Okay, Here is the next thread in the our little chat - I changed the heading because we have begun to stray a little from the orginal topic. I will have something to post in the next day or so on my secret project - I am past the point of no return now - I am sure it will be built, but I don't want to present it until its a little further along. I want it to look good when I unvail it for the first time. marty :)

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Ah! Found you !

signing in!! :) Looking forwards to the new whatchamacallit. :D

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You guys have TOO much energy! ;-)

i saw 3dzone is doing wll at making new attempts of clothing, but his "offer" of making few freebies "at request" did not fell into death ear, just have to settle a few matters before i can post some basic shape requests if you don't mind... i am very busy outside catsuit so far, but i also had in mind a few projects involving it. anyway i rerere started workign my damn eyes; found at least a better iris pattern...

hack is back.

Ok, I have FINALLY made it to the texturing stage on this dress.The v3 version will be available soon,and if enough people want it,I will start on a Mayadoll version.

The3dZone

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Of course we want a Maya Doll version ! She looks beautiful !

And an S3 version as well :-)

Yeah S3 would be cool too I have started getting into S3 recently on the side so to speak :) and of course anything for Mayadoll is a plus as she's kinda short on clothes :)

I don't have S3 :0(, but I'll see what I can do for the Mayadoll. The3dZone

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Hi everyone, Hi hack, I feel so lazy and so guilty. I have been obsessed with my new project that I almost forgot about everything else. This work you are doing is inceadable 3dZone. It is very hard to make conforming clothing and you are obviously doing it. I consider modeling to be roughtly twenty five percent of the work in making an item for the market place, the other seventy-five percent belonging to the rigging for poser and promotion or what I like to call "post modeling". Obviously you are learning alot of post modeling methods. I am always here to help. Nanoshi, I appoligise for not having your requests done sooner. I am putting highest priortity on your stuff now. marty

Hey, if any of you remember I had this one problem with updating my Poser 4 to the latest version.....well, i did a clean reinstall and then updated it before installing my downloads and everything works! Thanks to whoever suggested it! This means that the catsuit and the senbotsu headset work flawlessly now.....^_^ Also, since I am no good at modeling, i'm in the making of a face and pose pack. If you've ever seen the "So it was good for you too" face sets for posette, this is what it's be like, except for the anime doll. If you've never seen that face set, in short, the package i'm making will make it look like someone is making out with her......nuff said.......

Well, thankyou insomnia, but I still have a whole lot to learn I'm finding out :0) The3dZone

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Hey, i just made this little thing in my spare time..... It's basically a circular prism i made duplicated and altered to make spikey hair ala cloud strife......here, it is modeled by Khrys' Chad and the anime doll base hair....

Allissa for V3 is now released! :0)

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Hi just wanted to share something I'm working on, it will be a cyberarm when it's finished, still need to work on the fingers and thumb, but you get the idea of how it will look when it's finished.

Alright! very cool!

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Oooh ! Great work nanoshi ! I can't wait to see it finished ! Marty, Alissa looks very pretty. Unfortunately, I don't have V3...

Correction, I have V3 now, but not the morph package. Is it needed for Alissa to work ?

yeah it needs the morphpack too

That cyber arm looks very cool. :)

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The cyber arm is very very cool.

Caramba ! I'll have to wait a little, then.

wow nanoshi it looks great

I assume the cyber-arm goes atop the arm or replacement for the arm? Where does it hook into? The shoulder? Just below? Where the actual model breaks?

Well I originally thought to replace the arm, but decided to place it over the arm instead, it will attatch to the arm just under the armpit. The human shoulder is a very complex design, so in reality to replace an arm with a cyberlimb just under the armpit is more than likely where they would take the limb from, and in deed this is where most of todays prosthetic limbs fit too. of course later science could make a full cyberlimb including shoulder joint and spine strengthening attatchments and maybe even bone lacing to strengthen the skeleton and then in theory you could lift cars above your head. With this cyber limb thought you would get a stronger grip, enhanced digital dexterity and the ability to hold onto something without getting tired (at least in the grip). Plus it has a sleek design and comes in many different colours and finishes ;)

Just wanted to let everyone know that my mini-pinscher "Spike" is having his first birthday party tomorrow. He has plenty of gifts he is going to unwrap and he is going to have a cupcake with a candle on to eat all himself. I am also planning a walk in the park. marty

AWWWW! How sweet :0)

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Yeah, I love him lots. I am trying to get him used to wearing the hat without knocking it off with if paw. Here you can see his general opinion about wearing it on his face.

I can hardly get mine to sit still to take a picture of coarse she never sits still period!(PUG)

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That is so cute! What a nice doggie. :)

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DOGGY! WAI! KAWAI!

Thank you for the complements on my doggie! I was thinking about modeling him at one time, until I saw the mil-dog.

