I was not around when V4/M4 were the main figures. I kind of like the whole "injection" idea, since the number of morphs on my G8F are crazy. I've had to parse some of the ones I don't really use out just so I can have a reasonable loading time. Don't know how people feel about the injection idea for G9, but it sure would be nice just to load the morphs I want when I want.

as someone who was around then - it was awful 

any time you saved on the initial load was more than counterbalanced by all the time you spent loading morphs after the fact, including all the time you ended up spending having to find them. "Oh hey I'd like to dial in some of this character. Time to go find it in the content library and click the preset" if you wanted to dial in morphs from multiple sources, off you had to go to find all of them and click each preset. It was basically only faster if you never used anything other than premade characters

What about a choice or a hybrid system? You can choose to install products as injection only or preloaded. I'd probably mostly install things like the standard facial and body morphs (or morph collections) as preloaded, but all characters as injection. I rarely use character morphs, other than HD.

There is no free product, sometimes you have to learn how to do it by yourself.

About the morph, you must own at least V4 Shape for Genesis or Genesis 2 and create the G8 morph by yourself by using Transfer Utility.

About the skin maps, Cayman Studio shared in a thread the G8 UV sets for the geografts but you must own Legacy UVs in order to be able to do a complete texture with Map Transfer.

Genesis 8 UV for Legacy UVs geograft (Done)

Is There any converter to convert V4 Matts to Genesis 8?

Also, is there any morph Transfer tool to convert V4 to Genesis 8 (free)

Thanks

The examples listed don't, I believe, convert.

Blacksmith Pro and Texture Transformer at Renderosity do convert. I use those in preference to the alternatives a lot; I've converted V4, Genesis and G2.

Products that will transfer Generation 4 skin to Genesis 8:

https://www.daz3d.com/legacy-uvs-for-genesis-8-victoria-4
https://www.daz3d.com/legacy-uvs-for-genesis-8-michael-4

You can transfer morphs by using all of following products:

https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-generation-x2
https://www.daz3d.com/genx2-addon-for-genesis-2
https://www.daz3d.com/genx2-addon-for-genesis-3
https://www.daz3d.com/xtransfer--genesis-3-to-genesis-8-converter

... but you should be aware that transferring morphs can be a bumpy ride.
Transferring G3 to G8 is pretty foolproof. But from older generations... results may vary.

Free: Daz Studio 4, Blender, some tutorials in this forum and patience (a lot of this)

Morphs:

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

Old but some ideas to see

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/24093/transferring-morphs-from-genesis-to-g2m-g2f-and-from-g2m-g2f-to-genesis-now-with-clones/p1

Skins: not V4 to G8 but can help you to know the proccess

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/59665/tutorial-converting-textures-from-gen2-to-gen3/p1

Hi!

Elli is absolutely right... they do not morph into flats. Sorry about that. You can use plate only mode for flat feets, however

Ignus is usually aces about listing all her morphs in the outfits so I'd say no flat shoes morph usuallly she just does tons of adjustment morphs for them. I haven't picked it up yet but you could always check to see if the heel is a seperate mat zone and hide it then pose the feet so they are flat and see how that looks?
Elli

First eleven warnings in each log are about SickleYields freebie morphs, basically she messed up and despite being told about the issue she hasn't fixed it afaik.

The rest of them are down to you not having the head, body and expressions morph packs for G8F, if you have them then install them and those warnings will go away.

As for the "unable to load add on", that's a lot harder to figure out without opening up the Elvira.duf in a decent text editor, but you would also have to know what it is you are looking for.

Seen enough products, payed as well as free, that have made a right mess out of setting up the G8F eyelashes to load with their character, so that could always be one possibility.

thank you for your reply. I'm going to check that. I indeed created eyelashes for my character with their own load script after the g8f script. there s a tutorial by Josh Darling on how to add g8f eyelashes with your own map. I might use that instead of creating own attachment and renaming it.

Thanks for the responses.  And PerttiA is right--I DO have a lot of warnings in the log.  They seem to come in three flavors:  "Got an unknown command from the persistent connection", "Could not find target property for formula" and "Could not find output property for formula".  I'm attaching a copy of the log.

Is there someplace you can direct me toward that might guide me through fixing these warnings?  Thanks again!

Ok, obviously you are usin DS in online-mode and with the current server problems, you are getting lots of connection related warnings and problems => Use DS in offline-mode and those will go away.

An example of tracking down the warnings;

2020-11-24 06:22:57.045 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\sdksource\fileinput\dzassetdaz.cpp(6777): Could not find output property for formula: Genesis8Female:/data/DAZ%203D/Genesis%208/Female/Morphs/SF-Design/G8FBreastControl/SFD_G8F_BC_UnderShapeSm.dsf#SFD_G8F_BC_UnderShapeSm?value in file : /data/DAZ%203D/Genesis%208/Female/Morphs/AlFan/Fatal%20Stranger%20HD/Fatal%20Stranger%20Body.dsf

The above reads: "While reading the file "Fatal Stranger Body.dsf" (%20=Space), DS found a reference to formula "SFD_G8F_BC_UnderShapeSm" that should be located inside file "SFD_G8F_BC_UnderShapeSm.dsf", but cannot find it." - Meaning DS cannot find either the formula it is looking, inside the file it is looking for it, or it cannot find the file where the formula is supposed to be located.

