Ho-hum...

It might be that I uploaded the wrong version yesterday.

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That's the correct version


Sorry!

Karina

Zitat von operaguy

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So far, no issues. I just now applied 30 extreme poses, with no breaking of Sasha's mesh/rig.

The poses are from this product, on sale (ends today) for less than $5.00.

Click to see the poses at Rendo

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Pose:


another:

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Good Golly!

Last time I saw such poses was when some contortion artists performing in the Kiev Circus:)

Well done!

K

Thank you @RLOwens, and hello @estherau!

Yes you're right, SASHA-16 (2019 Edition) went through her last testing phase.
I made more minor changes and fine-tuned some weight-maps recently; but I really don't know what else I could improve, and I also didn't find any more errors - fingers crossed! [rolling_eyes]

I think I'll release her next weekend if I manage to bundle the files in time, and check that they install correctly.
Unfortunately I'm still behind schedule with the manual (as usual), so the updated manual must become an "extra" to be downloadable later.

I also decided to make no big fuss about the release:
Just several posts in the relevant forums about the new version.
Oh, and now that I know it works, I will also release her in the RENDO freestuff category!

Still have to think of a way of how to get the message to my followers at ShareCG:
After ShareCG killed both the "KarinaVagina MkIIG" AND "SASHA-16", I'ld rather get the plague (and foot fungus on top), than ever releasing anything at ShareCG again!
But I don't want to leave those who follow me "in the cold", so I must think of a sort of "message in a bottle" for them which will work without ShareCG killing it...

Stay tuned!:)

Karina

But then, I still have something for you (and me in the first place indeed!)

I don't know how many of you use SASHA'*s "Collar Control" feature, which allows you a natural posing of the arms without having to pose the collars separately.
I do so all the time, and in combination with a mix of the "Easy Pose" dials and dragging the arms with the mouse, I can pose you an arm faster than you can even find the individual XYZ rotaion dials in collars, shoulders, and forearms!


However, there was a problem:

If you loaded a V4 pose from the library and had "Collar Control" ON, the pose didn't load as it was designed because "Collar Control" was ON.

Hitherto you could circumvent this by turning "Collar Control" OFF before applying the pose, but then you had to either work on without "Collar Control", or you had to set it ON again, which caused the pose to be changed again.

I've recently released a script to "Normalize" a pose:
https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/karinas/82042

With the problems above in mind, I still wasn't happy with it yet, so I spent the last four days with improving it:

• Now you can normalize a pose dialed with the "Easy Pose" dials no matter if "Collar Control" is ON or OFF.
• BUT:
  [list]
• You can also convert any V4 library pose to work with "Collar Control" ON ever after.
  OR
• Convert any pose made with "Collar Control" ON to a regular V4 pose which will work on any standard V4, or other figures.

• If "Collar Control" is ON anyway, the script will just normalize the pose.
• If "Collar Control" is OFF, it will give you the option of:
  [list]
• just normalize the pose (ready to be saved to the library)
  OR
• CONVERT the pose to the same, but with "Collar Control" ON! (EXTREMELY handy if you load a V4 pose from the library and want to continue posing after that!)

Hello @johndconnaughton

Thank you again for your very detailed critique!

In fact, many of the points you mention have been an issue ever since I started making SASHA-16, and have lead to a bag of compromises I had to make.

Most of them were for the sake of compatibility with the original V4 (read more about that below).
If SASHA would have been my very own figure, I would have avoided most of these inconsistencies you've mentioned.

Now let's have a look at your points:


SCALING:

"Arms Length" is my own dial (and it also accounts for arms thickness if you shorten/lengthen the arms, so I was free to program that dial to my own liking.

"Legs Length" on the other hand, isn't. It's a DAZ dial, and it's value is not equal to percent of length; instead it uses a rather odd ratio.
To make matters worse: If you shorten/lengthen V4's legs too much, you will get distortions at the ankles.
The only way to eliminate this would be a complete re-rig of V4's legs, with the dreadful consequence that shoes wouldn't fit any longer.
So I had to compromise:
I left the dial working as it was designed by DAZ, but set the limits (+/- 0.5) so that the distortions don't become noticeable.


REMARKS ABOUT DIALS:

You will notice this "Compromising" in many other dials and morphs.
I COULD have fixed them to work in a more logical way, like the "inverse" working "ForeArm Thickness" morph, the "Shoulder thickness" you mentioned, and a bunch of others.
BUTT (TM):
That would totally break compatibility with ALL character morphs/injections made for V4:
If the character creator wanted to give her small shoulders and thin arms, the inversion of the dials would result in just the opposite because minus became plus...


HEAD SIZE/THORAX LENGTH:

You're right, and it's a thing that always bothered me.
That's why I added the extra "yScale" dials for hip/abdomen/chest scales. I also usually scale the head to 105-110% for an adult, and 110-120% for children.
I know that the scaling issue is annoying, but we must live with that because there's nothing we can do to change the original V4 mesh (at least nothing that's legal to redistribute).


AAND - FINALLY:

The "Amazing Shrinking/Growing SASHA" if using the "Set Height By Age" dial:

This is a little "tongue-in-cheek" joke I built into this dial:
As we all know, people grow at different speeds during puberty/adolescence, then keep their height until about the age of 60. After that age they tend to "shrink", the older they get.
I located the "shrinking" phase between 60 and 80/90 years old.
But somehow, I had to get to 100% again with the dial (which is actually a Bezier curve), so that if you "ALT-click" the dial, the figure MUST revert to 100% height again.
Just another compromise I had to make...

And YES, this was already there in the original S-16 because the "Height By Age" system is still the same.
The limitation to a minimum age of 7 years old however is intentional:
I can't (and won't!) provide tweaks and morphs for SASHA to become a pre-schooler.
If people need that they better use the infamous K4...


I hope all this answered most of your questions.
I also would have preferred a more consistent working of the dials, and about half a ton of other improvements which I could have made - - - IF there wasn't that bloody prerequisite to keep compatibility with V4 as far as possible.


@johndconnaughton,

thank you again for all the testing, and for taking the time to post your thoughts here!
Per your post I was urged to post the reasons for many of the oddities in SASHA, and I'll probably use your and my posts later to explain the why and how to others.
Very useful!


Take care, and have a nice week-end![cool]

Karina

In the meantime, I've updated the "Normalize Pose" script:
http://sasha-16.forumprofi.de/showthread.php?tid=140

Cheers!
K