I've been away from Poser for a long time (P4.. wow things have changed) and recently picked up Poser 6 and thought I would dabble again, I also went and grabbed the New Gen Vicky. I showed a friend what Poser is and she thought it was really cool and wants me to 'make' her.

I was thinking of a simple portrait, I have a few pictures of her looking straight at the camera and figured I could use this. I tried the face modeling tab but it doesn't work with the new Vicky. Then I tried with Jessi and attempting to line up the dots didn't work well. I also tried to import the picture as a background and change Vicky to lines and line things up that way but everything is way off (ears too low, mouth too high..etc).

I could try by sight and adjust morph targets but there are so many to work with and it's difficult for me to get it right.

So, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or methods they use.

Message edited on: 11/15/2005 14:46

Weeeelll......

You need LOTS of patience.

Forget about the face room. I have yet to see a good likeness made with it, even though I do think the technology has potential.

What I do first is to create a reference pic on a remapped square. Its much more convenient than setting the pic as the background, because you can literally line up the head with the pic.

Then I use a combination of default morphs as well as magnets to change the head.
Magnets are imortant because Vickys default morphs dont really change the bone structure of the head.

Its a tedious process: Spin dials, adjust magnets, spawn morph target, reset head, set new morph to "1", and start over again untill you happy.
Finally, when Im close, I export he head to Wings to do little adjustments I cant do with magnets.

But as I said, it takes a lot of patience. A good "clone" can take weeks to complete, and you still might find things youre not happy with.

stahlratte