wish i could transfer those old m4 displacement maps to g3m  

mebbe zbrush could do it

*Coverage makes the individual hairs thicker. But yes, the base morphs can be dialed down on at least the torso and back hair. I didn't check the others, but I suspect they are the same. There is an orange morph called Hair Set Torso or Hair Set Back that is default to 1 and you can dial down to shorten the hairs.

*On this set

The next step was the Rune Armor, using the G3 version.  I did considerable more texture replacements this time.  The green leather is from Destiny's Garden for 3DL - I wanted this map with the Iray surface settings, but I didn't want to change the bump/normal/displacement by using an Iray leather texture.  So I used the leather texture that came with the Iray Uber Shader set, kept the maps, then set the brown color to white, and adjusted the tiling for a fine texture.  I used Iray leather shaders for the gold and yellow, then copper and gold for the various trim.

SNAG...

When I returned the following day, I discovered that some poly's were protruding funny from the left arm.  Couldn't figure out why.  I played with mesh smoothing, but when I turned it off the skin poked through in various places.  The higher I set Smoothing Iterations, the taller the poly spike became, so I took it down to one and changed the Weight to 0.10.  I fought with various fitting utilities and settings all over the place, but absolutely could NOT get rid of the armpit poke through.  So either I hide it in the render or I will have to post-work it out.  That will be easier than getting rid of the poly spike.

GLOVES, HELMET AND SWORD

For the gloves I used Arki's Eagle Guard and turned off visibility for all but the glove, then changed it's textures.  SY's Clothing Fit Helper gave me a morph for the sleeves to fit over the gloves.

The sword and scabbard were set on the hip and parented to the belt.  The sword is supposed to be made of enchanted wood, so I made use of Destiny's Garden's lacquered wood shaders for 3DL, then converted to Iray using the base shiny plastic shader and kept the maps.  The top is supposed to be a magic acorn, but the best I could do is use a wood texture then add some metalicity.  Maybe I can find a 3D acorn to add if I can get it to look decent. 

The Helmet decided to warp with the ears, and warp even further when I removed the elf ear morphs from it, so I had to load it without fitting it G8F.  I turned off visibility for the hair and ears and then adjusted the fit and matched the textures.  Thank goodness for the copy and paste surface feature.  This would have taken forever without it.  

Finally I added the cape and matched the textures on the shoulder pads, and we are done!

Character Reboot - Savatar

Here is my Genesis 1 original in 3Delight.  I couldn't stand the hair, but that's the best short hair I had at the time.  The one on the right is another 3DL rendition with longer hair and AoA's Subsurface shaders:  (I was such a noob at the time that she has the dreaded elf ear effect going on in her hair that I didn't know how to fix).

Here she is in Arki's Rune Armor.  I had added a little more green.

To begin the reboot, I used G8 and the character Aurelia.  I removed her face morph and added two morphs converted from G1 using GenX2 and SingularBlues' script: Victoria 5 and Branwen (love her lips!).  I used a combination of morphs from Zev0's 200 Plus Face Morphs and RareStone's Face Morphs.  The ears came from converted morphs from DD Resource Ears for G1.  There's one morph which creates a curve in the ears that I absolutely love.  To make her face long, I lowered her jaw, then lowered her mouth and nose. 

The next step was to remove her eyebrows using Brow Remover and add G8F's brows.  I used Arki's EYEdeas for the eyebrows and used the morphs to make them slanted, something I had not been able to do with G1. I colored her skin with a bluish green on Base Color and a neutraled yellow green for Translucency Color.  Aurelia's translucency maps had red noses and ears which didn't look good with the green, so I replaced those maps with the main skin tone map.

For the eyes, I added a green emissive shader to the cornea and eye moisture surfaces while keeping the maps.  I toned down the lumens, but the cornea was still too bright.

I replaced the iris maps with my own rendition of a blind (no iris or pupil) texture.  Now you can barely see the iris/pupil underneath the glow, which is the effect I wanted.  She is wearing Morley Hair.

Use genX to transfer Gianni to G3. then the singular blues script to transfer the Gianni G3 morph to G8. I did this for Giselle and it works great. Here's an image, G2 on the left, G8 on the right.

