Renderotica

I have the Golden Palace genital set for G8F, and I just bought Pussy Wizard and Storming the Castle.  I had been trying to export the GP set, with G8F, to Blender, with some success (using the Daz Importer by Diffeomorphic), but I had serious difficulties getting the UVs and textures to work correctly, so it would render how I wanted it.  Importing the geometry was never much of an issue, but dealing with the texturing & UVs for the genital set was a huge hassle. It was such a mess, that I pretty much gave up on it for a month or so.  When I bought PW & STC on sale, I didn't realize that PW had an option for flattening all the genital UVs/textures into a single map.

This is exactly what I need for exporting characters to Blender (where I use mhSOGskin for rendering in Cycles), but I have had no luck at all getting the flattening process to work correctly.  I have followed the tutorial PDF to the best of my ability, but no luck - it just doesn't work as it should.  For the first step, I do get some files in the first output directory, but they are black outlines of the textures, and there's just three of them:  

https://i.imgur.com/4QQbrI2.png

When I try the 2nd step of the tutorial, to transfer the Labia Majora textures, I get nothing at all in my 2nd directory.  The little hourglass icon flickers for a brief moment then disappears, and then nothing else happens.  So... what am I supposed to do?

I just updated to Daz Studio 4.11.  Also, I am running Daz under VMware Workstation Player, with Windows 10, under my Kubuntu 19.04 Linux host, although that hasn't really affected much, aside from it running slower under a VM.  I only use Daz to create and pose figures, so I don't really need a lot of speed.

Any ideas??

Originally Posted by: Meipe

Ok, I need some time to try to understand what went wrong, I'll do that as soon I have submitted my last product!

Thanks, I appreciate you looking into it.  In the mean time, is there any other way to flatten the UVs/textures, so I can properly export to Blender?

I've tried exporting as is, but the UV setup makes for a real headache in Blender, and I can never get it to look right.  

Originally Posted by: marble51

OK - Just tried this and got exactly the same results as the OP. In other words - nothing. The textures from Step 1 look nothing like the examples in the tutorial and it all goes off the rails at step 2 and I (and the OP) end up with nothing in the texture folder.

@Meipe mentions needing time but that was a year ago. Sorry to bump but I too would like to flatten in order to use in Blender.

Yeah, I tried the method suggested in the tutorial - over and over again - but it simply doesn't work for me, either.  There is however, a method of compositing the textures, that I discovered, that works well.  I'll email you about that.  It involves blending the textures together in the Shader Nodes setup, and allows for quite a bit of flexibility.