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Saving Gen7 clothing set up for Gen8 - Answered, many thanks.

richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,649
edited September 2022 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I wonder if anyone could help me.

I have a certain amount of Genesis 3 clothing, and I only use Genesis 8 (or occasionally 8.1). Each time I use the Genesis 3 clothing on a Genesis 8 character I have to remember to deselect the character, load the clothing, change the compatibility base of each piece then fit it to Genesis 8.

This is slow & inefficient, doing the same operations multiple times. I'd like to do it just once.

Would saving a wearable preset of the clothing keep the changed compatibility base so it would load properly on Genesis 8 without needing to remember to do all the faff each time? And if not a wearable preset, is there any way of doing it?

Look forward to hearing if it does - I've not tried it myself yet because I don't want to risk damaging the clothing's fit to Genesis 3 and I can't tell from the abundance of technical documentation published by DAZ whether it'll work.

Regards,

Richard.

 

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  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    I think the combatibility base is saved in metadata (Runtime\Support), using Notepad++ it should be possible to search and replace that information for a bunch of files at the same time - Afterwards, refresh metadata in the database.

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    Sorry, should have read the complete text before replying...

    If you save an item as wearable preset after changing the compatibility base, it will load on a G8/G8.1 figure just like one made originally for G8/G8.1.

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,649

    Absolutely perfect, thanks.

    Just the info I needed. I will do that & keep the Genesis 3 clothing files untouched so I can start to use Gen7 at some point if I want to & have it work perfectly still.

    Regards,

    Richard

  • Catherine3678abCatherine3678ab Posts: 8,327

    Just be sure to save to different folders than the ones the original data files are parked in.

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,649
    Do you have to do that with a wearable? I just thought it tweaked the way a data .dsf was interpreted. Regards, Richard.
  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    richardandtracy said:

    Do you have to do that with a wearable? I just thought it tweaked the way a data .dsf was interpreted. Regards, Richard.

    You don't have to worry about it with a wearable preset 

  • PendraiaPendraia Posts: 3,598

    richardandtracy said:

    Do you have to do that with a wearable? I just thought it tweaked the way a data .dsf was interpreted. Regards, Richard.

    I always save to the clothing folder of the character I've converted the clothing to as it makes it easy to find.  That said I use my own categories not smart content. 

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