FSMCDesigns said:

there is a resemblance, but I highly doubt it was intentional. Besides, thanks to genX or the other transfer tools, anyone can have GND on newer figures, I do.

Which GND did you use?  GND2 Athletic, GND4.2 or GND4.3?  I have Victoria 3 and Victoria 4 buried in my runtime somewhere.  

Natasha for Genesis 2 Female showed up in Fast Grab.  I'm getting a vibe of Blackhearted's Girl Next Door for Victoria 3 & Victoria 4 but I can't really tell from the promo pictures, plus this character has iRay textures.  Does anyone have this character and can they comment on the resemblance to GND?  Thanks in advance.

http://www.daz3d.com/natasha-for-genesis-2-female

Edited to fix the link.

Yes, Victoria 8 is Genesis 8 rather than 8.1 and the expression packs are the main incompatibility between the two - it is possible to get 8 expressions working on 8.1 but not, at least easily, vice versa.

Since this is my first post here (heya!), I hope this is the right channel for this question.
My google-fu has been letting me down, and I could not find any decent information on this problem I'm having.
I got two pose-packs: "Every Day Emotions for Genesis 8.1 Female" & "True Feelings Expressions for 8.1F"
Since Victoria is "8" and is it correct of me to assume that Victoria8 is based on Gen 8.0f and therefore not able to use these 8.1 poses?
Is there any work-around for that, or should I /shrug off my losses and find some other packs that support 8.0?
Hope you are all having a great weekend! take care :)

Padone said:

All good tips. One simple way is also to use V4 G1 figures for crowds, that tend to use low resources. Eventually posed then converted to props and using texture atlas to "decimate" the textures.

Bear in mind that a Victoria 4 will send more polygons to the renderer than a Genesis of any generation at base resolution.

Gallery links here and here

Impulse purchase! Mynx by Gypsy Angel.

Very cool character. She´s giving me 90s cool girl vibes somehow... Lori Petty, Shirley Manson, etc... Not in likeness but in "vibe" (which probably has more to do with her styling than anything but... whatever!)

Her skin looks dated out of the box but with Anagenessis 2 it looks really good, I think.

Mynx from the clearance selection a few days ago.

Gallery link here and here.

What is everyone else getting?

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Bonjour ;

en tout premier lieu, je suis resté sous poser 7 parcqu'il est en français unr tentative avec poser 9 m'a juste coonduit à le :desinstaller un acahat inutile car incompréhensible

Suite à un plantage (un beau)j'ai essayer de réinstaller mes personages Daz mais cela s'avère impossible. les fichiers dans mes "account" ne corresondent plus du tout à ce qui m'avaient permis l'installion précédente.

il me reste sur un CD des fichiers en .EXE 7878_1 (2.3.4.) de 2012 (les autres CD sont illisibles)ils concernent M4 je n'ai plus les fichiers de Victoria ni de stéphanie pas plus que de freek4.

et ce qui est téléchargé par le loader dernière version me met tout un tas de  fichiers mais le personnage est à renseingner pour toutes les parties (des yeux aux orteils ) rechercher une centaine de chemins pour ensuite les indiquer à chaque fois au programme d'installation ...(facile ? ) ça de tout sauf la simplicité.

quelqu'un sait ou je pourrais retrouvé ces fichiers anterieur?

Merci

I did some (very unofficial) tests with a stock Victoria 8 model using the material set that is bundled with the figure  using the Windows 10 stopwatch in the Alarms & Clock app. 
The viewport size was 778x186 (I don't use that for production, I just needed space), the display used for the viewport is the only cable on the dedicated GPU. 
My system specs are in my signature, When time allows I will try some additional LIE presets tested so the results wont be so narrowed to one product. 

all times approximate: e.g. me clicking new/load/stopwatch button/do I need more coffee/yes, I do/oh crap, I better click the stop button.

