I love all of my hundreds of outfits and characters for Victoria 4 and I love Daz Studio!  I used Poser exclusively until 2 years ago.

I just had one of my Marilyn Monroe morphs and textures applied to V4.  She was so pretty.  Then I looked at V4's poor little disfigured arms.

I would love for someone to tell me the latest and greatest products out there to use V4 morphs on Genesis 2.

I have "V4 Skins Auto Converter for Genesis 2 Female" which works perfectly.

The V4 clothes usually are perfect!!

What I do not have are the morphs!!!

As I understand it, I need to purchase the following products (I, also, want M4 to Genesis 2 M:)

Genesis Generation X2

GenX2 AddOn for Genesis 2

Generation 4 Legacy Shapes for Genesis 2 Female(s)

Generation 4 Legacy Shapes for Genesis 2 Male(s)

So, if I buy these 4 products, I can make G2F look like my V4 characters and, also, make G2M look like my M4 characters?

I, also, use Genesis 3 and Genesis 8, however I am very happy using Genesis 2 since my V4 textures look so wonderful on Genesis 2 Female.

Thank you one and all!

After reading the information in this thread again I decided to use DIM. I uninstalled Carrara then reinstalled Carrara and Victoria 4.2 with DIM and everythings works fine. Then I installed V4 Hi Res Shaders for Carrara 7 but it's not showing up in the content tab. I ran auto dectect runtimes again but no luck. Where should this have installed and am I doing something wrong.

Robert Freise said:

SimonJM said:

Intesresting .. on the 'deal page' I see:

Other ‘Stuck on You’ New Releases

Buy Victoria 8.1, Micheal 8.1, or their bundles to getan EXTRA 20% OFF these items

with Alternative shapes for M8.1 and V8.1 being the items listed. I have both in the cart, (alreday purchased V8.1 and M8.1) and only the Vb.1 item has the extra discount applied.

Same here 

This now looks to be fixed, a thank you to whomever 'flipped the switch'  

Since they've decided to include the vellus hair in the Michael 8.1 pack, have they've updated Victoria 8.1, by any chance?

And once again as always with a update that seems to happen every other so 4.14 rolled around and the saving then trying to render issue was gone
Now with 4.15 once again I'm back in the same annoying situation as before I planned ahead but for whatever reason the backup I have wont work and I have no other way of returning to 4.14 I've opened a ticket but the last one took months for them to respond (I understand why) 
What happens if I have a scene it don't matter what figure it is Genesis 8 - Victoria 4 it will always crash and cause a entire restart of my PC if I save then try to render without fully restarting first! Extremely annoying if your trying to do a few scenes one after the other I am at a loss why it does this I';ve sent a request for 4.14.1.22  but I'm not sure when or if ill get it.. 
:(

SimonJM said:

Intesresting .. on the 'deal page' I see:

Other ‘Stuck on You’ New Releases

Buy Victoria 8.1, Micheal 8.1, or their bundles to getan EXTRA 20% OFF these items

with Alternative shapes for M8.1 and V8.1 being the items listed. I have both in the cart, (alreday purchased V8.1 and M8.1) and only the Vb.1 item has the extra discount applied.

Same here 

Intesresting .. on the 'deal page' I see:

Other ‘Stuck on You’ New Releases

Buy Victoria 8.1, Micheal 8.1, or their bundles to getan EXTRA 20% OFF these items

with Alternative shapes for M8.1 and V8.1 being the items listed. I have both in the cart, (alreday purchased V8.1 and M8.1) and only the Vb.1 item has the extra discount applied.

Ceridwen said:

Turbocharged Victoria 8.1 by the artist who created her.

https://www.artstation.com/hyeseonoh

Ok, so she's done xgen hair and rendered in Maya but it certainly shows the scope of the character. Lovely isn't it?

 She does a great job!!

Ceridwen said:

Turbocharged Victoria 8.1 by the artist who created her.

https://www.artstation.com/hyeseonoh

Ok, so she's done xgen hair and rendered in Maya but it certainly shows the scope of the character. Lovely isn't it?

 She does a great job!!

Futuristic Rustic Office          RY Elysa (V8)         JW dForce Clothes Pack (G8F)         Adeline Hair and Circlets (G8F)        Autumn Bloom Outfit (G8F) 

I really like the clothes pack, you can combine the shirts and skirts to get a variety. The vendor organized the materials by clothing piece number, making it easy to find them. Very well thought out! 
The skirt dForced okay out of the box for the standing, but was horrible in the sitting pose (at default settings.)  To be fair, I did NOT tweak the settings at all, I don't do dForce so it may do beautifully if you know how to tweak dForce.

