The new help system is uploaded.

The "Inline Help" is complete, and the links to the manuals work.
I've updated the V4 Morphia help page and the Quick Start manual already.
Work on the main manual is still in progress (only managed the introduction and chapter 1 hitherto), but to get everything updated would mean to check the whole manual, so this will be delivered with an update later.

Zitat

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EDIT: - ATTENTION!
I just noticed that the setup folders in the "character" library are NOT in the proper "SASHA-16" folder.
Please move them manually. Sorry for the hassle!

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http://dl.free.fr/nFQXZv7Gg

Pass as usual.

K

Hello @Perpetualrevision,

Thank you for your offer to proof read the manuals etc., very welcome! My English is a bit "bumpy" sometimes.

Re. Manuals:

We already had such a discussion before the initial August 2018 release of SASHA, but came to the conclusion that it's not necessary (and also not affordable, at least for me).

1. Many people don't read the manual anyway
2. A lot of people don't have their Poser workstations connected to net net.
3. If there were important fixes and updates, my followers at ShareCG (which generated about 90% of the downloads) would have been notified and could have downloaded the update there.

Well, the latter must be revised since ShareCG pulled SASHA as a "special Christmas gift".
I protested politely that it was not "Advertising" as they stated in their takedown notice, but they never even replied.
So I'm done with ShareCG!

However, I'm thinking of uploading a "spoof" update there, so that followers are notified.
Until I find a better way of hosting SASHA, it will be THIS site.

But there will be a new thread with the latest updates soon, so people have a place they can bookmark and come back to check for news.
@Opera's videos and tutorials would go into that thread too.
(This board needs a bit of reorganization anyway)

Thank you for your thoughts!

K

http://sasha-16.forumprofi.de/showthread.php?tid=130

Zitat

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I'm sure it's illegal to distribute the .obj of V4-with-M4-UV, but is it illegal to distribute M4 .uvs file?

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It IS illegal to redistribute the .obj file, though I don't know about UVS data.
American copyright is a minefield , so I suggest you ask DAZ about that in the first place.

Zitat

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Is there a simpler way than UVMapper to change the uv map inside the .obj?

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I don't think so, because that would actually mean to change the UV data in the .obj file, which would make the mod illegal again because it contains some of the "holy" DAZ mesh IP.

Zitat

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Is there an automated way to change a Sasha-16 .cr2 to point to an alt path for the .obj?

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In theory, this could be done with a Python script which parses the whole .cr2 file and replaces the relevant lines, then saves it back to disk under a different name.

I remember a conversation between @ anomalaus and someone else (whom I can't remember right now) where they discussed this topic.
However, this is well beyond my own Python skills, so we would probably have to ask @ anomalaus for help with the actual code.

Neither way is this something that can be done during the actual load sequence, so it must be done beforehand:
Creating a dedicated PASHA.cr2 file.

K

Another thing that just occurred to me:

Since you already managed to port M4's textures to V4:

Did you ever try whether you can inject any of the character injections for M4 into PASHA?

Do they look the same as in M4?

K

Oh!

I never thought about trying to inject M4's Morphs++ into SASHA, so thank you for again for thinking about unthinkable thinks emm, - things...
I'll give it a try if I still have some time left - that would be a great extra feature for SASHA!
Later I'll try whether I can "fit" the "M4 Business Suit" *1 to SASHA, without too much hassle.

K

Footnote *1:
https://www.daz3d.com/michael-4-business-suit
Which still is my #1 suit for a gentleman, lacking better alternatives.

Latest update:

I moved the "DAZ HandSize" dial to the "BODY/SCALING" as suggested.

I synchonised it with the original DAZ dial so it remains compatible with character morphs which use this dial.
However I couldn't make it a "percentage of..." dial because of the weird DAZ setting of this dial:
A DAZ native setting of +/- 0.1 equals a scale change of +/- 5%.
Whoever invented this should be shot at dawn tomorrow...

I also updated the "Karina's Toolbox" in it's previous state and added some new scripts.
As already said, releasing the Toolbox as a separate download will be postponed to a later date. For now it's SASHA only.


I also spent some time on updating the "Set Colour Gadget".
Now it comes with SASHA-16, and you can use it to colour her finger/toe nails and the lips:
SASHA's textures have been udated accordingly.
The manuals were rewritten to make sense.

K

Hello Perpetualrevision,

yes i meant those that did "follow" me at ShareCG. Whenever someone whom you "follow" posts something new, you will receive a notification by email.
Last time I looked that were about 170 people or so. Not much, but I also don't want to leave any SASHA user "in the cold".

Actually I meant that ShareCG generated about 90% of the downloads (which were about 1700 last time that I saw it), not the followers.

As for ShareCG in general, I don't know whether they have bots, but for sure they have no brains.
Before I delete something that has been on their site for 17 months, has generated thousands of views and is on rank 16 of the most rated products (with 59 raters!), I would at least take a second look.
Then maybe I might also discover that ShareCG site is on top of Google's search results.

But I'm ranting, sorry.

At Rendo you must be a registered vendor to upload freebies, or can anyone do so? I'll give it a try when SR1 is ready!

K

Another update:

Fixed another weight map issue which you still should see if you switch to "hidden line" view and turn the head full left or right: there's a distinctive mesh break between neck and chest!

While I was fixing this, I also noticed that the were weight maps present in the chest for the ForeArms !
No clue how they ever got there, but since they made no sense and only used up RAM, I eliminated those as well.

Then I got an error report from a beta tester that some hair models (.cr2 figures) behave strange.
It took me a while to hunt that error down, but it's hopefully fixed now:
The error presumably was in the "orientation" values of the "350 S-16 Joint Centres" script.
To fix that I deleted the "orientations" for both neck and head, and so far it seems to work.

I also spent some time on creating some new "Face Shape" morphs which were inspired by a character I'm working on. Nothing spectacular, but still, some more options added. *1

Karina

Unfortunately this won't work in P9/PP2012, but I guess at some point "backwards compatibility" becomes just a millstone around the neck, so it has to be skipped someday.
(Look at the other caveats for users of P9/PP2012 in SASHA's Setup folder!)