When this figure is set for distribution, please regard her as worthy of your artistic efforts.
David P. Hoadley

You've done a great job on the remapping there, David. I'll admit that Posette's looks are't my particular cup of tea, but that's a purely subjective thing, and I'm not about to offer it as anything but. The amount of work you've put into this has definitely paid off, though, and it's a real technical achievement. Well done.

jonthecelt

So... she's finished???? :)

dphoadley @ Casette
Her Hands & Feet still have to be remapped, and spme adjust,enys in the way the facets on the Head-Neck seam line up  together, -but as you can see, she's already poserable.  Email me if you'd, or anybody, would like to mess around with her.  My dream is that Posette should again be a mainstream figure, with people posing her, rendering her, and making clothes, props, and textures exclusively for her. 

She's got great potential, but it's never been fully utilized. Just this morning,  as I sat remapping her lips, spreading the vertices out in an orderly fashion, I was astonded to discover what a real hash her original mappers had made of her lip asn brows.  It's like they got tired, and simple shoved them all together like old socks in a drawer.  Compared to the way V3's verices line up like soldi9ers in formation, Posette's vertices were treated like a rabble.  I can only assume that her original mappers either didn't care to do a good job, or didn't expect Poser figure to be anything more than cartoon props.
DPH

I suspect beauty may well be in the eye of the beholder.

I was going to say the same thing. Have you ever read the book Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance? It was a long time ago that I read it. There was a big discussion on what is quality, and in the end I seem to remember it was really what nearly everyone felt, compared to the minority I guess. Your figure looks very real, and has an unusual sort of beauty but I much prefer the plastic V3 look. Love esther

Not even close!
DPH

Is this a spoof thread? I can't decide. More and more unrealistic, nonsense, soul-less poser standard bumph from 1997. Guys, if you spend too long looking at a single non-real figure, you start to think it's real. Go outside, have a look at real people. Please.

Not real? My poser people aren't real? But I can see them on my screen, and sometimes late at night I hear noises coming from the computer room, and the next day, some things I left in certain places have definitely been moved. And dt00swc, if I went outside, how would I be able to see my puter? My laptop doesn't have enough memory for poser. I think you must be having us on hey. Love esther

Is she supposed to have different coloured eyes?

dphoadley @ **pdblake
**'Is she supposed to have different coloured eyes?'
**
**That's one of the things I did when remapping Posette's eyes, -make each eye texture a seperate material zone. Now there's a Left Eyeball, Left Iris, Left Pupil; and a Right Eyeball, Right Iris, Right Pupil. This allows for each eye to be textured differently. I like the way Posette's eyes look now. They are still Posette's old, Low-Polly, eyes, but when remapped to V3 Texture standards, they can become truly outstanding. Anyone who wants a copy of PosetteV3, email me at: dph@013.net.il

David, I continue to be thrilled with your enthusiasm and passion! And your continual drive to perfect what you do!

dp, this was an amazing effort and the results are amazing too! This is really something.

BTW, did you ever get the MorphWorld2 disc? Is it worth it? I am always trying to decide whether or not to get it... it is just a little too expensive for me :(

Maybe its just the texture you have on her but it looks almost like she has a mouthful of water she's ready to spit out at some unsuspecting victim... It appears like theres an unusual amount of puffiness around her mouth.

I really like everything else about her and would love a copy myself :P

cheers!

That puffy mouth is a morph I believe.

dp, could you give us a render with the head morphed only for smoothness? Did you get those nose and lip smoothing morphs by the hardrat? They are subtle but they really remove some of the Posette features people find most objectional.

Got to give credit wher it is due. That is not an easy task, remapping a figure take a lot of time and hair. Looking good.

Yes, I know these figures do things when we are not around. You should hear the late night cat fights if one of them gets a new outfit and the others don't.

Sorry but that is one ugly model

It's all in the eye of the beholder DPH :) I've yet to see a picture of Posette that I find even remotely attractive.

I will say though ... well done on the remap. It's such hard work, you deserve a pat on the back.

I still can't even get wiktorija to work........ i cant figure it out.  However if i can get this one too when she's available, i'll show these guys whats what lol.  I'd be happy to use her and make beautiful music.

I think it's o.k.-looking. nobody axed me, but using some hdri or advanced lighting techniques is also gonna help with the presentation. decrease iris size, add iris detail, corneal reflections, ambient occlusion or photon mapping, sub-surface scattering, better hairstyle, etc. otherwise it's an unfair comparison with v3/v4 et al.

**dphoadley@**Tiari
Send me an email to dph@013.net.il and I'll be happy to send you a 'Reply to sender wit a copy of the zip file enclosed.

dphoadley@Miss Nancy
Since I'm not at all familiar with all those advance node settings, I'll bemore than happy to send you a copy too, so that you can show us all a true comparison.  even if my Posette should come off second best, it'd stil be interesting just how WELL she did compare.  Email me too at dph@013.net.il

And may everybody DO have a hood and properous week, and may you and yous know only joy!
Yours truly,
David P. Hoadley

LOL the challenge is on to make her scruptiouliscious!  I'm totally game

Posette has always looked like the gamine-type model to me. This remapping project of David's has proved that to me. I think it is a labor of love, and I agree, with some advanced lighting techniques, she would look incredible. David, when she's done, I'd love a copy. I don't do renders of women very often, but I would be very grateful to have this considering your generous offer.

