Cage opened this issue on Feb 24, 2010 · 592 posts
Cage posted Thu, 04 March 2010 at 2:37 PM
Quote - While acheiving the exact likeness of V3, or A3 would be nice to have, it is much more desirable that the morphs look good on Antonia, even if they are not an exact match.
Thanks for all of your hard work. The progress is impressive.
Thank you. 
The issue with full shape transfer is for character morphs. If you have a full-face character morph on V3 or Aiko, whatever figure, and you want to recreate that on another figure, you need to be able to recreate the base shape of the recipient figure's head. Otherwise the transferred character morph deltas will reshape the face relative to the recipient base and it won't be quite right.
For morphs like expressions, where the motion or adjustment of the base shape is more important than a close recreation of a shape, shape transfer isn't really important.
Both morph transfer and shape transfer do seem to be working effectively. The problem I'm noting is that limitations in the quality of the comparison data file can show up more thoroughly in a shape transfer, and even more so when, for instance, a comparison for V3 is applied to A3. My comparison data files are fairly effective, but I don't have the tools or expertise to really create a perfect comparison. Mike1950's approach seems like it might hold more promise.
If anyone knows of affordable and (fairly) easy-to-use software which can do something like what Mike1950 is doing with Transpose in ZBrush, or what Blender can do with its version of retopology, please let us know!
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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking. He apologizes for this. He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.
Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below. His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.