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@eelgoo The HevieState3D product is a clone, not a conversion. It provides basic clone morphs (dials) for G8, emulating the G9 shape. It does not provide any potential or capability for injecting specific G9 character morphs into a G8 model. That still has to be done manually (the J-Verslice tutorial mentioned multiple times here) until another suitable approach is discovered.
Does this mean you would be able to load a G9 head / body / character morph directly onto G8F prepared with this morph?
No.If what you are intending is to do nothing more than get a G8 base model to shape like a G9 base model then the HevieState3D product will work. If, however, you are intending to get a specific G9 character "injected" onto a G8 character, that is still not possible. (At least not with the linked tool. Which, btw, is the exact same product from RHub previously mentioned in this thread and on the blog since October. Causing one to wonder why it isn't flagged as a duplicate. But whatever. Everybody grab points however.)
One silver lining is that the HevieState3D product does not require G9 Starter Essentials to be installed. But, no, it's not a conversion.
At some point, probably when not if, a script or automated process is made for actual conversion, it will very likely require G9 Starter Essentials to be installed. It's difficult to imagine any way around it, since the core of G9 is so very different than G8/8.1, and since any specifically desired G9 character to be converted would be necessarily required on the system as source to convert it.
It would be great if we can acheive a point where a G9 head / body / full character morph can be accepted on a modified G8 / 8.1F base.
Personally, I am not bothered about the textures, as there are plenty of decent G8F skins.
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Well, nice to see this uploaded!
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I did a couple of successful G9 to G8 conversions.
You need to save the conversion as a morph asset, fix this morph with a free tool from ShareCG and save this as a new morph asset. It works absolutely flawless and reliable.
https://www.sharecg.com/v/88497/browse/10/software-and-tools/eye-jaw-morph-fixer-for-face-morphs
That sounds a good step forward.
I think the ideal would be a G9-G8/8.1F Character Converter script, so the installation of all the G9 bloat wasn't required.
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Can't recall if I asked this before but is there a good tutorial for converting skin textures via Blender? I'm handy enough with Blender but I'd need a steo-by-step for converting skins between figures. Just thought it would be really nice to have some G9 skins I like on my G8 figures, and don't wanna shell out for Ultimate Unwrap3D. Thanks in advance!
I've also got plenty of points to spare if anyone knows a user on this site who does a good job of conversions in exchange.
I'm not really convinced of the superiority of G9 skins for general use.
Obviously, there are good mediocre & bad of all things.
What I would like to see are the better G9 character morphs ported over to G8f / G8.1F
There are plenty of decent G8F skins available.
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I'd have to agree with that eelgoo. In general the G9 skins have been underwhelming. While the 8K normal maps may be good for close-up portraits (debatable), in many cases it's just putting lipstick on a pig if you don't have a good diffuse map to go with it.
The only G9 stuff I use is some of the better hair & clothing items. :0/
Converted to G8 obviously! 😉
I don't mind G9 but you have to really fiddle with the bend morphs to get them to look realistic (usually the back of the thighs looks messed up without tweaks).
There's also no good quality genital assets for G9, especially female, they just don't look as realistic as something like Dbxxx-xx
if you are still looking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXssz90XFEA
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