Here is the "Stringi Bikini" for animedoll in testing and being submitted hopefully tomorrow. It will be priced low so it will be very affordable, after all, it isn't much is it?? lol. If you are a regular tester and I somehow overlooked you, please let me know. Thank you marty

woooow ! its hot and we are not even in summer yet ! please don't tease me with such outfits :)

:)

Insomnia I did you a piccy with your bikini, check the old gallery out :)

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I've just tested the stringsuit and I must say I'm impressed. Marty's work is usually great, but he outdid himself on this one. I have tried very extreme poses with this outift and it always conformed perfectly. Not a single poke-through, not a fault. Great outfit indeed. The textures are pleasant (even on such small areas...) and apply faultlessly in poser5. I used it on the image linked above. Thanks again Marty !

Great Renders Compiler and Nanoshi! Thank you for the praise of the bikini. I know I didn't make enough textures for it. Please please, do some freestuff textures for this. It is really easy to do because it involves so little fabric. I included three maps with the package, one that shows the position of the fabric and two others to show the position of the straps. With the straps - I layed them out on the map so they would be scale with any fabric layed flat over the whole map. In other words, like with all my products, I like to make them easy to texture "on the fly" by using any flat repetitive texture if one wishes. The Straps are split and overlapping one another in a couple places, but the trade off is that they are scale with the fabric and making the best use of space on the map. I am assuming that one would use a flat-repetitive texture on the strings and may be a little more creative with the fabrics. Both breast are layed out side by side and crotch right next to them. There is a square piece of material that represents the back half of the crotch, but since the geometry becomes so narrow here. One other tip for users is.....avoid the forward and backward movements on the "chest" with this swimsuit or at least know the consiquences. There is a trouble spot that occures with ALL clothing in the shoulderblade area. Naturaly a poke thru will occure here. Most of the time I fix this with a morph or JCM, but this is a string this time and not a real clothing. I considered putting in a jcm, but with the way the string is already distorting in that area with Chest back and fore movements, adding another morph would only make it look worse. I decided its best to advise to avoid this problem rather than try a futile attempt at fixing it. --- Most natural bends can be tansfered to the abdomen rather than chest - thus avoiding the familiar shoulder blade trouble spot. Actually this is a very minor problem that some of you expect already and thats why you are not mentioning it - but I am pointing it out for full disclosure - Other than that, this swimsuit looks real good to me also, hehehe, if I can say so my self. It conforms real well and moves rather realsiticaly with the body in different poses. Also I attempted to make this work over a broader base of charactors. I purchased markdc's clothes converter but decided that I could do everything that he does better the way I already do it with poser magnets - besides, I can save magnets for future use. I think that the clothes converter will be a handy tool in the future needs such as a morph and geometry manipulation tool, but is isn't a solve all for clothing charactor conversions. I always come to the conclusion that it is wiser to remake the clothing rather than try to convert it to reach my level of quality. In conclusion, I am making my clothing fit animedoll perfectly rather than making them fit a whole host of characters. marty

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Thanks Marty, I have made a second version of my pic, more light hearted (may be because the first one was posted at night ?) and where the stringsuit is better seen in all it's glory... ;) As for flat repetitive textures, they are easy to do in Poser5 : just plug a piece of fabric texture, tile it in the node's settings and there you go. As you said, your UV map is really well suited for this.

Hey guys,
For any of you that use stephanie petite,
I have made her a basic leotard,I'll have it in free stuff today or tomorrow.
I don't know if it will come with textures or not yet
:0)

The3dZone

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ok, the leotard is in free stuff now :0)

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Sweet stuff 3DZ :)

I figured that I should show what my secret project is. It is far to early to show it, but I thought I would give you a peek. Its my idea of a mini-jet attack jet for Animedoll. I am using outlandish concepts in its design as well as some conventional ones. I am trying to make it intimidating yet "cute" at the same time like a beautiful girl. It has about 28 hours into it so far and I spent about 4 hours on it last night making the pimped out wheels and other things. I am about to start working on the interior.

hehehe interesting design, ya need to mount a vulcan cannon under the nose to give it that dangerous 'edge' they love vulcan cannons in Anime (see my jetbike for what a vulcan cannon is) basically a 3 barreled rottary gun. Looks very cute though I like the little turn up wings with the 'pods' on them. you might want to move the airrefuling nozzle over to one side as it would obsucre the pilots vision in it's current place. very nice model though :)

Very cool & I can see the Cute factor.

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Thank for the advice Nanoshi, I will do that. Thank you Caly. I didn't even know that refueling thingy was, lol. I havn't added the weapons yet, saving those for the end. I am working on the cockpit right now. Has anyone seen "Kill Bill". I just saw it last night. It really relates to anime. I loved the character "GoGo"!

yes I love Kill Bill and GoGo Yubari was an excellent character :) Kill Bill 2 is out here soon, hehehe she leatns Kung Fu in this one :) but yeah Kill Bill has alot of anime in it both real (the O-ran Ishi as a child scene) and in plot and style. I actually tried to make a killbill texture for your catsuit but doing the lines proved a nightmare, but i got Zbrush last week so might try again.

great plane insomnia, will it come in pink with yellow flames?...lol :0)

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Pink and yellow flames uh? Hehehe. Sounds good!

