I thought that maybe a thread to show off other combined figures by other artists might be of interest here. Hack em and Stack em and Show them off, kind of thingy.

Open to all to show your stuff. Be it good or bad or in between Let see what you got.

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Very funny Fazzel, but you're not fooling me! I know Miki when I see her!

Quote - Very funny Fazzel, but you're not fooling me! I know Miki when I see her!

Okay, you got me there. I admit it.

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SP3 body

Holy Hannah Barberra!!  Neyjour, that is gorgeous!

Thanks Stevie!  I did a crop of her for this thread, but the full pic is in my gallery if you'd like to take a look. 

Jeez!  I'm so envious!  You guys are posting great images...I tried to mix and match, and it turned out like a bad scene from a Frankenstein movie! :woot: haha

OMG, that H3/M3 guy is awesome !!! Sooo hot, just love the face ! And makes great Inuyasha drool

heeh heeh Thanks, vilian. ^^ Awhile back, I did a male "police-lineup" of all the male figures, front, side, and back. There are pluses and minuses to each figure. So I had this idea to take the best of all the male figures and combine them to make a new kickass male figure! I leaned heavy on H3 and M3 since I think they are the strongest for what I do. I stopped working on H3M3 awhile. Maybe I will have to work on him again, I have better tools to work with now. ^^ bB

Oh please start working on him again ! And of course please share some more pics ^.^

So give it up people ..... is everybody "Frankensteining" here ?

Mathman, are telling us to give it up, as in to quite doing this?

Or, are you asking how we did this.

I blended the neck of L3 and A3 Xin Xin with magnets, then exported the A3 neck and up with the L3 neck down. Hacked the L3 .Cr2 to point to the new .object. The Bel/Hiro I did 2 ways if I remember right. One I exported all the figure groups of Hiro and loaded them back in to BelBel as morph targets. The other I created a new neck for the BelBel/Hiro neck by splicing the two in Wings3d.

There is also Shapeshifter at PhilC's site. It is a FREE Python script that changes head/bodies of all unimesh figures or any figures that use the same mesh.  There is a bit of neck distortion but I found that using a magnet with a large Mag zone on the head can fix it quite well.

Thanks

beryld, no I certainly wasn't asking you to quit.... I meant as in "give up your secrets"...
BTW, thanks for the tip re Shapeshifter.

I kind of figured that.

My first was AnimeDollM3. (I followed the tutorial). I have done many more hybrids (M3Freak, SPA3, V3M3, V3MM3, M3H3D3Freak, SPV3, A3V3, M3Luke, M3Matt, M3Apollo, M3Baby3, GremlinOni, M3V3, etc)  but most of them were lost when my machine died. I don't have pictures of them either. The H3/M3 image I was able to recover from the Poser Pros' forum.  The wildest hybrid I attempted was making Mill Dog a Bi-ped that could wear M3 clothes. After awhile it became obvious that it wouldn't work, there aren't enough polygons to work with, not to mention, I would have change MilDog's groups so he would loose all his morphs. And he posed like crap too. Oh well. It was fun experiment.

Some of the tools I use are:

Blacksmith3D -
This is my main tool now. H3M3 was made with Blacksmith. All my custom head morphs are done in Blacksmith now too. Easy way to fix texture seams too.

Wardrobe Wizard -
Yep. I use good old WW's "smooth" to fix head and neck seams. Works like a charm.

Poser Tool Box -
Good for morph target obj export/import and face putty-ing a basic face shape with super smooth magnets.

UMT (Universal Morph Transfer) -
I used UMT to convert and make INJs of custom heads between group 1 and group 2 Daz Mil3 figures. Older Frankenstiens like taking a custom M3 head and reverse aging to Mill Baby were done this way.

Magnets, Obj exports, Morph Targets
Using Poser tools to take one head and pop it on another. Used for Gremlin/Oni. Now Oni can wear Wardrobe Wizard converted clothes for Gremlin. ^^

ShapeShifter -
Kam's easy python script  to swap Mil3 head.

