Genesis 8 Characters for Genesis 3

In a recent sale, I was able to pick up a Studio script for converting Genesis 8 female morphs to Genesis 3 (a male version is also available). While Genesis itself 8 can be converted for Poser in the same way as Genesis 3, I have the impression that most of the clothing items probably can't - or if they can, they won't have full functionality as most of them seem to use Studio's own flavour of dynamics.

I had picked up a handful of Genesis 8 morphs when cheap or free and so I've been trying it out. The plug-in seems to have some quirks but you can work around them.

First of all, it will want to save the characters to a different content folder - let it do that. However, when converting a character, it will create a folder in the morphs of your Genesis 3 figure called Genesis 8 - it will place all the morphs in there.

For some reason, even using an external content folder, if I try to convert a batch of characters at once, each seems to overwrite the others, so that every dial expresses only the last character you converted. Also, if you are not creating these as light figures (as described above), then you can be facing conversion times of up to 3hrs for some of the DAZ character bases. You can work around these problems.

First of all, you need to prepare to create these as light figures. So, move all the Genesis 3 morphs into a temporary folder and then copy back only the morphs you want present in the character.

Run the Character Converter for a single Genesis 8 character. Once the process is complete convert it right away to TriAx and save as a scene subset, from which you should then create a Poser Companion File. Go into Poser, load the character and save back out to the figure folder before running the Poser Genesis 3 Updater.

Now find the Genesis 8 folder that was created in your Genesis 3 morphs and delete the contents before returning to Studio, clearing the scene, and then running the converter for the next character. You don't need to close either Studio or Poser to work through the characters you have (you'll need to refresh Poser's content folder though), so it won't take long to complete the job (the character conversions done this way only take between 3 to 8 minutes). When you're done, restore the rest of the Genesis 3 morphs from your temporary folder.

Some of the base characters have conforming eyebrow figures - l didn't bother with those at all, as everything you need to modify face textures to have eyebrows baked is in the texture folders.

DAZ base characters have a lot of corrective morphs as part of their package and the good news is that the converter will convert these elements for Genesis 3 as well. On the downside, it doesn't appear to handle HD morphs.

it is also worth noting that you will be working with Genesis 3 expressions which will create a difference in how they look in their Genesis 8 promos.

Finally, Genesis 8 characters all seem to use the base Genesis 3 UVs, so there is no conflict using the characters' texture maps on the Genesis 3 versions you create.