Just wondering why there's zero support freebie wise for the G2 figures in the skin texture department.

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Male or female? I'm in need of a project (signed off work at the moment due to back pain) and I was fancying doing a character texture set next. I was thinking about Miki but I could do someone else. Any specific requests?

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I'd love to see skins for G2 Koji & Kelvin. I have a purchased skin for Simon called Nash that works for him and James but I have nothing but the defaults for G2 Koji & Kelvin. Right now buying isn't an option til I pay my credit card down from the new windows I put in my house this summer to save electricity and AC. (Believe me I am eyeballing some merchant skins but some free ones would really help me over this financial dry spell.)

Obviously for free I don't expect 4000x4000 high rez textures. Just some free new low rez ones would be nice. If you do high rez versions I can buy them later maybe.

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sheesh...I have enough trouble finding them for Mike...;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

Mike at least has some free skins to be found which is more than can be said for the Poser guys starting with Poser 6. At least the 5 man and woman could take V1 & 2 and M1 & 2 textures that were free and abundant.

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I cannot understand why the G2 males all have different head maps. It's incredibly annoying. Oh well, at least they can share body textures. And head maps can share for Simon and James G2.

OK, I'll get working. It'll probably be about the same res as my Riordan D/M3 freebie, okay?

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well actually sydney G2 is so far a very good and complete model for realism.... her skin already nice but why not having some new skin set? 
what i am very interested is the UV mesh map so people can do their own skin or tattoo!

there's a very big freebies gap for g2 models especially cloth, i was looking for some easy program like virtual fashion to create some clothes for sydney G2... unfortunely there s no support for this model.

I have one for JessieG2 that was going to be a marketplace item but I have since decided to make it a freebie I've just been too busy to put it up. I'm too chicken to wade into the marketplace pool..LOL!

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ShareCG.com is a good place to earn cash for your freebies if the market place scares you. All you need are freebies and a PayPal account. And thanks Karen Any additions to the standard skin fare the G2 figures have will be appreciated.

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How about Jessie and Her Consort from the P6 line?  Something to make them, well, more human looking?

If you want my opinion, I think a lot of the merchant texture makers would make more money if they'd make more freebie skins for the Poser figures and put them up on ShareCG. The kid's especially are lacking in any kind of skin support whatsoever.

Merchants can harp on no profit niche markets all they want but it's quite obvious to me from my download counts on the freebies I've made for the Poser figures that there is a great desire for these items! Even if you're not making $12+ per item, the money you'll make off the freebies side at ShareCG is more than worth the effort!

They could even make High 4000x4000 Rez versions to sell and release low rez versions on ShareCG to get folks interested in their work. I stopped buying High Rez skins because you can't really test them out without buying them and I ended up with a few duds. Doing Low rez teaser versions would boost sales on good textures and let people decide not to buy on crappy versions.

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oh..I'm still running on P5...;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

That's ok, I have Poser's 4 thru 7 and prefer Poser 6 myself.

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Yes, I've noticed there aren't any freebees for those characters in the Freestuff. I believe that in the store that Victorasstyle has some texture bases for G2 figures, at least I think she does. Others might too, I haven't done a search. But those are sale products. It would be great to see some in the freestuff.

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I have one free tex for Sydney and one for James at this link here on Rendo... http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/member.php

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Yeah, I'd say someone hasn't looked closely. I have a couple G2 clothing items in freebies here, but all in all, yeah, they are sadly negected in the freebies area. And thanks BlueEcho, I missed the announcement on your releases. I knew you had said you were working on one for JamesG2 many moons ago and I lost track of the release.

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Thanks for the textures, BluEcho... I too am interested in freebies for the P7 peops

BTW, your link led to my own freebies. I think this will lead to yours....

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kalonart.com

Hmm, that's odd.
I copied the link from my freestuff page.
Oh well...thanks for the correct one. :)

BTW: I'm still working on the P7 group with textures and, if I ever learn successfully to get the morphs out, character sets.
Some for retail but I will include a few freebies too.
So I'll be posting when I do that.

