Quote - Unfortunately, at least for now, the tool needed to create an HD morph from a ZBrush import isn't generally available so we can't make new HD morphs.

I may be misunderstanding...I hope so...but are you saying that there are no new hd morphs forthcoming, even from the vendors?  I wasn't asking to be privy to the hd technology.  :-)  I read that's not available to the general public yet.  

If the vendors aren't going to be making hd morphs anymore, that's a real disappointment.  I do like them.

Quote - I use G2 Male and Female almost exclusively these days, and the HD morphs when I can (my laptop doesn't like them, but my desktops are happy to chug through them).

I've been using Dawn almost exclusively since she was released, and I still love her, but the high definition morphs for the G2 female have me fascinated.  I've played and experimented (Poser user spending time in DS4.6...I haven't tried the hd morphs in Poser yet) -- and I love them!  I wish I could figure out how they hd morphs are made.  I know ZB is used, but that's about all.

Anyhow, I hope the hd morphs keep coming.  As the vendors get more skilled with the process, the possibilities are limitless. 

I'm a fickle sucker when it comes to new tech.

But yes, G2 female is the only female that's seen action on my computer for the past few days.  I like her.  And I saw a "hesitant to use regular morphs with hd morphed characters" post of DA, but the regular G2 morphs work fine on my hd characters.

Oh -- ok.  :-)  Thank you.

Quote - I think it would be better for users if Daz Studio and Poser were interoperable. It would be great if Poser shaders worked in Daz Studio say.

Or if Poser could read duf files, without the dson middleman.  :-)

I'm just going to say that I agree with everything YOU said -- and leave it at that.  :-)

Especially the part about learning from each other.

It would be wonderful, if Poser and DS had interchangeable formats!

In the meantime though, it'd be great if content makers and freebie makers, too, would take a lesson from artists like SAV.  Joanna creates for every figure I can think of, Dawn included --bless her -- and she creates for DAZ Studio AND Poser.

I've been a Poserite for awhile, using Poser Pro 2014, and I love it.  But I re-downloaded DAZ Studio this morning, and I was pleasantly surprised by the new version.  My Poser items imported well, and even the Poser poses worked.  It doesn't seem like it'd be that difficult to take items created in Poser and re-create them in DS format.

Then again, I may be in for a rude shock.  ;-)

I do wish we could all be one community again though, and not just for the sake of the Dawn figure, although I do love her.

Fix for smushing pearl at the collar of the Belle Petite dress:

Please set Dawn's neck 1 joint twist/bend at 0 -- side to side doesn't matter -- and compensate (pose wise) by twisting and/or bending Dawn's neck and/or head.

Thank you -- and lesson learned:  make rigid decos props! :-)

Hey, Paolo!  :-)

You're welcome, and thank you for the compliment.

*One thing I discovered, AFTER I put the dress up...sigh...the top pearl is on a bend zone, evidently, and will distort if the neck is twisted.  That can be hidden, with an all over texture -- or a strategic hand on the chest.  :-)

But if it's obvious, y'all please make the pearls invisible by setting the material transparency options to 1.  That worked for me.  :-)

I am sorry about that pearl.  Doggone pearl.

And thanks again for the comments, Phil and Paolo!

Thank you, Phil.  :-)

I reckon I need to model trendier stuff -- but it always turns out antique-y.

I am sorry I didn't note what forum I was in, but since I didn't... :-)

tparo is right -- Poser dynamics are different from DS dynamics, so that part of my post is totally irrelevant, as is the Oriana part.  I thought Fabi had done a DS version, but I guess that didn't happen.  So again -- very sorry.  And I don't know how the TT works for DS.

If I were a DS user, it would be hard to choose between Dawn and Genesis, because the Genesis females are gorgeous.  I love some of the characters made for the Genesis 2 female.

Quote - Actually it is appropriate, since Dawn was touted as the figure by Poser users to "heal the bridges" between Poser and DS users, but it's really done no such thing. The poser users give as much regard to DS users as they've done before, which is barely anything.

