Bugger, now I have to re-figure all the bloody math for making my skin. At least it'll turn out for the better, but man what a load of work. 18 material zones on V4, on only 7 or so maps, each one with a different ratio. wanders off muttering aspect ratio math

BUGGER!!

I'm eagerly anticipating any kind of answer that BB might have, it took me a week or two to figure out how (where in the node soup rather) to put my tattoos into a shader made with VSS.

I guess hand-painting texture sets to release them for V4 is a silly idea then? I'd hate to find out I've been wasting my time. Tell me someone would appreciate my work, and be able to get it. I've been hammering out the kinks for a month or so now.

Eventually I'll release a complete set of my "character builder". Color maps, bump maps, specular control maps, displacement controllers for features, etc. Just tell me you wouldn't turn away from it just because it's a jpg. If you have to edit my skin, I didn't do it right the first time. I use a modular approach to my textures. when I want to add something to a character, I just add it IN poser. My skin map looks rather plain, so it's small. My tattoos are just tattoos so they are also small. The "beauty mark" I put on my character is a separate image, so it's really tiny.

Sorry about the rant, I just get very fired up when people talk about "high-res" textures.  Every time I get my hands on a so-called high-res texture, I wind up editing the dogsnot out of it. So now I have ONE that I modify in poser. I'm deleting all the ones I've collected over the years.

Attached Link: Tattooed Alex

Maybe if merchants included a promo pic with thier products? I like having a preview included, don't know about anyone else.

I avoid spaces in file and folder names whenever possible. You never know when you'll have to login from a linux box to fix something.

I need to watch Aliens again. Excellent work on the prop btw, now if I could just find my predator character again. (there was once one in the freestuff, many years ago).

The M-60 may very well be based on the MG-42 but the "smart gun" heavy MG operating end looked just like an M-60. I used to carry one, trust me I know what an M-60 looks like. I suppose it's possible that for cannonical reasons it gets said that they are based on the MG-42 but the props in the movie look more like a modified M-60.

Interesting how this free prop looks more like an MG-42 and the movie props look more like an M-60.

Odd how a merchant that was going to disappear from the RMP is still the "vendor of the year" on the RMP homepage.

Quote - The Marines` Smartgun from the Alien movies. In the movie the smart guns carried by Vasquez and Drake were based on the German MG-42 machine gun.

Then why did they look like US Army M-60's?

Do NOT scale the eyebrows on V4.2 if you plan to make transmapped brows for her! Use the face template for positioning, and make a transmap.

You pretty much have two choices for eyebrows on V4.2: use a transmap, or uncheck the "visible" property and rely on eyebrows that are already painted onto the face.

I'm actually in the process of creating a character texture set that includes transmapped brows for V4, and transmapped pubic hair. Hand-painting a texture instead of using reference photos is a PITA btw.

when I'm done with my tattoo pack maybe I'll work on her some more, right now she's just for personal use.

I make my own transmaps for the brows ... use the same template as the face for placement.

I actually LIKE the eyebrows being a separate material zone. That way I can re-use my skin without having the sam eyebrow color or shape. I just make a new transmap and Viola! new eyebrows!

From the proliferation of v4 textures that have the eyebrows already painted on, I am obviously in the minority, but why is that? Are custom eyebrows not something poser users like? I've seen hundreds of eyelash tex, but nada for eyebrows, which are easier to see. Makes no sense to me.