Forum: DAZ|Studio


Subject: New competition figure Sneak previews - SM

Razor42 opened this issue on Nov 03, 2015 ยท 240 posts


Male_M3dia posted Sun, 15 November 2015 at 5:24 AM

qaz posted at 6:17AM Sun, 15 November 2015 - #4238686

Most of these figures have their own problems. V7s problem other than a deformed hip area (she wouldn't be able to have children) is that she is too low res. That is why all the V7 characters look the same. And its no good complaining and saying you need to combine HD morphing and sub div because DAZ WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO DO THAT. Normal maps are no use as they can't be altered.

Do please read the comments here: and here

I think Erogenesis has it right, certain areas of the figure should be denser poly. I look forward to seeing his new figure Lali. I would point out that the new Poser figures are low poly as well, but Poser has the tools for anyone to include HD details. We will have to see whether they work or not.

As I said if you know how to manipulate a low rez figure and the subd cage you can make whatever you want. Having more polygons doesn't make a person a better artist when most times all you are doing is moving mesh, not adding minute details. As far as the hip, comments like that are totally subjective and if you don't like a body part, then you would take it to a modeler and fix it the way you like. It wouldn't matter if it was high rez or not, you're just moving the polls around. Some forum comments you do have take with a grain of salt because most people haven't bothered to look at actual photo references or an anatomy book and going by what they think is right.. and usually they aren't; there are just too many variations of the human form to make statements as such.

The HD on the females don't bother me that much. You can tell the areas where the details are from the promo, but most importantly they aren't sculpting all kinds of muscle and wrinkles on the girls because that would take away from the resulting renders and the girls aren't presented in a way where you need massive amounts of body detail. When you consider photos of women are often airbrushed of detail, I wouldn't go crazy with HD on females anyway. The guys on the other hand need it for abs, muscle definition, etc. If you buy the male HD items you see a lot more work on them than the women.

Just like the unflattering images i've seen of superfly and the figures so far, it seems like people will not have a grasp on HD morphs as well. I'm envisioning a bunch of morphs that look no better than a stock V4 made with dials, but blowing out the memory in a scene by people choosing just to move the nose and cheek around on a 500K poly subdivided figure because they haven't got the basics on custom character development.