*'The Face room, contrary to popular demand does not change the surface of a figure's facial geometry.'*

Actually this isn't true. You have a whole load of morphs for creating custom heads and faces in the Face Room including race, age and gender morphs - certainly in P6 anyway. I think it's the photo texture creation that is somewhat limited and difficult to use, but it is possible. I don't know how FaceGen works, but it seems unlikely that face geometry is created by simply importing a photo - perhaps in a limited way based on front and side elevation contours. In Poser6 you can affect model geometry at rendertime using displacement maps, but this introduces a whole other level of creative skills and required apps.

You arn't neccessarily going to get fantastic close-up render results with the P6 Face Room texture creator; you really need to create your textures in an external app using seam guides for this. But I have found it more than adequate for designing characters (only with the EF stock figures of course). See pic - a Faceroom character using James (expressions also created or modified using the faceroom and then saved as morph targets).

 

PoserPro2014(Sr4), Win7 x64, display units set to inches.

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