Hi all,

Longtime visitor here, infrequent poster. Long post ahead...

I've been attempting to create my own 3D art for over 2 years now. My main motivation was to create a very specific character and go from there. I knew precisely what she needed to look like (because she's based on a real person). I started as a complete n00b over 2 years ago with the goal of creating the best likeness I possibly could.

After about a year and a half of sticking with it, messed up a lot, but learning even more I finally got to a point where I had a convincing likeness for my model. However, the figure I had created was the accumulation of all of my ignorance. I had injected morph packs for virtually every body part/facial feature to avoid having to manually create my own morphs. By now, I wish I knew then what I know now because I would have just rolled up my sleeves and built her from scratch from the base V4 model.

Now I have a great likeness, but because I work in Poser, I have a figure bloated with morphs. Even after weeding out all the morphs I no longer use, I have a figure that seems to really bog down Poser, especially if I ever use conforming clothes. Any action takes several seconds to even register, making posing an extremely slow, frustrating process -- especially since I know it should be moving much faster, smoother.

My question is this: does anyone have a recommendation for how I should proceed?

I'm on a newer Mac, so I don't have the benefit of an NVIDIA GPU, which makes DS kind of a nonstarter, rendering is just way too slow. Firefly works fine for me. Is there a way to optimize my character so Poser becomes usable again? Would a character INJ morph do the trick? I use several ironMan13 facial feature morphs, and then finally a whole slew of custom, detail morphs I made myself in ZBrush because the pre-fab morphs just weren't getting me all the way there. I don't see how I can get around this. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

And I haven't ruled out just starting over entirely, although that's still my nuclear option. There are a lot of advantages to that, especially now that I'm more experienced, but if I can salvage the work I've done to date, that would be my preference.

Thanks for reading and thanks in advance for any assistance.