Hmm. Very interesting. Good idea Sam!

Yeah, I looked in all the usual places, but didn't see any myself. Was hoping to avoid the modeling it myself route.

Thank you for the thought, Sam. Daleks eh? ;)

V4 it will be, Bill. The link is much appreciated! It'll be a day or two, but I'll post her when she's ready.

Thank you!

Mike

Mine deceived me as well Charlie43. I thought so too until I looked closer at the Moon Gate. It's stones seem to be thinner, and it also doesn't have the same bottom that the one I'm looking for does.

But another good suggestion to keep in mind. I do now have a couple of alternates I can show to my friend. Thank you for the thought!

Mike

Thank you, RedPhantom. You're right, it is close.

I will pass that link on to my friend. If she is looking to update, this might be a way to do it.

Much appreciated!

I agree, Sa_raneth. That was my next thought. Unless it was an older item, I didn't see it when I searched for it. I thought I'd hold off contacting SM until I tried this way first.

Thank you for the response!

Mike 

Great minds think alike Jim!

That was my first thought too, but sadly, the names are rather generic.

path.jpg and circle-wall.jpg, along with the relevant bumpmap files, are the only real clues.

I have a copy of the original save file, so I'm able to look a little more indepth into it. The only other thing that I see is a texture folder called ruin, and inside that is stonesmall.jpg and it's bumpmap file. My guess is that's for the rock she's sitting on.

Will keep looking at it, but so far everything I see in the save file is recognized. I know the body texture used, along with the hair and far background.

I do appreciate the thought and your quick reply!

Mike

Yeah, it's going to turn out just fine.

Thanks again folks!

This is why this place is awesome!

SamTherapy - Uhm...I actually hadn't thought of doing that. Great idea!

and Tessalynne? I do believe you are right. The neckpiece and the cutout on the front does it for me. Textures I can always change on my own to get what I'm looking for.

Thanks bunches, both of you! I'll see if I can drop a quick render of the dress & model wearing it and post it here later.

Michael

When in doubt, look at something again eh? :)

It also helps to remember that I can load the original image of Apollo as a background image. What was surprising when I did that is how close I actually came, just by eyeballing it. Looks like I need to still bend the right foot a hair more.

And I thank you as well, Ikiilerich!

Soon, backgrounds. Stonemason I'm thinking...

Mike Dovers

Thank you for the suggestions, LaurieA and BasicWiz! Your suggestions have been implimented.

I notice that the original's left arm is lower than mine, and it is also holding something. I've no need to duplicate that exactly, so for my needs, the hand pointing slightly upwards is fine. I also can get away with approximating the right hand, especially since the original is missing some fingers...

I see what you mean by the foot also, but I'm not going to tweak that further until I see what he looks like with sandals on.

I also altered the angle of the head slightly. The original looks like he's looking at the top of whatever was in his hand. Since mine isn't holding anything, him looking just over the top and past the hand works fine.

He looks good folks!

Mike Dovers

p.s. and I see that when I altered his hip, it made him look almost bent forward again. I fixed that in the next version. ;)

Thank you for the suggestions, BW. Abs back 10 degrees, chest forward about 8 degrees. Dialed Adonis back a bit and took some of the general bulk off.

While doing so, noticed that the right leg in the statue seemed to be at an odd angle, so I altered mine a bit more to be closer. Can still tweak that.

Surprisingly, just adding the hair and the new light scheme did wonders too. I may be able to go with this since it's for a personal project. Has more of a god-like feeling now, with a little touch of a Colossus of Rhodes sort of thing thrown in for good measure!

I appreciate it, BasicWiz! (bows)

Mike Dovers

Poser Pro 2010 wSR1.1

Windows 7 Ultimate x64, updated regularly.

Intel Core 2 quad q6600 with 8gb ram.

1 & 1/2 terabyte storage split between 3 HDD's

and an EVGA GTX 470, good for rendering or fragging! ;)

My apologies. This should had been part of the original post. This is what I've got so far. The biggest trouble I'm having is the neck and shoulders. Making one look right seems to always through off the other...

Mike Dovers.

Ah, ok, I'll take a look at that. I've rarely used dynamic clothing up till recently, so it didn't occur to me to check that. Thanks bunchs BR and everyone else!

Yeah, standard jpeg. Loaded it from my Skydrive.