Insomnia, checked your IMS lately? :)

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no, I guess I havn't checked them in the last 24 hours. Just checked them and replyed to your message Caly.

Here is the jet after 30 hours work. I am planning retractable landing gear and working gear doors. Most of the cockpit is pretty much layed out.

very nice,it's coming along great :0)

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hehehe cool, can we get a side and rear piccy too? I want to see what the back end looks like :)

Great look indeed ! Since it may be time for suggestions : 1-as Nanoshi said the refueling pylon is really looking odd here, even for anime. It should be rotated 15-30 to the right. 2-The glass part of the nose was characteristic of the WW2 bombers. A man crouched in them to observe the ground and open the bombs trap when the crosseye was on target. In modern fighters the nose is crammed full of electronics. I'd suggest to make 2 versions : one with the glass cockpit and a huge "anime" bomb (something like the Rocket50 at RDNA) and one replacing the glass part with a huge pin mounted Vulcan cannon with 6 barrels (and a shark grin painted on the fuselage). 3-Where is the engine ? Is it a jet ? if so, where are the reactors ? 4-I would make the tires less thin. Jets often have much larger tires to better dampen the landing shock. Well, I hope I haven't been too pesky on this one. I'm looking forward to see your project finished !

I appriciate all your sugestions and I will take them all into consideration, but I am builing a particular image rather than a vehicle. Considering that I am modeling in "Toon" mode, I am relaxing on making it totally realistic. So that said, please make sugestions! But, it don't mean I will take them, lol. In a way I am creating this one just like I want and putting out there for buyers to choose to buy if they choose. This is my own selfish artistic expression. Ins the second picture I rotated the refueling pylon probably about 7 degrees off center. I put refueling pylon there because I made the front end resemble or have some of the personality or remind one of the A6 Intruder which has always been one of my favorite aircaft. I do know that the there are there are two positions side by side and the pylon would be between them. If the pylon bothers everyone so much, I will remove it, but to me it looks cool. Next subject,front canopy---new this might be a contriversal subject. I put it there for two reasons. I copied the idea from another anime picture that had a similar bubble in front for a purpose I could not understand. By the way, I also copied the reactor pods almost exactly from the same anime picture. Second reason is I didn't want to hide the anime doll away - this will make the animedoll more visable thus giving the aircaft a almost clothing characteristic. This canopy makes no sense at all, I understand and only belongs on a bomber, LOL, but I did it because its anime. What are those reactor pods doing out there, I don't have any idea...Like I said, I copied that aspect from an anime picture that I will post in a later reply. Why did I do the wheels like I did, because she is "pimped" hehehe. I made them thin profile on purpose like a pimped car. Make no sence on a fighter, I know LOL. I appriciate all your feedback, but look at cartoons and anime and ask your self how many of the vehicles make sence---none of them do,....LOL. Also this gives the artist has the ability create his own technology, no matter how outlandish, to explain. I must also point out for interest sake, that the anime picture used for inspiration, left no room in the aircraft for landing gear. Also the the fuselage unrealistally short. It was a struggle putting retractable landing gear in a fuselage so short. When I was a child, I went to the smithsonion air and space musium and saw the one of those tiny rocket fighters made by germany during the world war II. I couldn't believe the thing had aerodynamics to fly. It had no landing gear, just a skid. So I guess what I am trying to say, that this fighter resembles something you might find in the list of german secret aircraft in production or on the drawing board during world war II. marty

Yup, it looks like a cross between a Komet (above) and a Me262 (below), with a touch of a B-something bomber. No problem with making it an "anime non realistic" aircraft, Marty ! It's your project and your vision ! I only wished to give some input, but I won't get bad feeling if you ignore them altogether. Best wishes.

Marty, the aircraft is fine :) I actually like the bubble on the front, lets here see what's beneathe her when she looks down, nothing wrong with that conception, could for taking photo's or tricky stunts. There are actually alot of 'bubble' planes like this flying today so don't worry about it. the Fuel Pylon is fine I was just a little concerned about her visiblity but it's no biggy. I'd still like to see a vulcan cannon though (3 barrelled one not a 6 one, 6 is too much like an A10). but like ya say it's anime and no those vehicles don't make sense especially the transforming mecha.

That german rocket fighter you posted compiler was the one that I saw at the musium. The memory of that aircraft was a big inspiration in this model. I was looking everywhere to find a picture and couldn't find one. With all this talk about vulcan cannons, I can't really not put one or two in it I guess. :) http://www.luft46.com/ check out this site of artworks of german concept aircaft. I am going to use this site for more ideas I build another aircraft. I have posted a picture of an A6 intruder also that was also used for inspiration for this arcraft.

hehehe yeah you see the refuling nozzle there is much taller than the canopy so when the refuller comes down the canopy isn't obsucred. the refuling bouy is a funnel like object on a pipe about the diameter of a large dustbin lid probably even wider than that. still a great plane though :)

all this talk about planes reminds me.... the3dzone2 just left for the sun n fun airshow today and i forgot to give him the camera! (bangs head on desk) the3dzone

