michalki opened this issue on Dec 21, 2000 ยท 18 posts
Mehndi posted Fri, 22 December 2000 at 6:40 AM
To try to answer all of your questions: Will other maps for Vicki fit Saluda? Yes, though there is seperate mapping in the areas of the genitals, nipples and lips. Saluda includes genital, lip and nipple maps, and there are literally dozens of others also to use to match various skin tones for free as well, on Morphworld 2, by Jaager. Is the fix to her shoulders, square jaw, chicken legs, etc, all just morphs available on morphworld 2, so you could swiftly whip out your own Saluda? Swift... hrm. Saluda took Jaager and I 4 months to create. Over 350 hours... I began to lose count in the end. Over 1 gig total of old versions of her before everything was "just right". Morph targets... Some are ones that Jaager has been good enough to make available on morphworld 2. Run grab them :) all good stuff! However, much of what goes into making Saluda unique from anything out there are custom morphs, built by myself and Jaager to create a body type that fitted the vision of Saluda that is unique from any existing version of Vicki. They are not available anywhere save on Saluda. Also, your own morphs, or ones done by others will work just as well on Saluda as on any Vicki, since we have not modified the base geometry. There is no guarantee they will create a pleasing look. That is up to each person, and how they turn those dials. But they will load and they will work. Though no one asked this, it is important, I think. Fingers are fixed in Saluda, so you get no more icky broken fingers when posing the hands. We include literally dozens and dozens of library settings, faces, hands, poses, lights, camaras, you name it. This is our concept package, and all others I do will be like this as well. You can literally unzip, install, and start rendering to get quality ready to use renders. There is enough here to do that. You of course later will be making your own poses, and own library settings, but to get you started, you have all of mine too. Saluda is anatomically correct. She also has a second version of her in the same 2 cr2 files, that of being pregnant. This is not a ball on the front of her abdomen as the other Vicki pregnancy solutions have been, but a genuine effort at creating convincing pregnancy as it affects a womans body from head to toe. Our Beta Tester Marque was WONDERFUL help here to me in this, she is a nurse, and a mother as well, and took pains to work with me on the medical side of pregnancy to be certain we had the right look. We include two texture map sets, a brunette base set, and a blonde base set. Each of these sets has variations for freckles, pubic hair, no pubic hair, no freckles, basically a mix and match wardrobe of body textures... so that in total there are 8 body textures along with Saluda, not just your standard 1. At this time my plans are to also develop additional assets to go with Saluda. A red head texture set is fairly well done, and merely needing final tweeks before release. More clothing morphs to fit her, other things that go with her. These are for the future though. As she stands now, she is the most complete solution to "download and render" on the market.