Yo, here's a tip.
If you have Generation 4 character animations (Victoria 4, Aiko 4, Michael 4, The Girl 4), you can load them onto Generation 5 (Genesis 1), save them as pose presets (animated), then load the pose preset onto Generation 7 (Genesis 3) characters. Also, there is a morph by AgentUnawares (
https://www.deviantart.com/agentunawares/art/G3F-to-G8F-World-s-Greatest-Pose-Converter-709591348) that converts Generation 8 (Genesis 8) characters to a T-pose, which will then allow Genesis 3 animations to work properly on Genesis 8 characters.
Genesis 8 is also backwards compatible with all Genesis 1, 2 & 3 clothing. Right now, everything can be converted to Genesis 8. There is a script I haven't tried yet that converts V4/M4 morphs to Genesis 8. If it works correctly that will be the lick! Because there is a lot of free V4 stuff out there that can be recycled.
And they came out with a new Black character....Chick looks good, lol! Is it me or does this chick really look like a real person??