V4 poses on Genesis 9 - via Zev0's converters

Canary3d

I've spent a couple of days converting my (huge) collection of poses to Genesis 9 using 3 of Zev0's conversion products, and I thought people might like to see how well many of the V4-M4 generation of poses work on Genesis 9. These images are the raw converted poses with no tweaking, except for the last example where I show the raw vs. a minorly tweaked version. In general, "open" poses where the limbs aren't touching each other work better than "crunched" poses where the figure has a lot of intersections going on. I find that the tweaks required to make those work are still pretty minor--upper arm & thigh and sometimes some spinal adjustments, as well as flattening the feet when the original pose is for high heels - a whole lot of V4 poses defaulted to high heels, back before we all started including foot poses with outfits & shoes.  There are more intersection problems where the original pose is for a scaled character like Freak4 or Kids4, but overall they aren't any worse than using base poses on a strongly morphed figure.

At each step, I converted all the native poses for each generation along with the converted poses from the previous generation, so the list got longer and longer as I went. Fortunately the scripts also get faster and faster; the G9 conversion script is super fast. After a couple of days of doing this in between other things, I've got about 400 pose sets in my Genesis 9 library. I am storing them separately from native Genesis 9 pose sets, to maintain my sanity.

Here are the steps in my workflow:

1. Convert from Victoria 4 or any of her "cousins" (Michael 4, Kids 4, Freak 4 etc.) to Genesis 2 Female with V4 Pose Converter by Zev0 & Draagonstorm. This converter runs pretty slowly (for me, anyway) so plan to run it overnight or while you're cooking dinner or something. Also, I have a lot of poses from this generation; if you're just doing one set at a time it's not a big deal to wait while it runs. Make sure you're putting these into their own folder, not mixing them in with "real" Genesis 2 poses, or things will get confusing quickly. Reminder: V4 poses are usually in .pz2 format so you'll find them in the Poser Formats part of your library, in the poses folder. Another reminder: a good 2/3rds of the stuff in your poses library is likely to be MAT files and shape injections, if you have a lot of content from that generation, so don't try batch-running the whole library folder. You can move or copy all of the actual poses into their own sub folder. 

2. Convert the converted V4 poses from Genesis 2 Female & Male to Genesis 3 with Genesis 2 to Genesis 3 Pose Converter by Zev0 & Draagonstorm.  You can ignore the reminder to run the ZUnlocker script, for continuing conversion, although you do need to run it to use the poses on Genesis 3.  This script runs very fast, even on fairly large batches. If I tried to do more than about 10 sets at once, it would have trouble loading up the list, so I temporarily moved everything into a sequence of subfolders, 10 per subfolder, and then ran the batch several times against that.

3. Convert the poses again, this time from Genesis 3 to Genesis 9, with Genesis 3 and 8 to to Genesis 9 Pose Converter by Zev0 & Bitwelder. This goes lickety-split, but it still will hang up if you feed too many folders into it at once.  I also ran this for all of the Genesis 8 poses in my library. 

Genesis 1 poses are a bit of a pickle because the hands are terrible, and there's not (AFAIK) a batch utility for conversion, because other than the terrible hands, Genesis 1 poses work directly on Genesis 2. I use Handy Dandy by Sloshwerks to fix the hands on a pose-by-pose basis, but I don't like most of my G1 collection enough to do that without a batch option.  RiversoftArt's Bone Minion products also let you convert poses as needed across every generation, so if you're not a batch-y person, check those out for sure. Personally, I like to batch pre-convert everything so that when I'm feeling actually creative (as opposed to merely liking to compulsively organize things, which is how I interact with my collection much of the time), I don't have to use any scripts or extra steps. 

Anyway, here are some examples, including what sets they originally came from. I think the Freak 4 poses were part of the base character, because I definitely never bought anything extra for that dude! But I might have picked them up as a freebie at some point. You can click the images to embiggen them. 

p.s. this character is one of my WIPs (hence the seam around his collarbones and his lack of bod fuzz); he's not in the store yet but hopefully will be once I finish him.

WillowRaven

So you are going through and converting full sets? All at once?

Singular3D

I have a huge collection of G3 poses, so I plan to transfer them. But before that I need a new performant PC :)