Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Antonia - Opinions?

odf opened this issue on Oct 27, 2008 · 13964 posts


momodot posted Tue, 25 November 2008 at 2:01 AM

Attached Link: Xanna for V4.2

Wow!!! That scaling is great... I would far rather have good scaling options and maybe some body handles as opposed to morphs. Scaling hands/fingers feet/toes to look individual is always so damn difficult... it is wonderful you are considering this.

Are you implementing body handles to control breast/buttock and thigh masses? I figure a hell of a lot of breast morphs can be avoided with a properly zoned body handle for the breasts... I have used them for shaping as well as gravity and movement. Sara even had body handles for facial expressions IRC. I saw an amazing animation of expresions by body handle on YouTube once... a zBrush figure I think it was.

As for body morphs... if this is to be a dream figure, what do people think of an external magnet control rig in place of FBM's? I mean such as the Xanna control by K3D... the demo examples are stylized but I had used it to get terrific realistic body types when I had a computer to slow to operate with the loaded V4 .cr2. Xanna characters can also be distributed by pose and I imagine by simple cut-and-paste of dial settings. It is a great alternative to morphs and it deforms clothes to match the figure deforms. Anyway, with Xanna I was able to make light characters by sculpting the figure with the controller and magnet rig and then spawning the reults as a morph with a script. It was a system resource saver at least in my case. Though I have used it less now that I have a better machine.

Also, should there be individual finger grasp and spread on the hand part?

What do people think for that matter of posing with dials on the main body or a single alternate body part dial set... like the morph forms on some G2 and V4.2 compound poses?  I find them interesting in that poses could be distributed as cut-and-paste dial setting but I think it must be "all or nothing" since controlling say only the head and torso from the body and the limbs separitely is impossibly confusing. Do people using William-the-Bloody's Pose Magic control prop (http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?ViewProduct=55166&vendor=38802) find that workable or does any tweeking directly by mouse tool or body part dial then screw everything up? That tool even controls facial expressions from the control prop. I don't know what I think about this... posing is certainly easy and fun with the WtB tool but sometimes I get muddled in the fine tuning.

Anyway, you guys work is amazing! Thank you.