Ikyoto opened this issue on Mar 14, 2006 ยท 42 posts
Blackhearted posted Wed, 15 March 2006 at 12:55 PM
"The problematic thing are figures whith a very different eye-shape (like Miki and Jessi)" everyones eyes should be spherical (or slightly inwards-elongated spheres, but i dont think anyones that anatomically accurate in poser). if theyre not - if theyre horizontally elongated spheres or egg-shaped or something - then thats a mistake on the part of the morph maker (deforming the eyes along with the face when they morph). if its the outer eye shape thats, say, slanted or squinty or something then that should pose no problem if the morph was made with spherical eyes since the socket will still be spherical. its just a matter of adjusting the x/y/z position of the eyes, might take a few tries and you may need to set the eyes further apart or closer together than you originally tried. examine the original eyes that came with the figure. if they are not spherical then thats a problem with the actual figure itself. its easy to make an oriental face morph by just pulling the eyes around - doing it without altering the underlying spherical eye socket and eyeballs is much more difficult, and the least you should expect in a decent morph in this stage of poser development. to sum it up (i havent had my coffee yet and the above is probably unintelligable): if the eye socket on a morph fits a spherical eye, then any eye can be adapted to it easily - its just a matter of finding the proper centres and depth. if it uses some strange misshapen eye then you cannot fit a 3rd party eye to it in its default form, but if it uses a misshapen eyeball then the morph isnt very 'clean' to begin with. a lot of older morphs (3-4 years ago) had this problem, but by now every merchant should know better. "You're right about Miki/Koji/who-ever and budget. They're very expensive and I had to decide too if to buy some more V3-stuff or give a new shape a chance." i didnt mean to imply they were too expensive or anything - in fact in the poser world we have it pretty cheap, quality 3D content is generally prohibitively expensive and only in this community do we find things for $5 or (shudder) .99 cents. i just have a lot to budget for right now - like replacing my tired old lemon - so i am only purchasing products i need for my work (utilities, hair, etc). i dont think ill be personally supporting her - i learned that lesson with stephanie petite and irina - when V3 was made 'free' a week before she was released it trashed my sales since everyone wanted it redone for V3. noones going to buy miki for $50-100, then a remorphed character/texture from me for $20, then clothing for that character. ill stick with V3 or whatever else is free. plus shes kindof a niche character. not saying irina did poorly - but she would have sold twice the amount had she been made for V3. creating a V3 version now would be like kicking all the customers that bought the SP3 version of her, so thats not going to happen either. ah well, live and learn. cheers, -gabriel