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Originally Posted by: montyblue88

@ MissC

You can use shell script fixes from those other products on NGV8, all of them should work. Personally I use Shell Fix v2 from Futalicious.

Alternately you can apply the nearest material match from the wet body shell to the added surfaces in the shell, How Daz has shells working and what you are running into, is when a graft is added to a figure, the graft surfaces are added to the shell, in this case the shell has no material information for the New Gens surfaces, so it defaults to a plain white setting. There are two fixes copy and past from the nearest area to the new surfaces (Usually will be torso or body surfaces) from the wet shell surfaces, to the added new gens surfaces on the shell, the other option is simply going in to the shell, scrolling to the new gens surfaces and turning them off (If the shell fix script doesn't work, as the shell fix is set to turn of the extra surfaces)

Edited by user Tuesday, October 25, 2022 1:10:27 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Further thoughts added

Originally Posted by: BrotherHades

Originally Posted by: montyblue88

@ MissC

You can use shell script fixes from those other products on NGV8, all of them should work. Personally I use Shell Fix v2 from Futalicious.

 

Alternately you can apply the nearest material match from the wet body shell to the added surfaces in the shell, How Daz has shells working and what you are running into, is when a graft is added to a figure, the graft surfaces are added to the shell, in this case the shell has no material information for the New Gens surfaces, so it defaults to a plain white setting. There are two fixes copy and past from the nearest area to the new surfaces (Usually will be torso or body surfaces) from the wet shell surfaces, to the added new gens surfaces on the shell, the other option is simply going in to the shell, scrolling to the new gens surfaces and turning them off (If the shell fix script doesn't work, as the shell fix is set to turn of the extra surfaces)

So I've messed around with it more, and indeed I see all it is doing is just fixing the skin colour so it isn't white in the geoshell but the geoshell effect is still not being applied to NGV8 when I use the shell fix included in futalicious or golden palace

But I also have this asset in use on a character; www.renderotica.com/store/sku/63017_Lifelike-Nipple-Graft-For-Genesis-8-Females
And it includes something very different it includes a geoshell fix for the nipple graft rather than for the geoshell that is being applied

Meaning it actually adds the geoshell wet effect onto the nipple graft rather than just exclude the nipple area from the geoshell and fix the skin colour.

Edited by user Tuesday, October 25, 2022 4:57:09 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Originally Posted by: BrotherHades

Alternately you can apply the nearest material match from the wet body shell to the added surfaces in the shell, How Daz has shells working and what you are running into, is when a graft is added to a figure, the graft surfaces are added to the shell, in this case the shell has no material information for the New Gens surfaces, so it defaults to a plain white setting. There are two fixes copy and past from the nearest area to the new surfaces (Usually will be torso or body surfaces) from the wet shell surfaces, to the added new gens surfaces on the shell, the other option is simply going in to the shell, scrolling to the new gens surfaces and turning them off (If the shell fix script doesn't work, as the shell fix is set to turn of the extra surfaces)

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To get the wet effect like I said you'll have to copy and paste the materials from the shell's torso or body surface to the added New gens surfaces on the shell. All the Shell fix scripts will do is turn off tha added surfaces making them invisible Which if the graft materials are being added to various shells is usually what you want., however in this case since you want the wet effect you'll need to copy the materials to the added surfaces. 

I don't have the graft you mentioned so I'm not sure how it works. 

Ah my apologies, I'm a beginner on Daz3D so I thought the instructions you gave would just fix the skin colour but not apply the wet effect to the area

As I'm a beginner I'm not entirely sure how you do those steps you mentioned to copy and paste the surface to apply the wet effect.
How do I copy and paste the surfaces? Where do I do this? What surface do I need to copy from and where do I paste it to?

As for how the script works on the graft I mentioned now with what you've explained above I think I understand how the script works on that graft bundle;

1- First I have to select the G8F figure that has the nipple graft on it (as opposed to the gen fix scripts which have you select the wet effect geoshell)
2- When you then run the script it asks you for every geoshell on the G8F you've selected that isn't the nipple graft geoshell if it affects the nipple area or not

3- If you say no then it simply excludes the area from the geoshell
4- If you say yes then it copies the texture in the way you have said

Nifty little script, I think even for advanced users it is a handy time saver and for beginners like me it is a must as we don't know Daz3D so well yet just shame the script only works for the nipple area. A universal script like this would be super handy would definitely be willing to pay for it even as a standalone asset!

@ BrotherHades

What about when a surface doesn't have any associated Genesis UV set? This isn't an issue for NGV8 since it has those UV's, but for HD Nipples 2.0 (also from 3feetwolf) all the surfaces only have default and hd UV's, no base female UV's.

Is there a way to force those UV's on a surface? It would be nice to be able to use some of the geoshell products I have alongside higher fidelity geometry.

@ BrotherHades

Turns out I was copying the wrong surface, that's why I had issues. Once I copied the right surfaces everything worked correctly. That said, the UV's on HD Nipples 2.0 surface (that is, the surface that got inherited by the geoshell dirt product), only has the 2 UV's shown below. Well, at least everything works.

@ guywiththeeyes

Are you applying NGV8 normally or throught the expansion pack? Also, if you select the geometry editing tool, it'll make NGV8 look very weird, but not quite like in the screenshot. That's not what's happening to you, is it?

Hi Mr. Wolf

I have a problem with the morphs for NGV8. Simply put, they are missing.

I tried both Victoria 8 and Genesis 8 models. I followed the instructions, and the genitals do show up fine on the models. However, when I select the NGV8 object in the scene tab, there is no Actor section in the Parameters tab as described in your tutorial text file. I expanded all options in the list.

I also re-downloaded the package for a reinstall, same behavior.

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Originally Posted by: AnthorBrightstone

Hi Mr. Wolf

I have a problem with the morphs for NGV8. Simply put, they are missing.

I tried both Victoria 8 and Genesis 8 models. I followed the instructions, and the genitals do show up fine on the models. However, when I select the NGV8 object in the scene tab, there is no Actor section in the Parameters tab as described in your tutorial text file. I expanded all options in the list.

I also re-downloaded the package for a reinstall, same behavior.

Attached screenshot.

Hi, 

Looks like daz studio could not load the ngv8's morphs correctly. Can you send me some detailed screenshots showing how you installed it? Please send these screenshots to my email ([email protected]). I got covid last week and had to suspend all the works. I'll write back to you as soon as I feel more better. 

Originally Posted by: Auron3d

Hi guys, I am having this issue with Victoria 8.1 and other characters 8.1, how can I fix it? The textures are not matching. Thank you.

Hi, I did some tests and I can successfully apply ng8 to Victoria 8.1 on my computer.

I also don't see any problem from your photos for the time being.

So I would need more information about this issue, could you share your steps in more detail?

Originally Posted by: TZO3K1

We NEED G8.1 UVS in order to USE G8.1 textures!

Why was this neglected in the first place?  As you cannot use G/V 8.1 textures and 3FW's genitalia without it.

If there's a workaround, yeah that's fine, but we shouldn't have to use one, I'm surprised this isn't more of an issue as G8.1 textures are completely nonfunctional without it.

Hi, both NG8 and NG8 Expansion Pack support G8.1 female characters.  

Maybe when you apply NG to a character, some textures are not handled correctly? 

Please tell which character you are using and I will try to resolve these issues for you.