Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Scarlet - Is it time to jump the V4 ship?

hornet3d opened this issue on May 16, 2015 · 532 posts


creativeguy59 posted Mon, 18 May 2015 at 1:46 PM

True, but there's definitely a Vickie suck-up thing going on.  Can you imagine, if every Poser user suddenly gave Roxie a chance, used the Morph Brush to change whatever they wish, people started using her more, more and more morphs would appear for her, and that in turn would create more Roxie users and less Vickie users - a knock-on effect.  But while everyone is busy supporting figures from the competition, that doesn't happen.

It's not about a Vickie suck-up. It's about having a figure that is at least as versatile, if not better than V4, which is nearly 10 years old now, and so far none of them have achieved that. At least not on a community-wide scale. Don't want to start any mud slinging there. I know different folks have their own recently added favorites.
Roxie would be a much better figure if she had more geometry to work with. Especially in the face. Or at the very least if the geometry she does have was laid out better in order to allow for proper muscle flow and bony landmarks. As it is, she is not very easy to morph well, and takes a lot of patience to get to an acceptable level. The lack of geometry also limits the variety of morphs she can have and really does require working on her in an external modeling/sculpting app. If Poser's sub-d allowed for actual sculpting then that would be much better, but it doesn't, so it's really pretty much a pointless feature, because all it does is smooth out the morphs you do create. It doesn't allow any actual manipulation of the added geometry. I've been working on a full body resculpt of Roxie for quite some time, so I'm speaking from experience here.

Cool stuff, maybe we should split to a roxie thread as finding some interesting stuff in here and I'd like to learn more without being a detriment to the Scarlet thread here... good to know the good, bad, ugly, and awesome ...