danfarr opened this issue on Mar 14, 2002 ยท 106 posts
TalmidBen posted Fri, 15 March 2002 at 8:15 PM
"Good, now we're back to Opinions, thank you Ben." No thank you! =-) "Feedback is intended to make products 'better'." "however she is not fully versitile in my opinion because she is not interchangable with her female counterparts. In my opinion that is what made the Milinium girls so veritile" This is true, but at the same time, I think Stephanie is supposed to be an addition, rather than a replacement for Vicky. It is this reason that it is like in an entirely new area for the product versatility. Think also about the Millennium Boys. Some were disappointed they weren't built from Mike. I would like to see some Boys built from Mike, but at the same time, the boys being there creates more versatility too. The more options, the better. "If April can make a remap of the body then Daz could of. And if Daz Could have," Well, Daz does have a texture available at their site, for a reasonable price (14.00 med rez, 25.00 high rez). But, perhaps in the future, Daz will indeed create remaps of current Vicky textures to be usable on Stephanie, and perhaps they may charge a small fee/or give them away for free, to those who purchased previous texture maps for Vicky (in fact, I think that will be a brilliant idea for Daz to do). But this is the thing, because Stephanie is such an innovation, it is an entirely new field to work with. "they could have released a truly versitile model rather than just a remorphed Michael. A model that could have bridged the gap and allowed all Victoria users to use what they currently have at hand to make even greater pieces of art." This is a point at which we disagree. I think you may be looking to Stephanie as a "Vicky 3.0", rather than a new model. Vicky 3.0 is coming, and Daz has already mentioned her. But this is an innovative model, a bonus for those who purchased Mike 2. "therefore a new map made sense," A new map was also necessary, because Posette's geometry is totally different. Also, Vicky can acheive photo realism, while Posette needs alot of darkness to get there. "but the only reason that a new map made sense for Stephanie was so that she could use Michael's textures...which are for men anyway. They could have gone through a little more effort and ended up with a lot more versitile product that alot more people would have immediately appriciated." They do have some female textures for Stephanie at their store. In fact, I believe this is only the first installment of Stephanie, meaning I expect a Stephanie 2 in the future (on the template of the previous Mil Models), which will move into different areas of usability than the path Vicky will take. ben