Replacing / Swapping Characters

Paul's 3D Experience

Hello, I'm very new to 3D modeling and Daz. I searched for an answer here but couldn't find any relevant discussion. So...

Is there a way to replace or "swap" a character with a different character (keeping the pose, expression, etc) while composing a scene? For examplw, let's say you are modeling the Beatles 1962-1966 album cover, with a young Fab Four standing on a balcony. If I want to swap young John out and replace him with older John (or Yoko for that matter) to get the Beatles 1967-1970 album cover, is there an easy way to do that without adding, posing and expressing the older John character from scratch? It seems to me that a function like this would be essential for trying out different characters in the same scene quickly, but I can't find any reference to this being possible anywhere. Thanks!

Gordig

What figure(s) are you using? For most of Daz's figures, if you have, for example, a G8M figure in the scene, and load a different G8M into the scene while the first one is selected, a prompt will pop up asking whether you want to load a new figure or apply to the existing figure. If that doesn't happen for you, you probably set it to load the new figure and checked the "don't ask again" box, and I'm not sure how to get that to appear again, but I'm sure someone else will. Otherwise, you can click the "hamburger" icon with three horizontal lines at the top-left of the parameters pane with one figure select, go to Copy -> Copy Figure, then select your second figure and Paste -> Paste Figure Pose, and that should apply the pose from the first figure onto the second.

Paul's 3D Experience

I'm mostly using Gen8/8.1 and Gen3 figures at this point. The fact is, I sometimes can't tell which generation a character is, unless the icon or larger image when I hover over it tells me. Thanks so much for your response. I had tried your first suggestion early on and it didn't work. But this time it did! So I must have messed something up before.

Thanks again! That's a HUGE time saver for me as I just play around to learn how things work, practice rendering, etc.This is tons of fun and I can see a lot of potential, but it takes forever to manipulate poses (wrapping fingers around doorknobs, forming guitar bar chords and such).

charles

Thats one way, I save the characters pose and then apply that to the new character.