I'm not sure how to explain this, much less what the appropriate terminology is, so please bear with my convoluted description.

Ever since I started working with DAZ Studio in 2009, Parameters Tab gave me all the options available for an overarching tool. For instance, General > Transform showed me Translate, Rotate, and Scale, all in a nice column. Better yet, Actor > Full Body gave me every morph available. That was a bit much. Chest gave me all the various breast morph packs I picked up. Pose > Head > Expressions gave me all the expressions packs I picked up for that base figure.

Two days ago, that stopped. Now, I don't get anything under the general tools. General > Transform is blank. I have to go to the individual tools, Translate, Rotate, and Scale. That isn't too bad. But the face and body morphs, and expressions are totally lost. Actor > Chest shows nothing. I have to go to Real People, and that doesn't cover Zev0's morph packs, or Xameva's or anyone else's. They're now found under the individual vendor name and name of the pack. Expressions are the worst. Pose > Head > Expressions is blank. I have no idea how many I've picked up from various vendors over the years. There are too many to remember.

Did that make sense? Not sure it did.

I don't know what I did to cause this. More important though, is how to I restore seeing all the available options under the general tool names such as General, Actor, Full Body, Head, etc.?

I was using Studio 4.9 when this happened. I updated to 4.10 today to start playing with dForce. That didn't solve the problem.

Greetings,

So.  I...

• loaded Genesis 8 female
• imported the FBX file
• used Transfer Utility to apply it to G8F
• applied DAZ Uber Iray
• applied the Leather preset
• fixed a few fields to use the right normals and textures
• tweaked the base color
• Used Geometry Editor to turn the collar into its own surface
  • I also tried to do the cuffs but the texture and polys don't line up
  • Also copied the surface settings from the default to the new collar surface
• Added dForce to the entire object
• Used echv0's cloth dforce using Jacket 2
• Used echv0's '0 stretch' on the collar surface so it'd stay somewhat in shape
• Added SubD and changed the Resolution Level to High
• I applied a simple pose
• Ran the simulation

This was the result.

--  Morgan

Get Singular Blue's script. It goes both ways.

I just checked the forum where Singular Blue had his script, but I can't find it anywhere. :(

He took it down because someone was hassling him. Look up how to use transfer utility to transfer morphs from G3 to G8 and just do the same thing backwards.

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Rendered with DAZ Studio 4.10.0.107 (3Delight)
Other free software used: GIMP v2.8.18 and Irfanview 4.41
No postwork, except for combining the three renders into one image and spicing it up a little with the AltaLux Image Enhancement Filter (Effect) by Stefano Tommesani that comes with Irfanview.

"As Green As... a DAZ3D Studio newbie?" (or maybe a 3D Art Freebie Challenge newbie?)

and here are my objs for those who want to practice using the transfer utility 

are for genesis 3 male but you can refit to others after

the original and Zremeshed as seen on left  (yes I have Zbrush but suck at it) and my extruded cowl scarf (you may want to set its smoothing collision to the top not G3M)

import with Carrara preset chosen

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/uploads/FileUpload/5c/b69a816f5ee91fe0f4c77d4cfed4f4.zip

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/uploads/FileUpload/c4/1b9b6c0fef7142f34b240a236cd745.zip
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/uploads/FileUpload/c4/1b9b6c0fef7142f34b240a236cd745.zip

free to redistribute and use how you wish

shared so you can practice before buying that unrigged jacket!!!

 

Thanks a bunch! 

Hi,

Is there any way to do this?   Since I've moved back over to Genesis I want to get my Bruno face morphs over to G8 and then take those into ZBrush and refine them a bit more.  I just want the base shapes as I know they are older and I'm allot more accomplished using ZBrush these days but I hate the idea of starting completely from scratch.

Thanks

Richard

Did a little more detail work on my fighter figure. I'm calling this one, Warrior of the Wastes. This is based on the M4 Warrior and a fantastic morph that was created by takezo_3001. I can't thank him enough for sharing it with me.

As usual, rendered in Poser Pro 11, editing in Photoshop and Manga Studio 5EX (aka Clip Studio).

