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Exporting V4 character to G8F

CasetteCasette Posts: 13
in Daz Studio Discussion

Hi folks. 2020 is ending and this is the year I finally transferred my skills from Poser to DS. Now I'm purchasing G8F stuff but still have very nice characters which load in DAZ with almost no problems, but I can't use my new purchases with them. I've readed lots of threads here about importing-exporting shapes, things, textures and more, but some of them are frozen in time meanwhile new products and exporters are appearing at the shop or at free sites like ShareCG.

So the 2020-2021 question is: what is the best (and cheaper) way to convert a V4 in a Gf8?

I think IMHO the best option for textures is https://www.daz3d.com/legacy-uvs-for-genesis-8-victoria-4 cause works as a second skin, but for shapes? And not only character V4 morphs-based, but those with unique head morphs (bodies shapes are lesser important).

Thanks in advance and Merry Xmas.-

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,269

    Did you find the thread on tansferring using the Transfer Utility? I can't recall if it was talking about Genesis 8 or 3, though I think it was the newer - in any event the technique should work for 8.

  • CasetteCasette Posts: 13

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Did you find the thread on tansferring using the Transfer Utility? I can't recall if it was talking about Genesis 8 or 3, though I think it was the newer - in any event the technique should work for 8.

    No. Where is it? 

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,269

    I was afraid you'd say that. There's this, https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/177246/basic-tutorial-for-transferring-genesis3-female-morphs-to-genesis8-female#latest but this is the main one I was thinking of https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/176271/morphs-from-g3-to-g8/p1 . However, I'm not sure how applicable they are on reflection.

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715
    edited December 2020

    The best way imo, is to use Blacksmith Pro (or Texture Transformer, which is also part of Blacksmith Pro) from Rendo; I don't think it's the cheapest. It actually converts the textures over to the G3 UVs, which are compatible with G8, whereas the other method I'm aware off creates patches - if my understanding is correct.

    I've used it many times.

    I use (if I also want the shape), GenX and its plugins to transfer the morphs to G3, then XTransfer for G3 to G8.

    Transfering them over is the only reason I bought a good number of V4, G1 and G2 products since the advent of Texture Transformer.

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  • CasetteCasette Posts: 13

    nicstt said:

    The best way imo, is to use Blacksmith Pro (or Texture Transformer, which is also part of Blacksmith Pro) from Rendo; I don't think it's the cheapest. It actually converts the textures over to the G3 UVs, which are compatible with G8, whereas the other method I'm aware off creates patches - if my understanding is correct.

    I've used it many times.

    I use (if I also want the shape), GenX and its plugins to transfer the morphs to G3, then XTransfer for G3 to G8.

    Transfering them over is the only reason I bought a good number of V4, G1 and G2 products since the advent of Texture Transformer.

    Thanks, I'll take a look. And Happy New Year! :) 

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