{"id":22000,"date":"2023-09-24T09:19:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T09:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=22000"},"modified":"2023-11-16T16:42:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T16:42:53","slug":"your-free-v3-to-v4-pose-converter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2023\/09\/24\/your-free-v3-to-v4-pose-converter\/","title":{"rendered":"Your free V3 to V4 pose converter"},"content":{"rendered":"

V3 to V4 pose converter, via DAZ Studio<\/strong>. For free, mostly… probably. <\/p>\n

Does it work? I tried it. Here’s the step-by-step tutorial.<\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> Get the free “V3\/A3\/GV3 Pose Transfer to G8F” script (choose the second updated .ZIP file)<\/a> for DAZ. Then the free “G8F to V4\/A4 Pose Transfer” script<\/a>. You need to be signed in to the DAZ Forums and Renderosity to get these.<\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> Unzip and combine the two script-sets into a sensibly named folder. Such as “V3 to V4 pose converter”, so you can find it under Scripts<\/em> in the DAZ Library in future. Install the folder as you usually would. Load DAZ Studio. Check in Scripts<\/em> inside the DAZ Library, to see the folder installed correctly.<\/p>\n

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3.<\/strong> In DAZ, find and load a V3 base figure to the scene. Go: Poser Library runtime (you linked it, right?) | Figures | DAZ People | V3. <\/p>\n

4.<\/strong> Find and load a suitable V3 pose.<\/p>\n

5.<\/strong> While you’re there, also load a standard V4.2 to the scene. I could not get the second DAZ script working with a plain V4. It must be V4.2.<\/p>\n

6.<\/strong> Now go back up to the main DAZ runtime in the Library. Load a G8F in the same scene. <\/p>\n

7.<\/strong> Drop all figures to the Floor, just in case (Select figure, Crtl + D<\/em>) and space them out in the scene. Now save the scene for a ‘quickstart’ in future.<\/p>\n

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Start the V3 to G8 script. Once the script has started it will prompt to you select the hips of each figure. Once this is done, press OK.<\/p>\n

8.<\/strong> The script is really quick. Once done, Ctrl + D<\/em> to ‘drop to the floor’ again, just in case. Yes, G8F took the V3 pose…<\/p>\n

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This was where I found out that old V4 doesn’t work, and that V4.2 is required.<\/em><\/p>\n

9.<\/strong> Now do the same with the G8 to V4 script. The result here with a V4.2 is fairly good, except for the “thumbs up” and the “elbow\/thigh contact” which will need adjusting later.<\/p>\n

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10.<\/strong> Then go back into the Library Scripts and locate your Poser Format Exporter<\/a> (aka PoserFormatExporter), which is still working in DAZ 4.21.x. This vital add-on script for working with Poser is currently paid at $7, but was free in the past for many years. You may already have it installed, or have got it in the distant past and can thus re-download it from your “Purchases” library at the DAZ Store.<\/p>\n

Select V4.2 in the DAZ scene and use PoserFormatExporter to save out the V4 pose as a .PZ2 file for Poser. I had success with the following settings…<\/p>\n

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11.<\/strong> Load Poser, load a v4.2 figure, then drag-drop your newly made .PZ2 pose onto the figure. She will take the pose. Make some final small adjustments and save the pose into Poser natively.<\/p>\n

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Done. Nope, there’s no batch. It’s ‘one at a time’, as you need the old V3 pose on a V4. <\/p>\n

Not tested with ‘M3 to G8F to M4’, but I guess that may be possible. The scripts are open text files, so they could be adjusted as needed in response to any error messages.<\/p>\n

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The result is far more accurate than a straight “drop a V3 pose on a V4.2” attempt. As you can see in the results seen below, where we have intersected feet\/knees, fist hitting the head, no toe\/foot bending, and one hand with scary ‘flying fingers’ which would take a lot of correcting. I suspect the fist is also bunched too tightly…<\/p>\n

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An alternative ‘drag and drop’ of the pose, direct to a V4.2 in Poser. Doesn’t work properly.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

V3 to V4 pose converter, via DAZ Studio. For free, mostly… probably. Does it work? I tried it. Here’s the step-by-step tutorial. 1. Get the free “V3\/A3\/GV3 Pose Transfer to G8F” script (choose the second updated .ZIP file) for DAZ. Then the free “G8F to V4\/A4 Pose Transfer” script. You need to be signed in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companion-software","category-daz-studio","category-poser","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22000"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22175,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000\/revisions\/22175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}