Novica... most of the recent new releases have seemed to have a lot more flaws than previous releases. Incomplete documentation, missing pieces. 
At the price of the Globetrotter RV, I would expect it to be more fully documented. As it is, the description is broken and you really have to stumble around the object in DAZ to figure out how to do things like enable the image on the TV, switch the TV morph to make the TV visible or not, move the RV slideouts. I've seen this kind of incomplete attention to detail more often on DAZ content, as the price rises. I'm not sure if it is people getting used to Dforce and G8, or changes in the DAZ engine... or a rush to get content out behind all of that... but quality control does seem to have slipped. When I buy from other stores that are not as DAZ specific, I'm not as surprised. In fact, I think that in the past a lot of content that was probably rejected here ended up for sale at other sites. I'd have to agree that the rate of flawed or incomplete content has increased since the release of Genesis 8. 

None of that is down to QA, though. Instructions are not a requirement, their provision varies by the disposition (and ability to cope with English) of the maker.

Sorry for not commenting lately.  I'm struggling a bit more than usual this month.  Reach exceeding the grasp type of thing. :)

HW - Very interesting Hugo render, and amazing wheelchair series.  At first I liked the top wheelchair best, but now I am not so sure.  You make it very hard to choose. :)

Varsel - your stargate is very well done!

Bunyip - as others mentioned, loved the shaders and idea on your plane render.  Thanks for including the screenshot.  Rather than the afterburner prop, would Carrara fire look better?

Stezza  - another great series of renders, wildly different.  Any of them could be a winner. :)

Diomede - Terrific POTA morph and hair.  Better than you claim.  Are you going to go for realism, or more of a toon look?

Novica... most of the recent new releases have seemed to have a lot more flaws than previous releases. Incomplete documentation, missing pieces. 
At the price of the Globetrotter RV, I would expect it to be more fully documented. As it is, the description is broken and you really have to stumble around the object in DAZ to figure out how to do things like enable the image on the TV, switch the TV morph to make the TV visible or not, move the RV slideouts. I've seen this kind of incomplete attention to detail more often on DAZ content, as the price rises. I'm not sure if it is people getting used to Dforce and G8, or changes in the DAZ engine... or a rush to get content out behind all of that... but quality control does seem to have slipped. When I buy from other stores that are not as DAZ specific, I'm not as surprised. In fact, I think that in the past a lot of content that was probably rejected here ended up for sale at other sites. I'd have to agree that the rate of flawed or incomplete content has increased since the release of Genesis 8. 

Huh. Looks like you’re right.  It’s also based on Olympia’s textures, but I could upload the head morph if anyone wants it.

You are right-clicking on the figure, not on the morph (in the Parameters pane).

I'm not sure what you mean by saving the character - don't use File>Save as>Support Assets>Figure Prop Asset.

One more thing: I assumed that since we're fitting this to a figure with the transfer utility that we could fit it to any of the more recent ones. Nope. I tested it on Genesis 1, 2 and 3. Even if you put the figure in the A pose, it does this wonky thing: 

You have to fit it to G8F first. If you SY's backwards compatibility clones (G8 to G3, G3 to G1), you can autofit to G3. Valzheimer has clones for G3 to G2. Transfer utiility didn't even see the V3 I tried it on. I guess it doesn't work on the older weight mapped figures. 

It should be possible if you pose the figure and then bake joint rotations (Joint Editor right-click menu), then transfer, then bend the rigged item back to the T pose and bake its joint rotations.

I succumbed to the temptations also after seeing such interesting morph blends with Ollie. I bought only the base character today. Here is my first attempt and mixing Ollie and other morphs. I call it Brothers Reunion.

How cool!

Okay. This might seem like a strange thing to talk about, but here goes. I get that Genesis 8 is the next big thing. And there is a lot to be said about it. However, there's also a lot to be said about the Genesis 3 models. They're still very good in my opinion. And I also have a greater number of resources for Genesis 3 than I do for Genesis 8. There are things such as Centaur 7, as well as Anneka Demon. Not to mention all of the morphs that I've been able to transfer to Genesis 3 via Genesis Generations. Also...some of the bends for Genesis 8 just don't seem quite right to me.

So while I have seen some tutorials about transferring Genesis 3 morphs to Genesis 8, what if I wanted to do the reverse? Any suggestions?