hornet3d opened this issue on May 16, 2015 · 532 posts
moriador posted Sat, 16 May 2015 at 6:01 AM
I bought her because... well, why not? I have a lot more than $30 of unused products in my runtimes that I've never even rendered. I've been playing with a huge download of dynamic freebies (for all kinds of figures), and I figured that Scarlet would be just as much fun to squeeze into dynamic clothing as any other character.
Anyway, a replacement for V4? Maybe... though not quite yet. She's got a decent set of morphs to start, and her expression morphs are very strong. She does need a lot more shaping morphs, though, before she'll be a fully versatile figure. However, her scaling means that, when such morphs sets appear, she'll be far more versatile than V4.
I think Vilters would be pleased. She's poly efficient with something like 45k or so polys AND her texture maps are contained on one head map, one body map, and one eye map -- with minimal seam splits. :D (You'd think Les has been reading the forums or something!)
No figure is flawless or will appeal to everyone right out of the box. If I had the skill, there would be things here and there that I'd fiddle with and tweak. But, but... so far I haven't seen any deal breakers like one really odd joint or funny bend. (I did swap out her default shaders with EZskin generated ones. And for those using GC -- the normal maps may need to be changed to gamma setting 1.0, otherwise she will not look good at all. Fortunately, she doesn't have a ton of mat zones, so it's not that big a deal.)
Is she better than V4? Miles and miles better. Is she better than a fully fixed up "perfected", morphed-to-the-gills V4? Yes (because more efficient in polys and easier texture maps and probably better rigging and a much more expressive face) and no (because to be truly versatile requires more morph and texture releases). But I think the potential is there to make it a definite 'yes.'
Of course it helps that she came to me as a complete surprise, so I had no unreasonable expectations.
PoserPro 2014, PS CS5.5 Ext, Nikon D300. Win 8, i7-4770 @ 3.4 GHz, AMD Radeon 8570, 12 GB RAM.