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Thank you, I guess I will probably do away with the refueling pipe since it is a topic of such dispute. I thought I would post another picture of the work I got done yesterday. It shows the general layout of the cockpit. I am putting duel joysticks in the cockpit for control. The joysticks are only rods now, but they will be detailed. They are there to show the general positon. marty

very cool, i'm still thinking pink with yellow flames...hehe but i really like compiler's idea of the shark face too. i know ,i'm thinking ahead,but i think as a texturer instead of a modeller,so just ignore me me till it's time to texture...lol the3dzone

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hehehehe I like your plane Insomnia it's inspiring me to get round to making a mecha I keep planning on doing but stopping. and finishing Bonaparte off. I've been toying with a futuristic hocky game involving a spiked ball and some hocky sticks that double as lethal weapons, might even make an arena for it. not sure weather to make it ice skates, rollaer blades or jetpack based. if they had little jetpacks it could make for a real action packed bloodbath of a sport. Ideal setting for an anime adventure I think, you could have fun making lots of team colours and strips and focus on a main 'hero team' and have a sutiable baddy team could be fun. thought of calling it 'Glaive-Ball' I am gonna jot some ideas down and it would be fun to get everyone involved on strip design :)

I am very worried about the uvmapping, lol. This will be a bear to uvmap and it depends on how well I can do it wether I can do anything I want with the texture. Such as all your sugestions. I am also considerating a non-see thru front end also as Compier as sugested. I am not happy with my joysticks, do you think a single stick comming up thru her legs will be better? Or some sort of yoke or stearing wheel. marty

And include UV Maps! This is just screaming for a 'Totally SPies' style hippie texture. Sam: Ok everyone! Move in! Alex: I can't, i'm no good at joysticks! Clover: Don't tell me you've never played a game in your life... Alex: AHH! They broke my refuling pipe! Sam: What refuling pipe?

hehehe, senshi Nanoshi - Cool idea! Post some pictures. marty

Nanoshi: I must add that it was you that inspired me to begin building this. I was thinking of it as part of the Battle Force Senbotsu line. When you began working on your hi tech models, I began to think how I would build them and began doing so. I am worried about building this, I must tell you, I am in unfamiliar territory with this project. I hope the end product is what I expect and what you would want, but its iffy. Like I said, my biggest worry right now is the uvmap, it promises to be the one of the most difficult yet. This aircraft has so many parts its going to be a nightmare. Secondly I am worried about making the retracting landing gear work well. I am going to be dealing with strange angles here instead of right angles and this will be difficult I feel. I am consideering doing some remodeling to the reactor pods and converting them to weapons housings. I would plan in doors that will open and weapons deployed. But I have to make room for the landing gear which holds top priority. Third thing is I am going to make hinges for the landing gear doors and I am afraid that I don't have enough room for them. Forth thing is how good is it going to sell? Will it be worth building a second item like this one? My guess is that it will take about 100 hours to build or less if everything goes well. I got lots of worries. marty

hey insomnia,
what about this type of joystick contols
more defined by you ofcoarse,(these only took five mins) when you sid two sticks on eack side,they just popped in my head,the red thing is a thumb controlled button.

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Thats a good idea 3dzone, I thought about it for a moment but I am not sure. I am thinking that a central joystick would look "tougher". I am just not sure how I will add it into the cockpit yet. I already tried a yoke(stearing wheel) yesterday and didn't like the way it looked. marty

yea,i don't think the steering wheel thing would look right either.

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Speaking of flying armor, I'm revisiting an old freebie named "Titan armor". The original design was from a RPG (paper) game named "rifts", and the original model was made by jbezorg (see link for a great pic he made with it). Unfortunately the model was quite flawed (much too many polygons, missing polys or reversed normals). I'm in the process of adapting it to AnimeDoll (using Marty's catsuit). I have e-mailed and Imed the author but got no success in reaching him so far, so I don't know if I'll get the authorisation to bring this to freestuff. So I'm on stand by, not wanting to spend too much time on something that I cannot finally release.

COOLIES!

woow good really; to bad the author is not reachable. what does the freebie licence of his item say ?

I don't know what the licence says : the file is not available anymore. The item dates back from 2001 and the last MP item for this author is around the same time. A good part of my files have been MIA during the 2 HD crashes my computer suffered in 2003, some I'm clueless. If I don't get an answer in the next days, I'll send an SOS in the Poser forum. I also have another ongoing project. It's based on a mesh from the Lightwave group whose author was kind enough to give me permission to use and post as freebie. Viomar has helped me an awful lot transferring it from Lightwave to Poser. It is in the final phase of modelling, and I had planned to begin rigging it soon, but now I feel uncertain about it : I wouldn't want to seem to infringe on Marty's excellent work.

No, don't worry Compiler! Two mecha-plane-fuses are better than one! Also, in my recent picture, i tried out the bikini and it has no problems whatsoever.....absolutly no problems.....none....zilch.......um.......hey, does anyone read El Goonish Shive? Their costumes could make pretty good Catsuit Expansion Freebies.....

