PosetteV3 is standard Posette remapped by yours truly to V3 texture mapping.  While this is a Work In Progress, one can already see some of what’s in store with this figure:

1. V3 head texturing.
2. Eyebrows that are less problematic.
3. Separate texturing on both the left and right eye.
4. Cute delicate ears. ;=)

And even more to come.  Stay tuned to Poser Forum.
DPH

I can't wait !!!

Looking good :) uploading to anywhere other than Rapidshare would make me ecstatic (hint hint)

Looking very good - you have put a lot of work into this. Very well done!

The ears are absolutelly wonderful indeed!;)

I'd love to try out V3 textures on Posette with Thorne's morphs...:)

I'm remapping the teeth.  When I'm done with those, I'm going to need some Beta testors to try out and check Posette's new V3 texture mapping.  What I especially need to know is whaere I've made mistakes, and what needs to be tweaked (if possible).  Volunteers email me at: dph@013.net.il
David P. Hoadley

Looks really good, Dave!!

oh yeah..named after the legendary ship Emer Essen, from Dead men don't wear Plaid..;)
Have to admit I couldn't do this...great work.

Fantastic work Dave! There will always be a need more more efficient well mapped Poser figures.

Quote - oh yeah..named after the legendary ship Emer Essen, from Dead men don't wear Plaid..;)
Have to admit I couldn't do this...great work.

Sorry Pakled, but that Emer is simply a typo.  It was SUPPOSED to be Emerges, but by the time I discovered my mistake, it was too late to edit.  Ah well, my bad -;=)
DPH

I can't wait!!  If you need someone with server space to host her too, just look me up!

That looks fabulous! I'm dying to try it!

David, she looks fantastic !! :)
Thanks for all of your hard work !

Just give us a shout when she's ready to download!  She looks faboo!  Wooooohoooo!  I'm all tingly like! :lol:  Gimme,gimme,gimme!

Wonderful work!    Looking forword to it !

yay!  i bet i could use tons of her at once!

With a Posette to Vicky 3 vertice ratio of  7 to 1,  in an average scene you could at least load between 14 to 21 of my Posettes.  now, while that may not be a ton, I'd say that it is indeed a goodly number. ;=)
DPH

i'm really looking forward to this!  nice work, david!

*" I hav'nt seen P4F improved upon in years, and am yet to have found a complimenting texture!"  (see following thread)

dphoadley @ Aangelouscuitry
Have you ever tried Pitklad's NEAena?  He's appearantly made some major update's to Posette's head (completely flattened the eyebrow ridges, exchanged the teeth for a teeth prop, and substituted V2's eyes for those of Posette's, plus he used the Aprish's (Aprilish?0 V2 mapped Posette as his base figure, so NEAena uses V2 textures.  I thought about using his Posette version for my remap, but decided I wanted to try with the Classic Posette first (V2's texture has basically the same flaw as Posette's, i.e. a body textuer that's devided into two sections -a front and a back -and in which the seams don't seem to match up too well). 

I thought that I'd then clone the none V3 remap parts of these other versions (PosetteWG-Posette With Genitals, NEAena, etc.) onto my PosetteV3.  Thus, I'd clone the PosetteWG's genital hip onto PosetteV3 hip, and then remap the hip itself to comply to the overall V3 Mapping.  Or I'd clone NEAena's head onto PosetteV3's neck, and then remap the head (again).  And, just possibly, I'd do both, and create a third version that's incorporate thoses parts of both into one grand SuperPosette [PosetteG2(?]).
But I'm open to suggestions on how and where to carry this.
David P. Hoadley

As for a tutorial (See following Thread), UV Dan has suggested the same thing.  The truth is though, I don't REALLY know what i'm doing!  I'm just DOING it, and learning as I go (which is why I want the Beta-Testors to tell me what I'm doing wrong). 

I will say this, I look for similarity of pattern in either the Posette Mesh, and/or the V3 template, and try to match them up.  Also, I first matched up the Standard Posette front texture (Nipples, Navel, and Groin) with thoses of V3.   I then devided the back texture longitudianlly aloong the spine, and laterally  just below the  armpits,  and assigned each of the four sections to a NEW seperate material zone (Right & Left Buttocks, and Right & Left Shoulders).  After that, I started to marry-up the outside edges of each tthe outside edges of the front material.  And I'm still in the process of doing that.

With the Head texture, I did so9mething similar.  First I assigned bother sections of the head to New seperate material zones, i.e. SkinHead & SkinScalp.  I then tried to match the Nose and the Eyes of the SkinHed mesh to those of the V3 template, and woried about the mouteh and Lips afterwards.  I then devided the SkinScalp material into a Right and Left half, and then started marrying-up their outside edges to those of the SkinHead (See the screenshots).

Yours truly,
David P. Hoadley
PS: If someone wants to work all this into a tutorial, I'll be more than happy to work with them, but I'm not sure how to do THAT all by myself.

Good stuff DP!

i think what you're doing is amazing and looks great.  you should feel quite confident about your work.

Thankyou Cobaltdream, your words of encouragement mean a lot to me.  Please feel free to comment of critisize as yu see fit.  I'm a little worrie dthat the shadowing in the nose isn't quite right.  Any ideas?
DPH

Ya beat me to it, DP. I'm not sure where it's located on the texture but the inner nose should be darkened. Have a wee bit of nostril glow.

