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Best way to fix skin textures from old figure?

mike9mike9 Posts: 69
edited January 2016 in New Users

I have a skin texture with patterns for Genesis 1 I would like to use with Victoria 6. It works fine with the Genesis 1 figure but with Victoria 6 the texture doen't fit correctly. I tried to change the "UV Set" option for the skin but none of the available additional options "Base Female", "Victoria 4" or "Victoria 5" creates the error less fit I get when using the Genesis 1 figure. My next approach was to adjust the textures with a graphic editing software but after trying a couple hours it seems rather difficult to get decent results without knowing exactly where and how big a gap is as well as how the next texture connects. Is there an easy way to edit the textures similar to gimp/photoshop (brush tools) but while the texture is on the figure or are there other ways to fix this?

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,813

    What is the UV Set when the textures are on, and fit, Genesis? Which UV Sets do you have for Genesis?

  • mike9mike9 Posts: 69

    "Genesis Female" is the UV Set working with Genesis but for Victoria 6 its not listed as option.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,813

    Well, there isn't a Genesis 6 (yet awhile). Do you have one of the UV Sets for Genesis that you also have for Genesis 2 Female?

  • mjordy59mjordy59 Posts: 66

    Probably,through experimentation,you can try using the Genesis female 2's uv sets with Victoria 6. Results are mostly non-predictable though.

    Good luck!

  • mike9mike9 Posts: 69
    edited January 2016

    I can select the UV Set "Victoria 4" with both figures but the the skin texture doesn't fit with the Genesis 1 figure if Victoria 4 UV Set is selected. Is there a way to transfer the skin texture from the working Genesis 1 UV format to the Victoria 4 UV Set?

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,813
    edited January 2016
    pvu05405 said:

    I can select the UV Set "Victoria 4" with both figures but the the skin texture doesn't fit with the Genesis 1 figure if Victoria 4 UV Set is selected. Is there a way to transfer the skin texture from the working Genesis 1 UV format to the Victoria 4 UV Set?

    Yes, which is why I was asking if you had a common set between Genesis and Genesis 2 Female. You can use the map Transfer tool, available in the Surfces pane option menu (the lined button in the top corner, or right-click the tab) to do the conversion. This video describes the steps, though you can ignore the opening section about loading a UV set from an OBJ since you already have the UV sets loaded:

    (Click to get the YouTube play button, then click again to play.)

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  • mike9mike9 Posts: 69
    edited January 2016

    Ok I got it working with the video. I can convert now from Genesis to Victoria 4 and from there to Victoria 6. If at one point a compatible UV Set for Victoria 6 + 7 gets available I should be even able to use the skin with Victoria 7. This helps me a lot. Thank you for the help.

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  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    pvu05405 said:

     If at one point a compatible UV Set for Victoria 6 + 7 gets available I should be even able to use the skin with Victoria 7.

    That is one thing that will never happen (it is a physical impossiblity)...but there are methods of converting to G3 from eariler generations.

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/59665/tutorial-converting-textures-from-gen2-to-gen3/p1

  • mike9mike9 Posts: 69
    edited January 2016
    mjc1016 said:

    That is one thing that will never happen (it is a physical impossiblity)...but there are methods of converting to G3 from eariler generations.

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/59665/tutorial-converting-textures-from-gen2-to-gen3/p1

    That method looks also good. As of now I'm missing one or two alternative daz figures with Genesis 3 to switch. But in a couple months it will probably be different and I will experiment with Genesis 3. Its good to know there is alrady a way to do it. Thanks for the link.

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  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    edited January 2016

    This is a freebie V4 skin texture converted to G3F...

    v4bong3f_5.jpg
    800 x 1000 - 169K
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  • mike9mike9 Posts: 69
    mjc1016 said:

    This is a freebie V4 skin texture converted to G3F...

    Is this without the Tex_Converter_Prep morph? The texture conversion helper file from the link has only morphs for G2 and G3.

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    I did it in two steps...from V4 to G2F, then from that to G3F.

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