Genesis 9 Best Practices?

Gator_2236745

Is there a best practice for converting over figures from previous generations for better results?  For example - split the head and body morphs, females without breast morphs, etc.

fred9803

I recently split off the head from a character's FBM using this. It was bit fiddly but it worked well after reading the instructions. You can also use it for separating other body parts and much more. A very useful script IMO.

kervala

I personally made a full character morph with body + head of my G8/8.1 characters :) I only used morphs that doesn't exist for G9 (mainly Genesis 8 original characters) and I created a controller enabling the character morph + other morphs (HD morphs, proportional height, growing up, etc...).

To convert textures, I used Ultimate Unwrap 3D that has a excellent and simple tutorial for converting G8 -> G9 textures :)

The biggest issue I had was the eyes since they are completely different. First, I unlinked the eyes from the character so I could move and scale independately of the character skeleton. I put at the same location my old G8 character and hide everything excepted the eyes. I aligned G9 eyes at the same location and size as G8 ones. I exported G9 eyes to OBJ and deleted them. I aligned eyes bones of the character on the old eyes, especially the center. Finally, I readded default G9 eyes and created a morph wih my OBJ with the same name as the character morph.

I also had to fix the bones of eyelids because the blink pose controls were wrong with my characters :)

 

sunnyjei

fred9803 said:

I recently split off the head from a character's FBM using this. It was bit fiddly but it worked well after reading the instructions. You can also use it for separating other body parts and much more. A very useful script IMO.

Interesting.Can you explain your process for using the split head morph to work with gen9?

FSMCDesigns

Gator said:

Is there a best practice for converting over figures from previous generations for better results?  For example - split the head and body morphs, females without breast morphs, etc.

There are no "best practices' yet for getting morphs from previous generations over to G9, just other users tries and hit or miss results from what I have read.  No actual converters have been released yet. For splitting morphs there is this product that works on genesis 2, 3 and 8. https://www.daz3d.com/shape-splitter

fred9803

Sorry sonnyjei, I didn't notice the question was specifically G9 related... old eyes. I'm pretty sure Shape Splitter won't work with G9 and there's no equivilant tool for that generation.