Does the Ethnicity Bundle include head shapes and textures?

Jowry

I'm relatively new to Daz3D Studio, and I get confused over what works with what, especially now that Genesis is here, and some textures work with it, some don't, etc. As I understand it, any texture for the Four version of Victoria, Michael, etc, will work with Genesis.

I'm thinking of buying the Ethnicity Bundle, but want to make sure that it will work with the Genesis base characters, as well as the Gen 3 iconic shapes. I also have a third party set of morphs which creates some really nice ethnic faces using the Genesis base (dietrying's 182 morphs, and RAMWorks great head morphs), and I want to make sure it works with that as well before I buy it.

I basically want to optimize my textures and choices, without having to buy too many of them. I've pretty much got shaping unique looking characters by dialing them in, but textures still have me somewhat stumped. I'm a 12 year 3DS Max user, so I'm no newbie to 3D - it's just that the process with Daz is quite a bit different. Thanks.

Jowry

Richard Haseltine

The set is morphs only, but yes they work with the basic Genesis shapes.

Canary3d

Do you mean this one? http://www.daz3d.com/ethnicity-for-genesis-bundle That is head shapes only - full heads, upper half of face, lower half of face. No Textures.

This one is for V4 and M4, so if you have GenX plugin and feel like transferring them, you can use those too. Again those are just morphs, no textures. http://www.daz3d.com/m4-v4-elite-ethnic-faces-bundle

This has a group of textures that will work on figures with V4 mapping, and morphs that work on V4 & S4 (again with Gen X you can transfer them). Genesis can use V4 UV Maps with no problem: http://www.daz3d.com/ethnique-the-bundle-for-s4-v4

If you look up "elite texture" you'll find a lot of other nice V4 and M4 textures of varying ethnicities, and Genesis can use all of those. Most of those are textures only, not morphs.

For any product look at the "what's included" tab to get clarification.

I've always liked this one for V3, but using those older maps with V4 or genesis requires converting with Texture Converter 2 (3d universe made that and you can find it in the store) http://www.daz3d.com/international-beauties-maps-and-morphs The morphs can be converted with Gen X if you have the generation 3 iconic victoria shape.

That's probably still kind of confusing but hopefully it helps a bit!

Canary3d

To figure out what UV sets can be used with your Genesis, select the figure, go to the surfaces tab, select a surface and then find the "uv map" setting. That's a dropdown that will show all the UV sets you have installed. I believe it comes with V4, K4 (kids 4) and M4 by default, plus "genesis base" which most people aren't using to create textures. If you buy V5 you get a V5 UV set, M5 has an M5 one, etc, and people create textures specifically for those, too.