Gallery link

Grace for V4, materials and face morph transferred to G8.

Freebie credits:
Gown by Adam Thwaites: https://www.most-digital-creations.com/g8f_gown.php
Body Morph by bu_es: https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/aminata-for-g8f-monique-8/79842
Pose Converter by MCphylyss: https://www.sharecg.com/v/89846/browse/8/Script/Daz3d-Pose-Converter-Standalone

Gallery link

Shortly after I started with DAZ, Grace for V4 showed up as a bi-weekly freebie. She made me first think about transferring old shapes and materials to Genesis 8. She was just so beautiful and I felt it was a shame to let all that go to waste. So I started to tentatively look into the subject. And down a rabbit hole I fell...

Well, here she finally is! I had managed to transfer her materials a while ago, but now I also have her face morph. It's not entirely accurate, but it's close enough for my purposes. Her eyes and teeth seem not deformed and the posing also seems ok.

Her brows were also a bit of a problem. They kind of disappeared in IRAY and they were a little weirdly painted to begin with. So I clone-stamped them away completely and gave her some fibermesh brows instead. I think it all comes together quite nicely!

(Karass will have to wait a little, though. Turns out he requires some M4 morph packs I don't have. Hoping that they'll show up as freebies sometime soon, fingers crossed!)

Freebie credits:
Gown by Adam Thwaites: https://www.most-digital-creations.com/g8f_gown.php
Body Morph by bu_es: https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/aminata-for-g8f-monique-8/79842
Pose Converter by MCphylyss: https://www.sharecg.com/v/89846/browse/8/Script/Daz3d-Pose-Converter-Standalone

Hi, 

there's a method for transferring clothing from G3 to G8 by using the Edit>Scene ID.... when I try that the arms and, sometimes, legs go weird

  as if the rigging is off or something. I've followed all the steps 

Adjust pose to match G3, Load unparented, Edit> Scene ID, Edit>Transfer Rigging then fit. but every time the arms and, sometimes, legs go weird. The arms worse than the legs. I've tried tweaking the starting pose to match exactly but it makes little difference. I've tried different clothing with similar results. I finally tried just zeroing the G8 pose and, as expected, that didn't help. See Attached. 

Anyone got any ideas.

Amazing! thanks for fixing this mess. I need to find out what I'm doing wrong with these foot poses. I'll try your pose.

do you mind if I post this on sharecg and obviously credit you for your expertise?

It's "yours" to do with as you please ;-)

Maybe for your next model of shoes the part that goes under the toes could extend back a little more. I couldn't make a simple morph to address that.

Thank you for the shoes :-)

Do you have Silas 8 itself, that what the missing maps are from?

How did you install the morphs?

Hello,
Many thanks for your help. The file Alt Silas 8 like that (picture no. 1) shows "bought and installed" with DIM (picture no. 2). When I opened it, I tried to look for missing textures, but the textures were not there (image 3). I don't know how to install the morphs. There were no morph files to install. I think I lack important knowledge and information. I am happy if I can solve the problem; I also have a few other files that don't work.
Thanks a lot

Reza

Okay. I've found some links to this topic. i.e: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/184696/tutorial-from-map-transfer-to-material-presets

Looks like a lot of work ;-)

I will try this one. Thank you very much :-)

There's a legacy UVs product for V6 textures too. For other UVs you can use map transfer to transform the textures made for custom UVs into textures for the base or V6 UVs first, then use legacy UVs product with the converted textures.

Thats happening because the body morph isn't being rigged properly on some characters. We are aware of the issue and are on a fix. If you dial up the main character slider and go adjust rigging to shape it will fix the problem.

Unfortunately in my case I have to re-rig the character every time I re-load them as the re-rigged character won't save the rig, also I cannot use shape rigger due to not being able to save with that program as well... That's OK, as that will all be taken care of once the update comes out!

The important thing with export size is that you import in Mesh Morph Loader Pro with the SAME size setting you used to export.

I got some D/S files ready here now. I felt to include a morph to lower that top strap as otherwise it was pretty high off the foot. People can unlock the morph [I left it visible] and dial it out if so desired.

I have include a foot pose preset for G8F.

Anybody is free to use my foot pose(s) when modeling shoes ;-) I don't consider it copyrighted.

After applying a pose to G8F, one can reapply the foot pose and the shoes will again be on the feet.

Select G8F first, then load the shoes ... they are smart props. They can be loaded by themselves too if for example one wants shoes in the closet.

Thats happening because the body morph isn't being rigged properly on some characters. We are aware of the issue and are on a fix. If you dial up the main character slider and go adjust rigging to shape it will fix the problem.

 

I would not go to tolerance 0.  A very low tolerance, 0.0005, but not lower.  There will be slight distortions in the eyes no matter what. Also, remember to delete the morphs before converting the head again as that is faster and you ensure the old, "bad" morph is gone.  You can just delete the FHM morph and leave the others, with "Overwrite morphs" unchecked it will be faster.  The morphs are in data/DAZ 3D/Genesis 8/Female/Morphs under the FIRST directory for Daz Studio Formats specified in the Content Directory Manager

Thanks, I will definitely try setting the tolerance a tiny bit higher. I also understand that it‘s not possible to completely spare the eyes. Nevertheless, I would still really like to understand what it is that actually happens in between converting from G8 to G3 or vice versa that makes the eyes such a problem. But that is probably beyond the scope of this thread. Anyways, the faces I‘ve done so far turned out really nice apart from the eyes, so thanks again for that!

My theory for why eyes are a problem is that there are just many more polygons for the eyes in G2M (left) compared to G8M (right).  The transfer process just does not have a lot to work with.  It should still do a better job with normal eyes though.  Please try again.  

