Yeah, I was looking forward to him a few months ago, but between the delays and that horrible sunken chest of his, I don't even feel like hopping up to Perkins to download him for free, haha. I took a look at those promo shots and saw that sunken chest and hunched over look and figured why not just use V4 Male morph?

They're just too complex for their own good really. V4/etc. is great for naked or throwing some ridiculous couture on and having them stand around looking blank and sullen, but yeah, there's so much going on with morph chains, too much of anything really breaks them. I really worked a miracle with that Suzi figure I made up after a few weekends of work, but just using that as a reference, I got that all done on A3 in just a couple hours with only some minor Eye bone adjustment. V4/A4 I spent a good week of nights trying to adjust the eyes to my goofy SD head scale. Plus using A4 as opposed to A3 on one 360 x 480 sprite frame more than doubled the render time even using the same clothes. Basically, they're great as preset dolls, but custom don't work too well. I never even got those eyelash problems sorted out, what you saw in that one post was me going back to A3, haha.

I'm going to cut off my PC membership too now that there's really nothing that's caught my interest on the horizon. My vouchers over the last couple months have languished almost through the whole month without anything I wanted to spend five bucks on and it's only the 3rd party artists I ever really have any interest at all in these days, so I don't even get anything out of the discount. Hell, December I had almost a buck left on my voucher that I didn't end up spending.

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Heehee, on a lighter note, I understand what you mean about the clothing floating around lately. I have to admit I get sucked into the digital doll aspect of Daz or Poser on the hobby side of things and have a strange fascination with maid and goth outfits and bows and ribbons and lacy dresses and crap (jeez, that's really kind of embarrassing ...*weep*.) At any rate, there's at least some small sort of class going on there even if it is something that isn't necessarily on the modest side of things, haha. I get sick of all the stuff that looks slutty -and- tacky. I mean, as a guy, I really don't have my finger on the living pulse of fashion taste and certainly not sensibility, but half the stuff I look at these days, I say, 'Yeah, that was made by a man with way too much time on his hands.'

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Huh, I did an SD morph for Aiko 3 years ago but never released it. I'm wondering if I should change that. Anyway, once I realized that H4 was out, I dropped over to Rendo to see what was being said and I'm rather glad to know that I'm not the only one disappointed with H4 in particular and Daz in general. I think I am going to go back to 3D modeling—learning Blender and Hezagon and keeping in practice with 3D Studio Max at school—although I have no idea if 3DS can run on a Windows-based Mac (yeah, the school has the dual-boot Macs now—been tempted to boot into Windows just to be contrary )

Alright, back to the subject. You're right about the weird-looking chest, and here's another one: H4's lips look way off. It's like they were trying for androgynous and cartoony all rolled into one. Frankly, Hiro3 is lot more masculine than H4. I guess I'm going to settle for using the Gen3 characters since despite the bending issues, it seems like they're a lot more flexible.

And your comment about certain stuff being made by guys who have too much time on their hands reminded me of one of my favorite remarks that I make when encountering asshole drivers: "You got yer hand on the wrong stick, asshole!"

*snicker*

Oh yeah, on the clothes topic, actually doing something narrative and contemporary, you want more of that utility stuff, like say, I dunno, clothes people kinda actually wear. I had to search high and low for a decent pair of cargo pants though.

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3D Studio Max was probably one of the best 3D programs I ever worked with. Before it blew up my computer a long time ago. Wings3D has a lot of potential, too, seen some really cool stuff come out of that. I just never have the time to sit down and dedicate to these things. I guess I only work in Photoshop because it's bare basics simply stupid.
PAINT GOES HERE! LINES GO THERE! I LIKE BOOBIES!

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...indeed.

"Good? Bad? I'm the guy with the gun." -- Ash
NWL Comic: [link]

It's on my wishlist. I couldn't afford 3DS Max when I had a job; and considering that the first thing I'm going to do once I get a job is get a car, well 3DS is going to have to wait.

*rubs hands together* Gonna get that Mustang, dammit!

Or a decent sweatshirt? Or a decent hoodie? Meh...I have a serious list of complaints. I think I'll refrain

Yeah, I had real trouble finding a good hoodie too. Sunny is a pretty easy character to put together because she's really just a twiggy version of Suzi with a little more junk in the trunk and *ahem* a more aerodynamic front end let's say, haha. It's a nightmare trying to find clothes for a twenty-something single mother though. Figures you'd mention sweatshirts as that's the next thing on her outfit list I had major trouble tracking down. I settled on the sweatshirt from Hongyu's SB Outfit though and I think it looks pretty good on her.

Oh, oh! That reminds me...the wonderful Xena actually made a hoodie for H4 that looks pretty good. I'd forgotten about it until now.

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I should probably pick up a XDresser license for H4/H3 sometime soon here. I've got The Tailor for transferring morphs over but the way it transfers morph vertices over to clothing objects really sucks; I might have better luck using magnets.