See, some Poser users feel that we're the black sheep in the DS community.  :-)  I don't know why DS/Poser users can't just forget which render program we prefer and concentrate on enjoying the art our compadres make.  And we're being presented with so many great render programs...Lux, Octane, Modo, LW...in the end, it's the artwork that counts, more so than the tools we use.

Maybe the reason there's more Dawn stuff for Poser than for DS IS because some of the Poser people were so hungry for a new figure.  We pounced on Dawn, and the vendors picked up on that. 

I wish something would heal our community breach, where it exists.  It doesn't exist everywhere.  At the main forum I post at, there's rarely any DS vs. Poser conflict because we all have a common love -- Dawn.  We don't care where we see her, just as long as we see her.  ;-)

I guess Dawn is an acquired taste, like oysters or a special wine.  From what I've seen though, once a user is hooked on Dawn, that's all she wrote.

Unman, I guess the only solution is for you to download the Dawn figure and try her out for yourself.  :-) 

Ok, my best to all DS/Poser/Lux/Octane/Modo, ad infinitum, users -- and you all have a great day.  :-)))

I'm sorry -- I just noticed that this is the DS forum.

Please excuse.  I did a search for "Dawn," to see if anything new had been posted here about her, and didn't pay attention to the forum I was in.

Duh...sorry if my response above is not appropriate.  Since I don't use Dawn in DS, what I said doesn't really help the thread starter at all.  oops...

Well, maybe some applies to DS.  :-)  Just ignore the other stuff.

Dawn is a wonderful figure.  :-)  I know some haven't bonded with her, but for us Poser users who wanted a figure other than V4, she is a gift from the 3D gods.

It's not that expensive to get started with her.  One must have character though is here -- Oriana.  If you get Oriana and the Texture Transformer by the developer of BlackSmith3D, you can use any V4 skin and the Ori morph and create many gorgeous figures.  I mention Oriana because she has a ton of lip inj options.

Dawn is a lot of fun.  I don't use any other figure anymore. 

Hair fits are easy...just move a bit along the z and y axes and maybe enlarge a tad.  If it's a Figure, you just treat it as prop hair by creating a Figure Parent in Poser 2014.  Clothing is harder to convert but as I said, there is free stuff at ShareCG and any V4 dynamic item can be made to "fit" Dawn.  :-)

I love Dawn.  Wouldn't trade her for anything.

Thanks!  :-)  AetherDream, you surely are nice.  I appreciate your comments.

It is not easy to make the leap from artistry to pushing points and polygons around.  I had to look at modeling as building things with computer legos, or putting together a jigsaw puzzle where I made the pieces.

You might start by working in one of the "flat" viewports, like the front viewport.  Just push and pull some points around.  Then switch to the side view...and tackle the perspective view last.  That's the hardest because points can go all over the place.  :-)

Fugazi's tut series (here at Rendo), really helped me.  Fugazi uses Silo, too, which is not expensive.  :-)  Some people do great things with Blender, but I always had zero luck with that.  When I found Fugazi's tutorials, it was like I re-learned modeling all over again.

Again, thank you.  :-)  You and everyone else are very kind -- and your lady is a beauty!!!  I love her eyes and nose.

I gotta learn to paint character skin textures.  This dial spinning is fun.

This is a Vyk texture and my 3rd face morph.  Fabi hair and lights. 

Quote - I still think you can't reach the "believers" with cold hard science.  ;-)

I think you're right.  If we're going to like something, we're going to like it, no matter how many times somebody tells us this, that, or the other is not "right."

And some of us just like Dawn.  Some of us are regular posters at HW, true -- but even during the times that I don't post much there, I'm still modeling something for Dawn or rendering for Dawn or converting something for Dawn -- if I'm on the computer.  Except for the rare times when I model props, then I scale them to Dawn's size.  :-)

I'm going to pull a RorrKonn here.  Dawn without the w = Dan.  I wonder why the male version of Dawn was not named Dan?  Dan and Dawn.