Help Using Drago 8 textures on Genesis 8 Female?

AbrahamRockwell

As the title says, looking for help with Using the Drago 8 textures on the G8F: https://www.daz3d.com/drago-for-genesis-8-males

I've tried using the Genesis 8 UV Swap: Male and Female Base: https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-8-uv-swap-male-and-female-base

While this works well with 'Human' skin textures, it doesn't seem to work with the Drago texture (see attached below).  That being said, this is the first 'non-human' skin texture I've tried using the swap with.

Pretty sure I'm using it correctly, since it works with 'normal' skins (apply the "Female UV" swap first, then apply the G8M skin).

Can anyone help with why this happens, and how to fix it?

FenixPhoenix

Uv Swap won't work because Drago has unique UVs rather than using the Base 8 Male UVs.

AbrahamRockwell

Ah, I see.  Thanks!

Richard Haseltine

Since it does use unique UVs I suspect the only option would be to have Gensis 8 Male shaped to match Genesis 8 Female, or vice versa, export both as OBJ (using matching settings, it doesn't much matter what they are as long as you include the Surfaces) then in an external application (Blender will work, I think) apply the maps to Genesis 8 Male and bake them to the Genesis 8 Female. You may need to tweak the shapes to avpid, or minimise, stretching but it should be possible to get as close as an in-DS compatibility tool. One you have satisfactory maps you can apply then to Genesis 8 Female in DS.