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Just going to bed, so thought i would throw my hat in the ring, my G8 of Patrica.
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here is my G-8 conversion of Patricia with help from WhiteWolf619
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I don't really understand the reason to stick with G3 when G8 figures will auto-fit almost all the G3 clothing with no issues. Some hair that is G3 only can be a problem, but there are work-arounds for this. Also pretty much every morph available for G3 are already available for G8. All G3 textures can be used as is with G8 except for eyelash morphs. There are more aniBlocks, if you use them, for G8. I suspect that we will see less and less G3 new stuff in the future.
Conversions are getting better and even if you use HD morphs for G3, all and more are available for G8 and perform identically. This alone can make the stupid DAZ placed limitation of only being able to import at base resolution almost an insignificant limitation.
Moving into G8.1 is more difficult as the UV map is different, and the face posing is built differently.
Maybe someone here would be willing to explain to me why someone should stay with G3? Please explain it like I am a five year old.
Conversions are getting better and even if you use HD morphs for G3, all and more are available for G8 and perform identically. This alone can make the stupid DAZ placed limitation of only being able to import at base resolution almost an insignificant limitation.
Moving into G8.1 is more difficult as the UV map is different, and the face posing is built differently.
Maybe someone here would be willing to explain to me why someone should stay with G3? Please explain it like I am a five year old.
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For me it's for the eyes, the g8 eyes for the converted characters look weird.
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One is a G-3 original and the other converted model.
When you convert a character you will always lose something from the original model but below you can see the difference
When you convert a character you will always lose something from the original model but below you can see the difference
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Yes there is a known difference in the eyes, it is well researched and documented on the DAZ forums. The G3 eyes were oversized by just a tiny amount and when that was corrected in G8 people noticed the difference. There were technical reasons why G8 eyes are smaller but I don't remember them offhand.
The loss really depends on how you do the conversion. Note that DAZ artificially limits the import of morphs to Base Resolution (DA's have tools that allow High Resolution importing). My understanding was that this was changed way back in DAZ 4.2, I could be wrong here. Most G3 characters do not use HD morphs, but some do. You cannot 'convert' HD morphs from G3 to G8 as all the current conversion tools use the export and import functions of DAZ, so you are left at Base Resolution. You can work around this if the same HD morphs exist as both G3 and G8, by removing them from your G3 character, doing the conversion to G8, then reapplying the equivalent G8 HD morphs. You end up with essentially the same character, minus the smaller eyes in G8.
In the end, the eye thing is probably the biggest difference. It would be hard for people not to notice if they are infinitely familiar with the G3 version of the same character. I do think if given a choice, personally I would rather work with G8 than G3. I can live with the slight difference in eye size in exchange for a much bigger and still growing catalog of assets.
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I am doing work for another dev at the momentare you busy?
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we can ask L&P if they put any money into play. or you can win a part of its render settings. or just the glory
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I still haven't seen a reason to switch to G8. I don't do animations yet. So... other than the fact that you can convert things to G8... why would I want to? I mainly do G3 for AWAM characters because that's what the original character assets are so I like to match them up.
I've fiddled around with G8 and G8.1... I am more used to the G3 controls, especially for facial expressions... G8.1 controls were the worst, at least for me. I could get used to the new controls, but my main question is always... WHY? Upgrading just for the sake of upgrading isn't a good reason for me.
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Each to his own mate, some prefer to work with G3, some With G8, and others will mix it up. Stick to what you like doing.
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I am with you on this and as they say"if it aint broke" why change it
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Taken by Pegasus Smith
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