operaguy posted at 4:44PM Mon, 15 April 2019 - #4349464

Why not sculpt La Femme into La Dude? You could do it in Poser, using the given morphs and the Poser Morph Brush Tool. From BH's morphs he obviously could have muscles. You could add body and facial hair to femme skin maps.

:: og::

Orrrrr, some of the truly talented vendors could do that and I could pay them. :D

Actually, for LaFemme and Poser health, perhaps that works well? I've gone way in on LaFemme (financially) more than any previous figure since v4. As I get used to her, and using Poser 11 in ways I never did before, I'm really having a blast. Every day or two I run "la femme" in the rendo market search. Purchases follow closely along :)

Glitterati3D posted at 4:34PM Mon, 15 April 2019 - #4349453

thoennes posted at 8:08AM Thu, 04 April 2019 - #4349448

I'm hoping (even) more iconic vendors like you guys have the time and inclination to dust off Poser and make some magic for La Femme. This is the most fun I've had since v4 (er, 4.2) was released waaaaay back in the early 21st.

I am of a mind to try a project using her. Initially, concept images. Eventually, perhaps, a comic. I find a project forces me to learn more.

One character is a young skater. She's coming together. I still have a lot to learn but I think La Femme will work nicely. The most difficult part in this setup was getting the friggin' bracelets to look like there is actually such a thing as gravity. The outfit is nothing like what the character will eventually wear but I needed something that looked ok, for now.

This might be a good time to mention... I'll also need a La Dude for this project. Just putting that out there ^.^

Oh, she's so CUTE!! A little thin, but adorable.

Thanks! ^.^

She's supposed to be a young teen. Athletic, since she's a skater. I still have to find a good balance between "skinny kid" and athletic. As a skater, she wouldn't be "ripped gymnast" or beefy bicyclist. Also, the character, as far as she thinks her mom thinks (sort that one out :D ) is "proper schoolgirl" but that's just her "secret identity" pro thrasher and alt-metal is her passion. Based on a book character (the more dramatic aspects, of course) and real person. Kind of a near-future "mistopia" world. (Ooh, my espresso gelato is ready. machine go "ding!")

I'm hoping (even) more iconic vendors like you guys have the time and inclination to dust off Poser and make some magic for La Femme. This is the most fun I've had since v4 (er, 4.2) was released waaaaay back in the early 21st.

I am of a mind to try a project using her. Initially, concept images. Eventually, perhaps, a comic. I find a project forces me to learn more.

One character is a young skater. She's coming together. I still have a lot to learn but I think La Femme will work nicely. The most difficult part in this setup was getting the friggin' bracelets to look like there is actually such a thing as gravity. The outfit is nothing like what the character will eventually wear but I needed something that looked ok, for now.

This might be a good time to mention... I'll also need a La Dude for this project. Just putting that out there ^.^

operaguy posted at 5:11PM Mon, 18 March 2019 - #4348273

Glitterati3D posted at 11:21PM Sun, 17 March 2019 - #4348255

"Please start you own thread about promos. THIS thread is about La Femme."

I didn't start that drift, i just joined in, but I'll desist.

[sharp comeback about my "lousy job" redacted]

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What about La Femme promos? On thread of not? o.O

Could the vendors please slow in releasing la femme products? My bank called and asked me to go easy. And my WL is stacking up. Holy smokes, just saw Maya La Femme. Day-am! Ok, deep breath. Soon, she'll be all mine. mwahahahaaaaaa. To loop this back to not really on thread: now that's a promo picture. (Pups nagging... walkie time.)

In a complete thread aside: it would be nice if forum threading was more like branching, with side conversations branching off and a nice magic GUI that made that easier to navigate. I'm a graphic representation person. I enjoy the side conversations, the opinions, debates, related topics, esoteric stuff, bugs, tech stuff, etc. Good stuff, but it can take over and grind a thread down. Especially for people coming late to the thread (hand raised, here) where going though 25 pages take a while. Nice for the main trunk to stay on topic (patches, releases, tutorials, renders, related products, etc.) . But I also like to see the side conversations. Much learning and, in fact, socializing there.

