After long and heroic struggle I have managed to squish my m4 runtime into a useable shape.  Hoever this project is by no means done - I have sorted out characters and removed the ones I will not use, sorted out morphs, and sorted out clothing.  I still need to make or buy all the items on my list as well as add some new items as I review the clothing selection. 

Characters Needed

Its no surprise that of 68 character sets 41 are caucasian. Creatures are fairly well respresented but I should pick up Rawarts feline skins/morphs.  Ethnic skins have only five, one asian and five mid tone african. I need to find a very dark skin, I seem to remember a v4 male character I may convert over.

I am lacking  suitable merman skin, although Ranaka may do in a pinch.

Clothing Needed

I'm still reviewing clothing.  First review set is Basics.

This includes Basicwear from DAZ of course - mainly modern undies. Could do with more textures for the tank and tshirt.

M4 Bodysuit. This is a ncie versatile item. Loads of material zones means you can convert it to various tight clothing items in a pinch. Its tight fitting, so should go under most other items without much work, and has a thickness morph as well as open morphs. The built in seams are sort of silly, but there are morephs to remove them.

Hooded cloak - this is a refit of the classic hooded cloak and will take all the existing texture.

Valient - this is a fantasy based set but replaces the old Tunic set. It has a nice long tunic with options to shorten skirt and arms. Pants, and boots with crisscross straps. The additional belts, surcoats and whatnot are handy, but the tunic is the item that will get the most use. I've found a few texture for this, but since every culture has tunics I figure on making a few more for variety.

 

I seem to have no loincloths at all for mike.  This is a sad thing. So it looks like those go into the Buy or Make list.

 

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

Dark African skin

Merman skin

Tunic textures for Valient

M4 Basic wear Tees and Tanks textures

Loin cloths - short, long, egyptian wrap, tarzan flap

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And since I'm sure you are all very tired of my nattering on .. I have my first render from my cleaned up M4 runtime

Image Credits

Tower - one of Tomalins towers from DAZ. (theres several) very nice architectural model

M4 with Giacaomo morph and skin. Skin has been run through ezskin 2 to add SSS and so forth. The tattoos are a skin option.

M4 Bodysuit with a shader from the Torn Nets collection. Yes very indecent but I dont think he cares.

Jai hair by Aprylysh

Pose is from a free set "Vaguely m4" http://www.sharecg.com/v/49586/gallery/11/Poser/Vaguely-M4

Poser 2014 lighting, slightly adjusted.

And then the whole mess was composed and tweaked in photoshop.

I defintely need to deal with the bend issues, this pose wasnt too bad after I adjusted the hands, but on a flat surface I would have needed some serious morphs to fix the wrist bends.

LM