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GND4.2 or other versions to G8 [Solved]

statistx_42556c1853statistx_42556c1853 Posts: 89
edited June 2019 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

Edit: See my last post for how I managed to do it in the end, with links to tutorials and stuff.

 

I am desperate and just wasted about 2 hours of time for nothing.

I want to transfer the old Girl Next Door (by blackhearted) to my Genesis 8.

I saw in a post that it is possible and also messaged the user.

So I installed Victoria 4, GND and Genesis to have all the bits and pieces I possibly need.

Then I tried GenX and seemingly wasted my money, since I couldn't even load Victoria 4 into it, since it says "Poser figure not supported", so after googling around and not finding anything, I went for the Freebie clone creation tutorial around here and followed that.

Now I have a Gen8 with V4 clone, but that's where the tutorial stops. I have no clue how to now get the GND morphs onto that, so I guess those steps were pretty useless to follow, since it's for clothing and stuff, but not for a morph injection?

So yeah, any help in getting to my goal would be appreciated. You can have the satisfaction of having saved several hours of a life, cause my anger probably shortens it.

 

Addition: I don't care if it's GND4.2, Anastasia or La Femme. I just like Blackhearteds style, but don't want to switch to Poser and also want to keep the other pro's of Daz Studio.

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  • LeanaLeana Posts: 12,967
    edited June 2019

    No idea why GenX gave you an error message as it should support V4 as a source figure (it can’t convert morphs to V4 though).

    GenX doesn’t support G8 though (the creator passed away before G8 release) so you would need to do it in multiple steps.

    Here’s a tutorial about morph conversion between Genesis figures: https://www.deviantart.com/sickleyield/journal/Tutorial-Transferring-Character-Morphs-G1G2G3G8-409437916

    You might be able to adapt it for V4 since you created a clone for her. You may need to convert her to weight mapped figure first.

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  • statistx_42556c1853statistx_42556c1853 Posts: 89
    edited June 2019
    Leana said:

    No idea why GenX gave you an error message as it should support V4 as a source figure (it can’t convert morphs to V4 though).

    GenX doesn’t support G8 though (the creator passed away before G8 release) so you would need to do it in multiple steps.

    Here’s a tutorial about morph conversion between Genesis figures: https://www.deviantart.com/sickleyield/journal/Tutorial-Transferring-Character-Morphs-G1G2G3G8-409437916

    You might be able to adapt it for V4 since you created a clone for her. You may need to convert her to weight mapped figure first.

    Thanks, but I already saw tutorials on how to convert between genesis versions. My issue is just that I have no clue how to get the V4 morphed figure on ANY genesis.

    Also have no clue why I can't use V4 as a source figure. I bought GenX just for this, installed it through the install manager and get that error.

     

    EDIT: I have no clue why, but after a third re-install it now let's me add V4!

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  • statistx_42556c1853statistx_42556c1853 Posts: 89
    edited June 2019
    Leana said:

    No idea why GenX gave you an error message as it should support V4 as a source figure (it can’t convert morphs to V4 though).

    GenX doesn’t support G8 though (the creator passed away before G8 release) so you would need to do it in multiple steps.

    Here’s a tutorial about morph conversion between Genesis figures: https://www.deviantart.com/sickleyield/journal/Tutorial-Transferring-Character-Morphs-G1G2G3G8-409437916

    You might be able to adapt it for V4 since you created a clone for her. You may need to convert her to weight mapped figure first.

    I made progress. I can now use the morph with Gen1, but it seems my issue now is, that I can't transfer the victoria 4 clone morph ALONGSIDE the GND morph from Gen1 to 8.

    I followed your linked tutorial, but it looks as if that also doesn't deal with clones and that clones are handled differently than normal morphs, so I can transfer the GND morph (that I transfered from Victoria 4 first), but of course it looks fucked up, cause Gen8 does not have the Victoria 4 form.

    I used the clone of V4 I made earlier and it still looks like in the attached picture. No idea what else I'm missing. It's been like 5 hours now.

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  • SixDsSixDs Posts: 2,384
    edited June 2019

    Although there are no guarantees with any of the techniques for transferring morphs successfully from earlier generations to Genesis8, you could try the following thread, containing an solution by SingularBlues, called GenNext, as an alternative to SY's approach:

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/176271/morphs-from-g3-to-g8#latest

    (BTW, when you applied your previously-created morph to G8F as shown in your previous post, did you also apply the slider for your V4 clone as well? My usual experience with GenX is that you must fully apply both for the desired results)

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  • statistx_42556c1853statistx_42556c1853 Posts: 89
    edited June 2019
    SixDs said:

    Although there are no guarantees with any of the techniques for transferring morphs successfully from earlier generations to Genesis8, you could try the following thread, containing an solution by SingularBlues, called GenNext, as an alternative to SY's approach:

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/176271/morphs-from-g3-to-g8#latest

    (BTW, when you applied your previously-created morph to G8F as shown in your previous post, did you also apply the slider for your V4 clone as well? My usual experience with GenX is that you must fully apply both for the desired results)

    Thanks for the link and reply.

    I did dial the V4 clone slider too. The picture I attached is with both. Without it's similar, but distorted in a different way. I also tried genesis clone and V4 clone combinations, but also only results in different distortions. gonna try the link tutorial later and also might try to make a V4 clone again, in case something was done wrong, though it looks correct.

     

    Edit: I'VE DONE IT! Not sure if it was a mistake with the original v4 clone making or something other I missed the first time, OR if it was using GenX to transfer from V4 to Gen3 and then to Gen8, instead of going through Gen1 and then to G8 like I tried before.

    I had to dish out a lot more money for all 3 GenX parts than GND back then would have costed, but at least I was able to do it!

     

    For anyone interested, the following tutorials helped me:

    To make a V4 Clone on G8:

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/193296/freebie-how-to-create-a-v4-clone-and-transfer-other-figures-for-g8f-now-with-video/p1 (with Video)

    To transfer GND from V4 to G3:

    To get the Morph from G3 to G8:

    https://www.deviantart.com/sickleyield/journal/Tutorial-Transferring-Character-Morphs-G1G2G3G8-409437916

    (I had a clone morph from some source I can't remember that let's me pose G8 like G3 with only a slider, so I didn't need this, but honorary mention if you need to make a slider for the A Pose:)

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/176271/morphs-from-g3-to-g8/p1

    Attached is the end product. I did not convert the head, since there are enough good looking ones around, but nothing in the style of the GND Body.

     

    Edit 2: I am dumb...since I thought I'm going to use G8 headmorphs, but the V4 clone is the full body, they look wonky. Now I have to figure out how to make the morph work while still being able to use G8 headmorphs -_-

    Edit 2.1: Solved that with weight maps and splitting the clone, BUT I just realized that G8 poses now don't work, so fuck it, I'm just going to try to recreate the GND body with the G8 available morphs.

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  • statistx_42556c1853statistx_42556c1853 Posts: 89
    edited June 2019

    Accidentally quoted myself instead of editing

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