If anyone is following the La Femme thread on Renderosity, you've seen I could not resist counter-posts to Blackhearted's V4 bashing. He is trying to lure the new user, so he insists on comparing his weight-mapped La Femme against the raw default V4 with no improvement, and he and his choir don't like comparing La Femme default with Sasha default.

I am having a hard time holding back.

Anyway, today's brag is about La Femme's scaling. Including his tiny LaFemme standing on the default V4 shoulder! You don't know how close I am to posting this image:



But I won't. Not to mention the images below, which would be an embarrassment to his "weird u-shaped La Femme underarm"



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"(Well at least they "innovated" by NOT nesting the rotation dials three groups deep down in every body part as they were in the original V4)."

The cost of that? a stupendously long list under the body parts, because every face chip is listed, and many others. It's not pretty.

Actually, I just came by to post one of my renders of a lovely creature ...

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P.S. I love the "hand flat" morph!

Yes, I saw the slight sink and pretended the walls and floor where soft spongy fabric.

Kidding aside, those are good suggestions, which I'll try. I'm always afraid of the floating foot, so I probably overcompensate.

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[trivial comeback, her left foot is not sunk, just bent, and the right I don't see as sunk. Anyway..."]

So, how do i become a beta tester?

Zitat von Karina

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The problems actually start if you create scenes where you have multiple figures interacting in various poses with facial expressions, and you have twenty or more panels to create, and you have a deadline for the project...

That's when you appreciate the benefit that you won't have to "relearn" each figure.

And finally, I think that's the reason why so many people are asking for a "Michael 4" which behaves like SASHA

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Which figures will work best for a user really does depend a lot on what users are doing with them, and you make an excellent point about the difference between users who just need a figure for one or two portraits vs. those who want to set up characters to re-use in multiple scenes. I really wish those posting on forums about the various figures would clarify what they use figures for before making comments about features they do/don't like or whatever, so that the newbie just scrolling through for info doesn't get confused about what figures they "need."

When I first got into Poser, I used only LLF's toon characters (Cookie, Krystal, Koshini, Ichiro, etc.), and I saved a "base" version of each with the morph dials organized in a way that made sense to me. I was very comfortable using them b/c I knew where everything was and how to combine things to get the results I wanted. Then I got Netherworks' SusieQ and TheDude, both of which have lots of nifty dials in the Body actor, and I was completely confused! I never did take full advantage of them, simply b/c I didn't take the time to learn the new (to me) dial setup.

I was kinda late getting into V4 (just a few years ago) b/c I couldn't figure out how she worked, and the few times I loaded her I was kinda grossed out by her greenish skin and bloody gums -- plus all those mysteriously empty morph dials. I don't even remember when I finally tried changing her skin materials and figured out how to inject all the morph packages, but once I did -- and started playing with the GBs of content I'd gathered for her over the years -- I never looked back.

By the time Sasha-16 came out, I was so comfortable with V4 that I had no problem getting used to the much-improved dial layout, and now I can't even imagine using a figure that isn't so thoughtfully organized!

I did download La Femme (and I also have Dawn and PE), but I'm not sure I'll ever use either of them b/c the S-16 V4 fits my needs for a female figure (and is already the basis for a dozen characters, with more to come). And, to get back to Karina's point, above: I already know how to use S-16, and that is incredibly important to me. So many frustrations can come up when setting up a scene in Poser that I'm relieved that posing my female characters is NOT one of them! And I eagerly look forward to the day I can say the same about my male characters

"I eagerly look forward to the day I can say the same about my male characters..."

Hi Perpetualrevision.

In addition to any and all plans Karina has for a male character, there is an interim solution, namely V4/Sasha-16 with male morph applied, and skins of two sources: male skins purpose-designed for V4 (with male morph) for sale at Daz (driven by the days when M4 was in development) and M4 skins put through transforming software to fit V4.

At Karina's request, I am preparing a tutorial on this, ETA Feb 18th. Also, see the thread here "Sasha needs a boyfriend."

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Zitat von Karina

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To be honest, her right foot still looks like a wedge, and her left toes are still sunken into the floor too.
You seriously should consider reworking the location, especially eliminating any displacement from the maps.
Otherwise, this is another great render.
I like the pose, and the lighting in particular.
The only thing that spoils it for me are the sunken feet...

But don't waste time on improving this scene right now - there will be enough time to do all this next week!
Right now I need your help on testing the final BETA release of SR1, because time is ticking...
7-6-5-4-3-2-1...

Thank you!

K

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Gostaria de testar a versão Beta.

I would like to test the beta version.

Well, all is good for me so far!

Her shaders in 3DS Max are identical which is very pleasing, so no major faults so far.

I'm enjoying the rib morph mostly so far!!

Is there a thread somewhere else to share renders? LC maybe?

Sasha presenting her new friend.

I LOVE Sasha. I will give one thing to LaFemme though-the new bone in her spine called 'waist.' Obviously that should help a lot in bending and a bit in twisting, and it does.
People have 33 bones in the spinal column, but that must be asking too much. The complexity as you add a new bone closer to the center (hip) in 3d people must grow by factors. Apollo Maximus had this 4th spinal segment, but I haven't seen it since-which must prove the difficulty. So congrats to LaFemme for that.
But I'm sticking with Sasha.