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Question on Draagonstorm pose converters

KharmaKharma Posts: 3,214
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There are 2 pose converters for V4 to Genesis and G2, one is a batch converter pz2 files to duf and the othere basically says it does the same thing.  Is there a need to have both or is one or the other sufficient?

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  • thd777thd777 Posts: 945
    edited September 2015

    No. They do different things. The batch to duf converter does just the file format conversion. The resulting files are still poses for the original figure (V4 for example). This is useful because that way the poses will show in your DAZ Studio format library rather than only in the Poser format libraries. This is what I refer to: http://www.daz3d.com/batch-convert-gen4-poses-to-duf-format

    The other one does the actual conversion between figures. So if you want to use your poses on Genesis/G2F you need this one. It only reads .duf files and hence it is useful to also have the first converter. However, you can save the poses as .duf yourself. Not difficult, but very tedious. I have both and converting lots of V4 poses is easy and quick. This is what I refer to here: http://www.daz3d.com/v4-pose-converter-for-genesis-and-genesis-2-female-s

    TD

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  • KharmaKharma Posts: 3,214

    Thank you for showing me the differences, just to clarify..... with the first one ( batch) the poses are converted to duf format but still for v4 and for the second one it will convert your v4 poses to genesis and g2 in duf format but then those in duf format would not still work on v4, you would still have to use to pz2 file for v4?

  • thd777thd777 Posts: 945

    Yes, that is correct. It works quite well. I have set up a "Converted" directory and in there I have a V4duf folder. That's where the converted duf go. Then I can just use the pose converter to convert all those to G2F (and then to G3F if needed). 

    TD

  • KharmaKharma Posts: 3,214

    Awesome , thank you so much :)  I will get the batch duf converter but still have to wait till mid october for the v4 to g/g2 converter to go off new status

  • cdemeritcdemerit Posts: 505
    thd777 said:

    No. They do different things. The batch to duf converter does just the file format conversion. The resulting files are still poses for the original figure (V4 for example). This is useful because that way the poses will show in your DAZ Studio format library rather than only in the Poser format libraries. This is what I refer to: http://www.daz3d.com/batch-convert-gen4-poses-to-duf-format

    The other one does the actual conversion between figures. So if you want to use your poses on Genesis/G2F you need this one. It only reads .duf files and hence it is useful to also have the first converter. However, you can save the poses as .duf yourself. Not difficult, but very tedious. I have both and converting lots of V4 poses is easy and quick. This is what I refer to here: http://www.daz3d.com/v4-pose-converter-for-genesis-and-genesis-2-female-s

    TD

    A third item not mentioned is Draagonstorms "Pose builder" series http://www.daz3d.com/pose-builder-for-genesis-genesis-2-female-s-genesis-2-male-s I just linked one of the series, but this allows you to take pieces of one pose and combine them with other bits. Again, one can do this by hand, but it is a little easier with this script.

    This program also only uses Daz formats of .duf and I think .dsa, however, it was surprising to me at just how many of my hundreds of poses were actually .pz2 and needed to be converted to .duf to work. one can do it manually by loading it onto a figure and then saving it, but this takes a real long time... I'm glad someone talked Draagonstorm into creating the batch converter...

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