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Question about Jepe's Jewels and tears V4 and Genesis 1/2

Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,260
edited December 1969 in The Commons

I am looking through Jepe's catalog and saw his jewels and tears v4 and also Jepe's body jewels 2 products. I was wondering is there any way to use autofit or GenX2 to convert it to work on Genesis 1/2 or are they only for Michael 4 and Victoria 4?
I do have the M4 hairy bundle and was wondering about how to use that on Genesis 1/G2M.

Thank you for any help. Sorry if this already been asked a thousand times already.

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  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,980
    edited December 1969

    They work great with Genesis and G2F/M! A quick use I made of them is here. And what is better is that they will work even better nowadays, since we can select a different UV map for the GeoShell, so no longer limited to the underlying figure skin textures being V/M4.
    Simple use: load Genesis figure (or G2M/F).
    Add GeoShell
    With GeoShell selected apply the Jepe's 'Jewel product' of choice.
    Adjust offset of GeoShell (back to 0.1 I think is a good place to start).
    Profit ;)

    Just be careful of what you have selected when applying textures and stuff.

  • wizwiz Posts: 1,100
    edited December 1969

    Two little additions to Simon's excellent summary, one serious and one silly.

    In order to use this on Genesis 1 or 2, you need V4 or M4 UV maps. Genesis 1 comes with them, and the body part of the map is fine, but the face mapping on V4 is off and you get distortion on the mask or headgear parts of Jepe's outfits. There's an improved V4 UV map in the store that makes them work much better.

    http://www.daz3d.com/corrected-v4-uv-for-genesis

    Genesis 2 doesn't come with V4/M4 UV maps. They're part of the add-on Victoria 4 for Genesis 2 Female and Michale 4 for Genesis 2 Male products.

    http://www.daz3d.com/victoria-4-for-genesis-2-female
    http://www.daz3d.com/michael-4-for-genesis-2-male

    Now that that's out of the way...

    Do be sure and try some of the male products on female characters and vice verse. The results are quite nice.

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,980
    edited December 1969

    wiz said:
    Two little additions to Simon's excellent summary, one serious and one silly.

    In order to use this on Genesis 1 or 2, you need V4 or M4 UV maps. Genesis 1 comes with them, and the body part of the map is fine, but the face mapping on V4 is off and you get distortion on the mask or headgear parts of Jepe's outfits. There's an improved V4 UV map in the store that makes them work much better.

    http://www.daz3d.com/corrected-v4-uv-for-genesis

    Genesis 2 doesn't come with V4/M4 UV maps. They're part of the add-on Victoria 4 for Genesis 2 Female and Michale 4 for Genesis 2 Male products.

    http://www.daz3d.com/victoria-4-for-genesis-2-female
    http://www.daz3d.com/michael-4-for-genesis-2-male

    Now that that's out of the way...

    Do be sure and try some of the male products on female characters and vice verse. The results are quite nice.


    Good and useful input! :)
  • SickleYieldSickleYield Posts: 7,634
    edited August 2014

    Good advice already given, just wanted to say I love and still use these products. Jepe's wet look is still the best I've seen because of its displacement. There are good "wet" products for G2, but they mostly don't displace, and they don't come with transmaps so they don't have the flexibility with UVs that this one's geoshell-friendliness gives it. An oldie but a goodie.

    Post edited by SickleYield on
  • TimbalesTimbales Posts: 2,332
    edited December 1969

    SimonJM said:
    They work great with Genesis and G2F/M! A quick use I made of them is here. And what is better is that they will work even better nowadays, since we can select a different UV map for the GeoShell, so no longer limited to the underlying figure skin textures being V/M4.
    Simple use: load Genesis figure (or G2M/F).
    Add GeoShell
    With GeoShell selected apply the Jepe's 'Jewel product' of choice.
    Adjust offset of GeoShell (back to 0.1 I think is a good place to start).
    Profit ;)

    Just be careful of what you have selected when applying textures and stuff.

    this is awesome, I didn't know about GeoShells before. thanks!

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,980
    edited December 1969

    SickleYield said:
    Good advice already given, just wanted to say I love and still use these products. Jepe's wet look is still the best I've seen because of its displacement. There are good "wet" products for G2, but they mostly don't displace, and they don't come with transmaps so they don't have the flexibility with UVs that this one's geoshell-friendliness gives it. An oldie but a goodie.

