EldritchCellar opened this issue on Apr 12, 2020 ยท 60 posts
wolf359 posted Sun, 12 April 2020 at 3:17 PM
A_Sunbeam posted at 3:16PM Sun, 12 April 2020 - #4386052
V4 has survived because there are so many excellent morphs for her.
If you use DazStudio then you have a great selection of Genesis morphs - but, looking at their Genesis 8 girls, i do not see many that attract attention; previous Genesis, yes - but version 8? Maybe it's just me, but i find many of the Genesis 8 girls downright ugly.
While I have the basic Genesis 8 starter essentials that every Daz account holder gets, and cna easily develop my own clothing& morphs for them,
I have not bothered using the G8 figures due to pointless changes in the rigging that adversely affects animation particulary when exported to other programs for motion retargeting.
I have no opinon on the attractiveness of the G3/8 female figures because that is down to personal preference and I do mostly male oriented sci-fi animations where some sexy chicky poo is never narratively relevant.?
I had alot of skins &morphs for V4& V3 that I used when I was still using poser as my primary figure tool. ...and I still use many of them on Genesis 1/2 via the GENX2 Utility.( as that attached pic shows)
And I still use the "Vanilla sky" and "Horizon" textures by Syyd Raven (RDNA) on my genesis 1/2 figure via the native UV switching.
Here is the Daz genesis 2 female wearing "vanilla sky" textures rendered in near realtime in Blender 2.82 EEVEE ..a straight FBX export from Daz studio...no third party plugins used.
https://youtu.be/7hSW7H8RVjY
V4 remains popular with poser users, because she will alway have more content than any other third party figure like Antonia ,PE,Lafemme etc due to a 10 plus year run of major vendor support?
All of the V4 clothing and skins can be used natively on G1/2 ,in Daz studio, the moment one installs it and links to any poser runtimes.
And her multitude of morphs/shapes can be transfered via the optional paid GENX2 plugin.
As a clothing content creator, I dont actually need her old clothing on my genesis figures however I Personally am glad V4 was so successful/supported as I still use some of her great legacy content for my Current work in 2020. ?