Ok... I've seen quite a few people post about how to do this. and i know the text guide acn be a bit 'HUH???' if your not used to using Uv mapper or perhaps you feel abit daunted by all the techie poser speak.. LOL ;) So here is how i did it and some useful (hopefully) pix as a guide. -=SimderZ=- ok... here we go..... Step One + Open UV Mapper *u can get for free at: www.uvmapper.com* i think thats the right URL!!! + go to FILE - LOAD MODEL

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+ Locate your blMilWom_v3.obj file in you Poser directory in Geometries 'DAZ People' + click open + you should see this appear after it loads

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I'm signing on for the rest of this tutorial. I can't make heads or tails out of the UV Mapper. Thank you for doing this!!!

+ go to FILE - import UV's + find where you saved the new Uv's from DAZ and load up: blMilWom_V3_V2UVs.uvs + you should see this:

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almost done!! + Now go to FILE - Save Model + a window will pop up with an array of mind boggling selections.. + make sure ONLY: Export Uv Coordinates & Export Materials are selected *see pic* + The save your new figure as something like: blMilWom_V3_UV.obj save it to the geometries file DAZ PEOPLE

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Does this replace V3's mapping with V2's? Is there a way to do this so I can keep one version of V3 with V3 mapping, and another with V2 mapping?

yes momcat, you can keep both beside each other

now heres the slightly tricky part, but its not really!!! LOL + Locate your Victoria 3.cr2 file, usually found here: C:Program FilesMetaCreationsPoser 4RuntimeLibrariescharacterDAZ People + COPY & PASTE it to the same directory, it will pop up called something like 'Copy of Victoria 3' + open it with a text editor (i used word pad) + goto EDIT - REPLACE + in the top line 'FIND what' put in blMilWom_v3.obj secind line 'REPLACE with' put in blMilWom_V3_UV.obj or whatever you named your new obj file we created earlier. + now when thats down just click SAVE (not save as) + remember to rename your newly created cr2 File, you don't want it called 'Copy of Victoria 3' LOL.. so call it something like Victoria 3 UV + Load up poser, go to FIGURES open your DAZ PEOPLE library and there should be your new figure, she won't have a picture just that strange person with there hands up, you can create a PNG for her later! or resave her when you have injected the V3 morphs into her!! Now go and render away, apply all those gorgeous V2 textures you thought you'd never be able to use on your gorgeous shiney new V3!!! I really hope that helped.. If anything was unclear i will do my best to clear it up!!! HUGZ Happy rendering -=SimderZ=- *ps i am aware there is an error with the right nipple & apllying mat files... I think there is a new UV file out there to correct this problem. If someone knows where it is post it here, then all you'd need to do is repeat all the steps but use the corrected UV instead of the DAZ one!!!

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"Does this replace V3's mapping with V2's? Is there a way to do this so I can keep one version of V3 with V3 mapping, and another with V2 mapping? " nope it just creates a NEW V3 figure that is able to use V2 textures, and still use all of V's morph injections.. It won't replace anything, you'll still have you main V3 and V2... This newly remapped V3 however cannot take V3 textures anymore, as she is remapped to tell Poser to where it should put V2 textureson V3's changed body geometries.. :) hope that helped! -=SimderZ=-

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OK.... i found the link to the corrected UV file.. It correctes the error in DAZ's UV's that made V3 remapped right nipple not show up when using V2 textures... http://www.thenetherworks.com/Mesh/Victoria3to2UVfix.zip simply use that UV instead of blMilWom_V3_V2UVs.uvs i mentioned in STEP THREE and all should be peachy!!! Have Fun -=SimderZ=-

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Curious: Can you still use body glove, or Second Skin MATs on the remapped V3?

Nope.. she will only take V2 textures now.. just use normal V3 for that. Here is my remapped Victoria Three using BlackHearted's Elowen V2 textures.. ;) looking fine and dandy... she is wearing the V3 Bikini and V3 Bombshell hair! -=SimderZ=-

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Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, !!! You are a champ.

giggles it was my pleasure!!! let me know how it worked for you, i would love to see pix hugz -=SimderZ=-

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Thank U from me 2!

Vic3 with Vic2 Texture (V2 eyes by Catharina Harders). It worked really well!

Just a side note to say you need to do the conversion AFTER you have run the V3 updates because there were 2 problum areas in the UV map that get fixed in the updates.

excellent!! I will have to tackle this after my son goes to sleep! (so I can think in a complete sentence!!) smooch thank you for the tutorial, hunny! without the pics, I'd never figure it out! -Batty-

"*ps i am aware there is an error with the right nipple & apllying mat files... I think there is a new UV file out there to correct this problem. If someone knows where it is post it here, then all you'd need to do is repeat all the steps but use the corrected UV instead of the DAZ one!!!"

http://store.daz3d.com/Update/V3-servicerelease1.html

The uvs download on the Victoria 3 product page was updated with sr1.

