rbowen opened this issue on Jul 31, 2008 · 5 posts
rbowen posted Thu, 31 July 2008 at 2:07 AM
I want to start making morphs and mats for figures such as Victoria 4. Which program would be an easy place to start? I currently use Poser and DAZ Studio.
pjz99 posted Thu, 31 July 2008 at 2:59 AM
How much money are you willing to spend? For low cost, learn to user Poser's internal magnets - a lot of the pain of making custom morph targets is import/export, and if you can keep it all within Poser it's much simpler. For textures, look at Gimp (google it).
For high cost, it's very hard to beat Maxon Cinema 4D + interPoser Pro for Poser integration. Not cheap though.
rbowen posted Thu, 31 July 2008 at 3:11 AM
Thank you for your reply.
I am not willing to spend much money, but do want to try a program that will produce morphs and mats for export so that I can sell them as a package for characters such as Victoria 4. I will check out Gimp for the textures, and will take a look at Maxon Cinema 4D + interPoser Pro, but am really interested in as low a cost as possible.
GKDantas posted Thu, 31 July 2008 at 7:39 AM
Try Hexagon for creating morphs, you can learn a lot about modelling in
http://www.geekatplay.com/hexagontutorials/
For paint for free I like Artweaver a lot that looks like Photoshop with Painter functions:
http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version
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markschum posted Thu, 31 July 2008 at 7:03 PM
There are plenty of free paint programs , gimp or photofiltre for example . Something that can do layers is nice .
There is a free offer on truspace at the moment at www.caligari.com.
Other free modellers are blender or wings. Daz has a cheap modeller called Pegasus that would do what you need.
For morphs you can start with magnets.