He looks good and I like Victoria too.  Just wish there were more normal everyday clothes for them.

Ouch! I was really hoping for a bonus discount for having bought the Victoria mega bundle. Everything I want is in the Michael Intro Bundle and it's still painfully expensive.

Stop wasting time and hard drive space converting pose presets, just use them!  Bone Minion will do the hard work for you by acting as a bone “catcher” for a pose and then do a just-in-time conversion of the pose to its parent Genesis 9 Figure*.  You can directly use ANY pose (from Victoria 4 and Michael 4 to Genesis 8) with your Genesis 9 Figures.  Simply load the desired Bone Minion (i.e., Genesis 8 Female Bone Minion for Genesis 8 Female Poses) on your target figure (Genesis 9), select the Bone Minion, and start applying poses!

• On-the-fly conversion of poses to your target figure
• Directly convert from the source generation to the target generation without converting to intermediate generations
• Works with full poses, partial poses*, hierarchical poses**, and even AniBlocks!
• Automatically applies full poses when they are loaded*
• Cross-gender pose conversion
• Supports pose properties, e.g., Right Hand Grasp poses (using the Create Heavyweight Bone Minion script)
• Use pose details on the Bone Minion to apply partial poses

Note that converted poses (and especially props if they are hierarchical poses) may not be perfect and may require tweaking. Facial bones (i.e., expressions) except for the eyes are not transferred.

* Any pose that sets the hip of the Bone Minion will be automatically converted on the fly and applied to the target figure. The Apply Changes script can be used to transfer any pose (including partial poses) on the Bone Minion to its target figure.

** Hierarchical poses require the props loaded on both the Bone Minion and the target figure. For Genesis 9, the bone names ARE VERY DIFFERENT and you will need to move the props to the correct bones manually. The prop will be properly rotated for the pose but may need to be manually translated to the correct location.

Tutorial

What's Included and Features

• Bone Minion for Generation 4 Poses for Genesis 9
• Bone Minion for Genesis Poses for Genesis 9
• Bone Minion for Genesis 2 Poses for Genesis 9
• Bone Minion for Genesis 3 Poses for Genesis 9
• Bone Minion for Genesis 8 and 8.1 Poses for Genesis 9

richardandtracy said:

You sure it's not 4.10.xxx? I didn't think dForce came out earlier than version 4.10. I know it was talked about as a future enhancement while I was playing with version 1.2 many, many years ago (2006 or around then), but I gave up on DS due to having inadequate hardware shortly after that.

I do have a question. Is the hair disappearing off in the +X direction? If so, you're lucky the hair didn't explode. If it is the case that it's shooting off in the +X direction, and the hair has been dForced by you (as opposed to being sold as dForce hair) I think the hair isn't suitable for dForce. I tried to dForce some Victoria 3 hair myself, and, due to the way it seemed to be  blown in the +X direction I had to make the image below instead of the one I wanted, where there was apparently a fairly strong wind from the character's right:

If it isn't going in the +X direction, I have no idea, sorry.

Regards,

Richar

4.21 sorry. typo

vwrangler said:

He actually reminds me of Nevio (Michael 6). I wonder if maybe he's done from the same source photo materials... And I honestly didn't expect to see him for another month.

zombietaggerung said:

MimicMolly said:

zombietaggerung said:

I like the Bloodborne outfits. Shame they're g9 only. Michael 9, eh. He's all right. Wish he didn't look 15 years older than Victoria, but I guess that's just the way of things.

People were complaining about Michael 8.1 looking "too young." But I guess most buyers like this age difference.

Did they really? I hadn't noticed. I though 8.1 Michael and Victoria looked about the same age, 20-something college students. Ah well. I guess it goes to show I'm very much not the target market.

MimicMolly said:

zombietaggerung said:

I like the Bloodborne outfits. Shame they're g9 only. Michael 9, eh. He's all right. Wish he didn't look 15 years older than Victoria, but I guess that's just the way of things.

People were complaining about Michael 8.1 looking "too young." But I guess most buyers like this age difference.

Did they really? I hadn't noticed. I thought 8.1 Michael and Victoria looked about the same age, 20-something college students. Ah well. I guess it goes to show I'm very much not the target market.

zombietaggerung said:

I like the Bloodborne outfits. Shame they're g9 only. Michael 9, eh. He's all right. Wish he didn't look 15 years older than Victoria, but I guess that's just the way of things.

"Emotions Expressions for Victoria 9"  origin price $17.98 (https://www.daz3d.com/emotions-expressions-for-victoria-9)

"Emotional Expressions for Michael 9" origin price $24.99(https://www.daz3d.com/emotional-expressions-for-michael-9)

????? Why??????

Both " contains 24 detailed and versatile facial expressions to use in a variety of different scenes"

Is this an errror? or a joke?

Don't get it....

I like the Bloodborne outfits. Shame they're g9 only. Michael 9, eh. He's all right. Wish he didn't look 15 years older than Victoria, but I guess that's just the way of things.

Looks very good, and the items released with him all look pretty good of their types too. I'm more tempted than I was by Victoria. But I'm more tempted by the new Toons than either.

Still, I do definitely like the morph. And the promos do a decent job of showing variety.

Keiku said:

I've purposely held off on buying much beyond the initial morph pack and the Victoria bundle. But I wonder if I should have bothered to buy anything G9 related at all.

