If anybody is wondering, I still plan to post it this weekend. My daughter's graduation yesterday turned into an all night affair and my mother has come for an unexpected visit. The weekend is no longer my own, so it jacked up my timing a little.

Pengy, there are pre-configured Aiko injection channels in her. ;-)

Of course, I can't redistribute the actual Aiko deltas. Might be able to RTEncode that part.

Hoping to have it done tonight, folks. I spent about eight hours doing comparison renders between versions and decided I'd use the JCM hips, instead of the different hip JP. She looked better with the JCM in 32, versus 21 with the JP, and 10 were a wash. The JCM was much better for anything radical, like Digi's old Steph/Vic contortion poses.

I found all the old morphs and a cr2 that works with them. I'm checking the joints and PBM links now to see which version it is. I did a lot of experimenting there at the end. Once it all tests okay, I'll start making png files for the poses. I never did single injection poses for each morph. They're in groups, like jaw, mouth, eyes, faceshape, stuff like that. I've never enjoyed all the folders the Mil3 figures eat in a pose directory. She's only around 50 megabytes with everything injected, so it's not a big deal.

I'm hoping Friday night at the latest. Thanks for the interest, folks. I probably never would have done anything with the S1 version. Now maybe someone else can enjoy the stuff.

Okay. I'll find the cr2 that matches the last version of the morphs. I'll see if I can find the textures, too. Then I'll post a link sometime this week, after I test to make sure everything still works like it's supposed to work.

Hi, Bonni.

This may sound bizarre, but how important are clothes? As everybody knows, S1 has more than a couple bending problems in the joints. I solved some of it with JCM in the shoulders and knees. I did the JCM as injections, so the JCM could be removed or never injected if you didnt like what the JCM was doing, but also so old S1 clothing could be compatible. In other words, if she were wearing shorts or a short skirt, injecting the knee JCM was a good idea, because the bare knees would be showing. However, if she were wearing full length pants, the knee JCM would be a bad idea, because the knees wouldnt crumple with the old S1 pants, and the fixed knees would poke through. So, the JCM was optional, making old clothes still good with her.

The thing is, S1s worst joint problem is in the hips. At default load pose, the mesh is tearing where the front of her thigh meets her buttock actors, and it only gets worse with bending. I was able to solve some of this with about six months of difficult JCM work. Then I got a wild hair and tried something else. I simply gave her hips Joint Parameters very similar to V3s, and got better results than I had with JCM. However, the Joint Parameters arent injectable, so that version would never be compatible with old S1 clothes in the hip area, unless a Joint Pose was made for the clothes. Would you rather have the version with the better hips, or the version with maximum clothing compatibility?

Attached Link: http://www.migal3d.com/s_max/smgallery.htm

About a year ago, I made err hundreds. It was a long term project I just kept doing new versions of, over and over. I did a new cr2 based on the Steph LE cr2, and did all the morphs as injections. I never released it, and since went on to subdivide her body and start the entire process over again as one of the things I play with in my spare time.

If it would be of interest to you, I could try to scrounge the early version stuff together and put it up on my site for download. Otherwise, Im not likely to ever release it.

Yeah. It's injected JCM. Turn the ankle bend dial, calf flexes. Pretty easy one.

Sort of like this, Sam?

"The 1.5 update includes the ability to create your own libraries, so you can support any figure you care to build a library for and define any morphs you so choose."

Oh, now this is the bomb. :-) Thanks, Rob.

Injection Magic will add blank channels to a cr2 file. Of course, you would have to distribute that cr2 file for it to be useful to anyone but yourself.

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Just wild speculation on my part

E-frontiers President has announced the study of technical synergy between Shade and Poser. If Shades animation, rendering and rigging engines are somehow merged into Poser 6, it will instantly gain the functionality of future versions of D|S with plug-ins. The only element the Japanese 3D giant would lack in order monopolize the market would be DAZs historical bread and butter content tailored for the Poser market.

What would you do if you were DAZ?

Perhaps M3 with V3's grouping could be closely approximated by purchasing the V3 Male.

Steve said he wouldn't support it anymore? But, I specifically remember, back when his renderosity products were purchased by DAZ, Steve said he would continue to support products people had purchased on renderosity.

Lululee, are you using the SP def file from Steve's site?