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I am in the process of converting a bunch of G8F Figures with their original materials to G8.1F. This works nicely, and also applying a new Golden Palace works just as fine as refitting the original GP.

However: Once I start the 8.1 Mat Copy script it changes GP's UV Maps to Karen7 which don't fit exactly well. I manually have to change them back to Default UVs.

This is of course just a minor niggle but I still don't get my head around why this happens (on every converted character) and if there was a way to avoid the change to Karen7 UV maps.

Any help? Thx guys! :-)

Edited by user Monday, March 28, 2022 2:56:51 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

I saved my G8F as Character Presets with Shape and Materials and loaded these presets on a G8.1 Base Female Dev Load.

The new Character's UVs are "Base Female". I tried using "Base 8.1 female" and "G8F Uniform UV", but these obviously don't fit.
The G8F Mat Copy Script won't work as the character is recognized as G8.1

I also don't understand why G3 UV maps (at least I think Karen 7 would be a G3 character) are chosen when all my characters were never G3 in the first place. Puzzled.

Edited by user Tuesday, March 29, 2022 6:52:44 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Mat Copy just Copies from the Torso (for G8) or Body (for G8.1) and Pastes to the Torsos of GP.
It does it with one click as opposed to scrolling through surfaces manually.

???? G8 to G8.1 ????

Sounds like your making a mountain out of a mole hill and causing yourself a lot of unnecessary work and burning memory space.
Who is the character? Is she one I might already have to test for myself? On second thought, you do you.

Im so confused, your not doing G3 to G8 then working with G8.1?
Karen 7 (G3F), or you are dealing with a custom UV then.

G8 to G8.1 "converting?" but keeping the G8 skin.... then... What, and WHY? One of the main update reason for G8.1 was PBR skin. The mesh is the same just Sub Divided more. The morphs from G8 work on G8.1, the old skins using the G8 UV still load to G8.1, then the G8.1F Mat Copy works on G8.1 GP after, no prob.

Can't you just manually copy it? Converting Kanade 8 to PBR and using that with GP... it really isn't that different than using Kanade 8 stock materials.
(Karen 7 is weird because she uses a custom UV, but you can just change the UV Set in the Surfaces tab.)

I think all the texture zones in GP are from the Body surface (for Genesis 8.1). The script probably should recognize nuPBR, but you can just do it manually. Just convert the prop to PBR, then it's copy/paste (Kanade 8.1's Body, pasted to every mat zone in GP)... and then set the zones to Default UV.

It's the shells that do more of the work with GP, anyway. It just borrows the Body textures as a base, underneath the geo shells.