stahlratte opened this issue on Sep 30, 2006 · 557 posts
stahlratte posted Sat, 30 September 2006 at 2:33 PM
Many thanks for the kind words.
Even though The GIRL wasn´t the first poserized toon, she is of course the mesh that started the "Toon Craze".
But despite her high quality, she strangely isn´t the most popular toon mesh, and I´m sure the main reason is her exaggerated body.
So an AIKO -GIRL hybrid was an idea I had for quite some time, but as I already had made similar V2 and NEA based Toons for myself I never really came around doing her.
But now that there are tons of AIKO clothes out there and with Yungturk asking for this hybrid a few weeks ago, I finally gave her a try.
GIRL 3 is a "true" hybrid, i.e. the body IS original AIKO geometry and not just shaped and grouped like AIKO.
So she not just can wear AIKO clothes without problem, you also can transfer all AIKO morphs/channels with MorphManager.
(Including the realistic morphs)
Same for the head of course, which can use all GIRL character and expression morphs.
The only exemption is the neck, which, because it is custom made, can use neither GIRL nor AIKO morphs.
So if you do some very extreme morphing for the body or the head, you might have to blend the neck in with magnets or a modelling programm.
Please keep in mind that to protect DAZ copyrights the object file is DOUBLE RTE-encoded and to save bandwith all morphs have been stripped out, so you´ll have to put them back with MorphManager.
It´s not that complicated, but please read the instructions so you can perform all necessary steps in the correct order.
I tried my best to smooth the neck as much as possible, but as the AIKO and GIRL meshes are very different, you still might need a wee bit of postwork depending on the pose.
But this of course also happens with "all original" figures. ;-)
Finally, she comes preloaded with a custom made facemorph to make her a bit less stylized.
It´s set at 0.5 and quite subtle, but if you need the 100% original GIRL face, just set it back to 0.
As with all hybrids, some things work less perfect than with the originals, so they need a little extra work sometimes (Like when you fit hair), but otoh you´ll have something special that lets you do things you couldn´t do with the normal Poser folks. :-)
Stahlratte