Lyrra posted at 12:25PM Sat, 24 October 2015 - #4235045

opinion time guys:

Should I leave the maps as is?

Or should I take the opportunity while I am regrouping and rerigging to remap the eyes? currently this is a one map beastie. the eyes are fairly small and thus don't get much detail. If I remap them to the gen4 standard full square map format, then there will be loads more detail. I'm not sure if anyone actually cares about this. It will make existing maps not work on the eyes, although any v4/m4 eyeball maps probably will.

Is there any reason to leave this at one map? do gamedev guys care?

Are there are other map changes anyone is desperate to see? The mapping on this is pretty good, despite its age. There are some very small ares of distortion on the top of the head, genitals, tail base and paws. I might be able to reduce the distortion on the areas, but that in turn would effect all existing maps. Possibly not worth the small improvement at the cost of breaking so much existing work.

Once I get the last of these structural issues sorted then the project will flip into high gear, morphs are pretty fast to make. But I need to get the rigging and groups sorted, so I can convert the existing morph over to the new obj. Then its a matter of going through my pile of dog ref images one by one and making each breed, with any new needed morphs, spinning up a MOR setting for it and coding that with the suitable ERC stuff to make one dial per breed. (because I want to dial a greatdane/Chihuahua/basset hound mix, don't you?)

This will result in both improved handling on the existing dog morphs, the new dog breed morphs, plus a stack of pbm dials which can be used to spin up your own breeds.

However you guys are going to have to decode both the LE and full versions to deal with the new obj file. Sorry. It takes two clicks, you'll just have to read the directions and cope with it :)

In other news I have had a bunch of dev work on a new figure suddenly pop up so I have only 'free' time (evenings, weekends) for this project so it may take a little time. Since I'm not getting paid for this, y'all just get to cope. Sorry :)

while I'm at it .. would anyone put cash into a patreon thing to fund the Improvement series? for which the patrons would get input into what figure to improve and how, and everyone else would get shiny new updates for old and one shot figures (like the wardog). I don't mind working on oddball figures, it can be a challenge and a lot of fun, but the main market is all about TheNewestGirl and her knickers which gets veeeeery boring. Niche figures don't get much in the way of sales, so its not profitable to work on them much. (seriously, flipping burgers would get me 3x the money per hour. very sad) A patreon thing would pay for some of my billable hours and such products would not have to rely as much on my freetime and being in a good mood.

LM

Albino. THis is not just white but white with pink showing beneath the fur in particular areas like ears, around the lips nose and mouth belly and genitals and red rim eyes ans very pale eye parts coloration. In fact i have tried making my own from some of the white textures and failed miserably (even worse for the black WarHound if you can imagine). In fact not only for the dog but all the animals DAZ has released especially that crazy beautiful DAZ Donkey! Also, Lynn fixed her beautiful old Bovine set and re-released the whole set FREE here in the free poser forum. But she could not address the stretching of the textures especially on the face of the animals for health reasons. I would pay for having that set of beautifully made creatures brought up to more modern Poser render standards. Fixing the nose of the bulls to make it more realistic and re-texturing it all.

Another beautiful character DAZ and the community have grossly overlooked is the old Zygote Centaur. I have seen someones great efforts at remapping and rebuilding parts of its old body and it looked spectacular. That would be another item I would pay for if done right. Because I have these deep rooted desire and none of the skills to bring them to fruition I shamelessly BEG to see the stuff so I can HAVE it to PLAY with! LOL I just throw ideas and long self absorbed longings at the wall and hope they stick.