Hello everyone, I'm having a really hard time with muscles. I'm dong some fantasy art right now, and would like to make a heavily muscled barbarian male. I'd also like to make females who look like they hit gym a few times a week. Specifically, I've been trying for a long time now to get Victoria 4 to have more definition to her thighs and hamstrings. The dials like "Amazon," "Bulk" never seem to work. I also have Daz (but don't know much about it) and there it's really easy to morph a whole body into a highly muscular individual. But what about Poser. I have Poser 11.2 and use Micheal 4 and Victoria 4 for now. Any help is much appreciated!

Both M4 and V4.2 have a specific Muscle Morphs pack available from DAZ that give you control over actual muscles and groups. Looks like they're still available.

Also, if it seems like morph dials actually don't work (as opposed to just not liking the results), make sure you initialized your V4 and M4 after installation...they have an extra step that isn't common to most other figures that links the morph channels in the figure to the actual morphs you'll be installing.

Hmm, I'll have to look at your gallery to see what you're after. However, you clearly have the M++ morphs. Be certain that you install that pack first ahead of all other morph packs. Do you have She-Freak as well? Is this something like what you're after?

The Dusk and Dawn figures are now included with Poser Pro 11.2. I have been thrilled to use Dusk and have purchased quite a few morph packs for both he and Dawn.

Ruckus for Dusk gives Freak-like musculature and proportions to Dusk. Dialing up or down the Ruckus morph definitely gives Dusk a more barbarian physique. Also, Ruckus works on Dawn with some minor joint tweaking.

Here are a few Dusk characters that I've dialed in using some of the morphs that are available here and at HiveWire 3D.

Lee

And finally, Dawn with Dusk's Ruckus morphs injected and dialed in...

That is darned Impressive Lee! How do you like Ruckus compared to the Freak 4? While M4 can use f4's morphs, the effect isn't the same as starting with F4. Can dusk use Ruckus skin textures and vice versa? Sorry to ask but I'm extremely lazy today.

And, I'll throw La Femme in the mix too.

BK FBM Bodybuilder + Blackhearted HD morphs

quietrob posted at 5:47PM Tue, 26 November 2019 - #4371330

That is darned Impressive Lee! How do you like Ruckus compared to the Freak 4? While M4 can use f4's morphs, the effect isn't the same as starting with F4. Can dusk use Ruckus skin textures and vice versa? Sorry to ask but I'm extremely lazy today.

Hi quietrob! Thank you so much!

I like both F4 and Dusk/Ruckus. They are great figures. F4 has more clothing available, but Dusk/Ruckus has more versatility with respect to posing thanks to being created with more advanced features (weight mapping, etc.) At this point, I'm using Dusk exclusively. I do have quite a lot of morphs installed on my "Starting Point" version of Dusk. These include some of Dawn's morphs to give more control over the hips, nipples/areola, and thighs. I've also injected Dusk's Creature morphs, mainly to get some slight variations in the nose and larger eyes.

Ruckus is an injectable character for Dusk, so Dusk textures work great on Ruckus. I tend to mix and match various texture elements, mainly skin from one texture set and eyes from another to get some variety.

I'm rendering a sample image with Ruckus. I'll post it here when finished. It's mainly Dusk with the Ruckus morph dialed to 100%, the hands and feet scales dialed down a bit, and various other add-on morphs applied. It should give a fair indication of the versatility of Dusk/Ruckus when sprinkled with other morphs.

Lee

Here's the sample, low quality SuperFly render of Dusk/Ruckus all muscled up and sculpted with a bunch of additional morphs. I did not use the Ruckus head morph nor the Ruckus size/scale morph (he's tall, really tall, otherwise.) When using the Ruckus Body morph, his hands and feet are quite large, like F4's. As mentioned earlier, these are scaled down a bit. Also, I believe I'm using the Axel skin texture in this render. And the loincloth for Dusk is wonderful. I typically make the front and back flaps transparent when I need a posing strap/briefs for Dusk (as seen in my Dusk Soccer Player render.)

Lee

Glitterati3D posted at 6:24PM Tue, 26 November 2019 - #4371341

And, I'll throw La Femme in the mix too.

BK FBM Bodybuilder + Blackhearted HD morphs

Traci, your La Femme Bodybuilder render is awesome! So well done!!

Lee

Dusk has some really great morph packs, including Body Shapes and Sizes - from Giants to Dwarves. Here's a promo I did with just a few of them:

LeeMoon posted at 7:36PM Tue, 26 November 2019 - #4371349

Glitterati3D posted at 6:24PM Tue, 26 November 2019 - #4371341

And, I'll throw La Femme in the mix too.

BK FBM Bodybuilder + Blackhearted HD morphs

Traci, your La Femme Bodybuilder render is awesome! So well done!!

Lee

Thanks, Lee.

Hello all, For muscle characters, my choice is M4 and V4 with the Morph ++ and Muscle packages. I have done some renders with Tyler from Blackheart but the result is not as good as with M4. An important addition for muscle rendering is to have displacement map of superficial veins. Here is an example of M4 rendering. Details can be found in the description of figure in my gallery where you will find also 3D images of M4 and Tyler.

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