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Just thought I would show how far I've got with this :-)

The freebie will probably not be as high-res as what's shown here; I think I'll be doing a low-ish res for free and save the high-res version for sale.

I will be including a version in the freebie for Koji 2 and Kelvin, but the skins will all be caucasian. You could always tint them in the mat room.

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Wow! Looks fantastic Karen! If the low rez version looks half as nice as that I'll be in line for the commercial version when I have spending money again! 

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Looking very good. Can't wait for the finished product!

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Glad you like it!

I have to do the hands yet... my least favourite part of all :m_tongue:

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Yeah, hands... I do okay unttil the fingers, getting rid of seams there is pain. LOL The tex looks great so far, karen1573.

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To be honest, I'd seriously be much more inclined to pay for the low-res version, because I don't think that the high resolution here equates to realism.   The bump / displacement is excessive.   It works for the lower face, where it can pass for stubble, but not over the cheekbones, on the nose, or on the forehead.   His texture tends to suggest a rather weather-beaten statue, rather than human skin.  

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Bumping this thread in search of some progress reports. How go the textures Karen and whoever else was working on some?

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Ha, I was just coming here to post and you've bumped it for me!

Morgano, thanks for your feedback on the bumps. The effect you saw in the render above is not a bump map, it's just a noise node plugged into the bump channel. I just applied it for a quick render, since I don't like to start bump mapping until I've fully finished the maps. The finished bump map will be much more sohpisticated.

I have now largely finished the body map, as well as the head. I spent last night going cross-eyed staring at James's one-eyed trouser snake!! I've ended up applying a transmap to the genital to ensure a seamless fit with the body.

OK here are the latest WIP renders. Full nudity alert!

**Alan WIP 3

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**Alan WIP 2

**I'm going to crack on with the heads for Koji and Kelvin today. I'll post an update later/tomorrow.

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Karen, the James skin looks good.  The head is MUCH better than the stock item...I wouldn't be embarassed to be seen in a render with this guy.  Any guess as to when it'll be available for a test drive?

Thanks Cedarwolf. Possibly tomorrow. I have to give the cats a bath this afternoon so it depends how long that takes :laugh:

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OMG! You wouldn't believe the mapping problems I'm now finding with Koji!

His lacrimals are split into two parts, and his inner eyelids and half of the lacrimals are like off the face map and over by his tongue. WTF????

I'm not sure what to do. I'm going to have to start Koji's head from scratch, and I guess Kelvin's as well. Would you guys prefer if I just wrap up "Alan" as he is rather than wait for the other figures?

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Not to mention, the supplied template for Koji has his fuckin' eye sockets completely misplaced on the map...

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I have a texture going for both Kelvin and koji.

On my Kelvin tex I also have a great face morph but now I need to make an INJ for him.
And thanks to Matrix, I migit accomplish that.

i may make a low=res version as a freebie minus the morph.
But I may be needing help at the rate things are going on my hands and with Mom still not doing good.
Kelvin and Koji were a challange but not reall so hard.

koji will most likely be a freebie.
I'll post some shots of both tonight if we don't have to rush Mom to the hospital, she's having difficulty again.

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Karen you're braver than I am givin' Cat's a bath! Ouch!  I can wait til you're finished to your own satisfaction. I was just curious how things were going. BlueEcho, take care of your mom. Family comes first!

Hugs and Prayers to you both!

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Well let me put it this way. I now have a set of bloody claw marks up my front and down my back. If I had someone to take some photographs, I'm sure I could provide some interesting reference shots of wounds and scratches!
:lol:

OK, I think what I'm going to do is to package up "Alan" and get him out. And then I'll work on Koji and Kelvin as two more separate projects. This means that I'll be able to do skins the correct ethnicity for the model base, which is good. Otherwise I'm trying to shoehorn the James head texture into the Koji and Kelvin maps, which only makes for a muddied texture and loss of detail.

Hopefully I should have him wrapped up by tomorrow morning at the latest.

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Yeah when EF went with totally different head meshes and UV maps for all the G2 figures it turned texturemaker's off right and left from supporting the figures. I'm glad to see you and BlueEcho willing to step up to the plate for these figures. Most certainly grateful as well.

