I recently released a free pose on ShareCG that made the G1/G2/G3 clone morphs in G8F visible to the user. Much to my disappointment, I was quickly informed that it wouldn't be nearly as useful as I thought because the morphs do not come with corresponding adjustments to the rigging. My excitement at having transgender morphing capabilities in G8F via the G3M clone morph was dashed…or was it?

As it turns out, there is a surprisingly simple solution to the rigging issue. In Poser, all you have to do is right-click on the clone morph in the Parameters tab and select "Match centers to morph." Poser will automatically re-rig the figure for you, and the new rigging will apply to whatever extent the morph is dialed! It basically becomes a fully functional shaping morph! I'm told that Daz Studio has a similar re-rigging functionality.

There were a couple of minor issues initially. In sufficiently extreme poses, the area around the nipples looks unnaturally squashed. As it turns out, this is a problem even with the default female shape of G8F. It's just more noticeable on a male chest. It didn't take long for me to find out that the squashing was caused by automatic translation of the "pectoral" body parts that occurs when the figure is posed in certain ways. After making sure that the figure didn't also look weird without this translation, I quickly devised a PZ2 file that would turn it off.

Another minor issue was an unnaturally sharp crease that happens along the lower edge of the pectorals if the chest is bent forward. A quick bit of custom morphing fixed that, and I then created a PZ2 file that INJects the new morph as a JCM enslaved to the appropriate dial on the chest. I'll probably be releasing both adjustment poses on ShareCG very soon.

Technically, this is a clone of the Genesis 3 Male, but since the Genesis 8 Female is virtually identical to Genesis 3 Female with slightly different shoulder creases, it's probably not unreasonable to think of this as a kind of Genesis 8 Male. This is especially true if you also set Genesis 3 Female to -1 (you'll have to change the limits), which mimics the effect of reversing the difference between the G8F and G3F shoulder creases, thus approximating what a real G8M's shoulder creases might be like.

This guy was made via the procedure I've just described, with a few extra dials spun as finishing touches (e.g. a bit of "Shoulder Width," "Torso Length," and "Body Tone"). Victoria 8's head is also applied, so for a name, I'm torn between Victor and Vittorio (the latter being an homage to Pdxjims' great work with a custom V4 male).

The nipples/areolae may look a bit big, but I think that's more of a texturing issue, since they look significantly smaller with the default texture set. Of course, he's no Michael 8, who apparently debuted just as I was in the midst of writing this, but at least for those who like having a transgender morphing option, this seems like a great starting point!

It'll be fun to see if I can turn Michael 8 into Michelle via an analogous process! Transgender morphing is back, baby!

Seriously, though, the timing of my discovery and the release of the official G8M/M8 is uncanny!

There's a similar function in DAZ, actually, so I'm not surprised to hear that Poser has it as well. But I'm here because I'm trying to track down how to get G*F into Poser so i can convert poses using Poser's center of gravity. LOL

I'm told this works to get Genesis 8 into Poser 11; haven't tried it, myself; https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/?item_id=76121

Also, some have exported Genesis 8 as an FBX file and imported into Poser 11 Pro... https://forum.smithmicro.com/topic/2745/genesis-8-in-poser-pro-11-done/

An FBX file you say? I just happen to have Pro. Thanks for the links. I knew about th first. I'll go check out the second.