We now return you to your regular thread, already in progress.

La Femme (actually, all custom characters)... question. I followed the method of dialing in my own custom character. Exported the mesh as OBJ. Loaded it back as a morph. Then I had a little weirdness with the eyes. If I moved them up-down, there was minor poke through in the face. Then I re-read some stuff and clicked the "match centers to morph" which corrected the problem, but now things don't parent exactly right. I notice it with the cornea objects.

Am I not doing this correctly? Since the character is a collection of existing morph dials (and one minor shaping morph I made), wouldn't the better way be to just save those settings, along with the injection necessary for each morph? Is there a way to do this in poser without editing or using external programs? I'd prefer that.

operaguy posted at 12:15PM Mon, 18 March 2019 - #4348086

I got that you were being funny. No problemo. I hope you know my render with both of them was in fun.

"Working with La Femme, I find myself arranging her dials ..."

Are you using Custom Parameters Palettes? {I don't know in what versions of Poser these are supported}

You can have as many as you want, and pull dials onto each from any parts of a figure, and even dials from various figures and props.

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I didn't even know such a thing was possible! Seriously learning heaps in this thread.

In answer to your question: not until now :D

operaguy posted at 11:06AM Fri, 15 March 2019 - #4348082

thoennes, It's only V4 with Sasha-16 with Morphs++ engaged. Maybe a little V4 Muscle Morphs, I forget. None of the other fixes nor my own morph brush work. I won't say more, since this is the La Femme thread. If you want to discuss further, leave a comment at my gallery or site mail me. Thanks.

Indeed. No bashing or thread hijacking. Cool, thanks for that. That's the same combo I use for v4 ^.^

Working with La Femme, I find myself arranging her dials somewhat like sasha's. For me, it makes locating a setting quicker. But that's just me. I wonder if an "arrange dials like figure X" script is possible? Maybe even renaming them? That is, for dials that have an equivalent. One thing that always makes a new figure challenging (for me) is sorting through the bazillion (well, maybe a few less than that) dials that I've gotten used to in Existing-Figure-Of-Choice™.

If it is, then I'm sure the La Femme dev team has plenty of time to write it. I mean, they created a new sophisticated and very complete figure in, what, a year? Two? And I'll bet they even slept a few hours, many of those days. Slackers. They should have plenty of time to indulge my every whim.

Note: I was being silly if it wasn't obvious. And if it wasn't obvious, the fault is mine :)

One thing I love about La Femme: working scales and translations. OMG, why did we have to wait like 20 years for that???? I can dial in a working body-character to a very large degree, just using those. Which makes conforming clothing fitting much easier.

operaguy posted at 9:37AM Fri, 15 March 2019 - #4348055

thoennes posted at 11:10AM Thu, 14 March 2019 - #4348040

Verdict: love. Sorry, v4. It's not you, it's me.

There's plenty of love to go around. Click for V4 love.

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Way nice! Curious as to how much (and which) corrective morph sets you used, and how much you had to morph yourself. I would have bet money (not much) that v4 couldn't move like that. Or is that sasha? I only discovered her quite recently, and had already started using her in place of the various v4wm's for certain scenes.

operaguy posted at 9:32AM Fri, 15 March 2019 - #4348055

thoennes posted at 11:10AM Thu, 14 March 2019 - #4348040

Verdict: love. Sorry, v4. It's not you, it's me.

There's plenty of love to go around. Click for V4 love.

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Aww, v4... we cans still be friends! :)

I think I've learned more good "cgi stuff" in this thread than I have in the last year of messing about on my own. I like this Internet thing. Seems like a good idea. Now only if the Internet had a denser mesh so I could morph it into something better.

randym77 posted at 12:26AM Fri, 15 March 2019 - #4348041

thoennes posted at 7:38AM Thu, 14 March 2019 - #4348037

Chucks. And converse hightops. Already have vans (errr fads). Doc martens would be awesome sauce. And, ooh, some detailed asics: running and crossfit, please. And flats, of course. Chucks. I mentioned the chucks, right? They rule. Fistfull of cash-money, right here, for shoe vendors.

