He's stated he's unlikely to ever develop a product out of it and that's why he's open sourced it.

I've tried it and it hung on a transfer of about 10 G3M products to G8M. I've not looked into why it hung as it's not an important thing to me only a convenience. The prior product he made one year prior handled the same work without a bug.

It's a nice UI he's created for it but it would probably be a better UI by parsing individual products and offering those as the choice to transfer instead of all the individual components of those product files with an option to transfer all associated member files of the product. Also. it would probably be better and avoid the need for searching for complex bugs if once a product was chosen to transfer all the other products were greyed out and not available for transfer - so one product at a time.

You blink and this thread gets burried completely...

Gallery link

Freebie credits:
Morph by bu_es: https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/saud-for-g3m-g8m/78849

I have a couple of questions:. 1) does this make smart content/content library entries for the converted characters or just morph dials and 2) what is the difference between this one and the one that Zevo is about to release?

1. If you use the main script, it creates a character preset and copies the icons and categories from the original G3 character, so yes.
2. With the caveat that I have only glanced at his post and without a released product cannot even test it, I *think* that his will be more general, concentrating on morphs, and handling hooking the JCMs back up is impressive (though in practice, for normal characters I haven't missed the loss of the custom JCMs).  Mine is more character oriented and targeted for ease of use.  Select the character and convert.  CC converts the morphs, creates the controller property, and creates a new character with copied icons and categories (and transfers the default materials, which could be good or bad ).  IMO, I think in practice BOTH will be good to have.  Mine for doing 80% of the characters, and his for the 20% that are the problem childs as well as transferring non-character oriented morphs .  

 

Awesome, that's what I needed to know, thanks! I will definitely be picking this up today.

Great to hear!  I am glad I could answer your questions.

Gallery link

Today in 'I sometimes just don't get DAZ': The above render was interrupted at 5%. Yes, I did a few spot renders - but not that many! - and yes, you can find fireflies if you look for them. But overall it's pretty good for a 5% render, no? No idea how the 100% version would look like...

Fitting complicated M4 clothes to G8 is always a hassle, but I'm quite happy with how this turned out. Telling a proper story with this character will require some lateral thinking and tricky posing though, since the poor dude can't move his head at all without clipping through his armour and his arm movements are severely limited as well.

Freebie credits:
Morph by bu_es: https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/saud-for-g3m-g8m/78849

@khyron555 "to my sense of asthetics, they all have this weird duck face at default."

You almost certainly have an additional morph loading that either saved over the default Genesis 8 or had an error with the specific file for that morph.

Load the base Genesis 8 Female, then look through the loaded morph list. Click the Figure, then Parameters>Actor>Head. Look for anything at 100% that isn't Genesis 8 base.

I have a couple of questions:. 1) does this make smart content/content library entries for the converted characters or just morph dials and 2) what is the difference between this one and the one that Zevo is about to release?

1. If you use the main script, it creates a character preset and copies the icons and categories from the original G3 character, so yes.
2. With the caveat that I have only glanced at his post and without a released product cannot even test it, I *think* that his will be more general, concentrating on morphs, and handling hooking the JCMs back up is impressive (though in practice, for normal characters I haven't missed the loss of the custom JCMs).  Mine is more character oriented and targeted for ease of use.  Select the character and convert.  CC converts the morphs, creates the controller property, and creates a new character with copied icons and categories (and transfers the default materials, which could be good or bad ).  IMO, I think in practice BOTH will be good to have.  Mine for doing 80% of the characters, and his for the 20% that are the problem childs as well as transferring non-character oriented morphs .  

Hello,
just a small side note to the dev.
Daz ver. 4.12.0.33 and 4.11.0.383;
In Morph Loader Pro;
Save Preset -> "Scale" - factor will not be saved in preset!

And by the way, well done, I like the new "Timeline"!
Have a nice day.

You'll need to report it here (giving as much info as you can):

https://helpdaz.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

I have a couple of questions:. 1) does this make smart content/content library entries for the converted characters or just morph dials and 2) what is the difference between this one and the one that Zevo is about to release?

1. If you use the main script, it creates a character preset and copies the icons and categories from the original G3 character, so yes.
2. With the caveat that I have only glanced at his post and without a released product cannot even test it, I *think* that his will be more general, concentrating on morphs, and handling hooking the JCMs back up is impressive (though in practice, for normal characters I haven't missed the loss of the custom JCMs).  Mine is more character oriented and targeted for ease of use.  Select the character and convert.  CC converts the morphs, creates the controller property, and creates a new character with copied icons and categories (and transfers the default materials, which could be good or bad ).  IMO, I think in practice BOTH will be good to have.  Mine for doing 80% of the characters, and his for the 20% that are the problem childs as well as transferring non-character oriented morphs .  

First I'll say that I am very tempted to buy this. Having said that, I do notice that the disclaimer which is stated in the OP of this thread does not appear in the promotional blurb:

The Character Converter script cannot properly convert all Genesis 3 characters.  Characters with extreme morphs may have problems, especially around the eyes.  The Character converter script does not copy joint corrective morphs (JCMs) or morph corrective morphs (MCMs) properly, which can cause problems with some poses for your converted characters.  Default materials copied to your new Genesis 8 characters may have ugly seams and/or misaligned features due to the different UV layout. 