Hello, I was wondering if anyone has ran into a problem with eyes during conversion?  I was trying to convert the Dwarf character from Smay but the eyes are all messed up. Thanks.

Eeek!  That is not a good conversion.  Is that Dwarf Creator?  I don't have that one.  I wonder why it did that.  It looks like the FBM morph is good though. 

• Go into data/DAZ 3D/Genesis 8/Male/Morphs under the FIRST directory for Daz Studio Formats specified in the Content Directory Manager and delete the FHM (head) morph only. 
• Now, load the dwarf and G8M into an empty scene.  DO NOT MOVE THEM.  Turn off ALL morphs except the head morph.
• Run the Convert Custom Character script and it should only convert the head morph.  You should name the character the same as the Dwarf character so the head morph is correctly named and saved.
• Then copy the FHM morph to where the body morph is.

I am posting this here again because the poser forum is still pretty dead.

Idk if anyone with daz can help me or not...anyway

when I export this head as a morph target, and reimport it, the eyes are messed up. They are too far back in the head and there is a space between the skin and eyes. It's fine before i export it but when reimporting it, it is broken. I have done this without even editing it in Blender so I have chaned nothing at  all before putting it back in.

Please someone help me fix this...

The entire reason I started this entire over is because of the eyes not being in the right place and now even without editing it's broken. here's an example

without loading the morph target. if i try to export the eyes and the head it gives me an incorrect number of  vertices error when tryin to load it back into the head (and yes, I turned subsurface off just in case)

with it

 

I would not go to tolerance 0.  A very low tolerance, 0.0005, but not lower.  There will be slight distortions in the eyes no matter what. Also, remember to delete the morphs before converting the head again as that is faster and you ensure the old, "bad" morph is gone.  You can just delete the FHM morph and leave the others, with "Overwrite morphs" unchecked it will be faster.  The morphs are in data/DAZ 3D/Genesis 8/Female/Morphs under the FIRST directory for Daz Studio Formats specified in the Content Directory Manager

Thanks, I will definitely try setting the tolerance a tiny bit higher. I also understand that it‘s not possible to completely spare the eyes. Nevertheless, I would still really like to understand what it is that actually happens in between converting from G8 to G3 or vice versa that makes the eyes such a problem. But that is probably beyond the scope of this thread. Anyways, the faces I‘ve done so far turned out really nice apart from the eyes, so thanks again for that!

Just released my first freebie! 

You can find it on my DeviantArt account/at DeviantArt: http://fav.me/ddtgyzv

You can also find it on ShareCG: https://sharecg.com/v/95466/browse/21/DAZ-Studio/N-Ra-Pointed-Breast-Morph-for-Genesis-8-Female

EDIT: And Renderosity too!: https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/n-ra-pointed-breasts-morph-for-genesis-8-female/84877

Thank you for looking :3

I weld clothing for earlier figures in another commercial program that does not destroy UV mapping so when simulated it does not fall apart. 

It needs to be fitted with the transfer utility if zeroing the simulation on close fitting surfaces so has it's limitations 

I usually eliminate rigging on skirts by choosing the shirt option.

Or do it unfitted as a prop.

not everything welds sadly, I tried some Skyrim Yarl clothing meshes exported from Nifskope the other week and the necklace still fell off and it did not look great, it didn't explode though so there is that. 

Being exported from my installed game and belonging to Besthesda cannot show you those either  was done just for my own benefit and boredom.

game mesh has the added difficulty of being solid so have to cut out hand holes neck holes and bottoms with the geometry editor.

Welded means it's all one joined mesh

OK update from our side..we fixed the rigging issue with characters that require other character bases. Also that navel and mouthrealismhd issue was a once off related only to how gianni 6 was saved. Regarding G1 genx base shape, that will take a bit longer to resolve, but we will role out this update asap since a lot of characters in the market are based off others. So this is crucial to get out.

Is it your recommendation that Navel & Mouth Realism HD be disabled in the XTransfer pane for all characters? I'm getting the same issue as the user above was having with Gianni 6 (but with a different, G3 character... I don't have Gianni 6 installed).

Ummmm..For now yes until we can find more characters that cause this issue. What G3 character is causing issues?

Here's an example: https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/yana-for-genesis-3-females/137408/

When you transfer the head & body sliders, you get a "duplicate formula" error, and the "XT Navel" and "XT Mouth Realism HD" sliders default to 100% (even when just G8 base is loaded). Maybe it's a problem with how the figure was saved?

Also, unrelated to the Navel / Mouth Realism sliders, I've noticed an issue with this character: https://www.daz3d.com/hp-myrtle-for-star-2-0-and-aiko-7

When you only favorite her character dial, JCMs don't get transferred. To get JCMs, you have to favorite both the head & body sliders instead. I noticed this issue with another character as well, but I'm having difficulty finding out which one it was...

Regardless, XTransfer is a great (and much needed) product, and the remaining issues seem relatively minor. So, congrats!

OK update from our side..we fixed the rigging issue with characters that require other character bases. Also that navel and mouthrealismhd issue was a once off related only to how gianni 6 was saved. Regarding G1 genx base shape, that will take a bit longer to resolve, but we will role out this update asap since a lot of characters in the market are based off others. So this is crucial to get out.

Is it your recommendation that Navel & Mouth Realism HD be disabled in the XTransfer pane for all characters? I'm getting the same issue as the user above was having with Gianni 6 (but with a different, G3 character... I don't have Gianni 6 installed).

Ummmm..For now yes (only if they populate in the transfer list, by design they not supposed to show) until we can find more characters that cause this issue. What G3 character is causing issues?

If you're loading G8 and it's asking you for G3 base, then you have a character installed which references it. That character is what needs to be fixed.

Maybe if look in the log file when loading the figure you'll be able to see what morph that is.