Open GL texture viewport:
load with the base Gen8 model, Victoria 8 preset active from new window: ~00:10 seconds
load with the base Gen8 model, Victoria 8 preset and ultimate freckles via LIE applied to figure from new windows: ~01:13

Wireframe viewport:
load with the base Gen8 model, Victoria 8 preset active from new window: ~00:09 seconds
load with the base Gen8 model, Victoria 8 preset and ultimate freckles via LIE applied to figure from new windows: ~01:12

Iray viewport (first pass)
load with the base Gen8 model, Victoria 8 preset active from new window: ~00:10 seconds
load with the base Gen8 model, Victoria 8 preset and ultimate freckles via LIE applied to figure from new windows: ~01:08

my specs are below

When I look at Daz character Starter and Pro Bundles (e.g. Celani 8, Victoria 8), I often own one or two items already (maybe a clothing item or hair item or the base character). However, the total price of the bundle doesn't take account of that or deduct items you already own. That means there is no viable upgrade path - you just have to buy the things again in a new bundle. I assume Daz is losing out a bit there, since people like me then don't upgrade - if there was a way to do so without rebuying items, we would.

Have I understood that correctly, or have I missed something obvious? Some other upgrade route?

(This could apply to any Daz bundle of items, not just character bundles.)

I realise it is maybe too complex to incorporate knocking off the cost of items you own when there may be other inter-related discounts at play. Maybe an easier way to do it would be the occasional special sale which is ONLY about upgrading to a bundle and incorporating discounts for each item you own. I can imagine quite a few of us would leap at that kind of sale. And if it is a special sale it might be worth them calculating discounts as a one-off. Do those ever occur?

Thanks!

Well, it got pretty close, that's a very good pose transfer script Richard, thanks for turning me onto it.  

There was still a scaling issue though; apparently whoever made the clone for Victoria 3 still has it scaled differently than the original Vicky3.  Like not even close; original Vicky3 is much taller.  I pondered on how to proceed, then broke out GenX2 and loaded a character onto original Vicky3, creating a morph for Genesis1 for that same character and applying it.  Much much closer, and with your pose transfer is was pretty close, just needed to iron out the bits that weren't matching.  I spent about a half hour scaling and rotating the various bits that weren't fitting right (toes were easy peasy and snapped into place, but fingers were forever to iron out).

Took them into Blender to bake, but now I'm watching all the Blender baking tutorials and it doesn't seem like this will do what I want after all (I should have watched the tutorial videos first, but I'm a blockhead lol).  Seems projection baking from one object to another is indeed possible, but it will create an all-new uv map on the target geometry.  Unless I'm missing something (and I certainly could be), this won't make a V3UV map for Genesis, but a whole new uv map that I'm not sure I could use.  Anyways I guess it doesn't matter much; there were only a very few Generation 3 maps that I was even interested in, so I'll shelf this project for another time when it's more pressing.  

Thank you all very much for all the help  :)

Ugh, got the Libra Bundle but missed the $20 off the michael and victoria stuff. Any hope that support is answering quickly or should I just buy the bundle again to get the other deals and try to get a refund on the first purchase and just consider the 20% coupon I used as a loss?  Just don't want to wait a week for them to get to the ticket and be told it's too late to fix it.

Richard Haseltine said:

Some are expected, yes - they are there to make the bends look better. Of coruse there could be others that shouldn't trigger unless a particular shape is applied, which is why it is helpful to work out the minimum amount of posing that will show the issue so that you don't have as many potential issues to check.

Thank you. Just wanted to be sure these morphs are expected and they're not causing any problems.  As for the main problem, I deleted all my basic models (Charlotte 8, Victoria 8 etc.) and after reinstalling they aren't distorting anything anymore.  Don't know what happened in the first place and why daz' own models caused problems, but glad it was fixed.

richardandtracy said:

Jonstark said:

Well dang it, Blender seemed like it would be such an easy and quick fix.  However the V3 comes in with a slightly different Tpose than Genesis makes, even with the V3 morph applied.  If only the clone had matched exactly, I think Blender baking would have been an instant solution...  Guess I'll have to find another way.

