rokket posted at 5:51AM Mon, 21 September 2015 - #4229737

Dale B posted at 9:35PM Sun, 20 September 2015 - #4229645

The Hivewire figures are decent, and getting better. I still use all the figures from Posette on; mesh doesn't expire or spoil. Once I learn to rig and wieight map properly, I'll be retrofitting the older figures over time, as they are still quite useable.

Someone (I can't remember who, my mind is a moldy piece of Swiss cheese) tried to weight map Sydney and found way too many issues with her mesh to make it viable. I would assume the same to be true with all the G2 (not Genesis) figures like Jessi and Olivia. Same mesh. While I still use mostly Poser natives (I tried V4 and didn't like her), I do have Dawn, Koz and Kez in my runtime, as well as Miki 4. And as was stated, if you like V4 and she is working for you, why change just for the sake of changing?

I'm actually thinking about things like Dan Cortopassi's works. Natalia and Natrixa are my go to figures for fantasy work (no one has come close to the mermaid tails he made years ago, for instance; none of this body stocking knee bending nonsense. They are parenting figures and you hide the lower legs. Gill exhausts, morphable tail to change the locomotion form. geometry switching, etc. With some shader work, they would be incredible). All the V's are quite usable, and since the base skeleton is effectively identical since the days of P1 right on through today, motions created in iClone can work with basically any biped Poser can use.

And in many cases, breaking psychological addiction takes a long run up. The number of individuals who have 'It must come from XXX to be any good' is still large, and the product of massive ad campaigning. Despite the fact that each and every release from XXX took a year or more to become technically functional (at least as much as possible at the time). Nerd 3D is 'one of us' of long standing, and from the list of things released so far, it seems apparent he is taking this chance to address many pet peeves in this, our tool of choice. Teyon is rumored to be working on something new without 'committe-itis' which affected the quality of the figures last go around per reports.

Do I think there is a 'Vickie Killer' in the works? No. It's just mesh. A Resource. The Poser tool still gets along with a lot of CGI style programs, and it does so by using industry standards and text files that can be edited by anyone with the time and need. But sooner or later there will be a figure that 'replaces' it . . . if due to lack of availability if nothing else..