-Rob

THANK YOU!! I really needed pictures to understand it. :-) -dg

er.... What did I do wrong? I only found two instances of bimilwom in the cr2 by manually scrolling, both near the top. Did I miss more? Find / replace doesn't work for me. Win2k wordpad.

Thanks for the picture tut. This sure makes it straight forward and simple. Really appricate it.

i can say this, I was working with the sr1 stuff from daz. And there's two uv's. One is blMilWom_V3_V2UVs.uvs that you listed and that's what I used in uvmapper. There's another from daz called blMilWom_V3_V2UVs-mat.uvs which i did not use in uvmapper.

hmmm thats weird.. it didn't do that for me... very odd!!! what texture did u apply? and yes there are only 2 intances that u have to change... I am stumped.. i haven't encountered that problem.. i'm sorry.. hmmmm

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Maybe if you tell me what you called ur newly remapped V3 obj i can create a Cr2 for you :)

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you have to use the uv-file with "mat" in the name.otherwise matposes are not working

nope i just tried that out becasue i was getting the same thing . Were EricofSD went wrong was in the step 4 part . I believe that there was more checked than the 2 or that was what i did wrong . I also used the NEW sr1 CR2 though.

Well I hate to sound dumb and all and it seems no one else is haveing this problem. I went thought he steps as listed here all worked well but one thing. Each time I try to put textures on the Vicki3 /Vicki 2 UV's Character all works but her eyes. Her eyes are just white, no textures shows after rendering but shows in Poser. Not sure what I am doing wrong. I mean the eyes look cool like this lol but I want them to actally use the eye textures. Any ideas? Thanks for any help. Image attached straight out of Poser, cwshorty's Tasmen texture used.

opps didnt mean no to thgeisel just about what possibly went wrong in the conversion. Mine is taking the v2 textures now .

cwshorty's Tamsen texture is what I ment to type. I hate typos lol.

Blazerwiccan - for some reason the "strength" setting under the texture map for the eyes on V3 seems to set itself to 0%. If you reset all eyeparts to 100% strength, all seems to be fixed. That's what has happened to me sometimes, anyway.

BecSchm Thanks that worked. :) Yay now I have more I can play with for Vicki3. Thanks Simderella for posting this and BecSchm for your help. My Victoria 3 is so very happy now.

I was careful to only check the two boxes in step 4. I'm sure i got that right. I can try again with the -mat file. I tried several textures. Some from the AtoZ collection, some from the Essence of Beauty collection for the milgirls which map perfectly on to Vickie Lo res. I'm pretty sure I had some V2 textures that I tried but not positive about that. Maybe that's an issue.

thgeisel, that was the fix, had to use the -mat one.

Yep I was wrong , I thought i was useing the Regular UV but I was useing the Mat one.

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well, you all seem to have worked it out! which is kewl.. and i'm glad i could help bring more variety to your V3! Its kewl to be able to use all thise great V2 textures again!!! Have Fun! -=SimderZ=-

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Must be nice, mine never did work. I did exactly what you said twice, even re-installed V3 and the maps twice. Marque

Marque , DId you try useing the V3UVs map converted object ? And can you post a sample of what you get thats not working? We might be able to walk you through were you might have went wrong .

Simderella, you're an angel. Thanks so much for the tut. V3, Bombshell, Essence of Innosence texture/eyes, Dreamer wings.

This is wonderful, thanks Simderella! Can this same process be done the other way around? I would like to use V3's textures cooridinates on the "V3 to V2" version of V3. Is there a way to do that? Wondering if anyone has tried it. I tried it, but I might have done something wrong, because it didn't work.

mabfairyqueen you should still have a regular V3 to use V3 textures on . Unless you mean a regular V2 to use V3 textures. Darn now i am confused.

I meant the V3-to-V2 version of V3, but I've been told her mesh doesn't match up with regular V3's mesh in the body and so it won't work. Is that true?

I would say yes thats true, it will not work to use a V3 texture on it after its been converted. What part were you thinking of useing if you dont mind shareing ? Might be another way to do it.

Well, while waiting for clothes for V3's slightly more complex cr2 to be made, I was hoping to use the V3toV2 version of her to clothe a particular scifi character I've made using regular V3 with the hi-res V3 mapping at daz. I'd like the mapping for the character to match on the V3toV2 version as well so that I can expand her wardrobe in the mean time. I love the new mapping of V3 way, way, way better than original V, nice as her mapping was at the time, and I don't want to go back. Plus, I've already established this character's look where I'm using her at using the hi-res daz v3 textures maps. Thus my delimma. If there was a way to just remap the head to V3's head mapping, that would do. I could modify a body texture I already have for original V to do for the body.

