A new generation of base human 3d figures called Genesis 3 was released on June 23th 2015.
Traditionally the first character with its own UV set is called Victoria.
Victoria 7 is now the seventh version of the popular 3d figure.
compare:
http://www.daz3d.com/genesis-3
New material zones:
The biggest change to the Genesis 2 generation is the new UV map layout of Genesis 3.
To find out what has changed for me it worked out best to first have a look at the Genesis 3 Female Starter Essentials.
Since all the materials of G3F seem to be based on 3Delight shaders and not Iray the autoconversion with OcDS happened without any issues:
- Genesis 3 female autoconverted with the OcDS plugin
- Torso
- Arms
- Fingernails (same map as Arms but different settings)
- Legs
- Toenails (same map as Legs but different settings)
- Ears, Face
- Eyesocket (uses the same map as Ears, Face)
- Lips (uses the same map as Ears, Face)
- Eyelashes (used with only a transparency map)
- Eye Moisture (used with a reflection map in G3F Starter Essentials, Moisture Map with V7)
- Irises
- Sclera (same map as Irises but different settings)
- Cornea
- Mouth
- Teeth (same map as Mouth but different settings)
To summarize:
In the Genesis 3 Generation Arms and Legs are now split to separate maps. This means the former limbs map of Genesis 2 is now split up.
With Genesis 3 the ears are now part of the face map (again).
The Eyesocket surface zone seems to consist of the former tear surface zone and a new eye socket back wall.
A closer look at the eyes:
In the Genesis 2 Generation the eye surface zone offered a huge improvement over the original Genesis generation.
Let's have a closer look how the eyes now work with Genesis 3.
- Genesis 3 Starter Essentials
Default Eyes.
By default the Cornea loades with Opacity set at zero.
- Corned colored red.
Nevertheless the way volumes work in Octane this means if we apply the live DB material "clear cornea" to the Cornea surface zone a volume is created with the Irises as inner border.
- G3F Cornea with Irises
The most interesting addition is the Eyesocket.
Not really sure what the original intention is.
Did anyone find a forum post about it allready?
The eyesocket is smaller as the eye shape created by the Sclera.
- G3F Sclera and Eyesocket viewed from behind
In theory for OctaneRender that now could mean that a volume is created between Irises (front), Eyesocket (back) and Sclera (side).
It would be interesting to observe what happens if we transform the Irises or the Sclera to a spherical material.
EyeMoisture:
The EyeMoisture seems to be similar as the former Eyereflection surface.
The surface seems to cover the whole Eye and seems to be in front of the Cornea and the Sclera.
- G3F EyeMoisture tinted red
It seems the EyeMoisture surface can be hidden in OctaneRender because no volumes seem to be created between the EyeMoisture surface (front) and the Cornea (front) and the EyeMoisture surface (side) and the Sclera (side).
Vicoria 7 uses a MoistureMap. I will test later how that could be put to some use in OctaneRender.
For renders that do not want to achieve photorealism the EyeMoisture surface can certainly be used for reflection maps.
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Problems with Iray shader autoconversion:
Some first feedback about working with Victoria 7 Iray Version autoconverted with OcDS.
It was to be expected that OcDS is not able to convert all specific Iray shader bricks.
Maybe in later OcDs versions it may be possible to provide updated autoconversion options based on the most common Iray shader setups?
It seems at least for now with the 3Delight material version better autoconversion results can be achieved with OcDS.
Lets hope that DAZ3D will keep providing 3Delight versions of the material setups for some time.
It also seems not all DAZ3D artists are using the same system for their shader setups.
Therefore I guess with each DAZ3D artist there are different steps needed to correct some issues after autoconversion.
Examples:
- The EyeMoisture surface will load at full opacity. Set it to zero to make the underlying eye materials visible.
- Victoria 7 Iray Version.
The diffuse map in the "Base Color" node was not included in the "random" mix material that was created.
Nevertheless the maps show up in the map overview list "by object" created by OcDS so you can add it manually.
- Eyelashes
For two different characters the transparency map of the Eyelashes was not added in the autoconverted OcDS material.
Nevertheless the map shows up in the map overview list "by object" created by OcDS so you can add it manually.
Workaround to quickly find any maps the OcDS plugin detected:
It seems when the OcDS autoconverts either the 3Delight or the Iray shader setup a list of all available maps is created for each object.
- Use the map overview BY OBJECT to quickly find any available maps
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I may update later with other observations...
Feel free to add whatever you figured out so far as well!!!
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