Upgrade Genesis 2 => Genesis 8

peter_2762644

Hallo together, because of the boredom caused by Corona-quarantine, I decided to upgrade my content from Genesis 2 to 8 (3). All works fine, a little bit unusual for me ;-)

But it would be very fine to reuse my old content and therefore I have two questions:

1. What are the best options to use G2 Texture-Maps (Materials) on the new figures (G8) ?

2. What are the best options to convert figure-shapings and morphs?

For the second point, I found two methods. Unfortunately they do not work satisfactorily for me. Can anyone suggest some tools or methods?

 

Thx in avance, stay healthy and greets from vienna!

Leana

For the textures you'll need Cayman Studios' legacy UVs products:

https://www.daz3d.com/legacy-uvs-for-genesis-8-genesis-2-male-michael-5-and-michael-6

https://www.daz3d.com/legacy-uvs-for-genesis-8-genesis-2-female

peter_2762644

Thank you, Leana,

I found this already. But as I understand, this product can only be used, if my source figure is based on the "Base Genesis 2" figure.

But I have figures, that are based i.e. on Belle 6, Victoria 6, and so on. Therefore, I don't think this works for those figures ...

peter_2762644

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Leana

There's a legacy UVs product for V6 textures too. For other UVs you can use map transfer to transform the textures made for custom UVs into textures for the base or V6 UVs first, then use legacy UVs product with the converted textures.

peter_2762644

Okay. I've found some links to this topic. i.e: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/184696/tutorial-from-map-transfer-to-material-presets

Looks like a lot of work ;-)

I will try this one. Thank you very much :-)

 

DrunkMonkeyProductions

For morph conversions. Character converter(https://www.daz3d.com/character-converter-from-genesis-2-female-to-genesis-8-female-) Seems to work fairly well. Still a bit of work to get textures to work correctly.

peter_2762644

Okay. I tried a few methods and, I think the Transfer Utility ist the best way to convert my favorite morphs and modifier (and it's out of the box). But thank you for your suggestion, DrunkMonkey

For the material, I have successfully done what you said, Leana. Unfortunately the UV-geograft doesn't work as expected, because afterwards I'm unable to use some other grafts. But it doen't matter. I've found a way to reconfigure (transfer) my shaders, so I'm happy now with the default G8 materials (I'm still using 3Delight, because my grafic card is a really really really old one xD).