RobZhena posted at 4:54 PM Thu, 8 September 2022 -
#4444143What happened to your TT work on La Femme? At one point when DCArt started converting V4 and Genesis 2 characters to La Femme, she let slip that a texture transformer module had been created for La Femme. Never a word more was heard. Did Rendo catch and kill? No TT module emerged. I hope the L’Homme project works out.
It's been my experience that Poser or DAZ Studio shaders with "advanced" nodes and features do not convert automatically. They are hit or miss, and many throw Texture Transformer error messages. Also, Texture Transformer will not convert normal maps that are connected to the Poser Surface node's "gradient bump" connection with Tangent Space selected as format. And as someone has already mentioned, PBR type maps, such as metallic and roughness (which SuperFly works much better with) are not recognized by Texture Transformer. So you have to create very basic shaders that connect the unrecognized map types to the Color input of the Poser Surface node and take it from there.
Hence the main reason that the conversion kits have been on hold. Conversion kits were created to convert M4, V4, G3F, G3M, G8F and G8M to La Femme and L'Homme, HOWEVER ... Texture Transformer is not fully compatible with SuperFly shaders as it currently stands. 3Delight materials convert reasonably well, but iRay conversions are hit or miss as well. It isn't a "one-click" conversion solution the way it is, which no doubt would be problematic for beginners.
