Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Can someone unemotionally state the advantages of Genesis over V4/M4 in Poser?

Mark@poser opened this issue on Oct 12, 2012 ยท 204 posts


bhoins posted Sun, 14 October 2012 at 1:27 PM

Quote - >>> Also note that for clothing, to date, nobody has set up seperate UV sets for those. Mostly because the UV set for the clothing is optimized for the individual items of clothing, not the Genesis shape. There is no reason you couldn't, but to date nobody making Genesis clothing has seen a need for it.

Understood. This is what I'm trying to assess ...

UV distortion when applied to heavily morphed figures is not an issue that is unique to Genesis. However, there IS a solution in being able to provide alternate UVs IF it is felt that they are needed.

To illustrate the point I'm trying to make, here's a screen shot.

--- On the left, you have a default "generic" figure. The UV mapping looks nice and clean.

--- In the middle, you see what happens to the UVs when it is applied to a female figure with medium/large breasts. You see stretching around the breasts, which is the type of thing that alternate UVs could help with.

--- On the right, the same model, with some relaxing that addresses the curvier shape of a female.

So what I'm trying to ask is ... is there a way to export the base mesh from DS after it is "autofitted" to a female so that one can provide default UVs that are more like the one on the right?

(Hope this better illustrates the question)

You aren't able to dynamically generate the UV set based on the morph. (An interesting concept perhaps you should suggest it to DAZ.) However you can create a Morph for the clothing that covers the morph for Genesis, which will give you a different distribution of the polys and give you less UV distortion that what you get from the automatic morph projection. A thing to keep in mind though is it will only work for those morphs that you have decided to include. Someone who later comes out with a new morph, if you are concerned, will cause your clothing to need to be updated though. :)