I used Dumor's Iray HDRI: Apocalyptic Plant Indoors Set 2 lights, with an added spotlight. (for the office scene) Otherwise, still the HDRI Pro-Lights

The closeup of the x ray screens is only 60% rendered, but it gives a good idea of the great detail.

You can click and enlarge these.

Turbocharged Victoria 8.1 by the artist who created her.

https://www.artstation.com/hyeseonoh

Ok, so she's done xgen hair and rendered in Maya but it certainly shows the scope of the character. Lovely isn't it?

Nope. You have a couple of choices. By default everything is off. Otherwise, a whole bunch of people would probably be super annoyed with me.

If you don't want to mess with morphs, you can choose to just apply the presets: Corneo ON, Iris Shape ON etc. which are under the utilities folder. I consider them convenience presets.

You can also choose to dial in a little or a lot under the morph dials. They will start with Natural Eyes II and will be under the eyes portion of the figure on the shaping tab.

Iray PBR renders fairly quick. If you have tried out the new Victoria 8.1 you know just how quick they render. I think they are lovely, and look wonderful under regular bright lighting.

The Iray settings take a lot longer to render. If you own the old set, you will know just how much longer they take, but boy do they look beautiful under dramatic lighting. 

For best results, use the cornea bulge preset no matter the setting you choose : Iray or PBR

Use the Iris Shaping preset no matter preset you choose as well. Iray or PBR

The Iris Convex is more scene/preference related. This is meant to be used in conjunction with the cornea bulge. Use this if you want a more defined Limbal Ring and are using the IRAY presets. Use this if you are using dramatic lighting and what the irises to light more correctly.

By default, the sclera normal is just kinda bumpy. There is an alternate sclera normal available that kinda adds a veiny appearance instead if thats your thing.

The material thumbnails: I dont think Ive ever rendered so many thumbnails for a product ever. They also show the difference in appearance between iray and pbr so theres a whole lot less guessing on which way you want to go.

Love em!

Romina does, too! Just ported her over to 8.1 about a week ago, but slapped on Victoria 8.1's eyes as a placeholder. Honestly, knowing this product was coming I didn't even bother to try and edit them - I knew this would have what I needed, and it's got all that and more! Thanks so much!

Not sure if people saw it and not sure either it fits the topic as it's not Iray. But the gal behind Victoria 8.1, Hyeseon Oh, posted few (awesome) renders done with Maya :

Her artstation : https://www.artstation.com/hyeseonoh

Mark_e593e0a5 said:

JamieM said:

JamieM said:

Well - I can't get the Free offer to work - no matter what I put in the cart!

 

Is this another non-working offer? Has anyone successfully managed to claim the free items by buying eg Victoria and and "Eye" product?

Yes, it is working. One of the "8.1" labled products, anything that gets the cart over the required limit, and then add the G3 items. It works even more than one time. With today's three "8.1" labled items, you can run that three times. 

Thanks for the info. I cleared my cart and retried.  Took multiple variations before I found a combination that added up. I'm quite used to confusing Daz sales - but this one scrambled my brain. 

JamieM said:

JamieM said:

Well - I can't get the Free offer to work - no matter what I put in the cart!

 

Is this another non-working offer? Has anyone successfully managed to claim the free items by buying eg Victoria and and "Eye" product?

Yes, it is working. One of the "8.1" labled products, anything that gets the cart over the required limit, and then add the G3 items. It works even more than one time. With today's three "8.1" labled items, you can run that three times. 

JamieM said:

Well - I can't get the Free offer to work - no matter what I put in the cart!

Is this another non-working offer? Has anyone successfully managed to claim the free items by buying eg Victoria and and "Eye" product?

And bought. My thanks for the 20% discount for owning the other package for Gen 8, which I love. I also had an extra 15% off for owning either Michael 8.1 or Victoria 8.1 or their bundles. So that was nice of Daz.

I woke this morning, no idea this was coming and saw the promo pages, my breath caught in my throat. When I can finally get back to rendering, I will absolutely make this my first product to work with!

Mary

xyer0 said:

owners of Micheal (sic) 8.1,Victoria 8.1, individuals and bundles, to get an extra 15% off any featured new releases and today's artist stores

Not working for me either.

Reported.

owners of Micheal (sic) 8.1,Victoria 8.1, individuals and bundles, to get an extra 15% off any featured new releases and today's artist stores

Not working for me either.