I want boots. Low boots. And shoes that don't look overly contemporary. Something that could pass for historical, SF, or fantasy.

There's a bunch of very contemporary stuff for LaFemme, that I suspect will look very dated in a few years, but not much other stuff. (I did buy "Wayfarer," which is very nice.)

Ooh, me too! And granny boots. Anything but more hooker heels, really. I long ago tired of rendering yet another episode of "V4: Streetwalker". She's old enough now to need orthopedics, anyway.

Nothing will ever take over from v4! Can you do this with La Femme????

I certainly hope so. I just did. In a few minutes. :p

La Femme + HD Morphs. Not one single stroke of the morph tool nor any correction morphs. Didn't mess with materials at all. One click of A V4 pose where the only tweaking was to take advantage of a waist and metatarsal to make the bends more subtle.

Most of the few minutes was spent dialing in my v4(wm) based "young dancer" character and setting up lights. Be gentle... I've never really tried a superfly render before O.O

I think it took 15 minutes to render. No post.

The outfit is FK's Ballet run through the Fitting room.

Verdict: love. Sorry, v4. It's not you, it's me.

duanemoody posted at 10:45PM Thu, 14 March 2019 - #4345795

wip

Lovely!

ssgbryan posted at 10:14PM Thu, 14 March 2019 - #4345659

BTW, all the bending in the world won't help this figure go anywhere if we are stuck with the same limited content every Post V4 figure has received.

It isn't enough to just have vendors on board. They need to move out of the pin up art only mindset that has permeated Poser storefronts since V4. If all we get is a bunch of hookerware and early 20 something Caucasians, LaFemme will be just as still born as every other Post-V4 figure.

Don't need any figures that look exactly like their legacy counterparts; don't need anymore early-20's Caucasians (got 1,500+ right now). If it is Logan's Run only, it will be a harder sell.

Right now, people can do more with the golum because their is a much wider variety of content - They have kids, they have middle aged people, they have old people, they even have different ethnic groups, but no older characters of different ethnic groups (and caucasianized to the point of creepyness.) They have a wider variety of clothing (badly made for the most part - It wouldn't have passed QA back in the V3 era).

And needless to say, all of that post V4 content is a mere fraction of the content that is available for V4.

The easiest way to see if a character will fly is the amount of shoes made for it. Shoes are the key.

Chucks. And converse hightops. Already have vans (errr fads). Doc martens would be awesome sauce. And, ooh, some detailed asics: running and crossfit, please. And flats, of course. Chucks. I mentioned the chucks, right? They rule. Fistfull of cash-money, right here, for shoe vendors.

Blackhearted posted at 7:53PM Thu, 14 March 2019 - #4344640

So these are very experimental, definitely not ready to be rolled into the base. Something for the shader gurus to play with.

..but here's a set of mesh corneas for LaFemme. They smart prop to the eyes automatically. There's an 'Optics' morph in them that adjusts the lens concave/convex -- by default they should be pretty parallel. There was a small black ring around the edge when rendering. Making the edge of the lens sharper, disabling smoothing, subdivision, etc didnt solve the problem so I sunk them a little into the sclera and they render perfect.

LaFemme Experimental Corneas

I don't really have time to render these out fully since it's past 3am and I'm about to fall out of my chair. cheers!!

Perfect. Was planning on doing this myself then I came across this pseudorandomly reading threads while waiting for a render. I'm really enjoying La Femme. She makes Poser 11 seem like a new piece of software :)

Would be nice to have some idea of what they're working on. The "walled fortress" sure isn't helping things.

What's the point of keeping things mum? Smells rather like a product team thinking "we have no idea what, if anything, will happen" due to CEO not really caring much about the product. Which, you know, they could say. Also concerning... a lot of us knew people on the dev team. There was communication. Granted, a lot more of it prior to SM. Does anyone know anyone on the current dev team? Anyone???? O.O

All this leaves me with a VERY bad impression of SM. Sighs....

Anyway, I'm liking Blender more each day. My doctor says it's due to brain cell degeneration and there's nothing he can do. I may end up really liking it. No one ever thinks it will happen to them until it does. Then <BAM!> you end up liking Blender. Life can be weird, sometimes