Other hybrids on my list of  To Do's are:
Koji-M3, Miki-M3.  A3H3-MilBaby.
Koji has a great face and expresisons so I want try to popping him onto M3's body. But I may not be able to get a Bishie look of him, so I was wondering if a masculinized Miki would work. And of course making a cute Chibi figure with Mil Baby would be cool. ^^

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For mine, I just loaded SP3 and V3 and applied the same pose to both.  Then hide the SP3 head and V3 body.  Tweak the positioning a little to get both to match up as best as possible, and that's it.  Fairly quick and easy if you don't have the time (or skills) to actually merge the meshes, create new necks, etc.

BastBlack, what tutorial were you referring to ? .... also how do you deal with the situation where the texture mapping between two characters is completely unrelated, e.g. Koji-M3 ?

Postwork. Unless you have the time to remap the UV's.

The AnimeDoll/M3 tutorial is at Ebonshire.
http://www.ebonshire.net/freebies/p-misc2.php

I haven't done the Koji M3 figure yet.  True, matching textures will take some work ( it would be cool to remap Koji to match M3.)

1. I would first try to match textures that look smiliar to start with. Koji 1 has a brillant texture, so I would try to find a M3 texture to match. Perhaps ApoGraphix's Naoko body  texture for M3? Or maybe UTC the International Beauties 4 to M3?

2. Tweak two base texture maps in photoshop for hue, saturation, and value.

3. Take two sample areas of the each texture map and make seamless tileable texture to used in Blacksmith3D as a texture brush.

4. Import new hybrid obj with texture maps applied to Blacksmith3D. Import 2 texture brushes.  Paint head and neck seam to blend the two textures together.

Wala!

bB

This is a character I'm still working on for a new image.  Couldn't find or make an M3 head morph that I liked, so I decided to try sticking V3's head on there instead.  Worked out pretty well. 

BASTBLACK..... I would love to have your M3H3 character, also. Any plans for bringing him to the public?

Neyjour.... Gorgeous work!! I'll have to try that. How did you get the neck looking so perfect?

Thanks Unicornst! 

I increased the size of the head a bit and moved it around until the edges matched up as close as possible with the edges of M3's neck.  There was still a tiny gap under the jaw that I couldn't match up, so I took care it with postwork... the 'Push' and 'Soften' brushes in PSP8. 

It's brilliant! Thanks for letting me know the details.

Here is the Mill Lion
Freak

She might be refering to something yamato did a while back with the Infamous Tenten Hybrid of V2/V3 where it talks about how to do hybrids yourself.

There IS a market for this!  IF ANYONE can figure out a utility to take HEAD-A and put it on BODY-B and morphing a neck to fit, They'd make a fortune.

As far as Hybrids go--Toshiyo has one in the marketplace called Satoko: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?ViewProduct=40793  which goes on a VARIETY of other bodies! IE:**Victoria2, Victoria3, Stephanie3, Aiko3, GIRL, Preteen, PreSchool figures!

Wow!** Sorry--got the bold button stuck! :lol: LOL  Anyway--On topic, also Eszter or something like that which puts another new head on V3's body.

You,too, can make money by putting your own head (ONE YOU MADE--goofball, not the one on your shoulders) on someone else's figure!

Now all I have to do is figure out how!  ^__^ v,,

A couple of other hybrids out there: there's Yamato's Temn-ten, a V2/V3 hybrid, and Little_Dragon's Millenium Catwoman, which has the Mil-Cat head on the V2 body. BastBlack, if you could do something similar with the Mil-Dog, I'm sure there are people who would use it.

Oooooooo.... more hybrids.  teehee fun! ^^

Good news! I found a backup copy of H3/M3!  Yes!

Putting MillDog head on M3?   I've done that actually. lol. ... but I did it mostly for the ears. ;)
MillDog, head-only, figure can morphed to look like a helmet ontop of M3's head, hide the head and only show the ears, or replace M3's head with the MillDog head.

It's been on my To-Do list to add more morphs to Mill Dog's ears. It's bizarre they aren't boned for movement, imho.

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What Little_Dragon did was make an extra body-part which fitted between the Mil-Cat head and the V2 Neck, providing the back of the head and allowing Mil-Cat head mmorphs to still work (dor some values of "work". I've a couple of examples in my gallery, here and here

Hmmm... I don't think I'll need to do that because dogs have more of a neck than cats so there is geometry there to work with. I'll experiment tonight. I think the trickest part will the UV maps.

bB

They are amazing! I am so new to this I would not even know where to begin to try and create something like that. Is there a tutorial on this sort of thing or is it just something you pick up along the way?