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CA5: No more modification of CA characters in external editors

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CA5: No more modification of CA characters in external editors

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The fact that packages for head creation do not work anymore in CA5 is a reason to complain.
I intended to buy tools like head creator and dress room in order to achieve more than 199$ to get CA5 for free. Luckily I decided to buy animation files instead.
But everyone who bought the above mentioned items might be rightly frustrated.

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ems_place (11/4/2022)
I must admit I am a little annoyed about the situation as I like to create my own actors, the packages I purchased in CTA4 for head creation etc no longer work in CTA5.

Could you provide more details on "no longer work"?
And please add a link to those products so I can check them out, I should own them...


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Since my last comment I have now successfully managed to get G3 Facial Components_face maker to work. 
Whilst you can apply new heads to the new G3 Actors there is still the PSD connectivity issue.
Cheers ......... Emlyn
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ems_place (11/4/2022)
Whilst you can apply new heads to the new G3 Actors there is still the PSD connectivity issue.

Glad you got it working...
PSD works, see video I posted on page 1 of this thread.


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If you create a new head on one of the new CTA5 actors it still blocks the transfer to psd not surprisingly.
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ems_place (11/4/2022)
If you create a new head on one of the new CTA5 actors it still blocks the transfer to psd not surprisingly.

Oh, yes, now I see you can NOT send the new CTA5 actors to PSD. 
They are vectorized, so why not the capability to send to Illustrator?

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Alas I don't have Adobe Illustrator, have you tried it ?
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Hi, i confirm :
KEEP YOUR CTA4 PIPELINE ON BOARD !
If you want to work and modifi ALL your downloaded characters (G3-360 and other)  (and onli on a psd format !)
No way to open your characters on SVG editor because a conflict format between CTA5 and SVG-programs (Inkscape wanted please !)
You could run the svg prog create one and transfert it.

At once, i can put my PSD characters from my CTA4 library (modifi or not with Krita) and i drop it in CTA5 (No available in the over way drop a Character from the CTA5 lib to CTA4 !)

Wait and see for the upgrade...  soon


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ems_place (11/5/2022)
Alas I don't have Adobe Illustrator, have you tried it ?

There is no "send to Ai" button...

@RL
If the problem is that the new characters use SVG, why don't we get an Ai button instead of a greyed out PSD button.


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There is a SVG button but it is greyed out.
The fact that export to SVG is not available is unacceptable in my opinion.



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