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There was a Thread a while back about converting V4 to 8.1... interesting that we are now with G9
I'd love a G9 Conversion of AerySoul/Awful/Souls Aeon Soul's Alice.
Its was V3 then V4... I thought I saw somewhere that there was a private G3 Versions floating around... But never found it.
Its the model used for all the Aery Soul stuff
But I am sure it has been updated by AS, just never released. You probably don't need points, but I'd gladly throw 5K your way if you (or someone) made an AerySoul Alice G9 and stuck it on the blog.
There are a few different versions of Alice, the conventional wisdom is that the "Alice 5 for V4" and maybe this one
https://zonegfx.com/alice-skin-bodymorphs-and-yly-face-nla/
Was the "core" used in the later AS G3/G8 models.
Alice, which is shown in the above renders, is the work of aeonsoul herself, it was recreated from scratch - she wrote about this on the official daza forum - and it has not been published anywhere ....
There are one or two renders for deviantart - with the g3 transferred to the base - there in the comments aeonsoul praised the author for the work - I could not find this render .... But the old Alice is very different from the new one: for example, here are renders ported from v4.I have these morphs of both versions of alice for r8 - if necessary, I will share them.
Rank:The THREAD here at the zone regarding V4 to 8.1
From @bulka
"But the old Alice is very different from the new one: for example, here are renders ported from v4."Agreed... but your links are to pics of the "Earlier" Alice, that was more sinewy/lean. The last iteration does look "closest" to the G3/G8 Promo... here is another look at "Alice Skin, Bodymorphs and Yly Face (NLA)"
And here is a promo pic for "Alice 5 for v4", which was at Deviant Art at some point, but now 404
(NSFW) And Here is a pretty good Rendition of Alice At Deviant Art using the Alice 5 version (NSFW!)
@Redflag In order not to wait for a long time - viewport screen:
G8 base - transfer tool - gen2x.
This is Alice V4:
And this is Alice V5:
https://i.postimg.cc/m2jQg4zx/V5.jpg
I don't have native textures - that's why I used Jade from Mousso.....
What a sad commentary on G9 when people are talking about converting a decade old character.
Albeit G9 bends no better than V4/4.1 ever did so why not. Daz's great new figure has the same glaring joint bending issues as V4 had some 16 years ago.... what a stupid situation we mugs are in.@Frank22 Quite the opposite actually!
We're making use of features we didn't have on older generations to revitalize older models to the new generation. For converters like me, bringing out higher definition in older models brings the same joy as setting up and rendering dream scenes from your favorite films might for you. Gen 9 is perfect for that. Double density base mesh, easier material groups, separated Eyes and mouth. Gen 9 is a morph makers dream. If anything it calls for celebration, G9 has reignited the fire for conversion. Models you never thought could be converted, now can.Loving something old isn't a stupid situation. Finally being able to use something we loved for so long is a better commentary of G9 than I could think of.
@Redflag Got a morph out of the V4 stuff
I haven't converted the V4 textures yet. I just used the Victoria 9 textures.
Amazing work @Recktat19
I'm wondering just how you converted the UV's to Genesis 9, as you said "If you overlay the two meshes..."Are you using photoshop? I don't have PS (personal reasons involving a hate for subs) so I've used Procreate for UV manipulation, which may be a handful for doing a G8-G9 conversion. I just tried the Reskin app from Renderhub earlier today, but it doesn't convert the gens.
As far as shape, are you using a wrap and doing it in Blender? (I read the "Morph Transfer V4 To GF8.1 (NSFW) thread, so I think I have it figured out).
I was always a fan of GND Shae and GND Anastasia... but I don't have the skill to convert, and even had trouble unsuccessfully getting Shae's hair into DS 😀
For the shape I just wrap Genesis 9 on the model I want. Genesis 9 has double the density of G8s mesh. So Wrapping on G8 lost too much detail. Unless you're a PA converting like this was never yielded desirable results. I wrap the mesh, then load it up in Daz. Split the head and body morphs using the Shape splitter/Xmorphs script.
For textures I use 3d painting software to copy it over. I have OBJs that feature the different generations across from each other, equally distanced from the Z axis. The morphs on Genesis 9 matches the shape of the model I'm copying from. Genesis 9 comes with clone morphs built in, so it took little to no effort to set it up for this. Symmetry on the Z axis allows me to essentially just paint the Genesis 9 figure and it copies the pixels from the model across from it. It's pretty fun, like painting a room. Just keep rubbing the textures on till G9 is no longer bare. Then I export the textures painted on the new UVs. Little to no effort and fun.
There's no V4 clone built in to G9 but that's because Genesis 2 has V4 and V5 UVs. Whatever you export your OBJ as in Daz determines what UV sets they take in Substance Painter or 3DCoat. So I just made a copy of my Genesis 2 to G9 setup with V4 UVs.
I managed to get a decent V4 Alice (Base, Curvey, and Faerie) transfer to G8F. Maybe I ought to offer it up...
I would say that was worthy of a custom content upload.
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Did you manage to get a one hit conversion to G8F?
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Rank:Certainly... send it my way and I'll test it out! 🙂
I am hoping Recktat19 will share his too!
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