Baku for G8.1 Male

Tobias

maikdecker said:

Tobias said:

Umm, most things that work with G8 will work with G8.1, so you wouldn't have to upgrade anything.  The things that don't work are expressions and geoshells and there are apparently work-arounds for those.

Figues by Spows probably are the exception for this problem, but quite other male figures come without textures for the male reproduction organ, so one usually has to use a script to copy a part of the torso textures on to them... which doesn't work with 8.1 and - to my knowledge - hasn't been updated yet.

If there's ways to get geoshells for G8 working G8.1 I proabably missed the post in which the workaround is explained

 

I think that the poster was talking about clothes and hair for G8.  Those seem to work fine with 8.1.

As far as the geoshell issue, I've seen it mentioned a couple of times.  Did have this thread bookmarked for future information.

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/509891/batch-process-g8-geoshell-presets-to-g8-1#latest ;

FSMCDesigns

maikdecker said:

FSMCDesigns said:

mwokee said:

What hair products are being used in the promo images? A good PA lists products used.

I can think of plenty of "good PAs" that don't list them.

Probably on how one defines "good PA" I guess... people are different... opinions differ.

True, I know I judge how good a PA is by the quality of their product, not on whether there are links to any other items they used in one of their promos that they may or may not have even done. Then again on the rare occasion something in a promo image catches my eye, i can go look thru the stores and usually find it myself. Crazy notion, I know.

AllenArt

mwokee said:

AllenArt said:

mwokee said:

What hair products are being used in the promo images? A good PA lists products used.

Looks like this one:

https://www.daz3d.com/corn-row-hair-set-for-genesis-81-and-genesis-8-males 

I saw that but I think more than one hair product is being used.

No, it's all Cornrows hair....that hair has a plain, short option. Attached is a (very) quick render to show.

 

maikdecker

Tobias said:

maikdecker said:

Tobias said:

Umm, most things that work with G8 will work with G8.1, so you wouldn't have to upgrade anything.  The things that don't work are expressions and geoshells and there are apparently work-arounds for those.

Figues by Spows probably are the exception for this problem, but quite other male figures come without textures for the male reproduction organ, so one usually has to use a script to copy a part of the torso textures on to them... which doesn't work with 8.1 and - to my knowledge - hasn't been updated yet.

If there's ways to get geoshells for G8 working G8.1 I proabably missed the post in which the workaround is explained

 

I think that the poster was talking about clothes and hair for G8.  Those seem to work fine with 8.1.

As far as the geoshell issue, I've seen it mentioned a couple of times.  Did have this thread bookmarked for future information.

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/509891/batch-process-g8-geoshell-presets-to-g8-1#latest ;

thanks for the link... I missed that one, it seems.

edit: doesn't help with my problem, though... 3rd party anatomical elements rely on their own material copy scripts, which don't see G8.1 as G8 (of course..) and the script to use the torso textures on the anatomical elements seems to have problems with the PBR shader?!?

In the end, my problem is more with the PAs who don't deliver male figures with anatomical element materials... dunno about Baku coming with ot without them, as they aren't mentioned in the promo or (as it seems) in the file list. On the other hand Phoe and Tennessee (by Spows) come with anatomical element materials...

vwrangler

 

maikdecker said:

edit: doesn't help with my problem, though... 3rd party anatomical elements rely on their own material copy scripts, which don't see G8.1 as G8 (of course..) and the script to use the torso textures on the anatomical elements seems to have problems with the PBR shader?!?

In the end, my problem is more with the PAs who don't deliver male figures with anatomical element materials... dunno about Baku coming with ot without them, as they aren't mentioned in the promo or (as it seems) in the file list. On the other hand Phoe and Tennessee (by Spows) come with anatomical element materials...

I would check the site where you got the third party elements, and try to reset/redownload them. Some have been updated to deal with 8.1.

Baku does not include anatomical elements materials. In general, I assume if they're not mentioned, they're not there. I also check the readme to see if any might be listed under /Runtime/Textures. It doesn't make much difference in whether or not I buy a character; I just like to know.

vwrangler

Update for Baku in DIM today. His readme has the following note:

2022-02-01 Updated Baku Morph to not apply automatically on loading Genesis 8.1 Male