G8.1 figures and G8
Philippi_Child
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Hi,
When I see a product for the G8.1 female character can this figure also work with the G8F as well outside of the shaders and emotions?
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But... why?
I can understand not wanting the new PBR shaders. I mostly do not use them, myself.
However, the facial rig on 8.1 is superior. If you're going to use an 8.1 character, why downgrade the facial rig?
/I mostly use Genesis 8 skins on a Genesis 8.1 figure base. Very easy to port your Genesis 8 figure over to 8.1 since the dials should all be the same... copy Figure, paste to 8.1 base.
Haven't seen anything for G8.1 that builds in me the need or wish to have no further use for all the expression sets that I gathered over the last few years for G8, when I even still G3 because of all the stuff I gathered for that generation.
And the facial rig might be superior. But to me it seems that I don't have no need for that "superior rig", as the one coming with G3 / G8 seems to be more than enough for my needs.
So... with all that, I just stay away from G8.1 due to lacking compatility with my existing bought products.
If they are truly 8.1 characters, their character morphs are not visible to G8 base.
As the geometry between G8 and G8.1 is the same, the G8 morphs could be made to work with G8 but that would need manual editing inside the morph files and relocating the files to the G8 morph folders.
On the other hand, is the character really a G8.1 one or has marketing just slapped it on the page because it's a new character?...
I rarely ever use a facial rig on characters, so that isn't a selling point for me. I haven't moved to the latest DS because of performance issues I keep seeing posted, so 8.1 is a non starter for me.
If a product was made to work for G8F it should work [means it likely will work] on G8.1F. However if a product was made to work for G8.1 - such are not backward compatible so no, it is not likely to work on G8F. Read the product page carefully before making your purchase. If the product page says it will work with G8F and it does not, then you can request a store credit/money back.
Thank you I was interested in a character for 8.1F so it appears that it wouldn't work on the G8F. I just can't move to the latest version of DS becuase its perfomance issues.
If a character is sold specifically for G8.1 then its morph will be located in G8.1 data folder, so it won't work with G8. And there's a good chance it will use the new G8.1 UVs, so the texture wouldn't work on G8 either, and/or the PBR skin shader, which requires 4.15 to work.