Enter Stockings in Search Store then hit Show All and scroll down to the filter options. Select Victoria 4 in the Figure Dropdown menu.

Don't know if there is anything there to suit you, not going to look but that's how to combine your two search criteria in a store search.

Wonder what it is about the a zombie apocalypse and the end of civilization as we know it that makes vendors think that women will want to run around in a sexy corset while dodging zombies and gangs of raiders?  That outfit looked good until I noticed the vendor just had to make the top half into a pseudo Victoria's secret ad.  No sale.

Poor Gianni--Misty wants to put him in a corset.  Run dude.

It seems to me that we should not be required to learn modelling skills, external software and the complexities of rigging just to get a purchased item of clothing to look like the item it is supposed to be. OK, one might say that clothing converted from previous generations of figures can't be expected to be perfect but I'd respond with two points: (a) I didn't expect autofit to deal with the conversion, I actually bought products from this store which claim to handle the conversion properly. And (b) This particular issue is not entirely restricted to converted clothing. There are plenty of examples of G3F shorts, etc. which display the same distortions.

Granted, the SickleYield G3F templates are mainly for dresses and tops - not for pants - so I'm not criticising the product. Wear Them All has this statement on the product page: 

All clones were made to be the exact projections of legacy figure shapes and can be used with all existing projection templates for Genesis 3 Female to fit every piece of conforming clothing from pants and shirts to footwear and headwear and even hair, as well as any full body clothing in DAZ Studio.

By the way, I checked those panties on V4 and they do not distort in the way they do when converted to G3F. 

In all other respects, I'm very pleased with the conversions using these two products. I was just hoping that someone with a better understanding of the technology might have some ideas on how to fix the pants. Perhaps it is not the conversion but a limitation of the G3F figure? Yet I have panties from Out of Touch which, while they stretch a little, do not display that kind of distortion.

Ideally, Valzheimer might be able to figure out a workaround and issue an update? One can only hope.

Hi, yes distortions happen because previous generation clothes was intended for generation they were created for and they lack in JCMs whereas geometry of new/G3 clothes is created from beginning to fit G3 geometry (back cross-fit can also give distortions because geometries missmatch). Just as shoes would never fit 100% perfectly same may happen with other things like fitting the crotch, as there isn't other template to use to fix that other then using either Full Body or Pants.

However workaround I'd suggest is the same I suggested under the Read Me for shoes - using Generic type of Smoothing (instead of Base Shape Matching) and in this case also using Weight parameter higher (I got best results with pushing it from 0.5 to 0.7). Not all clothes will act the same so it's on you to discover what gives you the best results, but here's one example of working with shorts and panties fitted from Victoria 4 to Genesis 3 Females. I also always convert older items to SubD (1, 2 or 3 value) to get higher resolution.

Hope that helps :)

V.

http://www.daz3d.com/pumps-and-stocking-for-v4a4g4

http://www.daz3d.com/boudoir-for-victoria-6

Don't knpw about the rib on them but there also these:

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/long-stocking-for-v4-amp-material-program/55539

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/stocking-sensation/69419

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/v4-stocking-magic/61133

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/highfashion-essentials-superhose-for-v4-a4-g4/72784

Please forgive me if I am posting in the wrong forum.

Every time I do seaches in the store I find no way to search both for Victoria 4 and stockings.

Does anyone have a link to stockings that are compatible with the Victoria 4.2 UV set that are sheer black with a solid black rib down the back?

All I see are for G2F and G3F and I don't even see any for Victoria 7, much less Victoria 4.2

Please help me out,

Martin 

So just for clarification then like in this case "http://www.daz3d.com/victoria-7"; does not come with any hair or clothing. Even though in the sample images for the product : 00-new-daz3d_victoria-7_.jpg she does have hair and an outfit. All that comes with the extra and pro bundles. So I have to purchase the Krayon and other hair styles.

If you bought only the basic packages for Victoria and Olympia you only get the morphs and possibly a texture set per character.  Hair and clothing is part of the bundles.

Very Newbie question. I purchased starter models Victoria and Olympia. I am not finding their own hair. The "models" have thier own destinctive hair, but when I go to the Genesis 3 Victoria 7 model and look under hair the only option is "short" and it is "Toulouse Hair" -- what am I missing??

One thing that occurred to me, it's no longer going to be enough to call a character by just a name - it's going to need "....for Victoria 7" etc after it. Instead of just "Kelly", it'll have to be "Kelly for Victoria 7" cos otherwise I will have NO idea if Kelly is for Genesis, G2, G3 or V4 or for the Freak, or what. 

