Can I use gen3 hair for gen8?

TabooGood

Would hair made for gen3 cause any trouble in terms of fitting properly and posing etc if I used it on a gen8 character?

Ted Berlin

It depends, I have G3 hair that fits G8 but it gives you a "unsupported" message first..I just enter G3 and it converts it . I am not sure if ALL G3 hair will work

mats76

Gen3 hair works great on Gen8. You could use autofit and it works ok but the hair will loose its bones, but if you instead change the scene identification it will work the same on Gen 8 as it does on Gen 3.

Load the Gen3 hair without having the Gen8 figure selected

1 Open option for scen tab (image 1)

2  Open scene identification (image 2)

3  Open change preferred base (image 3)

4 Find and change to Gen 8 female or male (image 4)

5  right click on the hair and choose "fit hair to" (image 5)

6 choose the character you want to fit the hair to (image 6)

Done

Ted Berlin

mats76 said:

Gen3 hair works great on Gen8. You could use autofit and it works ok but the hair will loose its bones, but if you instead change the scene identification it will work the same on Gen 8 as it does on Gen 3.

Load the Gen3 hair without having the Gen8 figure selected

1 Open option for scen tab (image 1)

2  Open scene identification (image 2)

3  Open change preferred base (image 3)

4 Find and change to Gen 8 female or male (image 4)

5  right click on the hair and choose "fit hair to" (image 5)

6 choose the character you want to fit the hair to (image 6)

Done

I have never had a problem loading G3 hair to G8 while selected. Like I said, when the unsupported dialogue box pops up all you do is enter G3F.

Paintbox

Me neither, after the dialogue box, all seems to work peachy

mats76

tedberlin said:

mats76 said:

Gen3 hair works great on Gen8. You could use autofit and it works ok but the hair will loose its bones, but if you instead change the scene identification it will work the same on Gen 8 as it does on Gen 3.

Load the Gen3 hair without having the Gen8 figure selected

1 Open option for scen tab (image 1)

2  Open scene identification (image 2)

3  Open change preferred base (image 3)

4 Find and change to Gen 8 female or male (image 4)

5  right click on the hair and choose "fit hair to" (image 5)

6 choose the character you want to fit the hair to (image 6)

Done

I have never had a problem loading G3 hair to G8 while selected. Like I said, when the unsupported dialogue box pops up all you do is enter G3F.

 

Paintbox said:

Me neither, after the dialogue box, all seems to work peachy

It depends on if the hair has custom bones. With Sporty ponytail for G3 you can move and pose the tail sepratly, but when outofitted the tail can no longer be selected and posed. Changing the scene identification keep the custom bones and the tail can be moved and posed sepratly.