I am alive as well - still But since some weeks I am working on a commercial project I have got and it's quite natural that this comes first.

But as you see I am catching up with this thread from time to time.  I want to say thank you to you amy_aimei, that you took the time to make Antonia available to DS users. Maybe you can add her to the freebie site as well once you think that she is ready to use? So we have all the basic things together and a DS-ready Antonia is something I would REALLY called basic!

About the "more poly" thing: Somehow I saw this coming when we started to work together... :sneaky: The problem is that there seems to be always only one fraction speaking it's opinion... and I remember well that there where several voices saying that Antonia is far too high-poly. Too bad...

Too sweet! Yes, Les, it's nice that you gave us a gentle push. In fact I am working at the moment and since a while so it is nice to get an inviation to the cosy Antonia sofa. And I agree, Cage, the thread should be made sticky. It is stuffed with lots of informations so maybe it makes sense to ask an admin if this can be possible.

Yes, I understood what you mean - and thought that adding details to an existing object may be easier (you see, I do not understand Hexagon as well...)

As long as you are only using them for your own purposes (renders) and do not sell them or give them away you can take the pair you have from Billy-T and add the details you are missing in Hexagon. Maybe a good apprentice piece.

Billy-T sells classic sneakers together with short jeans for several figures, for instance for V4

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/cutoff-jeans-set-for-v4/53694

I like them a lot and own two of the sets (Miki and V4).

This looks GOOD! I already saw requests for Antonia WM by DS users so you may be able to make some people happy!

The Collect-Script really works. I've tried it out with the Smith-Micro support: They needed a pz3 that caused an error here and beside V4 all I used for the scene was not available on their site (textures, custom-morph, clothes, hair). I used the "Collect Scene Inventory" script to send them the scene and they where able to recreate the error.

I tried the same with a customer who had a problem with Antonia and a converted dynamic item by me. I have Antonia and my own original product of course but I did not have the materials he made on his own and most of all not the converted clothing (WW2 creates a new object). So I asked him to collect the scene inventory and to send it with the pz3 and I could open it flawlessly, it even contained all the render-settings, the handmade materials and textures and so on.

If the Queue Manager doesn't work for you out of any reason you can as well save the whole animation and use the Script CollectSceneInventory (Scripts Menu-->Utilities) and save out everything you need to render. Then move it to the server and when your work on your main computer is done shut down Poser, start it on the Server, open the scene and render it (while you sleep). You can install Poser on a second computer (I run a complete backup on my server just for the case everything goes overboard on my main pc) without the need to have a second license - this way you can choose the place where you work as you desire it.

Yep, these require a bit thinking work, Thalek - or better: imagination to find out what is the piece that is as closest to the body and what piece comes next to lay over it. But believe me, as soon as you have done it some times it will get a bit of a routine. And needing more than one simulation per piece to get things the way you want them is quite natural. There's a little rest of surprise in dynamics and that's what makes them so fun and gives them the natural look.

You are very right - some clothes on the right places give a far more sexy render then the look between the legs. Off of that I am sure that there is some specialist who will gladly add the desired morphs and make a little sack of bucks out of them. A simple posting at the 'otica forums should be enough. And no, there's no pun intended.

So clothes... for many people a pair of classic pumps would be a dream-come-true to go along with all the nice dynamic dresses... and with nothing else beside a pair of earrings of course ;o)

Yes, there is money in that and while I, personally, find porn is extremely boring - and you can do almost anything to me - but don't bore me! This is one of the few things where I am like Nero.... beside the fact that I am not able to write correct musical notes.

But I won't complain about digital porn because no person is hurt and no one ruins his future... ah: And there's still no digital HIV!!

I am late bcause I too two days off with just work and sleep. To answer your very first question, odf: You are right that you can at least make some spare money from Poser content. Depending on how popular your products will be you can make pretty much more up to spending a moderate life from it. But for the start think about a bit more than what we in Germany call a "400 Euro job". So: Better income then a cleaning lady with a less ugly tunic and as much eating, drinking and smoking while working as you desire - and without cleaning up the mess others made.

The desire for high poly is natural and a common conflict you see with every new figure. You either have the high-poly-please-group (me) complaining or, if you follow it, the low-poly-fraction begging for as less as possible (down to "A good modeller can create a beautiful figure from a cube!).

It's not possible to please everybody and while I definitly would wish for a smoother elbow and chin on Antonia I still love her best

From what I read people want clothes, clothes and... clothes, especially shoes. When Anastasia for Alyson was released there where many voices who wished for a likewise bodyshape for Antonia but as this shape is so "BH-specific" I think that everything we try would not look the desired way but at most as a wannabe-shape.

I can say that I like the weightmapped Antonia  best and have endless fun with bending and posing it because it is so fascinating (and lovely) to see how the "virtual flesh" follows the movements. So if somebody plans on clothes and takes the time to offer a wightmapped version of them as well I would be the first person to buy it (as long as my purse is filled at the moment, so don't nail me on this).

Poppy-70-percent is VERY nice as well. She may the one or other Aiko-V4 hybrid super-envy!!

The way the teeth look is so nice, a little bit transparent.

Wow - that's what you can call "And now to something completely different". If it wasn't this thread but any gallery image I would not be able to tell the basic figure you've used. Very cool!!