Victoria 8 is really G8F?

wayneout_edeaad0859

Is there somewhere that you can learn what Victoria figure is the same a the Genesis figure? 
Example Victoria 4 is the same as plain Genesis? I was wanting to know because I have a bunch of old clothing and I need to know what to pick when you
use "fit to"   Thanks

Gordig

Genesis is the fifth generation of Daz figures. Prior to Genesis, Victoria and Michael were the base figures, but with Genesis and onward, the Genesis figure is the base for that generation. Thus, V8 is a character add-on to Genesis 8 Female.

vwrangler

wayneout_edeaad0859 said:

Is there somewhere that you can learn what Victoria figure is the same a the Genesis figure? 
Example Victoria 4 is the same as plain Genesis? I was wanting to know because I have a bunch of old clothing and I need to know what to pick when you
use "fit to"   Thanks

As far as clothing is concerned, Victoria 4 is **NOT** the same as plain Genesis. Victoria 4 was the generation before Genesis. For every figure after Genesis itself, you would need to purchase clothing converters/clones to allow them to have clones that let autofit work and give you an option for "Victoria 4" in "fit to".

Speaking only of the Victorias and their clothing, here's how the generations work:

Victoria 4 = Victoria 4
Victoria 5 = Genesis 1 (aka, just plain Genesis)
Victoria 6 = Genesis 2 Female
Victoria 7 = Genesis 3 Female
Victoria 8 = Genesis 8 Female (the number jump was to prevent confusion with Victoria 4/Michael 4, among other things).

Leana

Just for the record: Victoria 8 is not "the same" as Genesis 8 Female, she's a character for Genesis 8 Female.
Same for V5 to V7, they're characters for their respective Genesis base figures.

pwiecek

Victoria 3, Aiko 3 and stephanie Petite 3 were based on the same mesh but were entirely independent

The GIRL-without-a-number was even further separated and didn't even use the same nesh

Victoria 4 is the main character. Aiko 4, Stephanie 4, and the girl 4 were all morphs

Victoria 5 & later are morph of whatever version of genesis they were made for.

bytescapes

Victoria 4 and Michael 4 were the two main characters in the last generation of figures before DAZ introduced their Genesis products. Because Genesis used significantly new technologies that DAZ had developed, it was more than just 'the next generation', but was the beginning of a whole new sequence.

Thereafter, each generation had a base figure or pair of figures, which served as the basis for other characters created by DAZ.

Genesis had only a single base figure -- Genesis -- which was used for both male and female characters. The corresponding V/M pair was Victoria 5 and Michael 5.

With Genesis 2, DAZ abandoned the single base figure because trying to build both females and males off the same mesh had turned out to be too limiting. They introduced Genesis 2 Female and Genesis 2 Male, which served as the bases for Victoria 6 and Michael 6.

With Genesis 3, you had Genesis 3 Female and Genesis 3 Male, and Victoria 7 and Michael 7.

At this point, DAZ realized that the whole G3F=V7, G3M=M7 was getting confusing. Things weren't helped by the fact that Victoria 4/Michael 4 were sometimes referred to as Generation 4, which sounds a whole lot like Genesis 4.

So they switched the naming scheme and leapt straight to Genesis 8, giving us Genesis 8 Female and Genesis 8 Male, accompanied by Victoria 8 and Michael 8.

There are, of course, lots of other DAZ 'flagship' figures in addition to Victoria and Michael -- Lee, Hiro, The Girl, Aiko, Stephanie, etc. etc. each of which may or may not show up in each generation. The trailing number after each character name follows the same pattern as Victoria and Michael, i.e. Lee 6 belongs to the Genesis 2 generation, Stephanie 7 is a Genesis 3 figure and so on. The same applies to newly introduced characters. Lucian 7 isn't called that because there were 6 other Lucians before him; he's actually the first Lucian (Lucian 1?) but because he belongs to the Genesis 3 family he's named Lucian 7, alongside Michael 7 and Victoria 7.

If there's ever a Genesis 9, we can expect to see Victoria 9 and Michael 9, plus all their friends. Unless DAZ decide to do an Apple and call it Genesis X, at which point everyone's heads will finally explode.

Leana

bytescapes said:

Unless DAZ decide to do an Apple and call it Genesis X

And then people would confuse "Gen X as in Genesis X" and  "Gen X as in the morph conversion program" ;)