Moreover, though we are encouraged to read the ReadMe, no link to that ReadMe is present on the promo page (unless I missed it, which is entirely possible).

One question I have which has probably been answerd in this thread but I haven't read all the way through it ... does this allow for the natural fitting of clothing and hair from G3F to a converted G8F?

As for the lack of JCMs/MCMs, I have been through all of my G3 poses and converted them to G8 (there are various scripts and products to do this) so I'm guessing that will, to some degree, alleviate the problem for poses? Or does this product somehow change the basic structure of the G8F figure so as to make posing unreliable?

If you click the readme link on the product page (http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/62491/start), you should see this under additional details:

The Character Converter script cannot properly convert all Genesis 3 Female characters. Characters with extreme morphs may have problems, especially around the eyes. The Character converter script does not copy joint corrective morphs (JCMs) or morph corrective morphs (MCMs) properly, which can cause problems with some poses for your converted characters. Multi-part characters (e.g., a character that loads a figure and separate horns) cannot be converted. Material presets are also not converted. Default materials copied to your new Genesis 8 characters may have ugly seams and/or misaligned features due to the different UV layout. Items without metadata can be converted but will not show up in Smart Content. They may also need to be converted using a Force Convert Item(s) button.

The converted characters use Genesis *8* clothing, whether native or converted.  To use Genesis 3 Female clothing without using Autofit, you would need to buy my https://www.daz3d.com/clothing-converter-from-genesis-3-female-to-genesis-8-female

The same goes for poses, whether they are native or converted, will not make a difference in how the converted characters handle them.  It is the extremeness of the poses and of the character which will cause problems without JCMs.

 

Thanks for the answer. I wasn't looking at the product page, I was looking at the store promotion page. The answer about G3F clothing was as expected but I thought I'd check anyway. Thanks again. 

No problem!

This is exciting. And you can add me to the list pf people who would be interested in conversion of males and earlier generations. I had that texture transfer tool for my V4 skins and some other geograph thing from here. They are hard for me to use. This looks like it should work easier for someone like me. I've used a lot of your converters for other things so if this works as well/easy as those I would def be interested in other generations. I used V4 before. I only dabbled in Genesis until G3. I love G8 more than I thought I would. This item will solve a problem I had last night when the chatacter I wanted to use was G3 but I needed G8. Plus, this will help me keep using the same face morph for my OC from G3 on G8.

I think it is easy to use, but others should chime in. 

Any conversion I make for earlier generations will most likely NOT include texture conversion, so seam problems, etc will still be there.

Hello,
just a small side note to the dev.
Daz ver. 4.12.0.33 and 4.11.0.383;
In Morph Loader Pro;
Save Preset -> "Scale" - factor will not be saved in preset!

And by the way, well done, I like the new "Timeline"!
Have a nice day.

First I'll say that I am very tempted to buy this. Having said that, I do notice that the disclaimer which is stated in the OP of this thread does not appear in the promotional blurb:

The Character Converter script cannot properly convert all Genesis 3 characters.  Characters with extreme morphs may have problems, especially around the eyes.  The Character converter script does not copy joint corrective morphs (JCMs) or morph corrective morphs (MCMs) properly, which can cause problems with some poses for your converted characters.  Default materials copied to your new Genesis 8 characters may have ugly seams and/or misaligned features due to the different UV layout. 

Moreover, though we are encouraged to read the ReadMe, no link to that ReadMe is present on the promo page (unless I missed it, which is entirely possible).

One question I have which has probably been answerd in this thread but I haven't read all the way through it ... does this allow for the natural fitting of clothing and hair from G3F to a converted G8F?

As for the lack of JCMs/MCMs, I have been through all of my G3 poses and converted them to G8 (there are various scripts and products to do this) so I'm guessing that will, to some degree, alleviate the problem for poses? Or does this product somehow change the basic structure of the G8F figure so as to make posing unreliable?

If you click the readme link on the product page (http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/62491/start), you should see this under additional details:

The Character Converter script cannot properly convert all Genesis 3 Female characters. Characters with extreme morphs may have problems, especially around the eyes. The Character converter script does not copy joint corrective morphs (JCMs) or morph corrective morphs (MCMs) properly, which can cause problems with some poses for your converted characters. Multi-part characters (e.g., a character that loads a figure and separate horns) cannot be converted. Material presets are also not converted. Default materials copied to your new Genesis 8 characters may have ugly seams and/or misaligned features due to the different UV layout. Items without metadata can be converted but will not show up in Smart Content. They may also need to be converted using a Force Convert Item(s) button.

The converted characters use Genesis *8* clothing, whether native or converted.  To use Genesis 3 Female clothing without using Autofit, you would need to buy my https://www.daz3d.com/clothing-converter-from-genesis-3-female-to-genesis-8-female

The same goes for poses, whether they are native or converted, will not make a difference in how the converted characters handle them.  It is the extremeness of the poses and of the character which will cause problems without JCMs.

