Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Antonia - Opinions?

odf opened this issue on Oct 27, 2008 ยท 13933 posts


primorge posted Sat, 13 August 2022 at 1:33 AM

Footnotes;

Remodeled and re-rigged eyes. The eyes do not work properly with Subdivision. Which isn't actually a deal breaker. I've actually made new eyes for her that subdivide well. Unfortunately I had a hard time matching the UVs to her existing eye maps. No biggie, I can create new maps. It's the rigging that's problematic, specifically the eyes are at an angle in orientation in the skull rather than being straight on... I assume this was in the name of "realism". The result is that symmetric morphs are more difficult, and match centers is thrown off by the the orientations... this last bit has mixed test results.

There's a solution by excluding the eye actors from the the body subdivision via subdivide separately in actor properties. As I'm sure you've discovered judging by your recent renders.


Remodeled teeth as a separate mesh. With the teeth integrated into the gums it's just too difficult to do extreme teeth morphs without worrying about the UVs and scaling and positioning stuff is just too difficult. Subdivision morphs are not a viable alternative. I've spent more than a few hours working on more than a few Subd morphs only to return to Poser, dial the morphs, and have spikey explosions or the results being different than those in the sculpting program. Quite a waste of time. Until this is solved Subd morphs are not reliable and in my eyes are a pie in the sky gimmick. This is via GoZ and pyDelta. Results with both have been... unpredictable. I don't have time for it.

Anyone who says "this adds too much geometry" is just faffing full of it. There's a reason every major figure has the teeth modeled as separate from the gums. And it's for the reasons I stated. In the case of Antonia I can see your point with a contrary comeback, it's your figure after all and needs really only please you and your usage demands. I'm thinking more along the lines of a response I received in relation to another figure with a similar design choice.

However, if this were to be a figure that's most case scenarios included useful and is built with that in mind...