So, I really was surprised to see this one. Ever since the tragic passing of Dimension3D the morph convertor-happy users like myself have been pretty much left on our own. Sure, there have been different techniques provided to us in tutorial threads us both on and off the forums, and even one of us have dedicated their time and effort to try and make a sufficient enough script to fill-in that gap, shout-out to SingularBlues. But this is the first time since the discontinuation of GenX that we're finally getting a solid, in-store PA product addressing this.
Thank you SO much for this, RiverSoftArt! :D

You are very welcome!  I knew from spelunking through the forums that there were user efforts (though I never tried them, way too busy).  After 2 years though, it didn't seem like there were any official products, and Sickleyield convinced me to try and make one.  I had no idea if there would be a market for this.  I was afraid the the "morph converter-happy" users would have already done all they needed to with home-grown techniques. 

Brenna genesis 3 to Brenna genesis 8 was quite successful, as you can see. (original right, genesis 8 left. You can really only tell from the funky eyes on genesis 8, as I didn't update those, and a slightly open mouth on the gen 3). Perfect, and looking forward to bringing over my g3 ladies.

OTOH, my Frankenstein's bride was... less so. Everything seemed to work fine (nothing interesting in the log), even if the conversion took 4 times longer than with Brenna. The body result is just as off ("original", ie. character using both a single dial gen x created morph and a bunch of genesis 3 dials to be as close to the original as possible on left, conversion on right).

 

I am not sure I understand your text on the Frankenstein's bride one (beyond that it didn't work obviously).  Is the body result good?  If you load it in your character, which morphs are non-zero?  After deleting your first conversion attempt and morphs, how about trying the other script?  It won't copy the texture or make the character preset, but I wonder about the morphs.

Sorry about the confusion here:

1) Bride of Frankenstein was an attempted humorous reference to a character of sketchy origin, ie. v4+genX+dials for face, g3f character and dials for body due to a disappointing genx transfer. I should have realized there is a "Frankenstein's Bride" (or probably several) in the store. 

2) Body result was, well, about as far from the original as can be

3)... and I see now, why, as it looks like no morphs whatsoever were, in fact, ported. Eyelashes is the only "currently used" parameter or morph for the ported character.

4) The other script is, indeed, a lot better. Results below. In genesis 8, on the right, the nose is a bit broader, the upper lip larger and the jawline different, but it's certainly a lot closer to the original than the g3f was before I spent 4 hours playing with dials. Still not the same fidelity as with Brenna above, though.

LOL.  Yes, Daz is one of the few places where if you say "Bride of Frankenstein" I immediately go looking for the product you bought! (which I did, but it didn't look like your "bride")  

4)  I am glad it is better.  Were any of the morphs HD?  The script cannot transfer HD morphs as HD so that can account for differences.

What is the average time that people are experiencing for the scene transfer script? Since most of the characters I want to convert aren't "actors," I have to use the scene transfer script, and just some head morphs are taking at least an hour. Tried on two different computers, and both take forever to transfer the morphs. 

Wow, that sounds long, but I have only worked on one figure and, like your situation, it was converted using the Scene Transfer. I just finished my first character which had a V4 GenX figure dialed in and nothing else and it took just a few seconds. I did not include morphs such as Body Size, Body Tone, Fitness, Fitness Size, Fitness Details, etc since G8 already has those anyway. I haven't tried any figures beyond that since I have basically been drooling with delight it worked with GenX ( I was honestly expecting issues). I hope other characters don't take an hour.

I am glad it is working for you!  If you do have problems, please let me know.

What is the average time that people are experiencing for the scene transfer script? Since most of the characters I want to convert aren't "actors," I have to use the scene transfer script, and just some head morphs are taking at least an hour. Tried on two different computers, and both take forever to transfer the morphs. 

I just did one and I gave up waiting and took a nap...so about 2hrs I'd guess. And my machine is no slouch (dForce, etc is nice and quick).

Can you post a log?  

What is the average time that people are experiencing for the scene transfer script? Since most of the characters I want to convert aren't "actors," I have to use the scene transfer script, and just some head morphs are taking at least an hour. Tried on two different computers, and both take forever to transfer the morphs. 

I just did one and I gave up waiting and took a nap...so about 2hrs I'd guess. And my machine is no slouch (dForce, etc is nice and quick).

Can you post a log?  

What is the average time that people are experiencing for the scene transfer script? Since most of the characters I want to convert aren't "actors," I have to use the scene transfer script, and just some head morphs are taking at least an hour. Tried on two different computers, and both take forever to transfer the morphs. 

Huh.  I would not expect the convert custom scene character to be that slow, though the time will go up as you convert more and more characters.  Can you post a log?  EDIT: Did you try and click on the dialog while it was "stuck"?  At one point, I remember DS had brought up a dialog but not really shown it so it seemed like DS was stopped.

How did you save your characters?  Have you tried with the main script unchecking the "Check Content Type" option and Force Converting?

very nice composition 6R

I made it easy on myself importing RedHouse cottage to Zbrush and running UV master then using UltimateUnwrap3D repaint to transfer the texture over to the single mapped mesh

DAZ studio texture atlas acts far too unpredictably or that would be the obvious solution for simplifying texture import, I also made it a single mesh

I liker her face on that last one... did you change her face morph or is it just the expression?

