wolf359 opened this issue on Mar 12, 2002 ยท 34 posts
Ironbear posted Wed, 13 March 2002 at 12:07 AM
Lesse... largest base of morphs available, most of them free, or in the case of Traveler's CD, very reasonable for what you get. Vicki 2 has tons of morphs built-in, but very few 3rd party available comparitively. And the tons of "built-in" does no good if she has everything except for that "one thing you need RIGHT NOW dammit!". ;] Vicki, Mike and Stephanie are always going to be great for those of us that can do our own morphs in Rhino, ZBrush, Max or via the arcane mysteries of magnets. My "working posette" has more morphs and a wider variety of body types at my finder tips - and that's not counting the two hundred or more alien morphs for her. A wider base of free clothing. 'Nuff said. Not everyone has a bottomless credit card for dressing their characters. Textures out the wazoo.. and the majority are freebies. Some of the best textures are for posette also. And... If you need versatility for using high res textures, then there's several remaps of the girl including April's P4Vskin [free] and Dmentia's Posavik [worth every penny]. And I may have forgotten a couple from over the years... Plus... high res body mesh versions. And infinite variants... Lesse: there's a version with a high res head on Posette's body at Trav's site. There's several others also, both high res mesh and remapped ones. And if you need to use your Viki [and now Stepahnie] morphs, but dont need the overhead of a Vicki or mIke - there's several excellent "Vicki and Mike's head on Posette/Dork's bodies" available. Er... if you're going to clothe them, you don't need the high res body. And there's tons of p4 clothing for both, including a few items that don't exist yet for Mike & Vicki. Vicki poses better without distorting? Bull - there's Eve. A clue - Eve invented the jointing and body cuts that Vicki and Mike use. And, like Vicki p4, Eve can wwear all of Posette's stuff, with a wee bit of tweaking. And unlike Viki P4, Eve will use ALL of Posette's face/head morphs. {there's always been some interesting speculations on why Vicki's body/joint cuts look so much like Eve's considering Eve came first - but we won't go there. ;)] For developement, especially for freestuff, Posette is superior - no mucking about with Mor donor files or all that other crap that you have to go through to develope for the Millenium people. As long as you only transfer the cr2, not the obj's, yer cool. [Keeping in mind other restrictions on textures and morphs, natch] So... Vicki is cool. Stephanie is cool. A replacement for Posette? Not a chance. I think that the Millenium people are as widespread as they are because, Hey - lets face it, people who shelled out the money for them want to use them. And they want to feel like they got their bucks worth. Nuthin wrong with that... But the primary purpose of Mike, Vicki and Stephanie is to make money for Daz, and for people who develope and sell stuff for them. Nuthin wrong with that either. But do remember the "bottonless credit card" crack I made. ;] Sorry - the only real replacement for Posette and Dork will be when Poser 5 comes out and it includes new standard figures that will then become the basic poser tools for an entire new generation of poser artists.
"I am a good person now and it feels... well, pretty much the same as I felt before (except that the headaches have gone away now that I'm not wearing control top pantyhose on my head anymore)"