Yeah, no way am I going to uninstall G3. I have Victoria 7 and the majority of her Daz-O sisters converted to G8, but HD morphs cannot be converted. Plus some morphs cannot be moved over, such as all the options for Aarki's Lady Rune for G3. I'm not converting everything to G8 and I have way too much invested in G3 to simply cast it aside. I like having them all, right where they are waiting to be used. ;-)

This is nothing like what Artini has been sharing with us, but the image here is of my first character I converted with the Scene Converter. She has a full Victoria 4 GenX figure dialed in. While she's pretty basic, and nothing extreme at all, the GenX morph converted perfectly and I've had no problems fitting clothes to her nor any issues with any poses I've tried.

Well that seemed to work well! Incidentally what is that outfit she's wearing, I don;t recognise it at all?

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/dforce-classic-poncho-for-genesis-8-females/135117/

Thank you for the info - it looks so different with that texture set from the main promo picture!

oc Victoria

Been using Daz a little over a year now, been a lot fun using/learning it. Nice to have a creative outlet 

I really like this, nice pose and lighting!

Once you upload the attachment, you can click on it to open it up. Then copy the URL and then edit your post and add it as an image in the tools menu at top of the post. A new window will popup where you paste the URL and then set the width to 800, like so. Look forward to more from you!

Okay, I chose the lovely Elliandra image of the wailing woman.  I used Victoria 4.2, the Art of the Dance/Swan Lake ballerina tutu, and Pyrit hair.  What I thought could be improved in the image was more of a sense of the drama to add to the scene and the feel of the image.  By taking it overhead, I thought it would give a new perspective and focus right on her tortured face, and the addition of the colored lighting helps add to the mood.  I wanted my model more sad than openly wailing.  This is what I pictured when I thought about this challenge.  Be kind; I literally started doing renders just a few weeks ago.  Thanks!

 

Brilliant job on the render the expression and lighting they're really nice! I also like how the hair looks like it's flopping back as she's looking up!

The only things I might change really nit-picky but I'm OCD like that lol.

1. If you place a spotlight set to Specular Only in the light options pointing at her eyes then you'll get some more depth to them and make them really pop. I'd suggest sticking with a mid to darker grey for the light color so it doesn't blow them out on render.

2. The dress bodice could use a stronger bump or displacement addition to it, this can be done in the surface tab in Studio I would suggest using Bump as you don't have to worry about it poking into the figure. If the dress doesn't have a bump map you can always just plug the color map into the Bump Image location and fiddle with the strength!

Elli

Yeah, no way am I going to uninstall G3. I have Victoria 7 and the majority of her Daz-O sisters converted to G8, but HD morphs cannot be converted. Plus some morphs cannot be moved over, such as all the options for Aarki's Lady Rune for G3. I'm not converting everything to G8 and I have way too much invested in G3 to simply cast it aside. I like having them all, right where they are waiting to be used. ;-)

This is nothing like what Artini has been sharing with us, but the image here is of my first character I converted with the Scene Converter. She has a full Victoria 4 GenX figure dialed in. While she's pretty basic, and nothing extreme at all, the GenX morph converted perfectly and I've had no problems fitting clothes to her nor any issues with any poses I've tried.

Well that seemed to work well! Incidentally what is that outfit she's wearing, I don;t recognise it at all?

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/dforce-classic-poncho-for-genesis-8-females/135117/ 

Yeah, no way am I going to uninstall G3. I have Victoria 7 and the majority of her Daz-O sisters converted to G8, but HD morphs cannot be converted. Plus some morphs cannot be moved over, such as all the options for Aarki's Lady Rune for G3. I'm not converting everything to G8 and I have way too much invested in G3 to simply cast it aside. I like having them all, right where they are waiting to be used. ;-)

This is nothing like what Artini has been sharing with us, but the image here is of my first character I converted with the Scene Converter. She has a full Victoria 4 GenX figure dialed in. While she's pretty basic, and nothing extreme at all, the GenX morph converted perfectly and I've had no problems fitting clothes to her nor any issues with any poses I've tried.

Well that seemed to work well! Incidentally what is that outfit she's wearing, I don;t recognise it at all?

