Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Morph, dial spinning, and or texture creators-WIP discussion: Celebs, historica

Eric Walters opened this issue on Aug 24, 2011 · 39 posts


Eric Walters posted Sat, 27 August 2011 at 12:42 PM

Hi NekkidChicken

 All of WERTS morphs are gone from ShareCG- no one knows why.It might be that Daz objected to the use of OBJ files. This is a geometry file-and I know Daz objects to that.

 It might be possible to distribute them legally if they are Pose files. I don't know how to do that yet-but it might be possible. I started out with the intent of creating free morphs the way WERTS did-but he vanished -literally overnight. I have to think it was a legal threat.

If he had not vanished-some of my WIP morphs would already be there-as Obj files. I WILL look into exporting pose files-that might work.

I've asked Fygomatic that same question- as have many othes. He is considering it.

For me to distribute I might have to start with a stock V4 head and make all the shapes without mixing in commercial morphs-or so I think.Right now Megan is about 50:50 my reshaping and commercial dial spinning- I got as far as I could with dial spinning-then reshaped the whole conglomerate in Zbrush.

 For the texturing- I might be able to do so if I use merchant resource V4 templates- AND change the original phototextures. I think there are copywright laws relating to that- ie, I could not give away or sell a photo of Scarlett taken by someone else-but if I use portions of it and change them significantly as-I am doing now- it might be possible to distribute the texture map. Right now I am using a Daz texture as a base template so I suspect that might be problemati-although I am just using it to get the SHAPE and alignment correct.

 I intend to create ALL the Scarlett face shapes from scratch-if that is succesfull-then I might consider selling through Daz-IF I can make and legally distribute both the texture and the morph as a complete character.  in the same way the sell a Daz Angel character-that greatly but not exactly resembles Angelina Jolie-and not using her name. I might also give away my morphs or the nearly correct WIPS as free morphs-If I can do so legally. I have DOZENS of object files that resemble her-just not as closely.

 The programs I am using are very expensive for a hobbyist who is not wealthy- Zbrush is $700 US-for example. If I can partly support the costs by making products-as well as freebies-it makes more sense.