A Few Questions about "Star!"

margrave

So it seems like Daz has been leaning heavily on the legacy content sales lately. Since 99.9% of my work is done with Genesis 8, that's fine by me--my wallet needs a break.  The one thing I am interested in is LittleLadyfox/RuntimeDNA's character models, because photorealism doesn't seem to matter as much when it's an animu character with eyes the size of dinnerplates.

I have Star 2.0 for G3, but I'm wondering how compatible the older Star clothing is. The Star 2.0 page says there's a "Star Clone Data Tool", but does anybody have firsthand experience with its effectiveness?

Also, I didn't see a male equivalent. Is there one? Or, if not, is there something I can do to fake it?

3141592654

The original star clothing moves to Star 2.0 very well (it also makes it somewhat compatible with Genesis 3 females in general). There is no male counterpart. Have fun.

doubledeviant

3141592654 said:

The original star clothing moves to Star 2.0 very well (it also makes it somewhat compatible with Genesis 3 females in general). There is no male counterpart. Have fun.

Do the hairs work with Star 2.0?

3Diva

doubledeviant said:

3141592654 said:

The original star clothing moves to Star 2.0 very well (it also makes it somewhat compatible with Genesis 3 females in general). There is no male counterpart. Have fun.

 

Do the hairs work with Star 2.0?

Yes and no. They will fit to the head, but there can be warping of the hair around the "bend" areas:

Your best option I think is to have nothing in the scene selected then load the hair into the scene and then "parent" it to the figure's head. You can then add a smoothing modifier if needed to get rid of any clipping issues. Here I parented the Annie hair to Star 2.0 then added a smoothing modifier and set the "Collision Item" (in the Parameters Tab) to Star 2.0:

 

If you have Mesh Grabber that can also help. :)

3Diva

Parenting the hair also keeps all the bones and morphs intact, so it's usually a good idea to parent hair between figures rather than "fit to". Here I parented the Ruby Red hair to Star 2.0:

The Ruby Red outfit fits pretty well for Star 2.0 but the long skirt fringe does weird things when you pose with the legs up - so I turned down the opacity strength of the skirt fringe to 0. The shoes didn't transfer well (shoes RARELY transfer between figures very well at all, so that was to be expected). So I used the boots from the Annika Storm outfit instead of the shoes from the Ruby Red outfit.

doubledeviant

3Diva said:

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Thanks! I went ahead and purchased the Lady Littlefox outfit/hair combo packs, and the advice is appreciated.

Lindsey

margrave said:

So it seems like Daz has been leaning heavily on the legacy content sales lately. Since 99.9% of my work is done with Genesis 8, that's fine by me--my wallet needs a break.  The one thing I am interested in is LittleLadyfox/RuntimeDNA's character models, because photorealism doesn't seem to matter as much when it's an animu character with eyes the size of dinnerplates.

I have Star 2.0 for G3, but I'm wondering how compatible the older Star clothing is. The Star 2.0 page says there's a "Star Clone Data Tool", but does anybody have firsthand experience with its effectiveness?

Also, I didn't see a male equivalent. Is there one? Or, if not, is there something I can do to fake it?

The Genesis 3 Cross Figure Resource Kit includes a Genesis 3 female "Transfer To: Genesis3Male" morph you can dial in, results shown in the attached picture.  If you have GenX2 with the G3 addon, you can transfer the Genesis 3 Male body morph to Genesis 3 Female and get similar results.

Star 2.0 does include an auto-fit clone to fit the original Star clothing to Star 2.0 !

doubledeviant

Is Violet Hair for Star! the same hair included in Violet for Star!?

It seems to be the only hair from Lady Littlefox's outfits that is also sold separately? Maybe a case of very few people buying the standalone hair, so it wasn't deemed worthwhile to offer for the later outfits?

I ask because I'm leaning toward buying the hairs, too (already bought the outfits). Twelve anime hairs for less than $10 - thinking maybe I should go ahead and grab them.

margrave

3141592654 said:

I ask because I'm leaning toward buying the hairs, too (already bought the outfits). Twelve anime hairs for less than $10 - thinking maybe I should go ahead and grab them.

If you're just looking for assets to transfer to Star 2.0, there's an updated version of the Violet Hair made specifically for G3F with full Iray support. It's full price ATM, but it's in both of the Star 2.0 bundles and they're half-off right now.

The Genesis 3 Cross Figure Resource Kit includes a Genesis 3 female "Transfer To: Genesis3Male" morph you can dial in, results shown in the attached picture.

That does look pretty good, but I'm not sure I'll buy enough Genesis 3 male content to justify the purchase. I think I can get more utility out of buying face & body morphs and trying to fake it.

doubledeviant

margrave said:

doubledeviant said:

I ask because I'm leaning toward buying the hairs, too (already bought the outfits). Twelve anime hairs for less than $10 - thinking maybe I should go ahead and grab them.

If you're just looking for assets to transfer to Star 2.0, there's an updated version of the Violet Hair made specifically for G3F with full Iray support. It's full price ATM, but it's in both of the Star 2.0 bundles and they're half-off right now.

Thanks for the heads up. I buy G8 almost exclusively, but that cute little banshee won me over, so I bought the original Star! base and LL's outfits since this sale offers such good prices.

The larger Star 2.0 bundle is on my wishlist, but it's very much a "nice-to-have", and I haven't bought it (yet). I'll be goofing around with the original figure for now but might upgrade in the future, so I was curious whether the items would transfer easily.

tj_1ca9500b

Lindsey said:

margrave said:

So it seems like Daz has been leaning heavily on the legacy content sales lately. Since 99.9% of my work is done with Genesis 8, that's fine by me--my wallet needs a break.  The one thing I am interested in is LittleLadyfox/RuntimeDNA's character models, because photorealism doesn't seem to matter as much when it's an animu character with eyes the size of dinnerplates.

I have Star 2.0 for G3, but I'm wondering how compatible the older Star clothing is. The Star 2.0 page says there's a "Star Clone Data Tool", but does anybody have firsthand experience with its effectiveness?

Also, I didn't see a male equivalent. Is there one? Or, if not, is there something I can do to fake it?

The Genesis 3 Cross Figure Resource Kit includes a Genesis 3 female "Transfer To: Genesis3Male" morph you can dial in, results shown in the attached picture.  If you have GenX2 with the G3 addon, you can transfer the Genesis 3 Male body morph to Genesis 3 Female and get similar results.

Star 2.0 does include an auto-fit clone to fit the original Star clothing to Star 2.0 !

Your Mister Star looks pretty cool!

Knittingmommy

doubledeviant said:

Is Violet Hair for Star! the same hair included in Violet for Star!?

 

It seems to be the only hair from Lady Littlefox's outfits that is also sold separately? Maybe a case of very few people buying the standalone hair, so it wasn't deemed worthwhile to offer for the later outfits?

 

I ask because I'm leaning toward buying the hairs, too (already bought the outfits). Twelve anime hairs for less than $10 - thinking maybe I should go ahead and grab them.

I have both products and, as far as I know, they are both the same hair. I can't tell any difference when I load them up.