Morph list on the M-65 American Icon jacket for G3F:

Supported Shapes:

• Arabella 7
• Bethany 7
• Eva 7
• Gia 7
• Karen 7
• Mei Lin 7
• Olympia 7
• The Girl 7
• Victoria 7
• Other Shapes supported in Daz Studio by Auto-follow

Izabella and Julie are nowhere to be found though.

I also think it is safe to assume that Lee 7 will follow shortly after : )

My first experiment for Genesis 3 Female: Dial A Face Lenore:

http://www.sharecg.com/v/83970/view/21/DAZ-Studio/Dial-A-Face-Lenore-for-G3F

She requires Victoria 7 and G3F Head Morphs, and loads as an untextured character preset with the body morphs zeroed out.  No metadata so far as I know.  My main inspirations were Hedy Lamarr, Famke Janssen, and Katherine Hepburn.  Let me know if there are any problems, I'm new to this Genesis 3 stuff.

I have the Wear Them All - Autofitting Clones and Clothing Smoothers for Genesis 3 Male, and did some promos with it a while back. I can HIGHLY RECOMMEND it. Works fabulous. Even with shoes - it's got a good pdf tutorial included with it and shows how to use smoothing etc for the nubbly bits of shoes :) 

I've also got oot's Mega Wardrobe for Gen3Male but haven't really used it as yet! I'll give it a go and let you know if I recommend it (although I'm pretty sure I will) 

Rich, can you render a few of the Dial-a-Girls? If I recall, you got the Genesis 3 product after I showcased all these separately for G2? I'm picking this up now I think. With 3 things i the cart, 60% may be worth peanut butter and jelly sandwiches the rest of the month, lol.  

Other goodies in the 2015:

Since we do have more Gen3 Males now, this will let you use all the previous generation clothes on them- and I like that there are SIX morph adjustments.

Think of what you can do with the Mega Wardrobe and shaders!

I also like Specs Appeal, Space Station Living Quarters (missed that in Fast Grab a couple weeks ago, it changed while in my cart. I had forgot to check out, darn it.)  Also may try Quiet Medium Hair  (I think that would be AWESOME for kids)  and same with Anny Hair. 

What would you folks recommend? 

 

Tutorial: Victoria 4 For Genesis 2 Female- Putting Victoria 4 Materials On Genesis 2 Female. Creating A Custom Category For Them.

Ready for another tutorial? If you want to do conversions yourself, but want a bit of guidance (including how to set files up to zip along during the process) I am going to take you step by step.  The only product I am using is the Victoria 4 for Genesis 2 Female.  No batch or auto converter products. You only need to have the Victoria 4 UV to apply it to G2F. Because applying the materials requires a DUF format, we'll convert files and toodle right along. If you don't like going into the file structures/setting things up because you're not sure what happens and where to find things afterwards,  this tutorial is for YOU. I've decided to name this Filephobia: 1) fear of messing up files  2)  fear of not knowing how to work with files 3.) knowing you won't be able to find where things went once you piddle in the directories 4.) all of the previous.

Pick a Victoria 4 character. In Content Library (which we will use for this entire tutorial) try looking under Poser Formats>Daz>Pose to find them. They might be listed by character name or vendor name.

RE: your directory structure- you may be in C:/Documents and Settings/(name)/My Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Library, or you may have it customized, but whatever you have, my main entry folder says Content> then I go to all the other files. If you do not have Content then don't worry about it, as discussed earlier in the thread last week that is an older setup.  It's probably the equivalent of your My Library. Just know it's the main folder and all these others are going to be under it. 

1. Be sure Victoria 4 for Genesis 2 Female is ALREADY INSTALLED. (If you load a G2F, you should have Victoria 4 under the UV Map choices.)  TIP: Use Default Camera and set your focal length between 90 and 120. This will keep your objects from distorting when you do these extreme closeups. After you set the focal length, you can still scroll back out. That affects focal DISTANCE, not length. 

Set up a folder for that character's DUFS. Go through your directory path mentioned above- to My Library>Materials and DO THIS:  !!!CharacterName so it will stay at the top of the list.  So if I am doing Ellie, the folder name will be !!!Ellie. 

2. Load Victoria 4 in the viewport. I use 500 x 700 (they all shrink to the same size) as the heads fit nicely.  The key thing to remember- when you make these dufs, it will capture the image in the viewport. You'll need to zoom in for the eyes for the eyes and makeups, and zoom in to the lips for the lips. Right now, put the entire head in the viewport. You don't have to have the top of the head or much of the neck. This is going to be for your "Base" image. One reason to make these look good is you might want to use these images / dufs when you do Genesis or Genesis 3 work in the future. Get in the habit of being picky about what's in the viewport.

