Oddly, I never saw this before. I would urge customers to email me so I can actually see stuff like this! I'm certain I've responded to the IM, but here goes. Because of the way Poser tends to save Cr2 files, I was forced to not include any prop files, which the eyes are. If I had, someone could have extracted the eyes from the Cr2 without owning the original figure. There are ways to get around this, but I rarely feel comfortable 'hacking' a Cr2 to lead to other OBJ files. SO sorry for the lateness of the reply. -.-;

Unfortunately for those who do not wish to upgrade, those figures have been set aside in favor of the new toys. My advice would be to keep ProPack, as it's a good version of Poser to stick with, and upgrade Mike and/or Vicki, depending on which you use more frequently. Or, alternately, get David and Stephanie Petite. They're not as well supported, but they're MUCH better quality.

... What is Chelsea Charms doing with Homer Simpson? O.O

He also wants us to get off his dag blasted lawn!

A/hah/. I see what you mean more closely, now. She's still very much in the work in progress stage, so thank you very much for your feedback. I'm trying to make her as authentic as possible, within my skill.

Thank you, Gabriel. :) I'm working on a Japanese female, now, for Stephanie Petite, and so far, so good. Would anyone like to see screenshots of the morph and offer feedback on what needs fixed? I'm always open for that! :D

I know which character you mean, about the dark skin, GabrielK. There /is/ a group of Japanese women called ganguro, where they tan their skin DEEPLY and then have really light makeup and pale blonde hair.

If ever you need help, Richardson, lemmie know. I use a similar program to yours to do my own morph work. Miki's a great character, as is Koji, though she's getting ALL the attention at the moment. Your character is quite lovely, by the way. :) And I really don't think anyone's saying 'All Asians must look like Lucy Liu!' or anything of that sort. What we're saying is that they should at least be close. It doesn't have to be /perfect/, for me, just... better than the DAZ only characters I've seen out there. Out of curiosity, would anyone be interested in epicanthic morphs, by themselves, for the various figures? As a product, I mean, not a freebie. I've toyed with the idea of doing a few styles as a stand alone product, but didn't think there'd be a lot of interest.

Richardson, the ONLY thing I see wrong with her is her mouth. That's the only thing that REALLY gives it away as CGI and not, say, a lightly photoshopped photo.

Same here, Artnik. Maxi was the one who pushed me, (seriously, she threatened my life!) to try harder to make realistic Asian characters for Poser. A lot of the content creators are middle class white people (like myself) who may not live in an ethnically diverse area. (unfortunately, like me, at the current time.) Some people don't realize they should do research. Others, sadly, just don't care, while others still THINK they have it right and are well meaning. The BEST way to make sure characters that don't look like their correct ethnicity is to not buy the character sets that look inhuman, or to leave constructive feedback, if you have.

I've seen similar comparisons in the past, but thank you for the link, this will help me in the future. :)

Pakled, I've never 'gone hungry'. I won't pretend that my sets are 100% accurate. I'm not the best texture artist out there, either. But I work hard and try to be respectful and try to create as close as I can reasonably get without completely remodelling the head. Xie is one of the best products I've ever made. JieJie is quickly shaping up to be a good selling product, as well. Do they look Asian? Not everyone agrees, because everyone's idea of what an Asian person looks like will vary. I've had people tell me Xie is beautiful but doesn't look Asian to them. That's fine. It's a hard balance to strike. And I agree with Randy, the expressions thing IS hard to allow for, especially since DAZ refuses to let people redistribute even basic expression morphs. Xie and JieJie both come with custom blink morphs to keep their eyelids from messing up when their eyes closed. That's the second-best solution. The best solution would have been for DAZ to allow me to redistribute the expression morphs, since literally anyone can get them from the V3 SaE cr2 file which is freely available for download on their site, even without purchasing her. As for being limited by the mesh... I always thought that was why DAZ didn't do very good Asian morphs on the Mil2 figures. It set up the stereotype people expect for Asian characters, in a lot of ways. I got to playing with M1 in my own morphing program and was able to morph a fully realized epicanthic fold with no problem. Now /that/ is sad, to me. These companies have all that really high end software, they've got lots of people working for them, with the software, and they can't do a little research.

MKMike, I'm working on a set for David, but the texture will take a while, as I don't want to base it on Xie or JieJie's textures, as that will make him effeminate, something easily done to poor David, anyway. I have to agree with Mathman. Hair for Asian characters is hard to figure out, and skin tones are hard to make right. I grew up in a predominantly Asian community for several years. My friends were Asian. I was the ONLY white kid! (How I wished my skin would magically turn that beautiful shade and my plain grey eyes would reshape and recolor themselves!) It's difficult finding a skin tone that looks good in most lighting and doesn't look really unrealistic.