I'm considering buying vicky 3, but have some questions regarding her. 1 - I still want to keep my Vicky 2, and not have vicky 3 replace her. Will the upgrade pack do that? 2 - I know Vicky 3 has been remapped, but is there a setting that will allow me to use textures made for vicky 2 on vicky 3? 3 - I noticed that there is the base, and then a morph expansion pack. Does that mean that if I just buy the base, it doesn't come with any morphs to change her body shape? 4 - I'd like to know more about this morph injection. 5 - Anything else you know about it that is cool/not cool, etc. Thanks for your time. Dragontales

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1. No. V3 is a new model 2) You can (a) use the UV mapper to remap V3 to take V2 textures (the instructions are on the V3 base model page), or you can use the V3 to V2 model, which will take V2 textures(but not V3), V3 face morphs, but not the body morphs from either model. New ones will have to be made like they would for V2 P4. The V3 to V2 model can wear V2 clothing. 3) Exactly. But really; with all the improvements in the mesh and joint parameters of V3, she is worth the price even without the morphs. The morph paks alone are worth way more than what is being charged. There is SOOOO much versatility to this model. Regardless of the packaging or the price structure; the model and both morph packages are a good value. 4) Haven't a clue. Hopefully someone else can take up the slack on that one. Fair warning: If you use the "Inject all" option, it will take quite a while to load. Someone really needs to come up with a basic V3 tutorial about the most efficient way to do things. Setting her up is an investment of time, but the results are incredible. 5) She/he hasn't got much to wear yet V3 to V2 has V2's joint parameters and groups. That's why the clothes fit her. That's also why she poses like V2. Good, but not as good as V3. I think I'd use her more if she had some body morphs. What is cool though, is that all the clothes that DAZ will put out for her will have all the Full Body Morphs included, so unless there is a custom morph, her clothes will always fit your characters.

As for morph injections - it's another way of loading morphs into a figure, as opposed to the "select-body-part-find-morph-object-rename-to-something-meaningful-forget-what-you-called-it-throw-computer-out-of-window" approach. :) Simpler, easier but can be slooooow at times.

Wow, You guys (used in a very non-gender type way) are Good! I am SoooOoo impressed! Excellent answers. Let us know how you like your new purchase Dragontales :) ladynimue

One last thing to mention-- the Vicki base contains minimal expression morphs. A smile?? In my opinion if you are going to economise on Vicki3 at first, at least include the head morphs. There are now plenty of textures out-- well, one or two.LOL And a few clothes. But you need those head morphs. Emily

SteffyZ (who makes the world's best textures) has just released two more for V3.0 (both in one pack) V3.0 can be made into a man, (either out of the box, or with the aid of the new Daz kit) The head morphs are huge download! There is a free bikini and textures in freestuff if you don't fancy parting with $10 for the Daz one. There is a method for converting clothes from V2.0 to 3.0 using the Tailor program and a specially built manequin to use as a V2.0 base (in freestuff), as well as a few poses to tweak the JCM's (freestufff again) but this requires a fair bit of work apparently... V2.0 hair requires a bit of tweaking to work right on V3.0 allegedly. The Joint Controled Morphs (JCM's) are really cool, (and really work :) If you get her make sure you download the service pack too. later jb

Well, I guess I got my answers. lol. I guess I've got some things to think about, and possible some money to save up. Thanks for the info!

Actually, there are NO morphs in the Vickie III base, other than the JCM ones. These are a couple/three Full Body "Morphs", but they actually run scaling. So you sorta have to by the morph set, but I think the injection thingee is a great idea, and worked fine for me.

Dragontales,
1 - The upgrade version only checks to see if you've installed a previous version. It does not replace any files.

2 - V3 comes with a "Vicky 3 to Vicky 2" version that will (with the exception of teeth, gums and pubic hair) wear V2 textures "out of the box". On the product page exists a free download to allow you to put V2 UVs on the V3 mesh.

3 - The figure was divided into 3 packages to allow the customer to decide what price point made sense to them, for the features they wanted. The base includes everything for functionality. The morph packs includes the respective morphs for diversity.

4 - I've written a couple tutorials on the technology used in V3. It is hosted on my website [rbtwhiz.com - tutorial quicklinks at the bottom of the page]. Though I'm fighting for time to complete them (especially the one explaining morph injection), what I have completed (to the point it makes sense, not wanting to post something that rapidly jumps between thoughts as I convert my notes) is posted.

5 - My opinion, regardless of what I said, would most likely be viewed as biased... so I'll just say that an enormous amount of development went into creating her.

Jim,
Actually, that is incorrect. There are 50 morphs [see below] in the base package (in addition to the JCMs).

// Expressions
Blink Left, Blink Right, BrowArchL, BrowArchR, BrowDownL, BrowDownR, BrowFrownL, BrowFrownR, BrowWorryL, BrowWorryR, Frown Left, Frown Right, Frown, BrowUpL, BrowUpR, Mouth A, Mouth CH, Mouth F, Mouth M, Mouth O, Mouth SH, Mouth TH, Mouth U, Tongue L, Tongue T, MouthDisgust, MouthSing ,MouthSpeak, MouthYell, OpenLips, OpenLips2, OpenMouth, PartLips, Smile1, Smile2, SmileLeft, SmileOpen, SmileRight, Snarl, SnarlLeft, SnarlRight,

// Full-Body
AnkleSpandex, ArmGlove, ChestSpandex, FingerGloves, HipSpandex, NeckSpandex, Spandex, WristSpandex

// Glute-Hip-Abs
NavelGone

-Rob

Yeah, I stand corrected, I installed the morph packs when I installed the figure, I didn't realize some of those injector folders came with V3, I thought they all were from the morph packs. I was just going by what I found in the base figure, sorry! ;-)