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Did I stumble upon a pro hair/wardrobe tip: include older generations in your scene but hide them

FedermannFedermann Posts: 111
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Did I stumble upon a pro hair/wardrobe tip: include older generations in your scene but hide them

... probably not ... frown

Mostly working with G8 I never really had an oversight of all the resources that were available to me from older generations (Genesis, Genesis 2 and Genesis 3) that I could use (results may vary) on my G8 figures. Today I was looking for a military uniform that I knew I had bought, so with a little excursion to the Daz shop, I knew the keyword was 'army' and I had those for G2 and G3. Then I realized I could use so much more materials (in this case meaning wardrobe, hair etc.) from those generations (having bought not tons but still a fair amount of them) but I never quite knew how to quickly access those. Then finally I figured out that when I include female and male figures from Genesis, Genesis 2 and Genesis 3 in my scene I could quickly survey what I have for them with "Filter By Context" on and subsequently decide whether there is something to my liking for my G8 figures. I then 'discovered' that "Filter By Context" also works when you turn off the visibility for those Genesis  1,2,3 figures. 

I grouped these older Genesis figures with their visibility switched off and then saved them as a scene subset (File --> Save as --> Scene subset) so I will be able to import them in other scenes (I also could make them part of my standard scene but for now I want to assess the possible overhead of my solution).

Now I do know the Daz shop also offers various hair and wardrobe converters, but I would have to buy 12 of them (three generations, female and male, hair and wardrobe) which is a bit much for occasional use of an older resource (to be fair these converter add-ons also promise a better fit for the converted items so not having those converters you would have to do a little more post-autofit tweaking). These hair and wardrobe converters would also fill up your G8 hair and wardrobe products pane (I would assume) with lots of stuff you will NEVER use (some G1, G2, G3 stuff is too basic or too dated or just looks awful).

Am I the last to discover that including older generations in your scene (but hide them) is a good way to see what you've got with regard to hair/wardrobe from older generations that might be interesting for your current Gen 8 (or 9) character. Obviously this would work too should you predominantly work with G9 and have an 'invisible' G8 included in your scene so as to maintain a view on G8 resources.  I must say that the G8 to G9 converters I  do consider buying because working with G9 is a bit limited or even frustrating without quick access to my costly warehouse of G8 stuff.

Possibly you know of a much smarter way to have all your resources from older generations just a few mouse-clicks away or even better (always was disappointed that "Filter by context" could not be customized to show items for both sexes ... or can it? Let alone be a bit more transgenerational in a clever way so you still would know which Generation an item belongs to).

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,200

    I use Voidtools Everything Advanced search the other figure's clothing folders  and filter by pictures and look through the thumbnails, then rightclick open path

  • FedermannFedermann Posts: 111

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    I use Voidtools Everything Advanced search the other figure's clothing folders  and filter by pictures and look through the thumbnails, then rightclick open path

    Thx. I will try that proggie. I open a lot of paths within DS, especially when there is Gen3 and Gen8 content (say hair) with identical names and no particular order of the tiles; it s all very tiresome. I kind of like my own solution until I figure out  how to organize  assets within DAZ

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