G8's expressions made it impossible for me not to adopt, and the expressions actually look better in practice than most of the promos of expressions. I did screenshots of my favourite actors expressions, copied them on G8, and I got exactly the looks I intended. That couldn't happen on G3 or earlier. Moreover, G3 does not have morph packs by EmmaAndJordi, Rarestone, HerYun, & 3DGHDesign. I often ran out of adequate morph targets when attempting to approximate faces on G3. This rarely happens on G8 (except the males) because there's a morph for almost every nuance of the face (E&J caught just about everything that was missing).

And now that Daz has filled out the 8 Core males with a couple of versions of the main types (presuming an Idris lookalike is on the backburner), I have enough high-quality skins for main and supporting characters without having to resort to Genesis 2 or earlier.

No..Only way that is possible is if the HD tools are distributed which is not allowed. If we find a way around it we will do it.

A shame DAZ does not create a limited version of the tools that can be called by the script API that only allow for transfer of existing HD morphs and not creating whole new HD morphs.  This would allow DAZ to continue to maintain their monopoly while allowing users to move their favorite HD characters to the newest generation.

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So, I really was surprised to see this one. Ever since the tragic passing of Dimension3D the morph convertor-happy users like myself have been pretty much left on our own. Sure, there have been different techniques provided to us in tutorial threads us both on and off the forums, and even one of us have dedicated their time and effort to try and make a sufficient enough script to fill-in that gap, shout-out to SingularBlues. But this is the first time since the discontinuation of GenX that we're finally getting a solid, in-store PA product addressing this.
Thank you SO much for this, RiverSoftArt! :D

When you run File/Save As/Support Asset/Morph Asset, you choose the library in the drop down at the top. You cannot choose your Daz Connect library or the morph will be ignored by Daz Studio.

Brenna genesis 3 to Brenna genesis 8 was quite successful, as you can see. (original right, genesis 8 left. You can really only tell from the funky eyes on genesis 8, as I didn't update those, and a slightly open mouth on the gen 3). Perfect, and looking forward to bringing over my g3 ladies.

OTOH, my Frankenstein's bride was... less so. Everything seemed to work fine (nothing interesting in the log), even if the conversion took 4 times longer than with Brenna. The body result is just as off ("original", ie. character using both a single dial gen x created morph and a bunch of genesis 3 dials to be as close to the original as possible on left, conversion on right).

 

I am not sure I understand your text on the Frankenstein's bride one (beyond that it didn't work obviously).  Is the body result good?  If you load it in your character, which morphs are non-zero?  After deleting your first conversion attempt and morphs, how about trying the other script?  It won't copy the texture or make the character preset, but I wonder about the morphs.

Sorry about the confusion here:

1) Bride of Frankenstein was an attempted humorous reference to a character of sketchy origin, ie. v4+genX+dials for face, g3f character and dials for body due to a disappointing genx transfer. I should have realized there is a "Frankenstein's Bride" (or probably several) in the store. 

2) Body result was, well, about as far from the original as can be

3)... and I see now, why, as it looks like no morphs whatsoever were, in fact, ported. Eyelashes is the only "currently used" parameter or morph for the ported character.

4) The other script is, indeed, a lot better. Results below. In genesis 8, on the right, the nose is a bit broader, the upper lip larger and the jawline different, but it's certainly a lot closer to the original than the g3f was before I spent 4 hours playing with dials. Still not the same fidelity as with Brenna above, though.

How is this done?  Please help.  I got as far as saving the morph but can't figure out how to get it to the library.

I believe windows 7 on has filesystem links (soft links as they are known in Unix systems).

links can be used to gather files and folders in your runtime into a coherent organisation without moving files where (for example, the Daz content db or DIM might no longer be able to find them).

Using this, you can group clothes into a dedicated folder under Figures/Character or Smartprops in Props or separate actual Poses from morph and material poses in Pose.

What is the average time that people are experiencing for the scene transfer script? Since most of the characters I want to convert aren't "actors," I have to use the scene transfer script, and just some head morphs are taking at least an hour. Tried on two different computers, and both take forever to transfer the morphs. 

Wow, that sounds long, but I have only worked on one figure and, like your situation, it was converted using the Scene Transfer. I just finished my first character which had a V4 GenX figure dialed in and nothing else and it took just a few seconds. I did not include morphs such as Body Size, Body Tone, Fitness, Fitness Size, Fitness Details, etc since G8 already has those anyway. I haven't tried any figures beyond that since I have basically been drooling with delight it worked with GenX ( I was honestly expecting issues). I hope other characters don't take an hour.

What is the average time that people are experiencing for the scene transfer script? Since most of the characters I want to convert aren't "actors," I have to use the scene transfer script, and just some head morphs are taking at least an hour. Tried on two different computers, and both take forever to transfer the morphs. 

I just did one and I gave up waiting and took a nap...so about 2hrs I'd guess. And my machine is no slouch (dForce, etc is nice and quick).

What is the average time that people are experiencing for the scene transfer script? Since most of the characters I want to convert aren't "actors," I have to use the scene transfer script, and just some head morphs are taking at least an hour. Tried on two different computers, and both take forever to transfer the morphs. 

Good news: solved the issue with the thumb.

Bad news: Not only could I not solve the issue with the eyes, I also realised that all my morph transfers so far have the same issue. I just hadn't noticed it until now. Will look into solutions another time. Feeling a little bummed out about it right now.  Perhaps I should just invest in a Riversoft or Zevo conversion product after all...

No..Only way that is possible is if the HD tools are distributed which is not allowed. If we find a way around it we will do it.

A shame DAZ does not create a limited version of the tools that can be called by the script API that only allow for transfer of existing HD morphs and not creating whole new HD morphs.  This would allow DAZ to continue to maintain their monopoly while allowing users to move their favorite HD characters to the newest generation.

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