No problem, Marty. I don't want to cause any loss of sales for you. This project has waited on my shelf for many weeks, it can wait even more, until your plane's sales are over (I can't sell it since I wasn't the one who made the mesh and Viomar did so much work on it). If I finish it before getting your green light, I'll just send it to you, and you'll see if you want to make it available to your usual team or in the freestuff. Is that all right with you ? For the moment, I'm learning how to model. But I'm a much slower learner than Nanoshi... Don't loose hope over a little slow down in the sales, it will get better : you're doing an excellent work (your swimsuit was most excellent), so it will pay in the end.

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hey, check this out,i like it! i think there are enough pics on the page for reference if someone cares to build it :0) the3dzone

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The only thing I can say is, Thunderbirds or GO! I'm not even a fan of it yet it reminds me of it......

Thank you 3dZone for those pictures. Compiler: I really don't know how long it will be until I finish the jet plane. I don't expect to work on this all at one time to get it to market. I think it will have to be something that I come back to time to time. I really don't expect it to ern the amount of money I would like for the amount of work into this project. marty

Compiler: I still have the original zip for the titan power armor freebie, here is the exact text of the readme: Titan Power Armor: Well, it's not exactly finished and the things huge but what the hell, it's free. I've been fooling around with a better modeler than RDS so as soon as I get the hang of it, I'll fix the holes. Extract these files to your Poser folder (directory) using the option to extract using folder (directory) names. cr2 & rsr files: Runtime/Libraries/character/Titan jpg files: Runtime/Textures/Titan Restrictions for use: You are not allowed to resell the contents of this zip file without permission and for noncommercial/personal use only. These restrictions supplement and supercedes the free stuff license published on http://www.lightwavesgraphics.com/License.html Enjoy jbezorg Greg Henle Light Waves Graphics www.lightwavesgraphics.com

Hey, just to let you know, i'm getting started on Kitty-N for the catsuit. But there are things missing: Platform Boots! If anyone makes platform boots for AD as a freebie I would be priviladged to make a kitty-n texture for them. Mask! I dunno how to do this. Wait until someone makes a mask, or texture onto the face.....tell me what you think. Hair! She has two curly peices of hair coming out. I'm thinking of giving them a try in rhino......i'll see what I can do..... Now, admire the picture.

Nice kitty logo. =^_^=

Thankies! It's actually just a circle with the ears (copy and past to get them exact) =^O^= Meow!

cool btw nothing product showcase/catsuit related but i finally managed to find/tweak hair props to reproduce DOA's Ayane hair cut.. so expect another DOA toon picture soon in my gallery...

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FYI- The Stringi Bikini has been released to the marketplace! :0) (if i am behind in this info,just ignore me,i'm going thru a system crash...lol)

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Hey, here is a picture of Kitty-N herself! I couldn't model to save my life, so I used anime doll's hair props to get her hair. Now, would anyone be so kind to create a mask and a pair of platform shoes......and maybe a glove? You could release them as freebies, then I could make textures for them and release the textures in a Kitty-N pack!

i was working on a mask before my crash :0( i didn't get to save it either crying over my own loses the3dzone

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Nanoshi!? I'm SenshiTaurus! pout Yes, i know they seem a bit straight, it's just the early stages and will be fixed. Now, i'm just going to go to school........

Hopefully things will look up soon all-around.

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I wish you all the best for the future in both your businesses, Marty. Cheer up !

Hi all, you all been busy in here it seems, I been MIA a few days as at the weekend I shattered my cheak bone and eye socket :( so been in hospital last few dyas being patched up. So out at home now recouperating.

Omg! i hope you feel better Nanoshi.

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Get well soon!

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Sorry to hear bad news from you Nanoshi. I hope you get well soon.

Oh my gosh Nanoshi! I send all my hugs and get well soons to you! hugs nanoshi Get well soon!

That really hurts to hear Nanoshi:( Hugs Hugs Hugs marty

Nanoshi, we always told ya: the first rule is: you do not talk about fight club ! the secon rul is: you DO NOT talk about....

About what?

Hi guys thanks for all your well wishings, am feeling alot better than I was but can't stare at the screen for very long at the moment. Riddokun, you aren't far from the mark actually :) as another of my hobbies I practice Lau Gar Kung Fu and was in a match last weekend which ended up in me misjudging a block resulting in my injury. I've had my cheak reconstructed now so on the way to recovery :) thanks again for all your concerns :) talk to you soon

hope they'll morph your polygons right in place then :)

shudders at the thought of being a poser character

i could handle being a poser character, need a tan?......change maps. gain some weight?......just turn your morph dial to thin again!.......lol the3dzone :0)

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argh i already am a poser character, i bear very close match to default "Wolfgang" by arduinno and i find this disturbing... now of course as long as you put some tenten or mayadolls in my arms i won't object that much :)

But if your a poser character everyone can do anything to you. They could dress you up in silly clothes, hair, make you look stupid, newbie textures, ect.....

