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Poser - OFFICIAL F.A.Q (Last Updated: 2024 Nov 12 11:30 pm)
No ... but you could try Victoria Reduced Resolution. She doesn't have many more polys than Posette, and she can wear all of Victoria's clothes. You could also try stripping any unused morphs from the Victoria/Stephanie CR2s. The meshes themselves are only 3MB or so, but in Victoria's case the CR2 weighs in at 20MB.
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But I can't give you the address of PWFW, it's a deeply guarded secret! (Just kidding to cover my own dumbness!) Here it be.I found Victoria easy enough to work with on even my older mac (300Mhz G3). As long as you have enough RAM and patience, you can make her work for you. The sugeestion of the reduced resolution figure is also a good one, she's almost as nice. I know there are a lot of hardcore fans of Posette out there, and I agree with them that default Posette is a lot cuter than default Victoria... but that's about where my agreement ends. I don't ever use Victoria in any default sense. I've morphed the heck out of her, and that's why I appreciate her ample poly count. There is just so much more to work with. To me, hearing the argument that Posette is a "better" figure than Vicky from people with slower computers and people who've never made morph targets is akin to listening to someone still using 256 color monitor extol the virtues of GIF over JPEG. Some guy actually flamed me on usenet once, saying I was stupid to use JPEG because it was lossy, unlike GIF. To him I replied "Knocking 16.7 million color shades down to a palette of 256 isn't lossy?!?" (we were talking in context of full-color photos) In the hands of skilled morph technicians, Vicky can do great things indeed. I would like to encourage you not to give up on her yet. Those who have truly experienced working with Vicky are not usually looking back... -Adam
"In the hands of skilled morph technicians, Vicky can do great things indeed." Yep! but so can Posette, case in point - starting from Fredrick (p3 days) and continued with Yamato and all his characters new joint parameters with less breakage than Vicki. Staale's bodymorpher can shape her into almost all Vicky 2 types, and Traveler's morphs that we older members collected almost religiously have never been matched in quality and quantity :) They're now available on his CD and can do things to Posette you've never imagined. AprilYSH's remapping allows her to take Vicki maps. Count me in as one of the hardcore users of Posette but also use Vicki, it depends on what I want her wearing, since I can work with both equally well and since I'm not into animation and thus can postwork flaws. BUT, my fully decked out Posette with real eyes, morphing brow props, lash props, collection of morphs etc weighs in at 57MB!!! And like someone pointed out in an earlier thread, he's seen Poser 3 users with PSP turning out better art than Poser 4, Max, Photoshop combined, so it's not about WHAT you have but HOW you work with it :)
I think it would be neat to see one of Posette's loyal fans subdivide and rebuild her with a similar poly count as vicky. I've made a lot of Posette morphs, but because of the low poly count it's really easy to start getting areas of her body that look faceted and cast angular shadows. In my experience, there are just too few polygons in her face to do nice closeups. I think if someone would bring posette into a modelling program, do some subdivision on her and then rebuild her as a figure, she could compete better with Vicky. I think she would still fit in her old clothes just fine too. Who knows, the P5 female might be the answer to everyone's prayers--a high-polygon count figure that looks like Posette. :-) Hoping... -Adam
Since it has come to call, perhaps I should explain why I like posette. 1) My view on art. I'm a big fan of creating insta-art, meaning that as soon as I've cognized the idea, I want to create the image and move on to a new idea. Often times the initial idea will go through three or four different stages of growth and change. But in order to realize that growth, I need the machine to move as quickly as I do. Thus, on my crappy p500/64 meg ram machine, posette allows me flexibility. Even if I can't adjust every single little part of her earlobe, she does fine by me. 2) I refuse to suffer for my art. Who am I really trying to please other than myself? By this logic, I've found that I don't need to spend hours working on a render in order to be happy. Often, I don't even bother postworking what I make. If her arm's funky looking, I just leave it at that. I'd done what I set out to do... 3) I rarely morph a character at all, let alone enough to need the precision of vicky or steph... A lot of what I do relies on clothing, hair, props, lighting and texturing in order to create different characters. Very contextual. Despite the fact that I use the same damn posette every time (I love Gabrielle...She's my weapon of choice,) most people would be hard pressed to recognize her from picture to picture. Thus, the magic of hair and clothing is evident. This is also why I need access to Vicki's catalogue of clothing...I've made her stuff fit posette many times, but it never quite suits me... All this isn't to say that the milennium people aren't incredible...They are...They just aren't for me...
Looks very sweet Jim, I must try her out. You definitely have a place in the Poser hall of fame. A good feminist might take issue with the non-opening mouth, but hey... Let's not forget Eve either for loy maintenance. She poses better than Posette and Ken1 has done some great characters for her (Posette as well). I think Vicky was too expensive for the Japanese modelers, but they're starting to create some characters for the free lo-res version. I think we should get the government to supply Poser 5 to Japan as foreign aid.
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Ha! The other reason that she doesn't open her mouth is so nobody can see she has no teeth! (She is so embarrassed!) I should have put a link in, too. You will need either Vickie or Low-res Vickie to extract her, incidently.This site uses cookies to deliver the best experience. Our own cookies make user accounts and other features possible. Third-party cookies are used to display relevant ads and to analyze how Renderosity is used. By using our site, you acknowledge that you have read and understood our Terms of Service, including our Cookie Policy and our Privacy Policy.
Hey all Well, I don't share the love for vicki and stephanie that everyone has for them. They make my machine run as though my processor were a very old, wheezy gerbil running on a wheel. So, I've had to be creative in my use of posette and in recognizing her limits. But, unfortunatly, lots of the coolest clothes around come only for victoria and steph...Manually tweeking them can only carry one so far, too... So: The question: Are there any programs/scripts/etc. that can allow me to quickly make vicki clothes fit posette like a glove?