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Quote - I can always spawn a new eye for some special effect

Ha! I hadn't even thought of that. Spawn a new eye, parent it to the original, make the original invisible. Dirt easy! The uni-eye solution it is.

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Something fancy at just a little overhead cost... make the skull cap a body part with the morphs slaved to the head like the transparency eyebrows :) My preference actually would just be for the scalp area of the head to be just mapped like a skullcap.

Hmm, I'll probably leave it at the prop solution for now.

My slightly revised plan is to release a bare-bones version first and call it "Antonia 0" or "Antonia Base". Just the UV mapped geometry with Phantom's rigging; no morphs, no textures, no accessories, no special knick-knacks. But whatever's in that first release will be thoroughly tested - that's the part where I've revised my original plan - so that it can provide a solid basis for further developments.

That way I can release fairly soon - hopefully - and give people a chance to play with the figure. Let someone who knows their dynamic hair come up with the best rigging for a skull cap - not an utter dummy like me who'd either have to give himself a crash course in the subject prontissimo or else simply guess - and most probably guess wrong - about the best way to do it. Then at some point in the future there will be an "Antonia 1" or "Antonia complete" release with all the best contributed additions and extensions, including my own.

The UV map is a bit of a special case, because it has to be part of the original geometry file. Texture makers need it to get to work, and it's not a good idea to have every texture maker roll their own. So I'm building one that's hopefully halfway decent and can serve as a basis for future development. But everything else I'd rather have evolve from practical use of the figure than just dry discussion and me quickly trying to guess what everyone really meant. :biggrin:

-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.