Thanks for the tut, would you be able to but the tut into a pdf file or some thing so we can download it for a later date eg; if i reformat at a later date i will never remember how to do it,, thanks for you time...

Works perfect for me...Tried it the other day when you posted on my post about it :) Though I did get a little worried, when I loaded her in Poser, her skin came up a nice shade of brown with a default pale head..but she rendered ok

I'm so glad that i was able to help! :) I would love to put this in a pdf file, but i don't appear to have something to create that file.. I have the adobe reader, but i can't create one... How would i do it? I have put together more pix and stuff to make one I have it all ready to do.... can i download this product for free anywhere... Many Thanks & Hugz -=SimderZ=-

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ok... I have created a PDF file of this tutorial.. I will upload it and give you all the URL.. the file is about 759kb!!! This file will be available for download for one month so grab it now! Or I will email it to you :) http://homepage.ntlworld.com/vayne_xianah/SimderZ/How_To_Uv_Map_V3.zip -=SimderZ=-

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Thanks a lot, SimderZ! I got it. It made a few things clear to me I didn't understand before. Willy

No probs ;)

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Thank you,Thank you so very much for the pdf, its great..

I'm glad i could help!!! Have fun :) -=SimderZ=-

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just a note: I have had to delete the PDF from my server as i am having problems with my ftp... so if anyone else wants this, please feel free to email me and i will send it to you. digitaldarings@ntlworld.com please mark ur subject header as 'V3 PDF' Thanks, and glad i was able to help :) -=SimderZ=-

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I can put it up on mine and you can send / post the url for it if you want Simderella. It not a poser site though just a personal one.

I don't know what I did wrong but it's still not working for me. I'm getting the same thing EricofSD did, and I tried both ways...using the UV with -mat and the other without. Still no dice. I can't understand what's going wrong.

Thank you so much, Simderella!

You are a Saint! It worked for me and I am most grateful to you.

Here is Vic3 wearing Angelmoon's Luna2 Moonlight Goddess texture:

Thank you so very, very much!

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well, I can get things to sort of work if I go in to the materials menu and fix all of the materials by hand otherwise I nada. It's a real pain to have to go and remap any model that i want to use... Hey Marque If you get your's fixed post here and let me know how you fixed it. Maybe Simderella will see this and help us out.

So are these only usable in 3D Max? Thanks, Marque

Attached Link: V2-V3 Texture Convertor

Hi guys, I have just developed an application that converts the actual textures from V2->V3 format, and from V3->V2 format. As this is exactly what would solve several issues raised in this thread, I thought I'd mention it :-) cheers, Steve

umm i might be totaly off trak here but the head issue above looks like the v2 head texture hasnt been applied to the new V3 Scalp body part? you checked this in the materials editor?

opps back to front! lol looks like the Scalp has had a tex applied but not the face

Finally got this to work. Don't know why it work this 5 time as I didn't do anything different but it worked!

Wow! The things one can find when looking through archives! Great stuff! Thanks. Larry F

Hi,I am attempting to do your tutorial on using V3 to use V2 maps.I am not sure about a couple of things in wordpad or notepad. You say go to EDIT-REPLACE ok so far and the placement of the obj's is fine in the Find What and Replace,but is the next line I am having trouble with where you say ,when that is down hit save(not save as.This is my question.Do you hit replace or replace all and then close the text editor and then save or if not what do you do? Also do you use the UV FILE UVS MAT or the one without Mat.I would appreciate any help as I have never used a text editor before. Cheers arrow1

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arrow1 again.Can I add a PS.Do you use the V3 Blank or V3 herself? Cheers arrow1

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thank you for this lovely tut. However, it should be mentioned that UVMapper is not free ... it's $49.95 (I think).. There is a DEMO, but it is save-disabled :-(

Attached Link: http://www.uvmapper.com/uvmapper.htm

UV mapper is indeed free. UV Mapper Pro is not. UV Mapper (free version) is now known as UV MApper Classic.

Attached Link: http://www.uvmapper.com/

UVMapper (Now called Classic) is free and saves. UVMapper Professional is $49.95 and has additional features, but those features are not needed for this tutorial. This tutorial works fine with UVMapper Classic. I've included a link to UVMapper web site. UVMapper Classic is down the page under the UVMapper professional information.

ahh! that would make sense... thanks for the clarification :-)

i'm really glad i could help!!! I think i mentioned i have this tutorial in PDF format with more instruction.. so if anyone wants it drop me a line! -=SimderZ=-

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