    Just had a quick look for the wet look product but can't seem to find it.
  • SickleYieldSickleYield Posts: 7,634
    edited December 1969

    SimonJM said:
    SickleYield said:
    Good advice already given, just wanted to say I love and still use these products. Jepe's wet look is still the best I've seen because of its displacement. There are good "wet" products for G2, but they mostly don't displace, and they don't come with transmaps so they don't have the flexibility with UVs that this one's geoshell-friendliness gives it. An oldie but a goodie.

    Just had a quick look for the wet look product but can't seem to find it.

    What, Jewels and Tears? http://www.daz3d.com/jepes-project-m4-jewels-and-tears

    I've been using this on both sexes since I can just change the geoshell UV to M4.

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,980
    edited December 1969

    SickleYield said:
    SimonJM said:
    SickleYield said:
    Good advice already given, just wanted to say I love and still use these products. Jepe's wet look is still the best I've seen because of its displacement. There are good "wet" products for G2, but they mostly don't displace, and they don't come with transmaps so they don't have the flexibility with UVs that this one's geoshell-friendliness gives it. An oldie but a goodie.

    Just had a quick look for the wet look product but can't seem to find it.

    What, Jewels and Tears? http://www.daz3d.com/jepes-project-m4-jewels-and-tears

    I've been using this on both sexes since I can just change the geoshell UV to M4.

    Ahh, was looking for a product that had 'wet' in the title. I actually have this - will have to experiment! :)

  • SickleYieldSickleYield Posts: 7,634
    edited August 2014

    SimonJM said:
    SickleYield said:
    SimonJM said:
    SickleYield said:
    Good advice already given, just wanted to say I love and still use these products. Jepe's wet look is still the best I've seen because of its displacement. There are good "wet" products for G2, but they mostly don't displace, and they don't come with transmaps so they don't have the flexibility with UVs that this one's geoshell-friendliness gives it. An oldie but a goodie.

    Just had a quick look for the wet look product but can't seem to find it.

    What, Jewels and Tears? http://www.daz3d.com/jepes-project-m4-jewels-and-tears

    I've been using this on both sexes since I can just change the geoshell UV to M4.

    Ahh, was looking for a product that had 'wet' in the title. I actually have this - will have to experiment! :)

    FlipMode has a g2f native one that's spec map based, I think? It's a different look but probably renders a lot faster if you're using a compatible UV.

    Post edited by SickleYield on
  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,980
    edited December 1969

    SickleYield said:

    FlipMode has a g2f native one that's spec map based, I think? It's a different look but probably renders a lot faster if you're using a compatible UV.

    Yeah, got that one too ;)
  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,260
    edited December 1969

    Thanks everyone for the help. Though I am still not sure how to convert it to genesis1/2. Do I use autofit? Kindle fire autocorect hates the word autofit

  • TimbalesTimbales Posts: 2,332
    edited December 1969

    Kulay Wolf said:
    Thanks everyone for the help. Though I am still not sure how to convert it to genesis1/2. Do I use autofit? Kindle fire autocorect hates the word autofit

    Once you've created the GeoShell, you can apply the pose as Jepe has it with his product to the GeoShell with no problems on Genesis.

    On Genesis 2, you have to have the V4/M4 UVs for G2F/G2M and apply them manually.

  • DkgooseDkgoose Posts: 1,451
    edited December 1969

    Not to reopen this but how do you use the geometry shell, I tried nothing applies to it just makes my character look funny and a different skin

  • TimbalesTimbales Posts: 2,332
    edited December 1969

    dkgoose said:
    Not to reopen this but how do you use the geometry shell, I tried nothing applies to it just makes my character look funny and a different skin

    The geoshell (for me anyway) defaults to a 50% opacity outer layer of the figure. It's automatically conformed, so it will follow the poses.

    What you need to do to change the shell is go to the scene view and allow it to be selected. Then you can apply Jepe's poses to it.

    Make sure you have the right UV set selected for the Geoshell.

  • DkgooseDkgoose Posts: 1,451
    edited December 1969

    I finally got it figured out, i had to use the script to apply the m4 texture

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