Yeah, no way am I going to uninstall G3. I have Victoria 7 and the majority of her Daz-O sisters converted to G8, but HD morphs cannot be converted. Plus some morphs cannot be moved over, such as all the options for Aarki's Lady Rune for G3. I'm not converting everything to G8 and I have way too much invested in G3 to simply cast it aside. I like having them all, right where they are waiting to be used. ;-)

This is nothing like what Artini has been sharing with us, but the image here is of my first character I converted with the Scene Converter. She has a full Victoria 4 GenX figure dialed in. While she's pretty basic, and nothing extreme at all, the GenX morph converted perfectly and I've had no problems fitting clothes to her nor any issues with any poses I've tried.

(whoops!  When I am on a run answering questions, sometimes other posts slip through).

That looks great @GlenWebb!  Thank you for sharing and helping people who are GenX users.

Yeah, no way am I going to uninstall G3. I have Victoria 7 and the majority of her Daz-O sisters converted to G8, but HD morphs cannot be converted. Plus some morphs cannot be moved over, such as all the options for Aarki's Lady Rune for G3. I'm not converting everything to G8 and I have way too much invested in G3 to simply cast it aside. I like having them all, right where they are waiting to be used. ;-)

This is nothing like what Artini has been sharing with us, but the image here is of my first character I converted with the Scene Converter. She has a full Victoria 4 GenX figure dialed in. While she's pretty basic, and nothing extreme at all, the GenX morph converted perfectly and I've had no problems fitting clothes to her nor any issues with any poses I've tried.

You are very kind.

Your render looks very nice.

I have bought GenX a long time ago, but have never use it.

Would like to know, how to proceed with it.

I have a lot of Victoria 4 based characters, that I would like to see on Genesis 8 Female.

Hello,

I am using this pack: https://www.daz3d.com/animate-walk-construction-kit-for-victoria-8 to make walk animations (and they are great!) but I need them to play without forward / sideway movement because my game already covers movement for an animation. Can someone point me in the right direction as to how I do that? I tried "pin" on the hip but it does nothing and now I'm clueless. 

Thanks in advance!

Okay, I chose the lovely Elliandra image of the wailing woman.  I used Victoria 4.2, the Art of the Dance/Swan Lake ballerina tutu, and Pyrit hair.  What I thought could be improved in the image was more of a sense of the drama to add to the scene and the feel of the image.  By taking it overhead, I thought it would give a new perspective and focus right on her tortured face, and the addition of the colored lighting helps add to the mood.  I wanted my model more sad than openly wailing.  This is what I pictured when I thought about this challenge.  Be kind; I literally started doing renders just a few weeks ago.  Thanks!

I think it's really good. The only thing I see that sticks out to me is her lower lip. In the smaller view of the image in your post, it caught my eye and made me wonder what "that" was. Turns out it's just the way the light is hitting and reflecting off of her lower lip. But it's really a small thing. If you wanted to try to get rid of it, you could try making the lips less glossy. That could be the glossy reflectivity, or it could be something in the top coat. But really, I think it's quite lovely just as it is.

What about https://www.daz3d.com/ej-face-morphs-and-details-for-genesis-8-females ?

Other options too like https://www.daz3d.com/ultimate-natural-bend-morphs-for-victoria-8.

Hmm, I missed those.

Ahh, no I didn't; they are for V8.

LOL, there is a way to blend them in.  The shoulder blade morphs are worth it alone.

 

Blend them in how? Would that be using Blender? I'm not really chomping at the bit to buy V8

Okay, I chose the lovely Elliandra image of the wailing woman.  I used Victoria 4.2, the Art of the Dance/Swan Lake ballerina tutu, and Pyrit hair.  What I thought could be improved in the image was more of a sense of the drama to add to the scene and the feel of the image.  By taking it overhead, I thought it would give a new perspective and focus right on her tortured face, and the addition of the colored lighting helps add to the mood.  I wanted my model more sad than openly wailing.  This is what I pictured when I thought about this challenge.  Be kind; I literally started doing renders just a few weeks ago.  Thanks!

What about https://www.daz3d.com/ej-face-morphs-and-details-for-genesis-8-females ?

Other options too like https://www.daz3d.com/ultimate-natural-bend-morphs-for-victoria-8.

Hmm, I missed those.

Ahh, no I didn't; they are for V8.

LOL, there is a way to blend them in.  The shoulder blade morphs are worth it alone.

