Now that SASHA is out of the door (and hopefully will survive in a world full of trolls and copyright lawyers ), let's have a look at what's coming next for SASHA.

There are several little projects I started but didn't finish because of deadlines on SASHA.



What's probably next to come is a gadget that finally allows you to save facial expressions without the need of editing the .fc2 file afterwards.
The problem hitherto was that when you saved an .fc2 from Poser using the standard library function, Poser would actually write a Full Face Morph!
Result:
If injected into another character it would reset the face to the shape it had when you created the expression. (and *a lot* of expressions in the market have this annoying bug!)
My gadget will allow you to create and save clean, correct expression files, as well as fixing faulty ones in your library.
This is probably the next to come, together with a set of nice expressions I collected from my own renders and stories.



Furthermore I'm working on a ground prop (plane) of theoretically infinite size which can be morphed and textures with high detail using only a few texture maps.
Think of a ground prop with paths, hills, creeks etc. - all textured in great detail with only a few normal-sized texture maps.

WIP:
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Another project would be a universal hair shader for transmapped hair.
It will have real highlights instead of the baked-in ones and gives you almost infinite variety of hair colours.
This is actually after an idea by BagginsBill; I'm just trying to make it a little more user friendly while reducing render time as well.


Most of these projects will be of universal use in Poser (even the "Expression Fairy" though it's built specially for SASHA).


Poser is still anything but dead!

LLP&P (Long Live Poser & Prosper)

Karina

Ah, you're talking about "MISHA-17" here?

Don't worry he's another of my projects!

I've already converted the DAZ M4 to the standards of SASHA as far as morph and general figure handling goes - meaning you can find the exact same dials in exactly the same place, doing the exact same thing in either figure.
That was a massive task of recoding the M4 figure, but most of it is done.

What remains to be done (and that's the major part of the job) is to weight map MISHA so that he doesn't look like a crossover of Godzilla and The Hulk any longer...

But that may take another year at worst. Remember I'm just a one-man show doing all this in the evenings & weekends, after work.

Thank you though for bringing this up - I forgot to mention this in all the other announcements.

Karina

@ Wickerman:

Yes, the people who were working on M4WM back then suddenly stopped the project for unknown reasons, and I was disappointed too.
Re. K4: I'm afraid that I must give this a miss - the figure is one of the worst I've ever seen, and it's hopeless to make anything from it that would meet my quality standards.

SASHA has the potential to become a girl (or a boy!) of appprox. 7 years onwards, and it's even finished.
However I decided not to release it at the moment, because of SASHA's "extra body part"
and to avoid allegations of advocating child pornography. Sounds absurd, but that's what Jamminwolf has to endure frequently with his "young" characters for V4.


@ Digitell:

I'm more than happy to welcome another well-respected person from the Poser community here. Good to have you on board, and yes when MISHA needs some test runs I'll gladly include you in the beta test team.


Oh and thank you all for giving SASHA a chance

Karina

Digitell,

Did you have a look at Pendraia's "Diva for Dawn" over at Hivewire?
http://hivewire3d.com/diva-for-dawn.html

Maybe not just what you had in mind, but maybe an acceptable "stop-gap"? At least I think she's got more support than K4 by now.

Karina

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Thanks for the reminder, it's definitively not forgotten.
I'm just terribly busy a.t.m., but as soon as time allows I'll start with that project.

I also have dozens of highly customized faces and body shapes (my girls even have names and a personality), and while SASHA evolved over the years I did the character transfer to the latest version several hundred times.

What I ended up with was making morph delta injections for each of my characters, so each time I want to migrate the character I just do a copy paste for the standard dials in the body and head, and then inject the custom morphs. With a little routine it can be done in way under five minutes per figure.

However it needs a little expertise with editing .cr2 files to create the delta injections, so I'm looking for a more user friendly solution (possibly a Python script to automatize the process - luckily we have Snarlygribbly on board which has offered me his help if my Python skills aren't sufficient!)

Just some patience, I have it on top of my to-do list.

Karina

Ah, I see!

Thank you for the clarification. I don't follow the forums closely enough to be in the know about everything that's going on.

What became of Phantom3D? I didn't see a post from him ever since then. Is he ok?
(Sorry for being curious, but I owe him a lot because studying his weight maps in V4WM taught me a lot about weight mapping. Without his pioneer work my SASHA wouldn't be as half as good as it is now)

And welcome to another of the revered Poser experts. I DO feel honoured to have you here at this humble place.
Helemaal bedankt!

Karina