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I'll be honest, if I hadn't said publicly I was going to do this, I would have given up. James's mapping (well, all of the G2 mapping) is ludicrous. The disparity between the head and body resolution makes it realistically impossible to provide a photoreal body texture, because you'd need to size the body map so large that Poser wouldn't be able to handle it anyway.

On the body map, James's fingernails are actually larger than the palm of his hand. I mean come on! How can that be? How could the mapper think that could be a good arrangement? Since when would you want to do a super-hi-res closeup on a male model's fingermails, but be happy with his actual fingers looking like crap?

For all that V4's mapping makes it a pain to match the leg and torso seams, the division into three maps makes a lot of sense in terms of the hi-res detail you can pack into V4's textures.

Anyway, I'm just blowing off steam. I said I'd do this, and I will.... but damn! we've come a long way from Posette and Dork and their 512x512 maps, no? :laugh:

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LOL! God Love em', Dork and Posette were great figures! I still like them as well as Don and James and Jessi. Judy's even ok now that I have EJ. But the "Improved G2 figures", well Yikes is all I can say about them.

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Ye godz that sounds painful! Split lacrimals?  Is there a telethon for that ailment yet??

As far as washing cats, I'm split between the method of taking them to the car wash and hanging them from the clips where you wash your floor mats or using the lukewarm cycle with extra fabric softener and a fluff dry.

Attached Link: http://www.sharecg.com/v/18491/poser/Alan-for-James-G2-(low-res-version)

OK, Alan is all ready! Download at the link :-)

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Thanks Karen! Now to see what I can do with it on Simon and James.

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Attached Link: LamontKG2 free tex

I put a link over in the Freestuff Forum but here it is for you all. I just uploaded my Kelvin texture to ShareCg and submitted it here as well. As for Koji, I have a head tex all done but need to do a lot more on the body. I'll post an image of his head in a bit. :)

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Here's an image of Koji's head texture. The first one is koji unmorphed. The other is a morph I was working on but somehow the underchin is shaped all wierd and i don't know how to correct it...sigh. It may be a while before this is finished as I've got so much going on right now. Sometimes I think I need to clone myself a few times just to have help. Lol.

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Quote - Sometimes I think I need to clone myself a few times just to have help. Lol.

I know EXACTLY what you mean!
Kelvin texture looks great

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Will Kelvin work with James?

cedarwolf, the body will but the head needs adjustment.

If someone wants to fiddle with the head tex to make it fit James and Koji, send me a site mail and I'll give a note that you can do it and post as a freebie. :)
I have too much going right now to do that myself.

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Karen: Thank you for Alan. I used him for the Knight in the picture. :)

BluEcho: Lamont is beautiful. I am sure to come up with an idea that'll be perfect for him. :)

After seeing how hard it is, I am a bit hesitant to even ask, but the Psoer 7 kids have only their 'birthskins' available. It'd be so nice to have some variety for them. I presume no-one thinks such an endeavour has any commercial chance, otherwise there would be some on the market. Therefore I guess the only chance is to hope someone would generously tackle the challenge and make a freebie. Please. :)

I'm pretty sure I asked for the kids in my first post but let me just second it again. Kid's need lovin' too!

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I was hoping there would be more free skins for the G2 figures....... (sighs)

Have you tried any of the new ones offered in this thread yet?

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Karen is right about Koji having his eyesockets misplaced, had to do a bit of work to get that face correct...sigh.

 

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Thanks BlueEcho for the lovely Sydney texture! :) Too bad that I don't have Kelvin, Koji or James :(.

Quote - Thanks BlueEcho for the lovely Sydney texture! :) Too bad that I don't have Kelvin, Koji or James :(.

Well I'm assuming that if you have Sydney, you also have Simon. Did you know that G2 James freebie skins work on G2 Simon? All they need is a slight adjustment to the seams on the neck of the head texture which anyone can do with a simple paint program by lowing the neckline a tad by cutting and pasting a bit here and there.

