Lady Cherry opened this issue on Jan 24, 2003 ยท 29 posts
lesbentley posted Fri, 24 January 2003 at 6:10 PM
Posette has a MUCH nicer default body shape than Victoria (1 or 2, both are same geom), I also prefer her one part breasts, that is they are part of the chest, not in the collars, they are easier to control, easier to morph, and just look more natural to me. Victoria 2s breasts look kind of rigid and stuck on. Posette would be a lot better than Victoria 2, if she had a few more judiciously placed polygons, and much better joints. Victorias (Take it that I am referring to V2 when I say Victoria) mons pubis is another big problem aria, for one thing, looking from the front the angle is too wide, this aria does not look natural, and the overall body shape is just awful. On the plus side she has somewhat better joints, Posettes hip/thigh interface is particularly awful. Posette is particularly short of polys on the ears, eyelashes, chin, breasts, buttock, and genital aria. LateXa V2 has considerably better joints than Posette, whos geometry she is based on, they are also better than Victorias, but not many have the object and she also suffers from the two part breasts. Victorias file sizes are two big, both the object (due to injudicious scattering of polys), and the cr2 is too big due to too many morphs. I dont have Victoria 3, but feel that morph injection is definitely the way to go. Here is my wish list, the figure I want is like this: Supports morph injection, some sensible naming convention should be used, e.g. each body part could have 3 blank morph channels called M01 M02 M03 (its not necessary to use body parts in the names). The head should have enough extra channels to support phonemes and expression morphs, plus 2 or 3 channels for shape morphs. The chest should have at least 6 channels (for breast motion compensation morphs, right, left, up, down, lay down). The hip at least 10 (the hip is a good place to put all sorts of ERC stuff, better than the BODY, as its easy to cursor select), all other parts should have 3 (you could consider putting more is the hands, for various grasp type things. It would be good if the figure came with some facial expressive morphs but this is not essential, no others would be necessary, as people will be flocking to make morphs for this. The figure would have a similar polygon count to Posette, except in the arias mentioned earlier. She should have a high enough poly count in the hip to allow for good quality genitals to be constructed (and this would probably be quite high). She would come with a reasonable quality texture (its so disappointing to get a new figure and not have a texture to use with it). Consider adapting one of Staales. Above all I think that good joints are something that is lacking in Posette and Victoria, make a figure with good joints and youre on a winner. As to the body shape, Posette is good, but wider hips thicker thighs, smoother belly, shorter neck, and as a last personal note; I like small breasts, but I know I am outnumbered. To sum up: Good body shape. Good face. Good joints. Reasonable default texture. Not too high a polygon count. Morph injection supported (via use blank channels and of sensible naming convention), actual morphs not necessary, but facial expression morphs would be a nice bonus.