3. Load your character (with morphs, even though they don't transfer, you want your character to look like her) with her skin (no makeup)  Most of them are called "Base." Make sure you like the way she looks in the viewport. IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE HER WELL LIT. You may want to create a spotlight on her face from the front.  

4. Go up to File>Save As>Material Preset and go to the folder we just made (Mine is Content>Materials>!!!Ellie)  Save. When the list pops up, for your Base materials, leave everything checked. This means when you apply the Base materials, everything is a "clean slate" so to speak.  BTW, what's nice- you won't have to find that folder for the rest of these, you will go there automatically.

5. Next, let's say Eyes (different eye colors) are next. Move your face in the viewport so you are zoomed in (and I mean ZOOM) on one eye. You only need one and it's important to get a closeup.  Click and apply the materials. If I don't see things change, I'm in the habit of going up to Edit to see what the last step is that is showing. You will know right away if your clicking took, or if you need to double click again. Then Save As>Material Preset and name it (I use the same names as the original, except if it says 06 I usually do 6, etc.)  Now pay attention because this is common sense but...

If you are doing Base, you want all the materials to change. You do NOT want that with eye color. Think about it- if you've already loaded up the lip color you want, and click an eye color, you don't want your lip colors to go Poof! back to the default lip color or whatever color you had on them when you did your eyes. You're going to have to deal with three sections: the skin of the face (makeups), the eyes (colors-Iris) and the lips. So here's what you do:

For Base makeup- that is supposed to reset EVERYTHING so leave everything checked.

For Eyes (color, that's Iris) you don't want your makeups to change so uncheck the skin of the face (it will say Skin Face or Face, it's slightly different when you do V4 and G2F) and uncheck Lips. 

For Lips you don't want your makeups to change so uncheck Skin Face or Face, and uncheck Iris (eye color). 

6. When you do your Makeups, again, be sure you have zoomed in to one eye. But look at the makeups FIRST because if there are exotic ones, you want to be sure you are zoomed out enough to get the pattern/design in the view.  When doing the lips, zoom in on those too. If a character has thicker eyelashes in some makeups than others, you would have to include eyelashes (uncheck) when you do the lips and eye color, because you wouldn't want the eyelashes to change. I haven't had any of those yet.

7. So you've saved as a material preset all of the materials (including the makeupREM)  I close up Content Library and click Refresh on Daz Studio Formats. Now, the reason we created the folder in  Content>Materials is because it's SO easy to find.  Go to Daz Studio Formats>Daz>Materials and bingo! There at the top of the next menu set is your !!!Ellie or whatever you named it. 

8. Load up Genesis 2 Female. Load up Base. Immediate distortion! No problem, select G2F in Scene and in Surfaces go to UV Map and select Victoria 4. Bingo, there's your character.

9. Browse in your directory to (mine is Content, remember yours is probably My Library) > People>Genesis 2 Female>Character> and make a folder !V4 to Gen2  This is where your final V4 conversions will be, ready to load onto any Genesis 2 Females. You can name your folder anything that makes sense to you, and after you do all these, THEN you can more them to your custom Category. If you are going to do G2 materials to G3 later, it makes sense to leave them in G2F Characters too. 

10. So get the head centered in the viewport for G2F. You know the drill, apply the Base material.  However, this time you don't have the morphs unless you have GenX2'd the morphs for your gal, so just leave the G2F character as the figure unless you know who you are going to be using.

11. File>Save As> Material Preset, leave everything checked. 

12. Remember to zoom in for the eyes and the lips. Again, when you do the eyes (Iris) uncheck the face skin (makeups) and Lips.  And when you do the Lips, uncheck the face skin and Iris. 

13. Now your Genesis 2 Females can wear these Victoria 4 materials, and are easily found in Daz Studio Formats>Daz>People>Genesis 2 Female>Characters>!V4 to Gen2 or whatever you named yours. Let's go one step further and create a custom Category. Still in Content Library, go to Categories. Do not go under Default, as you are creating YOUR own. Right click Category and Create New Sub-Category. Name it whatever you want, such as Gen2 Females (then click that and create another Sub-Category called V4-G2F.)

