Quote - I never said photorealism ;). I'll leave that to the photographers. I just think it's not too much to ask to get nice translucent skin (which they've actually added) and glass that looks like glass and not air with a reflection map :P.

Yes, I'm fixated on glass....lol.

Laurie

We all have our fixations, hon... at the moment, mine is with fixing a 5-oclock shadow on Mariko. But it changes. To be honest, most of the time you wouldn't want to know what I get fixated on... and no, it's nothing lascivious. More like: "what the flip am I doing wrong in this method??? Where is a proper Python IDE when you need it!!"

Lascivious would have been more fun - I'm 9 of the world's 10 most boring people.

Speaking of which: all this - okay, format thingie - discussion gives rise to opportunities. Am I the only one seeing them? Here's the deal: we seem to think it's ever so important to have ONE figure do the lot for us. V4 did. Then, we looked to a new goddess. But hey, there are so many awesome figures out there. Enterprising individuals could potentially look at these figures as filling a specific niche! The conversion-software people could be the new heroes, the icons everyone follows because Antonia's hair can now be worn by Helena, whose gowns could now be worn by Lilliana, whose shoes can now be borrowed/stole by the new Xena, warrior princess. Okay, Xena probably wouldn't have a lot of occasion to wear Lilliana's shoes, but you get my drift.

A singe-figure dominance can only happen with file format compatibility. File format split happens, multi-figure - specific to need - suddenly gets a grip.

It's thoughts like these that kept me out of the really good schools. :blink:

Monterey/Mint21.x/Win10 - Blender3.x - PP11.3(cm) - Musescore3.6.2

Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen
[it is clear that humans have contempt for that which they do not understand] 

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