I discovered a unique way for guarenteeing the both side of the body would be symetrical -and also a time in the mappin process.  After haing mapped one half of the body (and checking the results in Poser), I saved a template a template in UV Mapper.  This template I then imported into Photoshop.  There, with the selection tool, I selecter the good half and copied it to an new layer.  This new layer I then fliped horizontally, and then moved it until it matched up with the vertices on the bottom layer.  I then merged the layers and saved the resultes.  In UV Mapper, I still have to move the vertices by hand, but I no longer need to guess where to put them, which is INDEED a timesaver.  As I said earlier, you .learn by doing.
Shabbat Shalom
David P. Hoadley

Great work with your 'Emer' !!!

(bad joke)

:lol:

This is coming together very well.

I have to take my off to you sir. In the dictionary, next to the word 'Dedication' is your photograph.

I spent over 10 hours yesterday, trying to fix the bloody, pesky, eyebrows, and some distortion on the upper lip.  Finally, in desperation, I got a brainstorm, and decided that I'd try to borrow Pitklad's NEAena Posette.  True, NEA is mapped to the V2 standard, but I suddenly had an idea of how I could use her head as a template, for mapping the eyebrows.  I loaded NEA into UV Mapper, and selected the Skinhead material.  I then saved a template of this as a bmp picture.

 I then opened the DAZ UTC application and converted the V2 NEA head template to a V3 head template.  This I then loaded into UV Mapper and used it as a guide for getting a smoother texture mapping of PosetteV3’s eyebrows.  I then assigned the eyebrow’s material to the Skinhead zone, and thus eliminated the eyebrows as a separated independent material zone.

I then downloaded an eyebrow morph from: http://cresswells.com/cw/index.html, that was suggested to me by Antonio Cabñas, who’s been good enough to do some beta testing for me.  This morph seemed to flatten the brows better than my previous ones, and what with the better blending of the brows with the forehead that I now had, I decided to make it permanent, so I exported the figure, with the morph set to 1.200, as a wavefront object.

 Aside from that, I’ve remapped Posette’s fingernails and
toenails, and made partial progress on the mapping of the right hand.  More will follow.

Yours truly,
David P. Hoadley

it's looking good!  i'm really glad you're doing this painstaking work.

It's amazing, David! Really great work here!

Would Raunchy Minds like to host a copy of the finished model?  I intend for this to be a Freebie.
DPH

Would Raunchy Minds like to host a copy of the finished model?  I intend for this to be a Freebie.
DPH

woohoo!

apollo, emer, miki2... this has been a great month!

 
Just a little more work, remapping a couple of toes of the left foot, and PosetteV3 will be ready for distribution.  Then I can mope around the house again, ... until that is, I start to work on DorkM3.  PosetteV3 would be lonely without her lover. ;=)

posetteV3 with Panko's FREE V3 VietCong texture.
Chair Freebie (Don't remember whose)
Chinese Vase Freebie (Don't remember whose)
DAD's Umbrella
Flexible Screen (Don't remember whose)
Yamotosan's Linlin JP Correction Pose applaid for joint correction.

Rendered in Poser 5 with the three standard lights.
Moderately postworked in Photoshop.
To get the final effect, after doing photo touchup with the smudge, clone, burn, and blurring tool, I duplicated the layrer. I desaturated the top layer, and set opacity to 60%. To this layer I also applaid a light effect filter to slightly darken the scene and add to the mood.

PosetteV3 is an excellent model, and I believe that poly count is of minor importance as to quality of the texture applaid. Panko" is very good.

wow!  so she's all done?  woohoo!  i'm finally organizing my runtimes, too (rather than just using them).  now all i need is that app that would take the original obj out of the morph, and i'll be all set.  some of my old posette morphs aren't just the difference, they're the posette face with the new morph, so they don't combine properly.  any advice on that?

Quote - ...some of my old posette morphs aren't just the difference, they're the posette face with the new morph, so they don't combine properly.  any advice on that?

dphoadley@Colbaltdream:
Not sure what you mean, could you please elaborate?  Is it connected to PosetteV3's smoothed brow?
DPH

ok.

so way back when posette was the main girl, and people were pretty free with sharing stuff, lots of morphs were the whole obj.  for instance, a head morph was the whole head, and distributed part of the mesh instead of just the difference (deltas).  then i believe traveler (of rdna fame) published info about morph squishing.  i believe his aim was just to make the morphs smaller and more portable, most people being on dial-up.  but it also serves the purpose of protecting the original mesh.

but some of my posette morphs are quite old.  i came around after v2 was out, but there was still a huge amount of posette content, and posette had a ton of custom made morphs.  i don't think i even have all the ones i once downloaded.  i think she has more custom morphs than v3, and almost definitely more body morphs.  but i digress.  the thing is that some of these morphs are the whole posette head.  so even on, say, linlin, they don't combine well. it affects any difference between the two morphs.  so if one morph just changes the eyes, and the next just changes the lips, to make the two work together is pretty much impossible because each will set the other back to the original shape.

but i know that there once was a morph "squishing" application or script.  i'm pretty sure that people need something like it today for distributing any custom morphs for daz figures.  if you have just the differences recorded, you can layer that eye and lip morph.

WOW!

Jeeze that was a massive amount of  labor.  Hopefully someone will offer a little place to serve her. 

 Very Impressive in your dedication, to completion.