Forum: Vue


Subject: Anyone test Michael4 out in Vue, yet? :)

silverblade33 opened this issue on Oct 21, 2008 · 27 posts


dburdick posted Sun, 26 October 2008 at 11:08 AM

Quote - Thanks for the quick response, Dave.
Well, I agree it will be nicer to have the higher resolution maps, but I dont. Since the fixup for skinvue just specified it will work for  "M4" and not that it will work ONLY for "M4 with high resolution"  I assumed it will work for the base M4. Silly me.
Your advie for a work around isnt actually acurate. 2_SkinTorso is the one that has the reference to the wrong map (or rather the map that doesnt include the hip). It uses the 'bald' map. This is OK for all other torso parts but NOT the hip.
A working 'work-around' would be to edit the material  2-SkinTorso and replace the texture map 'bodybald'  with the map 'malebody'. After that using Skinvue gives a skin with no gaps, I tried it.

As for the genitals - I already worked it out that I can use the procedural mode. Couldnt SV itself figure it out and if a map is missing use a procedural mode? a skin with crossed out circles is definitely of no use. (although a warning message would be nice)

Be that as it may, if you are going to state that SV with the new daz pluging works for M4 it should not  need work arounds, it should be transparent to the user. Maybe it isnt worth your time to fix it properly, but then you should have a very clear disclaimer, so people like me do not waste their time.
Finally, I just want to make clear - I really love skinvue or I wouldnt have tried so hard to get it to work. So thanks for the produt and for your patience:)

Good comments Art Pearl.  I will look into the M4 more closely. but I don't think there is a straight-forward fix for this.  The issue centers on how to determine which map to use when there are multiple maps used for various body parts.  The only stock figure ever to use different maps for the body is M4 - and that is only for one variant of the low-res map injection.  I need to investigate this further and perhaps provide a fix on the Poser/DAZ studio side for this.  I still don't get why some texture map vendors don't composite all of the maps together to create a unified map.

I will also look into the warning message idea for the genitals mat.