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Here's Simon with Alan made for G2 James by Karen. All I did was lower the neckline of the head texture with a few cut-n-pastes.

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Alan by karen is a hunk!
I gotta download him for my runtime but it may have to wait.

I'm having to keep a sharp eye on Mom in case we have to take to the hospital again.
that pacemaker and he BP med is not working!

It's a difficult time right now because she has had blue lips, purple tongue and purplish swollen feet. 
Not much sleep because I watched her most of the night...sigh.

but when things settle down I'll get some more freebies posted.
Matrix, which character do you like better, Miki or Sydney?

I have a Miki2 morph and textues set going but it is for retail and I can do a similar as a freebie.

 

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Me personally? I like Miki 1! LOL! But Miki 2 or Sydney 2 need love too and I actually have at least 3 good skins for Miki 1 that I really like. All I have for Miki 2 is her default and Sydney I have the freebie you already released along with her default. Do what you fee like doing and I'll be greatful with whatever comes out.

Of course, take care of mom first. I'm in no dire need of anything. I just have a wish list.

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Just popped back in to update about Mom.
Shortly after my last post we called an ambulance and took her to St. Mary's Hospital.
we've only been back home about an hour now.

But the hews was good!

It wasn't her heart this time and her pacemaker is working fine.
It was a bronchial asthma attack and an infection.
They treated her, gave her prescriptions and let her come home.
She is breathing and resting much better.
Thank God.

Now I'm going to get some rest and be back at my Posering tomorrow, :)
Good night all.

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Glad to hear it's not serious with your Mum, BE. Hope you all have a good Christmas!

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Thank you, Karen.
She's much better this morning, no blue lips or shortness of breath.
Matter of fact she is even talking a lot better, sharp as a tack again. :)

Now I have the household chores to get to and tonight I can do my Poser work.

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Content Paradise just release a free skin texture for James G2
http://www.contentparadise.com/us/user/g2_james_freebie_skin_texture_product_36521

This is a great thread guys ... and several skins have been mentioned.  Are there any free skins for Miki 1?  If there are any links to more textures we all would greatly appreciate it.  Thank you so much for all this information!
Boni

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i'll be doing some Miki1 skins within the week or two.

I've looked over her maps ans don't thimk it should be to difficult.

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Quote - This is a great thread guys ... and several skins have been mentioned.  Are there any free skins for Miki 1?  If there are any links to more textures we all would greatly appreciate it.  Thank you so much for all this information!
Boni

Poser Club Japan still has Pinky Queen for Miki 1 if you can get through the Japanese sign up process.

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Here's a shot of the two textures I'm working on for Miki1. Still got a bit of work to go. But keep your eye on this thread and I'll post when she's ready. Hmmm, maybe some of you can do a mother/daughter image when I'm done. :)

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This is wonderful!  I look forward to your complete textures!!! Thank you!!!
Boni

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She's almost finished. I just need to double check all the seams and create the Material room sets. This will be my freebie for a few weeks because I need to earn some cash. There are a few retail items I have to finish and then I'll see what else I can do. :)

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That looks great! Nice work.

Attached Link: Miki1 Set

Complete textures are uploaded to ShareCg and ready fro download. And as a binus I made a custom face morph. :)

Hair clothing and other ptops are not included.

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Blue Echo
First let me say, thank you so much for such a nice gift.  Second ... unfortunately I get a blank page when I click the link.  I've been busy with a project assignment and haven't been back for a week or so.
Boni

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Boni' I just checked and the link worked for me.

But Sharecg has been re-doing some stuff and it may have been temporarily unavailble.
Here's the link again..

http://www.sharecg.com/v/21651/poser/Miki-1-Texture/face-morph

Hope it will work this time for you.  :)

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BluEcho,
yeah! it worked this time.  thank you very much, again.  I love having a large multi-cultural cast of models!  this is great!
Bone

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Karen,
     I just loaded Alan for James. Your work is SUPER!
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BluEcho,
                 Your Miki1 tex are great. Thank you

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I know this thread is old but i just dug into Simon and well too bad the body and head are better scaled. the scales of the body are too far apart and much lower in resolution. I tried to texture him in Deep Paint 3D and well you get an obvious seam cuz the body parts is much lower in quality. As you can see at the attached image.

you can clearly see the neckline and above the neck the textures are much sharper. this is only one fragment and i used only one photo so the detail should be the same. I used 4000x4000 on both body and head. but if i wanted to make the scales right and there wouldnt be an obvious seam the body texture would be huge and not readable by Poser at all.
 

