No kidding! Though, admittedly, if I had to pick a feature to share with Vicki, #1 on the list would be adjustments of my full body morphs. grin

I realize that, but I just don't see it at all. I tend to consider the 3d celebrity emulations much like those visual puzzles -- sometimes I can see them, sometimes I just don't. (Random too little sleep reference: "It's a schooner!" Ahem. wink)

I'm not seeing Liv Tyler at all there, either, but I do think she has a "Monica" that is more Monica Belucci.

Rhiannon's boots are pretty cool, too, and I'll second the recommendation for dx30's shoes and boots. There are some from both dx30 and idler168 at DAZ, also. grin ...and you're making me want those shaders more than ever before now. Those are looking -fantastic-!

I wish I knew what to suggest. I think people could probably still buy things for you as a gift but I don't know what you'd have to do to go through the verifications. (Basically, I don't know if that's required in cases of gift purchases, which would be different than GC purchases.) I do know that if I pay for something with store credit (from sales in that month), I don't have to enter CC info if the whole order is covered by it. I just don't know if the same would apply or not.

Actually... I just installed V4.1 and her morphs (only those) into P7. I just copied the files right into my external. If I run one of the 'update V4.1' bits, I just copy the new morphs and the updated V4.1 cr2 over to the external runtime when necessary. No cr2 edits, no fuss, maybe took 15 minutes total from the day I've installed her through the present, total, to manage. It's the supporting content that gets really huge for me, and all of that stays neatly in the external runtime, keeping the clutter to a general minimum and keeping things as organized as is possible. Again, YMMV, since I know the Mac experience of dealing with all of it has been described as being somewhat different from the PC version.

First, the beginning of this thread makes me blush. A lot. Thank you. Second, the sidetrack it took brought to mind something that keeps nagging at me. I am genuinely not meaning this in a snarky way, but as it's frazzled me a little since I saw this thread yesterday, it might come across that way -- if so, my apologies in advance, because it's not my intent. That thing is: there is a monumental amount of complaining in multiple threads every single day, full of generalizations about "what everybody does" and how "everything is bad" and so on. Stepping back from it a moment, it's not hard to see that it takes up a good dose of time. If a fraction of that time was spent looking through the various offerings here and elsewhere, I have to wonder if some of the 'hidden gems' would be found more readily. Again, I am not trying to snark people here, but it's really that simple to me. What's a more effective use of time: voicing the same complaints over and over again in every possible place where anything at all is being discussed, or instead looking through what's out there, and possibly firing off an email or sitemail to the creator with a question if you're curious about an item and unsure for some reason? It just seems basic to me, I guess. If the people being complained about cared very much (if at all) about the complaints, they probably would have changed something about the way they are doing things by now. If I had to guess, it's the people who actually do care about the quality of their work that read that kind of thread more often because they actually do want to avoid mistakes, or provide the info people want, and so on. All the endless "everything is the same" -- that continues after they've taken steps to not fall into those traps and avoid the things people complain about -- tends to do is raise their blood pressure since people are too busy complaining to look around a little and find the results. Yet again, no nastiness intended at all. The short form: I'm not saying 'don't complain'. That'd be dumb, and I like complaining too much to give that advice with a straight face. I am saying 'don't spend so much time complaining that you no longer have any time left to look and see if anything has changed out there or find what you need', because I think that's just common sense. And then the general random stuff: bagginsbill, if you're still looking for nifty V4 shoes, I'd suggest looking through idler168's store here. He has some amazing ones, and I am a shoe junkie (virtual and in the real world), so I tend to be fairly picky. I am completely addicted to his work; it's absolutely fantastic. grin He has some very nice casual clothing for V4 and others, also. As to V4 and installation, I have a copy of her and the !DAZ folder with her morphs in my main Poser directory, and a copy of her, the !DAZ morphs folder, (and all of her supporting content that I have) in an external runtime without any problems. Frequently enough I load her from her own runtime because I forget to switch back to the main Poser one, and it takes a while (a 'let the coffee brew while' in my case) but I've not had any trouble loading her. I am on a fairly high-end (one of the very last non-Intel towers) Mac, though, so your mileage may vary.

grin Thank you. It just sorta crawled into my head one day, and I had to use it.

cheerfully worships

The seam guide is the same except for the brow area. This should do the trick: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/index.php?user_id=856 -- look for his V4 templates, and the V4.1 head with brows. SnowSultan's seam guides are heaven to work with.

shuddertwitch Yet another reason to avoid Walmart. I'm lucky -- I have a wild costume closet and a stockpile of horror movies to play long into the night. grin We once had a handful of people who went really wild -- fun, not gory at all -- with their Halloween decor starting around the beginning of the month in the neighborhood. Sadly, though they're all still here, a new family moved in and was very, very, -very- vocally against Halloween on their personal religious grounds that people stopped putting things up much at all. (Doubly amusing, we had a pastor move in across the street from us. He and his family had no problem with the Halloween decor and actually do put some pretty seasonal things up. It's oddly comforting.)

Quote - I fear that year by year, we are loosing Halloween a little more.

Agreed. It makes me very sad. Our stores are already crawling with the beginnings of Xmas stuff. Halloween has always been my favorite -- the creepy, the costumes, the chocolate, the sitting up and telling spooky stories, the horror movie marathons on TV... the list just goes on. I do love that stuff. Other than the "everything under the sun is haunted, watch this re-enactment!" shows on TV that are inevitable, I've not seen much outside the Poser communities and the piles of candy just inside the door of the supermarket. It makes me buckets of sad.

If a skin uses transmapped brows, it won't work the same way on V4. V4.1 has brow geometry and a material zone to take the texture, while V4 does not. A dial-spun morph that uses morphs only in V4.1 isn't going to be able to be taken identically by V4 since she'd lack a few of those options; V4 also can't handle the muscle morph or creature morph add on morph packs, which were designed to work with V4.1. Those are the only big differences I can think of.

Quote - > Quote - What of the image is actually mine?

 

I tend to think of them as collages of sorts.

I'm pretty much on the same page here.

Zeony hair is fairly close, too, though it is not pushed back in the same way -- I think it's a little heavier on the sides/front than the pics.