 

Thanks for the answer. I wasn't looking at the product page, I was looking at the store promotion page. The answer about G3F clothing was as expected but I thought I'd check anyway. Thanks again. 

First I'll say that I am very tempted to buy this. Having said that, I do notice that the disclaimer which is stated in the OP of this thread does not appear in the promotional blurb:

The Character Converter script cannot properly convert all Genesis 3 characters.  Characters with extreme morphs may have problems, especially around the eyes.  The Character converter script does not copy joint corrective morphs (JCMs) or morph corrective morphs (MCMs) properly, which can cause problems with some poses for your converted characters.  Default materials copied to your new Genesis 8 characters may have ugly seams and/or misaligned features due to the different UV layout. 

Moreover, though we are encouraged to read the ReadMe, no link to that ReadMe is present on the promo page (unless I missed it, which is entirely possible).

One question I have which has probably been answerd in this thread but I haven't read all the way through it ... does this allow for the natural fitting of clothing and hair from G3F to a converted G8F?

As for the lack of JCMs/MCMs, I have been through all of my G3 poses and converted them to G8 (there are various scripts and products to do this) so I'm guessing that will, to some degree, alleviate the problem for poses? Or does this product somehow change the basic structure of the G8F figure so as to make posing unreliable?

If you click the readme link on the product page (http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/62491/start), you should see this under additional details:

The converted characters use Genesis *8* clothing, whether native or converted.  To use Genesis 3 Female clothing without using Autofit, you would need to buy my https://www.daz3d.com/clothing-converter-from-genesis-3-female-to-genesis-8-female

The same goes for poses, whether they are native or converted, will not make a difference in how the converted characters handle them.  It is the extremeness of the poses and of the character which will cause problems without JCMs.

Thank you so much for this. 

Ayana was one of the first characters I ever picked up, before I really understood differences between generations or had any idea how heavily I'd end up investing in G8-specific tools and morphs. She's also one of my absolute favorites, and I've been wishing I could transfer her to G8 somehow for a long time. I even attempted it myself--trying the morph transfer workarounds, getting as close as I could by fine-tuning morphs on a G8 base--but it never quite worked right. 

With this I finally have her on G8, and from my testing so far she works perfectly. Here she is with Auto Shape Enhancer applied and using the eye anatomy from Julienne.

When I get my hands on the male version I'm going to dive through the G3 back catalog like a raccoon. There are so many characters I love but couldn't justify picking up because I just don't have the level of flexibility with G3 that I do with G8. 

You are very welcome!  I am glad you are liking it!   And thank you so much for sharing with others.

Bought it at once, but would like to know first, how to avoid duplicate formulas errors.

I do not want to sell characters yet, so I was thinking about creating separate directory for converted characters

and use fictional names for Vendor Names, to keep such characters separate.

Any more ideas?

 

The converter will not create a duplicate of an existing morph.  If will either not write it or overwrite it depending on the options.

Edit: I should mention the Overwrite option can be much slower.  The script deletes the old morph before writing the new one and DS takes quite awhile to do that.  It is better to delete the old morph outside of DS so the script doesn't have to do it inside of DS.

First I'll say that I am very tempted to buy this. Having said that, I do notice that the disclaimer which is stated in the OP of this thread does not appear in the promotional blurb:

The Character Converter script cannot properly convert all Genesis 3 characters.  Characters with extreme morphs may have problems, especially around the eyes.  The Character converter script does not copy joint corrective morphs (JCMs) or morph corrective morphs (MCMs) properly, which can cause problems with some poses for your converted characters.  Default materials copied to your new Genesis 8 characters may have ugly seams and/or misaligned features due to the different UV layout. 

Moreover, though we are encouraged to read the ReadMe, no link to that ReadMe is present on the promo page (unless I missed it, which is entirely possible).

One question I have which has probably been answerd in this thread but I haven't read all the way through it ... does this allow for the natural fitting of clothing and hair from G3F to a converted G8F?

As for the lack of JCMs/MCMs, I have been through all of my G3 poses and converted them to G8 (there are various scripts and products to do this) so I'm guessing that will, to some degree, alleviate the problem for poses? Or does this product somehow change the basic structure of the G8F figure so as to make posing unreliable?

Thank you so much for this. 

Ayana was one of the first characters I ever picked up, before I really understood differences between generations or had any idea how heavily I'd end up investing in G8-specific tools and morphs. She's also one of my absolute favorites, and I've been wishing I could transfer her to G8 somehow for a long time. I even attempted it myself--trying the morph transfer workarounds, getting as close as I could by fine-tuning morphs on a G8 base--but it never quite worked right. 

With this I finally have her on G8, and from my testing so far she works perfectly. Here she is with Auto Shape Enhancer applied and using the eye anatomy from Julienne.

When I get my hands on the male version I'm going to dive through the G3 back catalog like a raccoon. There are so many characters I love but couldn't justify picking up because I just don't have the level of flexibility with G3 that I do with G8.