Quote - REMARK !!

My first Hexagon tuturial can look complicated.
2 Reasons for that;

1. It has some fail safe features build in.
2. It builds a new character from an existing object file WITHOUT increasing file size.

Expext 2 more tutorials.

Full body morphs for Poser using Hexagon
Single group moprhs for Poser using Hexagon

Both are simpler :-)

The tutorial is terrific IMO.  You can follow it from start to finish with barely any knowledge at all.  That is something that is seriously lacking in many tutorials, they assume that you know too much.

Even if the person following it is already familiar with some steps, it is good to learn other ways to do things, just to be familiar with the ins and outs.

I very much appreciate having a FAIL SAFE way to get it done when needed and that is exactly what this provides.

Quote - WARNING !!!!!!!!

The Poser GoZ plugin only works with the new versions of Zbrush !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Read the read me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do not spend money on incompatable versions.

No worries on that here.  I am going to be using PML.  :) yay for that success.

Quote - > Quote - [I will look into older versions of Zbrush.  that is a great idea I didn't think of.  

Zbrush has lifetime upgrades so I doubt getting an older version of software will be legitimate. The only way it would be legitimate if the seller is doing a license transfer with you, that would allow you to upgrade.

I did look into that today and I wasn't able to find any older versions anyway.  This Friday I will find out what the upcoming budget looks like, in the mean time I am viewing Blacksmith tutorials and trying out the demo.

I really do love Hexagon, it is very intuitive for me BUT the lack of developer support for it leaves me doubt for the future.  I'm an OCD kind of person and once I get familiar with doing things one way it is hard for me to switch so I am attempting to get a clear workflow established now.  Already I have spent years in this not really having one and I believe I have wasted a great amount of time due to that.

I actually really like Cararra too.  But I just don't trust Daz anymore at all to support their own products.

Quote - Where can you find a valid copy of zbrush for $150? Do you have any links to reputable software vendors? (E-bay doesn't count, as software from there is always a risk).

Since the OP has already stated she can't get zb right now, I think her best option would be something like Blacksmith3D. It has a $20/mo. subscription fee if you dont want to or cant buy full price up front. ~Shane

I will look into older versions of Zbrush.  that is a great idea I didn't think of.  I also didn't know that you could just pay a monthly price for blacksmith so I may try that as well.  I got an ad for Blacksmith the other day and I thought that really looked intriguing.

Thanks for all your input!

Quote - Basically, you export that part you want morphed into Sculptris as an .obj, ensure that you don't add any polys (we can show you how) and save the resulting .obj, then in poser using target morph, load it and a dial will appear for that morph.  Jan

Thank you for your input.  I am familiar with how morphs are created.  Creating the morph itself is not the problem.  I am just trying to find the easiest workflow for a particular type of project.

The morph brush is nice in the new version.  But I see that more as touching up.

So what you guys are telling me is that there is no "make morph" button?  /sadface

lol.  Well I'm going to try these other two and just see if they might feel more intuitive for me.  If not, back to Hex I go.  

I went and made myself some homemade guacamole to ease the pain of having to read through manuals and stuff.  My Grandpa always called manuals the "Idiot Guides".  Heh.

I admit - I love Hex and would continue to work with that if it didn't have the problems it has.  Crashing, normals reversing etc.  I just want a simple work flow.  Vilters wrote an entire tutorial for me to get morphs from Hex into Poser and it's great.  But the process is a headache.  Especially since the morphs I want to create currently are for both feet and I have to do a full body morph just to get them.

Maybe that will be the same in other programs too.  Right now I just want to try and see if something else suits me better.  

Silo has a 30 day demo - full featured - that is awesome.  So I am going to try that and Blender the next few days and see which one meshes well with me.

I know I should really just be teaching myself to do everything in C4d, but that program is just so not user friendly for me.  I keep saying I will learn, and I suppose when I have 6 months to devote to just learning, I will.

Thanks for the response Laurie.

ETA

Idiot clause:  I also discovered recently that I installed C4d to the wrong place.  X86.  Sooo I also need to uninstall and reinstall before using it.  Which is a pita too.

Quote - I used to alert those who leaked my address. Nobody ever believed me. They don't understand logic. They always argue (always) that I must have given the address to somebody else as well and I can't be sure they leaked it.

My address has been leaked by:

Orbitz

Renderosity

TJMaxx

Colby College

Not one of these organizations took any action. Well, TJMaxx did, but not until my credit card also started getting charges.

Heh that seems to be almost any customer service these days.  The first course of action is to either blame the customer for everything or just assume the customer is an idiot.  

What's that saying about building the plane on the runway?  

That's the way I usually go with it.  I'm at least confident in my ability to learn, if not always with my current skill set.

In this case:  That plane is crashing....

Quote - and anyone who is big enough to step up and apologize for something is ok in my book.

I agree.  Probably my favorite character trait in any person.  Nobody can be perfect all the time, but the best people realize when they weren't.

Pretty sure you can build your own for less than that.

I have the same issue with being too slow.  I too need to find a way to speed up my processes.  Also need a way to stay focused.  It is hard when nobody is standing near by cracking the whip.  I will never understand how some people churn things out every other day.  

Trekkie girl would have been my best guess.  That seems like it wouldn't be too hard of a thing to model.

I meant that if they thought it would look like that afterwards it would be a further deterrant.

I got 3 kids.   I must have stopped prior to THAT occurring.  Thank the gods!  We could probably eliminate all of the '16 and pregnant' if we simply put this out as a warning image.  

Anyhow I am forcing myself to believe that it is just a misinterpretation of how DPs wife appears.  I've never seen anything like that, in all of my 'referencing'.

Back to the point of this thread.  I was actually pleasantly suprized by the image in the first post DP.  They do look really nice, and actually useable.  I'd pay my $10 too.