Genesis 1 head shapes to Genesis 9...

elhectro

Hi. I'm a weird user, a visual novel developer, who bought almost all content from genesis 1, and refused to move to gen 2, 3, and 8 because I refused to pay double of everything (morphs, poses, resources, etc..) as there were 2 separate figures for male and female. However, I accessed all gen2, 3, and 8 content with clones. I finally upgraded after DAZ went back to "right path" with gen 9, and I've been delighted with it, and spent a lot of $$ on it. However, I have 2 main characters from genesis 1, some unique that I made mixing all the available morphs, that would be very hard to recreate in gen 9. Is there a way to transfer the head shape of that gen 1 char to gen 9?

Thanks.

Catherine3678ab

https://www.daz3d.com/mmx-genesis-9-clones-for-all

It was on sale just the other day so may appear again if there's a repeat day. Or it may come on sale during next month's sale.

Leana

Catherine3678ab said:

https://www.daz3d.com/mmx-genesis-9-clones-for-all

It was on sale just the other day so may appear again if there's a repeat day. Or it may come on sale during next month's sale.

That product is used to convert G9 clothes back to earlier Genesis figures, not to convert shapes to G9.

 

I don't think there's a shape converter to go directly from G1 to G9. If you have GenX2 and its various add-ons, you could convert it to G3 and then use figure converter to go from G3 to G9. But that would be quite an investment for 2 shapes if you don't have any of those products.

I don't know if this tutorial to convert G8 morphs to G9 could be adapted to G1, but it might be worth a try since G9 includes a G1 clone: https://www.versluis.com/2022/11/how-to-convert-genesis-8-characters-to-genesis-9-using-the-fit-suit-method/

Elor

Jay Versluis has a video on the subject and his advice is to convert Genesis to Genesis 2 and then to convert between Genesis 2/3 and 9 (he explains the later in the video, but the former is done with the same method):

It's part of a playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPcx_LSSGfZd2uZkPrhfMmq5c5vDOTQ3k

The method shown by Jay Versluis is, as far as I understand it, only for full body.

To only get a head morph, there is a tool (I never used it):

https://github.com/Mike3D/Character-Splitter-for-DAZ-Studio

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/617476/character-splitter/p1

Catherine3678ab

Leana said:

Catherine3678ab said:

https://www.daz3d.com/mmx-genesis-9-clones-for-all

It was on sale just the other day so may appear again if there's a repeat day. Or it may come on sale during next month's sale.

That product is used to convert G9 clothes back to earlier Genesis figures, not to convert shapes to G9.

 

I don't think there's a shape converter to go directly from G1 to G9. If you have GenX2 and its various add-ons, you could convert it to G3 and then use figure converter to go from G3 to G9. But that would be quite an investment for 2 shapes if you don't have any of those products.

I don't know if this tutorial to convert G8 morphs to G9 could be adapted to G1, but it might be worth a try since G9 includes a G1 clone: https://www.versluis.com/2022/11/how-to-convert-genesis-8-characters-to-genesis-9-using-the-fit-suit-method/

The auto-fit clone can be used to help create a "clothing figure made of G9's base mesh" that looks like Genesis. The "clothing figure" can then be used to transfer a morph of Genesis back into G9.

elhectro

Elor said:

Jay Versluis has a video on the subject and his advice is to convert Genesis to Genesis 2 and then to convert between Genesis 2/3 and 9 (he explains the later in the video, but the former is done with the same method):

It's part of a playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPcx_LSSGfZd2uZkPrhfMmq5c5vDOTQ3k

The method shown by Jay Versluis is, as far as I understand it, only for full body.

To only get a head morph, there is a tool (I never used it):

https://github.com/Mike3D/Character-Splitter-for-DAZ-Studio

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/617476/character-splitter/p1

Thanks a lot!

Leana

Catherine3678ab said:

Leana said:

Catherine3678ab said:

https://www.daz3d.com/mmx-genesis-9-clones-for-all

It was on sale just the other day so may appear again if there's a repeat day. Or it may come on sale during next month's sale.

That product is used to convert G9 clothes back to earlier Genesis figures, not to convert shapes to G9.

 

I don't think there's a shape converter to go directly from G1 to G9. If you have GenX2 and its various add-ons, you could convert it to G3 and then use figure converter to go from G3 to G9. But that would be quite an investment for 2 shapes if you don't have any of those products.

I don't know if this tutorial to convert G8 morphs to G9 could be adapted to G1, but it might be worth a try since G9 includes a G1 clone: https://www.versluis.com/2022/11/how-to-convert-genesis-8-characters-to-genesis-9-using-the-fit-suit-method/

The auto-fit clone can be used to help create a "clothing figure made of G9's base mesh" that looks like Genesis. The "clothing figure" can then be used to transfer a morph of Genesis back into G9.

Indeed, autofit clone shapes can be very useful for manual conversion. Just installing the clones won't provide you with a shape conversion tool though.

Beside, those are G9 clones for the older genesis figures. So they probably would be more useful to convert from G9 to older figures.

Catherine3678ab

Leana said:

Catherine3678ab said:

Leana said:

Catherine3678ab said:

https://www.daz3d.com/mmx-genesis-9-clones-for-all

It was on sale just the other day so may appear again if there's a repeat day. Or it may come on sale during next month's sale.

That product is used to convert G9 clothes back to earlier Genesis figures, not to convert shapes to G9.

 

I don't think there's a shape converter to go directly from G1 to G9. If you have GenX2 and its various add-ons, you could convert it to G3 and then use figure converter to go from G3 to G9. But that would be quite an investment for 2 shapes if you don't have any of those products.

I don't know if this tutorial to convert G8 morphs to G9 could be adapted to G1, but it might be worth a try since G9 includes a G1 clone: https://www.versluis.com/2022/11/how-to-convert-genesis-8-characters-to-genesis-9-using-the-fit-suit-method/

The auto-fit clone can be used to help create a "clothing figure made of G9's base mesh" that looks like Genesis. The "clothing figure" can then be used to transfer a morph of Genesis back into G9.

Indeed, autofit clone shapes can be very useful for manual conversion. Just installing the clones won't provide you with a shape conversion tool though.

Beside, those are G9 clones for the older genesis figures. So they probably would be more useful to convert from G9 to older figures.

Agreed, alone it is not a shape conversion tool, not aware of any available either.

Exactly, in order to make the shape in a G9 mesh, one needs to make "clothing" of the G9 mesh for Genesis to wear. For that one requires the auto-fit clone. Seems to me somewhere in the forums I have a rather detailed tutorial and/or an actual tutorial loose in the wilds [Renderosity or DeviantArt] which goes through the step by step details. However since Mattymanx released G9 autofit clones I kinda figured maybe I should push those rather than explain the entire procedure all over again in thread.

However:

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/599231/making-clones-of-g9-tutorial

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/8169796/#Comment_8169796  For the link to the Character Splitter.

https://www.renderosity.com/users/id:961196

Scroll down to Oct 27 for .pdf tutorial link.

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/598141/bringing-a-shape-from-g8-over-to-g9-tutorial

Basic concept is the same for each generation.