Quote - Posette has always looked like the gamine-type model to me. This remapping project of David's has proved that to me. I think it is a labor of love, and I agree, with some advanced lighting techniques, she would look incredible. David, when she's done, I'd love a copy. I don't do renders of women very often, but I would be very grateful to have this considering your generous offer.

dphoadley@channingg
Email me at dph@013.net.il and I'll send you the zip by reverse mail.
David P. Hoadley
PS: Labor of love is correct, even my wife of 30 years is jealous, fancy that. ;=)

I don't think I can do a sample render this week but I would like to see this with RealSkinShader and all that.

Above a P4 render with everything pretty much default. The boots as her feet are not textured.  Dp is there a way to rename everything so V3 Matposes will work?

'Dp is there a way to rename everything so V3 Matposes will work?'

Possibly a search and replace of the obj file in a text editor, like Editpad  Lite.  Send me a list of the Material zones you'd like to match up with V3's default one's, and I'll see what I can do.
Tell, me, is that a discoloration between hip and thigh that needs attention, or is it the texture itself?  Does the UV Map need tweaking?
DPH

Here see lip and back of neck. I don't know what the hip is about.

Amazing work, dp.

the back of the Neck/Head is Skinscalp on PosetteV3.  What's teh matter with the lip?  Also, check the eye morphs, I do believe that I included in the Cr2 Duane Moody's Iris Big and Pupil Small MT's.  use thaes to adjust the Iris and Pupil size so that she doesn't look so amphetamine struck. ;=)
DPH

NO offense sir  and great job of remapping and all
but  posette does not look like a human female or even a good "CG" human
she looks like a  generation1  Zygote 3D  plastic mannequin despite your Loving efforts

every person outside the poser "community' that has seen the attached render has
asked me who this "person"  only after close examination of the obvious flaws in the clothing do they realize its not a real human face.

Sorry but your right        possete is "not even close"... to looking human
but  to each thier own i guess.

Quote - > Quote - Not even close!

DPH

NO offense sir  and great job of remapping and all
but  posette does not look like a human female or even a good "CG" human
she looks like a  generation1  Zygote 3D  plastic mannequin despite your Loving efforts

every person outside the poser "community' that has seen the attached render has
asked me who this "person"  only after close examination of the obvious flaws in the clothing do they realize its not a real human face.

Sorry but your right        possete is "not even close"... to looking human
but  to each thier own i guess.

Ham.
Madam, how like you this play?

Queen.
**The lady doth protests too much, methinks.
DPH
**

Hey, folks, damn...

Of course Posette is an old model. Of course all the Vickies get better and higher realism than her, including her cousins (or sisters?) Jessi and Sydney

But dphoadley is doing a great work putting again Posette in the fireline as a very usable (and light) model. I've seen the recent work posted by Tiari and I was stunned. With V3 textures, The  Updated and Improved Posette is a very usable model again

So... Go, David, Go !!! :woot:

"**The lady doth protests too much, methinks.
**DPH"

Ironic

Daggers of the mind!

David, would you mind sending your beta to me? I'd love to give her a go in Daz Studio to see if I can come up with something like Tiari?

dphoadley @ **channingg
**Email me at dph@013.net.il, and I'll be more thatn happy to send you a copy.
Hapy Passover
David P. Hoadley

I like Posette. I have LOTS of stuff for Posette. I have LOTS of textures for V3. Does this remapped version of Posette still wears Posette's own clothes? If she does, I'll be sure to email you dphoadley! I would much prefer to use Posette with her own clothes than having to convert all her wardrobe to fit a Victoria. ;o)

No postwork was done, other than a lighting filter applaid in Photoshop.
I also believe that the remapping has improved her posability.  Still a little problem with the elbows and knees, but then everybody complains about V3's shouldes.  Nothing wrong with Posette's shoulders though.

Thanks David. Email sent already! ;o)

David, you did a fantastic job on her! I love the new look!

Only thing is there are 2 or 3 times the same material zones listed in the cr2 file. Is it only because it is still a WIP? I noticed after applying textures that after the first batch of material zones were textured the rest of the list didn't change anything.

Here is what she looks for me now:

I especially like the way her eyelashes render now, after remapping them to V3's transparency maps.
Material zone may not be repetative.  There are ones that designate like Mouth Top and Mouth bottom, eyeball left, eyeball Right, etc.  These are so that you can texture seperate items seperately.  On the other hand, if you noticed somwthing seperate, that I may have overlooke, feel free to email me at: dph@013.net.il
Davide P.  Hoadley

Well maybe I don't understand exactly what you're saying here.

This is the list of materials in the cr2 file (the materials that are listed at the bottom of the file and for which we can apply a texture if we want):

material skin
material nipple
material lips
material SkinHead
material MouthTop
material MouthBottom
material RightEar
material Skinscalp
material Nostrals
material LeftEar
material tongue
material Gums
material teethLower
material teethUpper
material lashes
material Leftpupil
material Leftiris
material Lefteyeball
material Rightpupil
material Rightiris
material Righteyeball
material Hands
material fingerNails
material Feet
material toenail
material Preview

Now in Poser Material Room all those material zones are listed but after the "material Preview" are all these other material zones listed. And they are not useful at all. They don't change anything to the texture.

I sure don't understand why these are listed in Poser since they do not appear in the material settings of the cr2 file but this is a screenshot so I didn't dream it. lolll