Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: to anyone who has bought the Renda character

shedofjoy opened this issue on Jun 22, 2005 ยท 274 posts


AlleyKatArt posted Thu, 23 June 2005 at 5:04 AM

Figured I'd go ahead and speak up, now. I got Renda yesterday and busily set about working on a morph package for her, since, er, to be honest, she's got a LOT of things to fix. I'm not talking about things that are just a different build than I may want. I'm talking things that no human can or should have. Renda has been built in such a way that it makes it almost impossible for me to work with her in my morphing program, unless I want to spend over a month on each individual bodypart. I intended to smooth out her breasts, since they have, much like Ruffles potato chips, ridges in them. I couldn't. Every time I tried to smooth a section out, a new section had issues, some going so far as to slice into the existing 'breast tissue' when I tried to fix them. And it's not a matter of me using bad software or not knowing how to use it. I've used this software since early 2003 and the ONLY OBJs I've had issues with have been those of a non-professional standard. (Those having triangular polys, for example seem to cause minor issues.) She's low poly where she should be high and high poly where she should be low. Who really needs 90 poly nipples? Especially when the breasts themselves are almost disturbingly squared off at certain angles. I know the unimesh figure has similarly high polys in that area, but considering the relative lack in the rest of the mesh, it seems SILLY. Maybe it's because I already own several quality female figures (V3, S3, Solondra III, Animlisa, Aiko...) and I've been spoiled... But even MAYADOLL, which is a FREE figure, is better quality. Renda strikes me as a cheap attempt to knock off V3. She's like Victoria's deformed, evil twin. She even fits in V3's clothes with a minimum of break through. (Mostly because Renda has a lot of ass. She puts JLo to shame.) Have you noticed how the promo images of Renda have her legs bent in only ONE shot, and it's from BEHIND? (And there's STILL deformation, specifically in her buttocks!) Her UV maps are also badly set up. Renda's lips are in a seperate section, which makes it harder for texturists to blend the lip/skin area realistically. I know what I'd be feeling if I'd purchased this mesh, right now. Fury at being tricked and swindled. I'm sad to say, the best I've been able to get poor Renda's breasts to look, so far, is when I accidentally turned them into saggy boobs, or when I inflated them to the point that even Wyrmmaster's women look like gymnasts.

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