All for the price of being able to be as tall, thin, short, fat or square as you (or rather THEY) want (you) to be. ^_^ I think I'd rather not be a Poser character. When I think of all the things that I do to them... wouldn't want that going the other way around. Muahahhahahaha... Take care, Nanoshi. Hopes you gets better soons.

senshi taurus: some already does :)

...........what exactly do you do to yours -Yggdrasil-?

O,O Anyways, as we were discussing earlier... ...ummm... yeah... platform shoes! Platform shoes would be an awesome addition to the Anime Doll line-up of fashion. ^_^ I think we... ummm... we should try and get her some of those shoes. Yeah. Anyone else like that idea?!? Anyone!?!

You didn't answer my question.....evil grin

You wouldn't want to know... even more evil grin Oh and by the way, we need more tentacles. Definitely.

TENTICALS! Why do we need tentacles!

Tenticles, ya need those in any good Anime, especially the horror/geno-cyber ones lot's of tentacles anyone remember Akira? loads of fleshy tentacles :) you guys gotta lay off the schoolgirl stuff and watch some real Anime :)

i will try shoes soon,and see what i can come up with. they will most likely be a freebie :0)

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Yay! 'real anime'? Well, it's hard for me to whatch ANY anime, since my parents got rid of Sky, and SonicX has bad dubbing, so I don't wanna watch it........I did catch Astro Boy once, kinda good........so meh....

hehehehe Just my little joke about Anime, it is such a varied genre with films about almost every thing and every subject, you guys seem to obcess over the schoolgirl stuff though, :) hmm let's see what's some good Anime movies/series to watch. Anything by Shirow:- Dominion Tank Police Appleseed Ghost in the Shell Black Magic M66 Akira Crying Freeman Record of Lodoss War Vampire Hunter D Doomed Megalopolis Devil Man Bubblegum Crisis Bubblegum Crush Cowboy Beebop Tenchi Muyo Heroic Legend of Prince Arislan Monster City Wicked City Venus Wars Angel Cop AD Police Cyber City Oedo 808 Geno-Ctber Roujin Z Outlaw Star Sailor Moon Robotech/Macross Legend of Crystania RG Veda Zeram 3X3 Eyes Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend Fist of the North Star Guyver Patlabour 1 & 2 Dangaioh Project-Ako Ultimate Teacher Violence Jack M.D. Geist Golgo 13 - the proffesional Lensman Tokyo Babylon Winds of Amnisea Winds of Honneamise Odin Ranma 1/2 Ninja Scroll They where 11 Neon Genesis Evangelion Mad Bull 34 Magic Knight Rayearth Mobile Suit Gundam Gundam Wing Oh My Goddess Dragonball, Z, GT Nadesico - Martian Successor Wars Perfect Blue Dirty Pair Gunsmith Cats Battle Angel Alita That's the ones I can remember I seen so many, but they are all good and from all subjects, so it's fun to diversify a bit :)

Come on Nanoshi, I was joking, you know. Men are not only walking testosterone tanks... On the other hand, you "blame" us guys for the hentai/schoolgirl genre, and you select "Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend" in your list... tsss tsss tsssk... ;) More seriously, my favourite is Silent Mobius (I'm a big fan of the cyberpunk genre, I mean the "Blade Runner" genre, not the techno-gothic). Roujni Z is a close second, with its very poetic metaphor on the replacement of human feelings by machines and the solitude of old age. Akira, the Bublegum suite (AD police, Bubblegum crisis, Bubblegum crash), Armitage, GunnM, Crying Freeman, Ghost in the Shell and Apple Seed are in my first division. On a lighter note, "You're under arrest" is quite fun. "Darkside Blues" and "Forbidden city" have a darker tone (and there are a few hentai scenes in Forbidden city as well), but I like their overall mood. Well, that's all I can think of for the moment.

hehehe I don't mind the schoolgirl stuff, and I like horror stuff hence the Urotsukidoji. Ah, how could I forget Silent Mobious, yes I love that too, and especially Cyberpunk style stuff too, forgot all about Armitage, another good series, and Devil Hunter Yohko. hehehe there are so many :) I think we all should create one between us and do characters and images for it. maybe we should do a story in the gallery by passing the action on to each other like a creative tag or something lol, might be fun. I still fancy working on my future sport scenario when I'm better maybe we could take a character each from a 'Glaive Ball' team and do a series based on their exploits on and off the pitch during a season.

I have: Tank Police Vampire Hunter D Rayearth Evangelion: Death Rebirth Downloaded first two episodes of Evangelion dubbed (hehe...toothpicks...hehe...poor shinji) Animatrix Pokon 3 (i have yet to get 1 and 2, and whats all this about Ash wearing a new costume, is aw pics, and i'm confused...new movie? Series?) Spirited Away (my more recent one ^_^) All of Star Ocean EX (series 1?) subbed on VCDs And Final Fantasy: The SPirits Within (does that count?)

hmm i will refrain from joining the issue abou hentai stereotyps and likes and such, because i sure would either puzzle or anger most people here :) but what i read disturbed me, at least, i can say , in both/all ways possible...

