Aj Nanette, I just see your lashes experiment.....

We had a classic car show here in town this afternoon, so I was admiring freshly restored cars. Man, some true artist there. A true WHAW show.

@ Pumeco

Long time ago, I bought 3 items from "at the time" very respected vendors. I was so dissapointed to the point that I "swore" to never - ever buy content again.

And I "swore" to report whenever I see something out of order to protect customers to fall in the same trap.. By now, and we are 2015 in my book, some of us can "see" right through a product. And I WILL report and  WILL open my mouth to protect other buyers from falling in the same trap. And, NO, I do NOT have to "buy" to open my mouth when I see something.

The word has fallen : Beta - testers.

Some try to get in the beta test circuit just to get the figures / content / apps for free and or sooner then the others. They will fill your inbox with praise on how good you are, just because they are so afraid to be kicked out again.

Others, report, document, and often get kicked out for opening their mouths. So? Its up to you? What kind of opinions do you like?

The problem is ALWAYS the same. ALWAYS.

The beta testers get the product when it is in its final stage. And then when  they find a basic issue (if they dare to report it) it is WAY too late to repair, or one has to "undo" " 2 to 3 years of work. 

Poser, and most other 3D apps, only need 2 things to function: The obj file and the cr2 (Or the equivalents of those.)

If a beta tester finds an issue with the initial obj file? => BANG ! => Years of work down the drain. => All morphs, and everything that followed behind them => Washed away.

This is an issue I have mentioned a few times: Get some motivated bata testers FROM DAY ONE ! And listen to them.

Content creators do not need YES-YES sayers. They need valued, argumented, documented and motivated feedback.
EVERY beta tester should have seen what David is showing in the screengrabs.

***About Scarlet.
***We are not talking about a novice here. There should be years of experience globalised in that figure. So we can be open and critical.
YES, there are some good features in that figure. Yes, some things are well thought out..

The problem, as usual, is WELL before all that great stuff..=> The basic obj file, and the basic rigging.

And, NO, I do NOT have to buy to see and report what I think.

The mesh is NOT symmetrical? 
Oeps; "Whadda mistake to make".
(From the UK, Allo-Allo-series)

Now, That is a very nice texture you have on V4, hornet3d.

The hair could use some thickness changes too.

Thanks all for the inital opinions.

And many thanks to BB on the material comments, and shvrdavid for the wireframe shots.

I did, and will not buy, for 3 completely diffetrent reasons.

1. After all these years, they still do not know how to model a decent breast. => That is the first, and an ABSOLUTE NO GO.
   If you want to release a female figure? At least learn how to model a breast. 
   And our fear has been confirmed, => See the "Sixus typical" area between the breasts.

2. A wireframe that does not follow muscle topology is the second BLOCKER.
   If after all these years, one still has no clue about the requirement to follow muscle topology? One has been sleeping.

3. And from the wireframe? REALY?

• Is that the default position of the arms on the obj file? 
• Is that chest bend backwards human-like? 
• And, oh, look at those, euh , breasts?
• Some parts of the mesh are water-tight in area's that do not need it at all.

Sorry, no sale.

You can add a HSV node between the texture and the channel.

H = Hue
S = Saturation
V = Value

Or add a Color_Math node to increase or reduce contrast? 

Solution : Go fishing.
Problem : Mother in Law arrives shortly.

Solution : Stand naked behind front door, open door.
Problem : Mother in Law just rang the front door bell..

Solution: Sit down on your Smartphone and fart.
Problem : Boss is about to call.

Solution : Render Roxie
Problem : V4 has entered your Runtime. 

Render settings should Always be with IDL and GC ON, and at 2.2

Color maps like diffuse textures loaded with "Render settings" or GC at 2.2

Black and white textures like transparancy, bump, and displacement maps, HAVE to be loaded in the material room at Gamma Correction set at 1.000

Hey Teyon, for a polished wooden floor the reflection looks ok.

But? The displacement-bump-normal map looks a bit overdone. (Do not know what you used, so I put all 3 in them)

This is partialy what PP2014 GD is about.

it has the option to combine figures, and an extra option to lower the polgygon count of the combined figure.

Load your figure, drag-drop one or more conforming clothing item(s) over it, and click on "combine figures".
Now you have a single- clothed figure.

Then for Game or animation purposes, you can use the "reduce polygon" option to lower the polygon count to enhance the animation speed and / or the speed in Games.

Or?
Use Blender to combine the figure and the clothing items into a single object file. Depending on what items you are combining, you might have to edit the groups again.
Then edit a blank cr2 to point both paths in the cr2 to this new "combined" obj file.

Polygon count WILL change so the Original morphs will not work any more.
And you would need the "copy morphs from" function in Poser to get the morphs back into the combined figure.  

What tools do you have?

This is possible using Blender and cr2editor. (also free)

So yes, we went the other site, and we rightfully did so.

This "WAS" a good forum.

Then they "improved it" to its current unusable state.

Seen the header on ther freestuff forum? Weep, and whipe your tears.

Pumeco, you can have the whole site for you.
From the upper left to the bottom right hand corner.

Weeks gone by.

NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING changed.

in free stuff, you HAVE to click each and every item, just to find out that it is NOT for you but for some other app.

When posting, you get the strangest results possible.

During writing, oh dear, close your eyes.

hey Kloxie....

This whole rendero became one big issue, so this issue is ony an issue to add to all other issues these issues seem to issue.

There's only one small little detail of a issue. The read the same book as the DAZ " soon ". 

Perhaps they even are on the same chapter, or they all went on vacation?
Just waiting for us to SHUT up.

See?

No complaints any more, so all must be very well here.

Yes, yes, yes, one spriet other zes.
But only if they are green as grass.
Well yellow went with the vertex and red with Santa, so there is not a lot left huh

oh? Is blue waiting around the corner?
How come?
is there still a corner that is working here???

Hey ??
Website guy??
You missed a corner.....??
Something still seems to work...

Man, man, man, you are a naughty boy.
You missed a spot. Now blue is punished till you get that area done too.

Boni, Shane, with all respect, but NOTHING has improved.

Posting here realy has become a joke beyond belief.
Even returns are not recognised any more, and keyborad ramming has become a habbit for only the most masochistic die-harders between us. 

Sorry, guys and gals, but blue is thicker then red, and black is faster then white. (But only after Christmas day when Santa goes on vacation.
Jawadde, these letters realy seem to have a life on their own now.

Well, the master of the web is getting close to get me close to being closer to insane. (But only on dark wednesdays).

 The next return went bananas, close to oranges, but I prefer a lemon these days anyway.
Weep and cry, is all there is left to do in this forum now adays.
And the spelll checkerr is close to Sant who was on vacation remem-mem-berrrr.
Ach, let's hope that the plug getss pulled soon, as sooner is Always better then later,

Coffée anyone?
Ok, ready, set, go?

Where do we goto....

Ach, on vacation, that's where Mr Santa and Mrs Spelll ckecer wnet, so it must be gooooooo d dthere anyway,
Well only on yellow thuesdays, but that's anothet sdory.

I was gonna answer "YES." Every vertex has to be individually mapped. For V4 that would be 78.000 vertex to be individually mapped, one by one, but not on sundays. On sundays, you can only map a blue vertex, and they are rare. Even weeks are better then uneven weeks. The potato's are cheaper in uneven weeks, but vapor is more dense. OK, the correct answer is "NO". Rigging depends on the purpose of the joint. A lid, a door, can all be conventional. Weightmapping is "costly" in the cr2, so only weightmap joints that require weightmapping. When weightmapping do not forget the clean-up afterwards. You can delete the conventional rigging once the weightmap is complete.