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Subject: easy place to start

rbowen opened this issue on Jul 31, 2008 · 5 posts
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rbowen ( ) posted Thu, 31 July 2008 at 2:07 AM · edited Sat, 28 December 2024 at 6:27 PM

I want to start making morphs and mats for figures such as Victoria 4.  Which program would be an easy place to start?  I currently use Poser and DAZ Studio.

pjz99 ( ) posted Thu, 31 July 2008 at 2:59 AM

How much money are you willing to spend?  For low cost, learn to user Poser's internal magnets - a lot of the pain of making custom morph targets is import/export, and if you can keep it all within Poser it's much simpler.  For textures, look at Gimp (google it).

For high cost, it's very hard to beat Maxon Cinema 4D + interPoser Pro for Poser integration.  Not cheap though.

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rbowen ( ) posted Thu, 31 July 2008 at 3:11 AM

Thank you for your reply.

I am not willing to spend much money, but do want to try a program that will produce morphs and mats for export so that I can sell them as a package for characters such as Victoria 4.  I will check out Gimp for the textures, and will take a look at Maxon Cinema 4D + interPoser Pro, but am really interested in as low a cost as possible.

GKDantas ( ) posted Thu, 31 July 2008 at 7:39 AM

Try Hexagon for creating morphs, you can learn a lot about modelling in

http://www.geekatplay.com/hexagontutorials/

For paint for free I like Artweaver a lot that looks like Photoshop with Painter functions:

http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version

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markschum ( ) posted Thu, 31 July 2008 at 7:03 PM

There are plenty of free paint programs , gimp or photofiltre for example . Something that can do layers is nice .

There is a free offer on truspace at the moment at www.caligari.com.
Other free modellers are blender or wings. Daz has a cheap modeller called Pegasus that would do what you need. 

For morphs you can start with magnets. 

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