Well, whichever way it happened, if a female morph package were to emerge for Apollo Maximus-- either from your own deft hands or one of the other painfully talented creators out here-- or if you were to do a female model of comparable quality, commercially or free, I'd probably stop using any other human figures (well, maybe not Stephanie. I really do like her a lot). He really is that good, and as I haven't been able to buy any poser content for a pretty long time (M3 was my last investment, and I'm still on Poser 5) I'm triply grateful that you're giving away such an amazing package for free and grateful to all the free stuff contributors who are making stuff for him. May there be more of it! I'm hopeless at modeling myself, so really appreciate the hard work of others.

Quote - Tell me your going to do a female..

Pretty please?

From the description: > Quote - Each morph creates a realistic and uniquely functional shape variation at both positive and negative vales. Apollo Maximus can be morphed from male to female, boy to girl, and even old to young.

I haven't been able to get a convincing female body out of Apollo Maximus yet, but there are some lovely female faces I've seen rendered, and I'd bet a great female body could be born out of Apollo's mesh. I'm thinking about Stephanie, woi turned out to be my favourite female model, and I'd say AM2007 has far more morphy potential than Michael 2. It'll take someone a sight more talented than me to do it though! Is that a challenge? Maybe...

Haha! After a great deal of trial and error, I managed to save the tusks as a smart prop for the Millennium Teeth that didn't screw up how the teeth work. For such a toothy character, they work better anyway, I think: "WHERE'S MY SODDING TEXTURE MAP ALREADY???" she says... Thanks for all your help. I'm keeping reference to this thread for future use!

I hear you on that count... right now, if I didn't already have one (an old one at that) I couldn't possibly afford a new one. Well, I hope one finds its way to you.

Wacom Graphire tablets are as affordable as high-spec cordless mouses, and are, to my mind, indispensable. Get one. You might think: oh, it's not a great spec thing; it won't make that much of a difference... it will. You'll never go back. Really.

Quote - or do something that requires even more work: morph the existing teeth to the desired shapes.

Ha ha-- yeah, that's a possibility!

Quote - ERC (also known as JCM and many other initials) is simply a way to
link the movements of one joint or morph to another.  It's used in 
most of the major figures, often to control breast morphs from collar
or shoulder movements....

When a paragraph like the one I've shown is added to a parameter,
it will move whenever its 'master' moves.  The master figure is the 
second line (usually Figure 1 will do, but you could also put the figure's
proper name if it has one).  The master body part (here the head) is 
the third line, and the master parameter (here OpenLips)
is the fourth.  

The last line gives the 'control ratio'.  I picked 8 by observing that the 
widest usable opening on this figure was about OpenLips = 1.8,
and the teeth seemed to match when their xRotate was about 14.

Slave move / Master move = Control ratio.

so 14 / 1.8 = 8

Ah-- so only the 'open lips' morph would move the teeth, and not, say, 'yell' or 'open mouth'? If so that would be less than ideal... I wonder if it wouldn't just be easier for me to move them by hand... I'm not doing animations or anything, just simple renders. I dread getting into the technical gubbins... I'm sure I'll break something. ;)

Oh no! Do I have to edit text files? (runs away screaming, hides behind the dog) I don't even know what ERC is, to be honest...

Hmm-- you're right, that doesn't sound easy at all. I'll give it a try though! Thanks very much!

Apollo Maximus is a great model and a joy to work with. Never regretted the purchase (well, the purchase for me: I asked for him for a birthday present)-- but a freebie? Yowza!

Heeeeeeeeeeee! Embrace the sphere.

Oh, .exe installers should be banned. Not only are they evil, but they often make things completely unusable to Mac users, and I know I'm not the only one. If we're clever, sometimes we can extricate content with Stuffit Expander, but not usually. Gr.

Also: the fact that no one has made a Mac application to let us make MAT poses without drudging around in text files. Also: the fact that I'm too lazy to learn how to do it myself. ;)

But I must echo you, Momodot-- my biggest anti-peeve is all the generous and helpful people on this and other forums who offer their time, patience, models, expertise, and all sorts. I imagine you all know who you are. Thanks!

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I admit I haven't used the Ultimate Changing Ponytail in a while, but I like it quite a bit. Very versatile. StudioMaya does a 'wild tail' that sticks out sideways-- cute and free, if not quite what you're looking for just now.

Welcome Daterxies! If you're new to Poser, this is a great place to start-- and stay.

I knocked up a quick morph target in Extreme Morph to sort of bouf the turban up a little bit, since I was looking for something a bit bigger and the model took it very well. A side-view, pre-bump preview:

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