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I don't see a "Convert" menu in the original poster's screenshots, so for now I am assuming that it's not my product at work.
It seems like the figure converter is not working correctly if the source figure still has the default name of "Genesis 8 Female" (or that of the other figures). The converter loads several temporary figures into the scene during conversion and needs to identify them by label during the process and then gets confused. Can you rename your source figure to something else before converting to see if that fixes the problem? Thank you!
This does look like "Adjust rigging to shape" might be necessary after conversion. Essentially what happens is that the "rigging" of a Genesis figure (what gets moved if you move the figure's joints) contains a lot of information about where the vertices of the figure are in 3D space, and when new morphs are turned on that move these vertices around, the rigging needs updating. The more extreme the morphs are, the more the rigging breaks. "Adjust rigging to shape" is a standard Daz Studio command. There are also some notes about it in the PDF user manual. Hope this helps!
I'm sorry, the automatic running of "adjust rigging to shape" was originally part of the converter but removed at the last minute because it didn't work correctly. I forgot to update the screenshots in the manual.
The reason that the eyes (and teeth) can become distored is because with Genesis 9 eyes are separate geometries (separate nodes in the scene tree under the main figure), whereas with Genesis 3 and 8 they were part of the main figure. (Genesis 8 did the same thing with eyelashes already.) So the converter converts all the geometry but cannot change the eyes or teeth. I don't see a way to automate this, I'm sorry!
My bad your right.
I get the same error with my own custom character and she has a custom name, there is a morph loaded in the scene when convertor is finished, but it looks like a basic G9 obj...
update: it worked after deleting the additional items (eyebrows,lashes,and some parts...)
still not perfect but she looks alot like my char, a few issues i see on the mesh, especially the feet, but i can fix that...good job Manfriday!
Ok, I could not find "adjust rigging to shape" - where it is located?
Edit>Figure>Rigging
That is almost identical to what I am getting with GF3 conversions and adjusting rigging to shape does nothing to fix that for me
Thanks a lot, @Richard
Just tested on Genesis 3 Male based figure - https://www.daz3d.com/captain-charisma-for-genesis-3-male
and applied "adjust rigging to shape" on resulted Genesis 9 converted figure.
The distortions on hands and arms still exist.
Would be good to have separate morphs for Arms, Forearms and Hands
to be allowed to set them to zero. Otherwise, than that, I like the conversion.
Just used Head morph and applied some morphs for Genesis 9, that I have already purchased.
So it is not 1 click solution, but head shape is nicely converted, so I will explore more possibilities of this converter.
The above character with materials from https://www.daz3d.com/nahuel-for-genesis-9-hd
One more render of the above character (only head morph applied) with the converted hair and the converted clothes.
For my hobby renders, this converter provides enough functionality to keep me busy for some time.
This is my best one so far. The challenging part for my G9 character creation process is not the figure conversion, thanks to this tool, so I won't belabor my difficulties (which are about getting decent materials from my source image).
Much easier is the conversion of G8 characters - does not need "adjust rigging to shape".
Below is a render of the converted Asher - https://www.daz3d.com/asher-hd-for-genesis-8-male
with some materials for Genesis 9
It depends. Every G8M I've tried has needed the "adjust rigging to shape". I select the bone editing tool to see the bones to know if I need to run it. Lucky you that you didn't have to. :D
Ok, thanks for the tips. Will try more G8 based characters to see, how it goes.
I have tried conversion of Babina 8 - https://www.daz3d.com/babina-8
and it requires to use "adjust rigging to shape".
There was some update for the converter in DIM, so I have decided to test it with The Girl 7:
https://www.daz3d.com/the-girl-7
Have applied "adjust rigging to shape and have moved forward eyes.
With 100% of Body morph the distortion of the hands is still there,
but smaller than with the previous version of the converter.
With 10% of Body morph, the fingers are less distorted.
Close up of the face of The Girl 7 converted to G9.
Have not succeded to move eyes enough, yet.
The DIM update was for an update to the manual.
If you look closely, you'll see the distortion is all along the arms, not just the hands. It's just more prominent at the hands.
Yes, you are right. I think, I just abandon the idea of conversion Genesis 3 characters, for now.
I know it's frustrating when you see that the rest of the body morph transfers so well, but I'm sure ManFriday will get it fixed. It looks like the arms aren't lining up during the transfer process.
Any tips on posing eyes?
Regular translate dials for Left and Right eyes also rotates eyes, making it very hard to pose eyes.
Below is my attempt to pose eyes on Paige:
https://www.daz3d.com/paige-character-hair-and-expressions-for-genesis-8-females
Without changes, eyes are placed too deep in the head and has improper size.
Example render of Paige converted to G9
I hope so, especially since they have been rather silent in the thread lately
Apologies for the delay, and I haven't found a solution for the problems yet. Still working on it. Please stay tuned!