whbos posted at 12:22PM Sun, 06 August 2017 - #4308301

I have the Hivewire figures and I'm not too impressed with either Dawn or Dusk. The clothing line is limited and if I can't use M4/V4 clothing on them then there's no point in investing more into another soon-to-be obsolete figure. Besides, just like V4, most of the content is made for the Dawn.

I don't find either Dawn or Dusk attractive or authentic-looking figures. Especially Dusk who has a weird face. He looks like a Ken doll that's been run over a few times. And they wonder why things don't sell. Most male items are made to not sell.

I have very recently come to like the DAWN character.

The main thing that I like is an extra Abdomen bone that was designed into the character (there is also an extra neck bone, but I'm not sure what this does for me). The extra abdomen bone allows me to extend or shorten the character in a more realistic manner. With the Victoria (4) products you can scale them but the torso has limited "y" (height) manipulation properties whereas in real people torso dimension and leg dimension carry a lot of weight in how two people look side by side.

The thing I don't like about the DAWN base character is that the face is relatively harsh. We need one or two vendors to give the character some better control of facial features. Also I would like a morph that make both eyes move together, as was done in V4++. In 99% of the time eyes point together, yet in 99% of the characters the only conntrol we have of eyes is one at a time and it is, well, time consuming.

While there is limited support for DAWN, there is even less for her male counterpart.

Also I was just looking for a character put out for "Pauline" by tempesta 3d Called "Posy." It was a fairly recent creation yet I cannot find it anywhere. I'm guessing because it was RDNA Daz my have just quietly dropped it.

Smith Micro was spitting out characters but never really putting support behind them. Pauline is an exapmle of a good character thrown to the wolves. I am convinced Smith Micro doesn't understand this space or the people in it. They treat POSER like boxed software. They even have what I call a download tax so rather than keep your purchases on file they expire, unless you pay extra for them t o keep you on file for two years. Most venomous of all, however is the 'kill' switch that says if you have a stand alone computer your Poser 2011 will die if you don't make a special effort to contact Smith Micro and get a code that helps keep it alive.

Eventually I expect there will be a universal mesh standard because not only will we use it here, but I can see it being used to design, fit and sell real clothing for real people who are body scanned, as well as in the medical profession. I don't know, maybe that will take a real group or committee that we don't have yet, something like what exists for other software, transmission, and electronic (Ieee) and mechanical (asme) standards.