Maybe return the bundle and just keep the morph packs?.. won't be that long until Vicky is 50,60,70% off.

Like Gordig, I'm barely rendering anymore.

As I try to get other nagging persistent problems out of my hair, there isn't time, but I still, bored, nervous, and obsessive, check the DAZ Store daily, and like JoeQuicks' Toon Kids for G9, Toon Heroes for Genesis 9 | Daz 3D was purchased on release day. 

I've really only plans to use them in games with the interactive license and get them in Blender to use in animation practice. I never originally planned on doing any DAZ Studio renders at all but I'm glad I did.

I'm very happy with JoeQuick's work on this product, once again.

However, this purchase came out of my store credit and I had enough to buy Michael 9 saved in there but no more, so now I will have to add that $18 back in at the 1st of December. I'm expecting Michael 9 to release during Thanksgiving week. It's not a big deal though since the unimesh and Genesis 9 Essensial Expansion already make male and female characters already possible. I don't even need to buy Michael 9 but the obssessive collector in me likely still will. I don't feel the same obsessiveness with buying the other characters, just Michael & Victoria as I've bought them for so many years. 

You sure it's not 4.10.xxx? I didn't think dForce came out earlier than version 4.10. I know it was talked about as a future enhancement while I was playing with version 1.2 many, many years ago (2006 or around then), but I gave up on DS due to having inadequate hardware shortly after that.

I do have a question. Is the hair disappearing off in the +X direction? If so, you're lucky the hair didn't explode. If it is the case that it's shooting off in the +X direction, and the hair has been dForced by you (as opposed to being sold as dForce hair) I think the hair isn't suitable for dForce. I tried to dForce some Victoria 3 hair myself, and, due to the way it seemed to be  blown in the +X direction I had to make the image below instead of the one I wanted, where there was apparently a fairly strong wind from the character's right:

If it isn't going in the +X direction, I have no idea, sorry.

Regards,

Richard

Just a friendly reminder,

Dimension3D's Genesis Generation X2 is one amazing friend to have!

I'm still using some of the amazing morphs I've bought for Victoria 4, now on my Genesis 3 figures, and they come across to the target figure so perfectly... I just love it!

I had originally bought it to add Genesis 2 and 3 shapes to Genesis, along with my V4 morphs, and that is crazy-awesome as well! It's such a powerful thing, and it works on the fly - any time we want a new morph dial!

Since Dimension3D has entered the next part of the journey away from this plane, I happened upon Riversoft Art's Character Convertors to and from Genesis 8 and so forth and, while they work quite differently, those things Rock too! So with a bit of patience and forethought, we can run our shapes from Generation 3 (Aiko 3, etc.,) through Genesis 8 (Genesis 9 coming too, I'm sure) and back again - which is really cool!

EDIT: ...and I want to try the Discobob/Zev0's XTransfer character convertors too. I really like having tools that help me to make the most out of my entire product library of character products. I liked them when I bought them, and they look really cool with these more modern figures with their Iray surfaces and so on. Really having a lot of fun here!

The version of Rosie in the two images I posted earlier uses V4, S4. Genesis, G2F and G8F shapes on a Genesis 3 Female version of the amazing Sol for G8F/G3F

Entry - 10

Artist Name - Diomede (Ted Murphy)

Title of Work - NNVIATWAS, The Mummy's Bride

Link to WIP - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/7848911/#Comment_7848911

Credits - Victoria 9, V9 to Carrara following advice of Wendy, ProProse, and Bunyip. Genesis 9 in shape of G8M Mummy by Josh Crocket following advice of Catherine and JayVersluis, Props from the Daz store.

Comments - Some postwork in Filter Forge to get the scratched book cover look, and added some text.

I got on the train but only bought the Genesis 9 morph package. I still haven't bought Victoria 9.

Yay.  I managed to actually render a scene with Genesis 9 morphed to the shape of the G8 Male Mummy and Victoria 9.  The wrapped male mummy with the ankh is a prop from a Daz Egypt set, as is the open sarcaphagus.  Created a procedural skin shader for the G9 Male Mummy instead of trying to figure out how to get G8 maps to G9.  The skin is a mixture of the skin that comes with Carrara in the organic folder and some 'freaky skins' Carrara product and some of my own playing around.  Lost a lot of the bump/normal detail by not using the maps that come with the G8 Male Mummy.

Another note when using G9 in Carrara.  Always check conformed items when you change a pose.  I had to unfit and then 'fit to' the eyebrows, the eyes, and eyelashes to G9 a couple of times.  Ditto for the bandage wrapping I modeled and attached to the G9 skeleton.

The title is a Carrara text object with a bulge modifier applied.

Will probably be making some more adjustments but here is the raw render from Carrara, and the scene setup.

In response to a PM, and to show how good a 2k optical printer is, I have attached three photos I took of my 90mm high Victoria 3 based 'Glamorous Vickie' by Jim Burton prints. The character is still for sale in the DAZ store, though the V3 Las Vegas hair is not. 

I am allergic to the resin, so haven't been able to touch to dust them for 3 years.  Please realise that these prints are pretty much untouched after the supports were removed. And the camera was only 3" from the print. In reality the microstepping in the print is practically invisible to the naked eye even under the closest examination. They detail of the prints is exquisite compared to commercial cast metal models.

Hope this helps,

Richard.