Well I've looked at all the morphs I have on hand.  I havent tackled the OBJ ones yet, I'll do them all in a bunch when I'm ready to start the building section of the mad odessey

The next step is reviewing all the Characters / skins I have on hand and ditching the ones I will never ever use.

Right now I have 38 folders in the  'maybe keep' and 53 in the 'checkme'.  So its going to take a little while to dig through all this.

Ones I know I'm going to keep:

The Elite series from DAZ - Sol, Lee, Stratton and Rob.  Good detail, decent shaders.

Max, Jayden and Derek from Liquidrust

Nathen - because redheads are hot :)

Since I finally herded all the character sets into one folder, converting all the pz2 mats to mc6, I've found some things I didnt know I had. Like the Hiro4 base skins .. those actually look pretty good.

I know I'm keeping the special purpose skins - all of Rawarts animals, the DarkLord drow set, and Ghost of Macbeths most excellent Orc and Goblin Hordes.

I'm doing fast loads and looking at the previews for the first passs .. the second pass will take rendering and that will take a while longer.

I also expect a few may need tweaking to spiff up to current standards.

Spiffing Tools

ezskin2 by SnarlyGribbly & Co - this is a FREE python script. Once you have it set up you simply select your figure, run the script and hey presto, it adds SSS, better shaders and all sorts of things.  Definately worth it, and works on several hundred figures.

Vascularity Maps - takes a little node wrangling, but you can add these to exsiting skins live in poser and add that little bit of realism. You can also go edit the actual imagemaps and do it that way, but thats a destructive edit, which I prefer avoiding

Eyebrow/eyelash trans - might need to swap in some fresh transmaps for skins which are a little lacking in that area

Genitals - m4 has snap on parts.  Not all texture makers include those, so you should find a merchant resource kit that includes them and be prepared to adjust colours in pshop to match your skin, just in case you need to show the tackle.

 

Spiffing tools to add to Buy or Make

Goth man nailpolish

Goth Man makeup overlays

Tribal Man makeup overlays

Aging overlays

 

Buy Or Make
Bend Correction Morphs
Head Size Dials
Freak 4 Fix pz2
hand and foot details
Arm Length Dials
finger lentgh dials
Neck Length
horse head
deer head

 

 

LM