Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Why aren't male figures more popular?

EClark1894 opened this issue on Apr 16, 2014 · 474 posts


shante posted Fri, 08 August 2014 at 2:45 AM

i am not sure why that is a problem?

isn't that the whole selling point of the unimesh construction system they developed the mil1 & mil2 and mil3 & 4 and now the genesis figures on?

seems it shouldn't make any difference as long as in the end all the mesh verteces are shoved around the right way to make the difference between male and female figures apparent.

If they didn't do that right that is a different story but i really don't see too much problem with the males haveing been developed from the female mesh as much as the defects in the basic anatomical construct like collars necks feet shoulders etc which as I said were quit defective visually for me, in the mil3 figures. Tinking on it, it seems it would be better if that process was reversed.

I read on a thread,  think it was the very long Antonia Polygon thread that it is easier to develop a figure if you start out with a small breasted or breastless figure and then develope the additinal body morphs later. So, it would stand to reason the same idea might hold true developing the flatter chested generic male first and then build the female from that. And I imagine the clothes would work the same way. But not being a modeler myself what the frell do i know.

I was fooling around with a female morph for M4 and though an introductory beta test by the artist who offered the free morph, the final result looked good. What was cool was that say the Cro-Magnon or Homo Erectus morphs and textures for M4 I used, were great at turning M4 into a female figure who looked like she was a sister or bride from the same tribe and no need for extra textures. With the M4 ++ Morphs pack I dialed "her" smaller with a bigger softer body and petite frame and she looked like a nicely morphed up V4. SO working from the same mesh is a cool idea in my opinion if all the stuff for it is out there. Unfortunately it rarely is!

What was even cooler was I was also able to add the free gen morphs for V4 as well as the Posermatic NGM morphs on the M4 mesh. I was happier than a greedy little dial spinning Poser Piggie on the Runtime midden heap with all that fun stuff to muck about with!

Luckily I didn't need to dress my cave girl up.   ;)