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Published: 2018-09-12 12:55:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 2255; Favourites: 48; Downloads: 28
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It's time for me to move on to Genesis 8. I'm stuck on Genesis3 all this time(and I will be for ever, if there's no way to bring my characters on Gen8), but I will also start
playing with all the new stuff that Gen8 brought.
So, here's my first character on Gen8, a sweetie pie named Luna 
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Very cute! Nice job. 
Thank you for including your work at RenderHub3D .
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Thanks! Oh, and I never thanked you for the second place points. Thank you! That contest was a lot of fun!
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Oh you 're welcome, I hope I can make another contest soon
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Great character, I love deph of field too.
I have a lot V4 characters (and some M4), that I'd love to convert to G8. I did some research, but I don't know if it's really possible.
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It is possible but it needs very much work and headaches.
There is no longer a product that can do the work in a few clicks.
I have moved all my girls on G3 and I'm very happy with that, they 're really
upgraded and it's fine having them on this model.
Gen3 is a very nice generation and very detailed as a 3D mesh.
So, to convert your morphs to Gen8 you will first need to convert them to Gen3
(this is easy!) and then you need to follow some painful steps to get them to Gen8
(but as I read, they wont be exactly identical).
I can give you some tutorials if you have the patience.
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I guess convert my characters into G3 would be a good start.
Yes, I'm interest with tutorials, thank you. I don't know if I'll had the patience to do them, but I think it's not useless to check them out. ^^
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I am using this product, it really needs 3 clicks to transfer the morph,
just as long as you have the poser format for them.
www.daz3d.com/shop/genx2-addon…
How many characters you want to convert?
Now, after tranfering V4 morphs on Gen3, you need to follow these steps:
[Tutorial] Transferring Character Morphs G1G2G3G8The first version of this workflow came from Kattey on the DAZ forum, for which I acknowledge credit.
Here is that (lengthy) thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/24093/
Here's another thread with a method that might be better on eye distortion, I haven't tried yet: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2539831/#Comment_2539831
Here's what I've been doing myself.
First of all, however: there are two ways to recreate a character. There is the easy way, which is not redistributable, and the hard way, which is. We'll discuss the easy way first. I'm sorry, but I can't do anything for those of you who absolutely can't learn from text. This is what I have time for right now.
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PART 1: CREATE A SINGLE DIAL
Load Genesis 1. Dial in your character morph. There cannot be anything in the scene except the single figure while we do this. No hair, no clothes, no props. Or if they are there, you must hide them by c
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Thank you for the daz link and the tuto.
The tuto don't seem too difficult to me, having experimenting often with the "transfer utility" (but I won't say I mastered it).
For how many I want to convert, well...
If I want to do it for all my characters, males, females, and humanoids included, that will probaly be more than 80... I love creating characters. Ha ha
I'll take my time.
I suppose that for adapt the textures, I need a convertor too ?
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I know this is a very very late reply, but I had many comments standing here
So, there are converters for the textures as well and there are also old UVs for the new models,
this way you can apply all of your old textures to the G3F.
But I have to warn you, some textures look very 'old' or of a poor quality.
So, what I did is to find new textures from the DAZ store that would look similar to my old ones.
For example, this is my old Keiko (on Aiko 4)
and this is my new Keiko on G3F
This is a new texture, I only kept her old eyes, but it looks very similar.
Also her old hair looked very 'poor' in Iray, so I had to find something similar and retextured it with the old hair colors.
Let me link you to some products for the textures:
Read this: www.daz3d.com/forums/discussio…
and also check this vendor: www.daz3d.com/cayman-studios
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Thank you for all these informations. 
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yes, the dress is posed through dforce simulation
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Still needs some more laundry ironing, for my opinion
P.S. Just started to use dForce, works great in most cases, and the possibility to make any cloth dynamic is cool
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I think it draped nicely, but the camera angle is weird
Anyway, dForce is amazing, yesterday I tried it with a V4 dress,
I also learned how to add a weight map
and it worked wonderfully
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What is the best way to initially pose/deform clothes? For example, rise long skirt or t-shirt bottom to some height by hand? In Poser I use animation sequence, setting character to zero pose at frame 0, posing it to desired pose at frame 15 and running dynamic cloth simulation up to the frame 30.
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This is what I do as well, I'm starting form the zero pose.
I don't know if rising the skirt by hand would be a good idea.
You can use the wind to give it another interesting shape.
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I mean posing skirt like here.. I don't want to do it using animation frames... may be there is simpler way
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maybe adding a small sphere inside the skirt and let it drape on it
and then delete it and pose the hand in your liking?
This could be also done with a morph, without dforce.
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