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The mermaids are up for sale at DAZ! Actually, just the Vickie and PreTeen mermaids, and the Hair, which we decideded to sell seperatly. The mermaids use some alternate geometry magic, so you don't need Objaction or anything, the CR2 calls your Vickie for the top half, and the tail for the lower half. I also used geometry switching to set up a dial to switch in 6 different set of tail fins, you can see two of them above. The geometry switching is pretty neat, I think, I know Anton has used it on some items, it is how the Poser two figures switch hands, so it isn't something Poser isn't expecting. I'll be doing alot of this in the future. Anyway, I think the hair came out pretty nicely too, it is a little similar to SMV's hair, only longer and with (a lot) more strands and with some strands in front of the chest. It is called "San Francisco" hair, to follow the city theme I've started ("Hollywood Hair") The Supermodel Vickie mermaid will surface in a couple of days at BBay.

I can't wait to use this hair!!!! Good work Jim. The mermaids and the hair turned out terrific.

Thanks Xena!- I aught to mention that if you see the pics on the San Francisco Hair page, that realy is Vickie II, not SMV or SMMV, I just twisted them dials, and I think a large part of the reason she looks so good is the very, very nice Cake1 textures I used, Jane and Lucie. She is wearing Supermodel Vickie's Bikini top though, as she didn't like any of the regular Vicki stuff I had laying around. And she had a heck of a time getting it on, too!

Oh, what the heck, I'll save you all a trip, here is one of the pics. I should mention, as I mentioned in the read-me (which I hope DAZ included) I put the hair on twice here, that is to say there are two of them, scaled and morphed slightly different, it is a real effective process for all my hair on closeups.

You've come up with a very pretty V2 character. That was second thing I noticed when I went to the page. Of course the first thing was the hair :P Two you say. Hmmm thanks for the tip. Might try that myself.

Just one hair prop right on top of the other? Hmm... I can see how that would add more detail, if in fact that's what you mean...

Yepppeeee ! SMV hair at least ! even a better one ! wahaa! thanks a lot ! my money account gonna be charged soon, hehe !

A question, Is the character on the Daz splash page, (as opposed to the pop-up's) one of yours? Or the character listed at the bottom of the page with a caucasian texture? I've had problems with Daz the last two times I've try to buy there, if I fail again, any chance of buying from here or BBay? Great tip about "dual" hair, BTW, I would never have thought of that :) later jb

DAZ gets all unhappy if I try to sneak in SMV pictures, so the hair pics are 100% Vickie II (and the PreTeen). To tell the truth, I'm not all that good at twisting the dials anyway (with Supermodel Vickie and Supermodel Morph Vickie I use the default most of the time), but I did het lucky this time I guess, but still a large part of it is the textures. Give DAZ a call if you have problems, they are good people, I know they have had server problems in th epast (Steve mentioned they had some Thursday), but they will straighten things right out with a phone call. Anyway, after poseing the hair for the DAZ page I can see there are a couple-10 more morphs needed (there are only 40 right now!) so there will be a free upgrade in a week or so, I'll drop a note here. And yep, I mean load the hair twice, conform them both to the figure. What I usally do then is set the dials on one hair the way I want, then copy and paste the settings (Poser copys and pastes dial settings by default, as most of you know) into the other hair, but twist them a little different at spots- do things like make one front curl extra long, one extra short.