I have given thought to making a tentical monstor, lol. Here is what I am workin on now. More Summer and Sping Fashons.

looking good there IW :)

Nice! Can I beta? I suggest that you put a prop that adds tassles onto it.....droopy tassles........droopy......d-r-o-o-p-y....

Wow, Marty ! Excellent idea and great outfit ! You're back in business as it seems...

looks good insomnia :0)

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Some boots/shoes I've been working on converting. They are old Victoria meshes that I have rebuilt to fit over the cat suit. Grim

Hey they're quite good. Nanoshi: 'Glaive Ball'? I know a friend called CyberCeth that made a game which I think was called 'Glaive Ball' aswell.....coincedence? The3DZone: Have ya started on those booties yet? ^^ Not rushin ya, the more time, the better quality. ^^

Yes but how hard it is to wait... I love these buckles.

whoa I've missed a whole lot! get well soon Nanoshi! forgive me for being a little off topic, but this has been bothering me for hours and you're the only ones that I know of that I think would know... I was playing unreal tournament 2004 yesterday and I got to thinking... "Wouldn't it be cool to have some battle force senbotsu models running around in here? is there anything anyone has seen that can help me out? what is involved in converting a poser model to a game model? specifically, an UT2004 model. now that I think about it, I have quite a few poser models besides my darling anime doll that I'd have a ton of fun playing with in FPS games. I realize that I would probably have to dramatically reduce some poly counts (one of the few 3d modeling terms I know =P) to get it playable, but I think that's a small price to pay to be able to customize a player model with poser =) again, gomennasai for the curve ball

There is some software Triggermansam which lets you do various figures from 3D formats for game characters like UT. I don't remember what it's called off hand as I don't play FPS's that much so never got into the character making side, but I have some friends that do that so will make some enquiries for you.

I saw some pictures on the net which inspired me to have a go at making a battering ram, here's the end result, I'm quite pleased with how it turned out and the texturing went well too :) I even got it into poser and working fine too, gonna have a go at adding a skeleto to it so you can move the ram back and forth :) I know it's not really Anime Doll but I figured this would fit any doll :) hehehe but I mostly did it cause I wanted to :) The picture in the top left corner is the one I saw on the net and inspired me to build it, it's from a french castle somewhere :)

Nope SenshiTaurus, They still reside in my head at the moment as with the rest of the stuff I started working on before my system crashed. at the moment I am stuck useing my old machine that is way smaller than the one that crashed,but the good news is there is a computer show next week,so I'll be building a bigger better system one that can better handle my 12 gig poser folder and lightwave,plus the rest of the stuff I need to get back into buisness again. after I'm back up to par,I have a nice new anime doll character package that I'll be giving you all some peeks of. her name is Simone,and I think you'll like her :0) The3dZone

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whow nice suit, insomnia. i really thought we were nearly coming back to summer; need to get back texturing, myself :) nice boots too grimjerks... well for the bringing 3d characters to UT2004, i saw on a forum that some converted the 3ds/dead or alive characters back to this game, so i guess that as poser files are even as complex to export (bone system, joints parameters, groups, etc) as 3ds ones, it could be possible.

Hey guys, I managed to get a render out of that dress I was working on,how you like it? The3dZone

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I don't remember you saying you were working on that.... It's very nice, but I have to say, with a hole like that, I don't the the fabric would wrap the body under the breasts like that, i think that the breast would pull them out, ya know what I mean?

well yes i was saying the same thing to myself, let the fabric to be straight from the tip of the breast to the belly instead of wrapping so perfectly, or you makes the openign less large/tall maybe ? anyway it is nice dress though

thanks guys :0) it's the first draft,so #2 will be better in that area. i got a little naughty and made anime doll some pasties today..lol i may do a heart shaped set also :0)

the3dzone

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3dzone, you're playing with my heart... I'd support the opinions on the first dress : it looks like a killer, but the cloth should not be so close to the body unter the chest and on the groin area. As for transfering a Poser character to URT, may be that Milkshape3D works : it is the program used to make SIMS. Off topic : my Poser HD controler is dead... I won't be able to use Poser for the next few days... BOOOHOO ! You know what : I'm unhappy. I'll try to teach myself a bit of Cinema 4D instead.

Great work everyone. 3DZone, your dress looks great and Love those pasties. Very interesting what you are doing Grimjerk. I am working on shoes today for the summer wear outfit. I will post some pictures when its more completed.

Great start on that dress :) I can't wait to see more of this stuff available to play with! OK question out there for the modelers... what in your opinions is the easiest 3d package to learn? I have been trying to learn 3dsMax, but so far it has been a bear to learn... any suggestions?. also has any one looked at doing JCMs for MD/AD her self? I bought the maglev cycle the other night for a cyberpunk render I've been building in my mind, I got MD in to her catsuit, got the boots converted, posed her to the cycle and her poor little tush just looks horrible in the pose :( Grim

I have been modeling and remodeling and I just thought I would share this with you.

Looking Good!

