have come across it the lower jaw and teeth protruding out of the chin, which can be annoying..
• 3Diva Posts: 11,973

  November 2017

  Uthgard said:

  Yeah, I was hoping somebody had braved the waters before me and had some suggestions, but, onwards to adventure! Thanks, notheless.

  Edit: After a bit of tinkering, here are my registered findings, compiled for the sake of future generations. Transferring a morph with the same name doesn't break anything, as Studio is able to diferentiate between them. The problem is that the pose preset doesn't recognize it, I guess it may be able to if I start moving things around, but then I risk causing the kind of errors I wanted to avoid. There's a much safer, though laborious, alternative: load the expression preset you want, right click on GenX and tell it to load current figure values, right-click and select "transfer: on for non-zero values" and transfer as a single morph. You'll need to do it for every single expression, which is a pain, but it's possible. Maybe someone with a bit of scripting knowledge can automate the task, but lesser mortals will have to contend with the tedium of rinse and repeat.

  Cool - that's an interesting way to transfer the expressions. I'm glad to see you found a way (even if it's a bit tedius to do it that way). Maybe you can just do a handful of your favorites. :)
• Uthgard Posts: 878

  November 2017

  ghosty12 said:

  Uthgard said:

  Yeah, I was hoping somebody had braved the waters before me and had some suggestions, but, onwards to adventure! Thanks, notheless.

  All you can do is try and see if they work, just know that for some reason some expression transfers work better than others, main issue I have come across it the lower jaw and teeth protruding out of the chin, which can be annoying..

  Yeah, I have seen that, but it also happened with the original G2 if the morph (either the expression of the character) was extreme enough. I guess that's a definitive advantage of bone-driven expressions.

   

  Divamakeup said:

  Uthgard said:

  Yeah, I was hoping somebody had braved the waters before me and had some suggestions, but, onwards to adventure! Thanks, notheless.

  Edit: After a bit of tinkering, here are my registered findings, compiled for the sake of future generations. Transferring a morph with the same name doesn't break anything, as Studio is able to diferentiate between them. The problem is that the pose preset doesn't recognize it, I guess it may be able to if I start moving things around, but then I risk causing the kind of errors I wanted to avoid. There's a much safer, though laborious, alternative: load the expression preset you want, right click on GenX and tell it to load current figure values, right-click and select "transfer: on for non-zero values" and transfer as a single morph. You'll need to do it for every single expression, which is a pain, but it's possible. Maybe someone with a bit of scripting knowledge can automate the task, but lesser mortals will have to contend with the tedium of rinse and repeat.

  Cool - that's an interesting way to transfer the expressions. I'm glad to see you found a way (even if it's a bit tedius to do it that way). Maybe you can just do a handful of your favorites. :)

  Thanks, I definitely won't be doing that for most of my expressions, though there's also the nice bonus of manually adding the pic preview to the expression slider when transferring. Now, if only I could figure out why some dials from G2F expression tab are refusing to appear on GenX...