Yeah, no way am I going to uninstall G3. I have Victoria 7 and the majority of her Daz-O sisters converted to G8, but HD morphs cannot be converted. Plus some morphs cannot be moved over, such as all the options for Aarki's Lady Rune for G3. I'm not converting everything to G8 and I have way too much invested in G3 to simply cast it aside. I like having them all, right where they are waiting to be used. ;-)

This is nothing like what Artini has been sharing with us, but the image here is of my first character I converted with the Scene Converter. She has a full Victoria 4 GenX figure dialed in. While she's pretty basic, and nothing extreme at all, the GenX morph converted perfectly and I've had no problems fitting clothes to her nor any issues with any poses I've tried.

The Fatal Stranger skin is pretty nice, and worth the price alone, since good quality mature-but-not-old female skins are really rare.  This is V8.
 

Also, because you probably have some V4 content (since you mentioned using her previously), there are products that let you use Victoria 4's clothing and hair on Genesis 8:

https://www.daz3d.com/sy-victoria-4-and-michael-4-clones-for-genesis-8

https://www.daz3d.com/rssy-hair-converter-from-victoria-4-to-genesis-8-female

What about https://www.daz3d.com/ej-face-morphs-and-details-for-genesis-8-females ?

Other options too like https://www.daz3d.com/ultimate-natural-bend-morphs-for-victoria-8.

Hmm, I missed those.

Ahh, no I didn't; they are for V8.

Anyone know what character the short blonde in the opening promo art for https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-hc-coverall-jumpsuit-outfits-for-genesis-8-females is? She looks a lot like an old Victoria 4 character I used in Poser.

Thanks.

What about https://www.daz3d.com/ej-face-morphs-and-details-for-genesis-8-females ?

Just talking about the female version (not male - don't know),

EJ's face as you linked to and https://www.daz3d.com/ej-body-shape-and-detail-morphs-for-genesis-8-female-s are really excellent.  Picked that over ZEVO's and have achieved everything I wanted.

Use those first alot, and every once in a while use Rarestones' face morphs of for adidtional tweak options.

Zevo's Shapeshift, Bend & Breast & Glute Control are all very handy, and essential if you are serious about better deforms for more dramatic hip and thigh changes. 

There are other products like killer legs, or the utilities for Breast & Glutes by Hellboy that add other options.

Other options too like https://www.daz3d.com/ultimate-natural-bend-morphs-for-victoria-8.

Base figure to replace V4 (is it Gen8? Is it Victoria 8? Is it something else?)

The base figure is Genesis 8 Female (which is free). Since the start of the Genesis generations, the Victorias are now figures built upon the respective Genesis base (although there are then additional figures that then use the Victoria shapes as a starting point).

As for the rest of it, the long and the short of it is that G8 is several steps of development upon V4.
Although the exact technologies in use have been refined and changed, and there aren't exactly the same assets on sale, almost all of the features you can expect from V4 can be found on G8F, and many more besides. (For example, with the right addons, G8F can actually wear V4 clothing). There are very few things you can expect of V4 that G8F can't do one way or another.
As far as starting your library I'd strongly suggest the base Daz body, face and expression add-ons, as well as looking at getting some of the Pro Bundles (although ideally on a good sale! 60-70% off is not that infrequent for bundles) in order to fill out a few selections of hair and clothes. That'll also give you several choices of textures from all the characters bundled in.

Unless you want to go nuts, you don't need all of the Pro Bundles, just pick a few that have the most useful items in them.

Im patiently (not) waiting for my new GPU* to ship so I can actually use Iray on a card that was not decommissioned in 2009 and update to my workflow, but and after perusing the store last night I have no idea what I need to invest in since so much has changed, but here’s what I’d like to do:

Base figure to replace V4 (is it Gen8? Is it Victoria 8? Is it something else?)

An Iray texture set to get me started. Basically, a base for Photoshop tweaks if I need versatility

The ability to get detail like wrinkles on palms and soles, etc.

The ability to create my own expressions, body features, ethnicities without resorting to pre-made figures if I don’t need to. Essentially Morph Targets if that’s still a thing.

Very basic clothing. Are CR2’s still a thing? (I told you it's been a long time)

Thank you in advance if you can help.

Extra bonus question, has anyone used IRay with Blender 2.8 yet?

• Going from a GTS-250 1GB DDR3 with 128 CUDA cores to a 1060Ti 6GB DDR6 with 1536 CUDA cores.