Well, Rhinoceros has been quite easy for me to learn. You may want to look at that. Also Wings3D is pretty easy. May want to also look at Shade... and the umm... oh! Metasequoia. Like the shorts there. Love the pasties. ^_^ Battering Ram looks pretty decent. Don't forget to make the ropes swing with the ram part when you do it. Some other anime titles that you may or may not have heard of/seen that are definitely worth checking into: Azumangah Daioh...<--- a MUST see Kanon...<--- Sixth Sense-type of story Kiddy Grade...<--- fun, light-hearted action with a dark side DNAngel...<--- pretty cool series G-Riders...<--- too cute for it's own good Pita Ten...<--- probably my next character build Super Gals...<--- butt-kicking valley girls Galaxy Angel...<--- seems to be shaping up nicely

Thanks, I'll look in to those! I just finished watching Read or Die, kind of an odd premise but I enjoyed it. Two of my favorites by far are Noir and 3x3 eyes. Others I enjoy: Cowboy Beebop Trigun (I love the humor in this one) Iria Outlaw Star Witch Hunter Robin (haven't finished this one yet, they licenced it quick so the fan subs may not get finished) Seems like the ones I like the most are the more off beat ones (at least for anime) like noir and R.O.D.

I believe that the easiest modeller to learn is Rhino3D although,I myself had a hard time with it because I use lightwave,and they are quite different. I tried 3d max before and I think it is as hard to learn as lightwave has been...lol The3dZone

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nice short/bottom, insomnia... will it be part of an rmp item ? it has some great uses (as far as you ask me) btw, insomnia, do you EVER check your IM's ? :)

Hi guys I just wanted to show you a piccy I did today using the Behemoth from Sixus1, he makes an excellent Anime 'Brute' figure and I even put animedolls eyes into his sockets as a bit of a conversion, which I might make available if it's ok with MayaX. I have been talking with Sixus1 though and although it's just in the planning/talk stage at the moment, he is considering making a Behemoth release which will have anime eyes and similar eye morphs to animedolls and maybe some hair. Now like I said we are just talking at the moment and nothing may come of it so don't be bothering him or anything at this stage, but if he does decide to go with it, not only will we get a 'male' anime character at last but it will be the ever present 'Brute' steriotype too so popular in alot of anime movies and series :) I know I'm excited :) for those of you who don't know, Behemoth is a free dowload from either the free section here or over at Sixus1's site.

what I am calling the "Summer Wear One" package will be ready for testing tomorrow. It is the shorts and top that you have seen above and shoes which are a sort of high healed or platform sandle. marty

Man! NEW SHOES!:0( You don't know how much it kills me to say this: I won't be able to test anything until my new computer is built,so that's one less mail to send for you insomnia. I will go off and pout now :0( The3dZone

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I can test! Ya know, they remind me of Kylie Monogue's 'Spinning Around' music video....just colour them in gold.....

nanoshi: free download for the behemoth, but is it based on another character (michael 2 or 3) or is it an independant one ? btw here the face is a bit too feminine (not enough brute/macho like) but well yes it is an anime stereotype, but in anime we also have tall thin pretty young men as vilains/bad guies too. as well as the classical "girl popular classmate" too... anyway nice pic :) really funny

Riddokun: yeah it's an independant figure, and yeah I know we have the other types of steriotypes as well, but you can use animedoll for the Bishonen type guys and even anime males with a bit of work, but the brute is a bit harder to do, but Behemoth makes a good model for that, hence my involvment in getting him animefied. As I understand it MayaX is creating a male animedoll although I havn't heard any news on this for awhile. as for his face you can change it to look as brutish and macho as you like, so don't worry about that :) oh and animedolls hair fitted on his head with no need to scale or adjust other than position :) like I said this guy is free, so use him :)

Thanks for mentioning Behemoth over here, Nanoshi! And yes, Nanoshi and I are discussing the details of what it would take to bring a full-on Anime build of Behemoth out. For those not familiar with Behemoth, he is part of our Project:Human line of free human figures. Currently, the others have been temporarily shelved while we work on updates and enhancements for them. I'm really excited to be talking with Nanoshi about doing this and plan to put it at the top of our production schedule as soon as we have worked out a few details. It honestly hadn't dawned on me to try to make Behemoth an anime character until Nanoshi posted a copy of the render shown above over at our site... funny... one can create a figure with thier own needs in mind, but you never really know what kind of life it'll take on once others take interest in it. That's a very cool thing. :)

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Thank you Sixus1. Its an honor to have you talk here on our forum. I have just posted a new continuation thread at the link above.

Glad to be here.. on my way to the new thread. :)

I'm new to this site. I'm a writer and would like to ask insomiaworks a few questions about the U P S N. What is the story line and is there any completed art depickting the battle going on in space, or is this still in a developing stage? I love strong female characters in tight suits battling enemy forces.

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Hi lewisdelphinium, welcome to the thread,I would like to invite you to thread #11(lotsa stuff going on there right now) as this thread #4 is pretty old and hardly checked by anyone anymore. insomniaworks has been pretty busy lately on other projects so it may take him a few to get back with you on your questions. The3dZone

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