It may be that the file "SFD_G8F_BC_UnderShapeSm.dsf" belongs to a morph package that you don't have (SF-Design/G8FBreastControl?) or there is some problem with or inside the file "SFD_G8F_BC_UnderShapeSm.dsf"

You have four options;

- Check for updated/fixed versions for the products
- File a ticket and wait for an update/fix
- Fix the files yourself
- Uninstall/remove the products that are causing warnings (in the above sample "Fatal Stranger")

You didn't have that many Character/Morph related warnings, which leads me to think that most ot the 4min 20sec is due to DS trying to connect to DAZ servers => Start using DS in offline-mode and see if that helps.

First eleven warnings in each log are about SickleYields freebie morphs, basically she messed up and despite being told about the issue she hasn't fixed it afaik.

The rest of them are down to you not having the head, body and expressions morph packs for G8F, if you have them then install them and those warnings will go away.

As for the "unable to load add on", that's a lot harder to figure out without opening up the Elvira.duf in a decent text editor, but you would also have to know what it is you are looking for.

Seen enough products, payed as well as free, that have made a right mess out of setting up the G8F eyelashes to load with their character, so that could always be one possibility.

Do the boots morph into flats? Just wondering if this stays high heels. I don't see it on the list of morphs in the product page but I thought I would ask anyway.

Hi, I need to tranfer a lot of props attached to a character to animate them later in UE4 (master pose). Process is quite slow. 

Is it possible to automate assets transfer utility?

Regards JP

Copy and paste of a BVH or other motion file to a native blender rig can work in theory, but only if the two rigs are exactly the same.  They need to have the same bone names and armature structure, then you could go into the dope sheet and copy and paste the keyframes from one rig to the other.  If the rigs are not the same, the only way to transfer animation keyframes between the rigs is to retarget the animation keyframes from one armature to the other.  Retargetting can be done with addons such as Auto-Rig Pro or some other addons mentioned here.

Thank you. So far I have been having very good results retargetting BVHs exported out of Daz onto DazToBlender characters in Blender using the Rokoko add (once I matched all the naming in the bone list etc) For some reason the root jumps from the feet to the hips but that doesn't seem to effect much and there is some small foot spacing issues that are mostly not noticeable. 

In the words of Emily Latella:".....Nevermind...."

Just realized its a morph on the body of the spider, not separate add on.

Now I wish I knew how to delete a question

As the title says, I have a question about SY Spiderfolk for Genesis 8:

https://www.daz3d.com/sy-spiderfolk-for-genesis-8

How do you apply the 'spines' for the spider body?

It doesn't seem to be a attachment for the spider body (don't see it in 'clothing').  When I apply a 'Spines Overlay' from the 'Materials' folder, I don't get anything.

I know I'm probably overlooking something very obvious, but for now I don't see it.

I filed tickets but they deemed it solved without fixing it because it works in DAZ studio but Poser and Carrara we are out of luck

you need to delete some deltas created by Powerloader to fix it

it breaks everytime you add new morph packages and run the bat file

I will try and find my thread

Is There any converter to convert V4 Matts to Genesis 8?

Also, is there any morph Transfer tool to convert V4 to Genesis 8 (free)

Thanks

Load times are caused by morphs. If you have that many figures, you probably have morph  including expressions and other stuff in your data folder taking up your load times.

 Try pruning the data file for your g8f/M figures to whatt you use regularly, and then create a second daz studio folder for things you only use occasionally. Map that drive when you need it. It will load much faster if you do some pruning.

I like to have materials of all the figures I buy still available, but what I do is create a new folder with the same path, data\DAZ 3D\Genesis 8\Female\Morphs, and then transfer the ones I don't plan on using into that extra folder. If I ever want them, I can simply add that folder in the Content Directory Manager and reload G8F. 

I transfered the Ly Mikaella morph over to G8, loaded Kaeicy, removed the Keicy morph and dialed in the Mikaella morph. I don't think the breasts are too small. If anything, they are a little larger than normal but not super-sized.

I think you should set the value of Iterations (Per Subframe) to 1~6,  or set Subframes lower than 8

If the Iterations (Per Subframe) higher than 32.You can hardly see the difference,unless you set the FPS higher than 120

could you do it on Genesis 3 then transfer it to 8 (or choose 8 in the Transfer Utility)

I didn't know that was possible. I don't use the Transfer Utility very often (if at all).

I don't think I'll be using Cloth Weaver anytime soon, though. Blender keeps throwing out errors when I try to stitch clothing.