smooh opened this issue on Apr 01, 2005 ยท 55 posts
randym77 posted Sat, 02 April 2005 at 5:52 AM
Opera Guy...IMO, no, you can't make the Girl look very different with her standard morph pack. Her face is quite distinct. However, check out "Boopsie" by Capsces (for sale at DAZ). When that morph pack came out, it almost made me buy the Girl. You can even turn her into a boy. Though how you dress her after her sex change is an issue.
Qualien, I don't mean I want more buttocks morphs for Jessi and James. LOL! I mean I want buttocks body parts, to help with posing. Compare Jessi and Judy, and you'll see what I mean. (Or Posette and Judy, if you don't have Jessi.) Jessi is jointed like Posette, Judy is jointed like Vicky.
Having those extra body parts does make posing more confusing for newbies, but IMO, it's worth it. Posette was a great figure for her time, but her mesh tends to break at the shoulders and hips in fairly ordinary poses. (Bending over, with a hand on her head, etc.)
The reasons this is an issue for support... One, J&J's Posette-style rigging is a turnoff for most users. It's keeping people who might otherwise embrace these figures from using them. That obviously affects support.
Two, some people are supposedly working on improving J&J's rigging. Not CL, but some third-party types. I assume they would give them a Vicky/Judy type rigging. If they do that, they will pose better, but any conforming clothing made for J&J will no longer fit. Again, a likely merchant issue that will affect support.
As it is, a lot of people are holding off making stuff for Jessi, because CL has said they are going to change the rigging on her feet.
These problems are really unfortunate, because if the community is going to embrace a new figure, they generally do so shortly after it appears. I think people really wanted to like Jessi, but the rigging was a big disappointment.