Sorry if this is off topic. Anyone know of any free skins for Jessi and James?

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You'll find a free James set here as well as some other goodies. :)

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Attached Link: http://www.sharecg.com/v/18642/Poser/Free-tex-for-E-frontiers-KelvinG2

Wow!  P6 Jessi was so hated she has ABSOLUTELY NO FREEBIE Skin textures! At least not in my runtime. That's a shame!

Hmm, if I can scrape up some spare time, I'll try to do a few more textures for the G2 folks, free of course. :)

That will include P6Jessie.
I did do a texture and a morph for her awhile back but won't distribute  the morph, it is of my daughter.

i've almost caught up on my present project so I might get some time freed up soon.

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That'd be great Helen! Just so you know, P6 Jessi doesn't take the same textures as G2 Jessi.

Quote - Hmm, if I can scrape up some spare time, I'll try to do a few more textures for the G2 folks, free of course. :)

That will include P6Jessie.
I did do a texture and a morph for her awhile back but won't distribute  the morph, it is of my daughter.

i've almost caught up on my present project so I might get some time freed up soon.

I wouldn't mind learning how to do skin textures... any resources you might suggest for the total noob, BlueEcho? I'd be happy to contribute to the freebie environment you have inspired, here...

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I was actually wondering if I could come over sometime and watch your process for making skin textures. It might be something I could try my freebie making hands at.

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Hrmmm... I stand corrected. There is ONE whole freebie texture for P6 Jessi right here in the Freestuff area called [ Karina](http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/details.php?item_id=52328) by PitKlad. It's pretty damn good too!

Yes pitklad makes great items :) 

Only issue I had was the reflection map he had plugged into the EyeTrans node which made her eyes look really weird in that first image. This one I removed it and ran RealSkinShader on Jessi.

I had a partial texture for P6Jessie sitting in a folder so I decided to finish it. Here is the finished texture.

I'll upload it to sharecg and freestuff soon and you all can use it as a resource and make more from it if you want.

It will be texture only and no poses or mat files.

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Quote - I had a partial texture for P6Jessie sitting in a folder so I decided to finish it.
Here is the finished texture.

I'll upload it to sharecg and freestuff soon and you all can use it as a resource and make more from it if you want.

It will be texture only and no poses or mat files.

That looks great BluEcho! Nobody better complain about missing mat poses since the textures are free!

@RobynsVeil...Look in the tutorial section and search for texture tuts.
There are several ther and there is an excellent set in the market place by BTSculptor.
I bought the first tutorial from BTSculptor and started there.

When I upload this texture set for Jessie, you can use it as a base for creating others if you want.

@Steve...Maybe one day next week you could pop over here and watch me work on something.
It will have to be kid friendly though with my grand daughters around. :)
And they may get silly and tease you or something but I'll try to put skids on that. lol.

You know I have a new grand daughter, don't you?
She is just a little over one week old now.

I'll try to post the texture set tomorrow if possible but I'm gonna try to get an emergency appointment with the doctor about this infection.
I am not able to eat much unless it is yogurt or instant breakfast stuff.
I need food!!!

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Sorry to hear about the infection. I myself had another kidney stone this past weekend. Ouch! I'm hoping to take the RV and mom to Hanibal Missouri by way of a couple days at Mark Twain lake this weekend for some nice relaxation and maybe some antique shopping for her. I'll drop you a note on Facebook next week before I come over and we can pick a day.

I just wanted to express my appreciation and thanks to everyone who contributed.

Attached Link: Free P6Jessie texture set.

Okay, here is the link to the texture. This is for the texture in the image I posted above.

Have fun. :)

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Thank you generous lady!