It is possible to transform V3 poses, including the 'zero' pose, to & from G8, as well as doing Genesis & Genesis 2 to/from G8. This way it's possible to get V3 into a T pose very similar to G1 or G2F. It isn't perfect, but fairly good. You'd need to start with G1->G8F or G2F->G8F transfer scripts then G8F->V3 to transfer the G1/G2F 'T' pose to V3.

(V3->G8F: https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/86661/two-victoria-3-to-g8f-pose-scripts Not really needed for this, listed for info. )

G8F->V3: https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/86762/g8f-to-victoria-3-aiko-3-pose-transfer

G1->G8F: https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/88726/victoria-5-g1f-pose-transfer-to-g8f

G2F->G8F: https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/89255/g2f-pose-transfer-to-g8f

There are other scripts around for moving between the Genesis generations, but I simply can't remember where. I bookmark them & loose them, sorry.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Richard.

 

Wow, thanks Richard!  No time to try it now as I have to run off to work, but later today I'll give it a try.  I appreciate it :) 

Jonstark said:

Well dang it, Blender seemed like it would be such an easy and quick fix.  However the V3 comes in with a slightly different Tpose than Genesis makes, even with the V3 morph applied.  If only the clone had matched exactly, I think Blender baking would have been an instant solution...  Guess I'll have to find another way.

It is possible to transform V3 poses, including the 'zero' pose, to & from G8, as well as doing Genesis & Genesis 2 to/from G8. This way it's possible to get V3 into a T pose very similar to G1 or G2F. It isn't perfect, but fairly good. You'd need to start with G1->G8F or G2F->G8F transfer scripts then G8F->V3 to transfer the G1/G2F 'T' pose to V3.

(V3->G8F: https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/86661/two-victoria-3-to-g8f-pose-scripts Not really needed for this, listed for info. )

G8F->V3: https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/86762/g8f-to-victoria-3-aiko-3-pose-transfer

G1->G8F: https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/88726/victoria-5-g1f-pose-transfer-to-g8f

G2F->G8F: https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/89255/g2f-pose-transfer-to-g8f

There are other scripts around for moving between the Genesis generations, but I simply can't remember where. I bookmark them & loose them, sorry.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Richard.

Matt_Castle said:

CHWT said:

https://www.daz3d.com/soccer-form-and-shoes and https://www.daz3d.com/soccer-set-for-victoria-4 (really old gen4 stuff though, but you may have luck autofitting them to G8)

I'm looking for something much more up-to-date than that. (In fact, it seems the outfit in the promos is dForce).

The closest thing I've thus found is https://www.daz3d.com/rugby-uniform-for-genesis-3-male-s but this doesn't fit to females very well, and isn't happy with dForce.

Try the boxers & t-shirt (for G8M / G8.1M) that come with the DAZ Genesis 8 Starter Essentials free and retexture them.

CHWT said:

https://www.daz3d.com/soccer-form-and-shoes and https://www.daz3d.com/soccer-set-for-victoria-4 (really old gen4 stuff though, but you may have luck autofitting them to G8)

I'm looking for something much more up-to-date than that. (In fact, it seems the outfit in the promos is dForce).

The closest thing I've thus found is https://www.daz3d.com/rugby-uniform-for-genesis-3-male-s but this doesn't fit to females very well, and isn't happy with dForce.

Hi everyone !

I have a problem with 8.1 actors, they are loading with misshapen issues !

Look at the attachment, on the left it's the G8 character, on the left the G8.1...

I already had problems with 8.1 before, like popups when loading to indicate duplicate formulas, I unistalled the problematic assets and don't have the popups anymore. I uninstalled and reinstalled Victoria 8.1 too.

But those misshapen are still remaining...

Any solutions ?

Thanks !

You'll need this to use V4 textures on G8F: https://www.daz3d.com/legacy-uvs-for-genesis-8-victoria-4