14. Go back up to Daz Studio Formats>Daz>People>Genesis 2 Female>Characters>!V4 to Gen2 (or whatever you named your new materials) and right click the folder. (Let's use Ellie) Select "Create A Category From..." and either choose This Folder Only or This Folder and Subfolders (which we didn't create any, we did all these in one) 

15. When the popup opens, scroll into your categories and select your new category (Gen2 Females>V4-G2F)  What's nice- if you convert several V4's, it remembers this file path and you zip right to the Gen2 Females>V4-G2F (or your file name) without you having to scroll to it.

Done! You have converted V4 materials and made files in both Daz Studio Formats AND created a custom Category, which is SO fast to get to.

CHECKLIST BEFORE YOU START:

Make sure Victoria 4 for Genesis 2 Female is installed. Use Default Camera, with the Focal Length between 90 and 100.  Add a spotlight and get the face well lit.

Then, when shooting, don't forget to zoom in for the complete face, just the eye, just the lips. If you aren't sure the materials took, use Edit and check. The glossy options are hard to tell as the colors are the same. Remember to uncheck the sections you don't want to change (you are dealing with Makeup (Face/ Skin Face)  Eyes (Iris) and Lips. 

Edit: and, as mentioned a few posts up,  if you do Iray skin settings, those DO save and transfer in the Material Presets. If you're not sure you will be rendering only in Iray, don't add them.

Have fun!  

Turn off smoothing, or lower it - sometimes helps; basically, conforming has lots of limitations.

(Daz please introduce Dynamics.)

I have fit control for G2F but I get a bit fed up with buying the same utilities over and over every time a new Victoria is released.

Likewise, I bought the Wear-it-All and other conversion utilities precisely so that I could use the content I've spent so much on. So it is disappointing to see these problems. However, this particular issue is not strictly limited to conversions because some shorts designed for G3F do the same thing.

As for Optitex - I despise it. I usually end up with a heap on the ground. The new Dynamic Cloth product being discussed in this sub-forum (and in the Carrara forum) looks promising but I would have to wait for a Mac version which could be a long wait. 

But thanks for your suggestions and I'll try your not autofitting tip (I sometimes do that with hair).

With Optitex; reduce subD in view (if present) to zero, until you've initially started the pose script; stop and increase the subd if it needs more geometry.

Rich, can you render a few of the Dial-a-Girls? If I recall, you got the Genesis 3 product after I showcased all these separately for G2? I'm picking this up now I think. With 3 things i the cart, 60% may be worth peanut butter and jelly sandwiches the rest of the month, lol.  

Other goodies in the 2015:

Since we do have more Gen3 Males now, this will let you use all the previous generation clothes on them- and I like that there are SIX morph adjustments.

Think of what you can do with the Mega Wardrobe and shaders!

I also like Specs Appeal, Space Station Living Quarters (missed that in Fast Grab a couple weeks ago, it changed while in my cart. I had forgot to check out, darn it.)  Also may try Quiet Medium Hair  (I think that would be AWESOME for kids)  and same with Anny Hair. 

What would you folks recommend? 

Is Victoria a blond?

No, she was brownish, then gray, then dead.  Happens quite often.

Is Victoria a blond?

I have fit control for G2F but I get a bit fed up with buying the same utilities over and over every time a new Victoria is released.

Likewise, I bought the Wear-it-All and other conversion utilities precisely so that I could use the content I've spent so much on. So it is disappointing to see these problems. However, this particular issue is not strictly limited to conversions because some shorts designed for G3F do the same thing.

As for Optitex - I despise it. I usually end up with a heap on the ground. The new Dynamic Cloth product being discussed in this sub-forum (and in the Carrara forum) looks promising but I would have to wait for a Mac version which could be a long wait. 

But thanks for your suggestions and I'll try your not autofitting tip (I sometimes do that with hair).

or a David 7 for the matter. However if they continue to release G3F amd G3M in pairs like they seemed to be doing at the moment, then David 7 could arrive with Stephanie 7 (assuming she arrives of course).

Well, let's put it this way, of course characters Stephanie and Aiko will show-up as they do every Generation. Victoria, Michael, Stephanie, and Aiko have been a persistent quartette since Generation 2 and nothing has ever stop any of them yet from meeting this pattern, not even risky sales.
So, as suggested by Leana, if DAZ is so bold as to give us The Guy in this 7th cycle, it might very well spark a faint glimmer of hope for David and Hiro WHEN Stephanie and Aiko make their appearances.

You may have to do minor tweaks like moving a hand slightly etc....but overall, like Chohole said, the A4 figure is based off the Victoria 4 mesh and rigging, so they work well overall.