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This is weird - I was sure that the first time I tried the DH Real Nipples there wasn't the depressed-into-the-breast effect I had with Headlights, but now there is. And it appears to be because of the Van Helsing HD morph I have applied, which is ... irritating. But there's still the Breastacular problem. This is quite a muscular character (not just the Van Helsing morph), and the Breastacular problem is that the morphs are taking the lower inner edge of the breast as being significantly further out on the mesh than the lower inner edge and bottom of the pectoral muscles, leaving a weird grooved step effect that's very unnatural, whereas there's no such issue with the DH Real Breast product. But that doesn't have all the movement morphs.

Well, at the moment I'm part way through rendering out one section of a story (posted at DeviantArt) with a G8.1F version of this character, and I'll stick with that to the end of this section. I've been vacillalting about whether to finish making and move to a G9 version of her for the next section or stay with G8.1F. I actually bought those Sonsy G9 nipple morphs last night while they were on sale! IF I decide to try to move to G9, I'll keep your suggestions in mind; so thanks.

Meantime I just wish Meipe would make a good proper FBM Freja8 morph in Breastacular the way he has for many other characters. I'm managing with just morphs, but I'd have liked to use Breastacular for some things. I manged to get fingers pressing into breast tissue using other methods, but it was a real pain.

Oh FFS! Morph Master didn't sound familiar, so i looked it up in the store ... and found that I bought it some time ago (the PA sale last month?) but then forgot all about it! Side effect of one of the pain medications I have to take due to disability is it totally screws up my memory, long term and also moment to moment. Reading the store description I MUST get into it, and could have used it to do several things easily I've sweated over. Must dig out the user guide before I forget again. I feel like banging my head on a wall.

Thanks for posting that and reminding me about something I'd stupidly forgotten.

D-Force .... mmm. I did a lot with DS and was reasonably expert from when it was first released in 2004 to 2007, then it all more-or-less came to a halt when I became disabled. Have found myself able to pick it up again since late last year. Am struggling with all the new stuff (had never done an Iray render until last year and I'm still fighting with Iray lighting and materials). D-Force is one thing I'm definitely struggling with. So far I've only successfully used it to make 'dropped on the floor' (or a bench) morphs in some clothing items (And two of them I had to take the morph from part-way through the D-Force sim just before the items exploded.) My moment-to-moment memory issues make learning all this enw stuff ... interesting. It would probably help with clothing one character, but I haven't figured out how to use it on a clothing item that doesn't support the multiple morphs applied to the character, which auto-follow seriously messes up, and which make the character larger than the clothes.

I used to be a dab hand at fixing clothing-over-morphs issues with D-Formers, but they've changed D-Formers since 'back in the day' and ruined them. The field now applies as if it was over the default figure in the default stance still at world centre now, which makes it murder trying to manoeuvre it to D-Form and then create morph to correct an issue on a posed and morphed figure nowhere near world centre!

I've had some minor successes using SculptTool, though i really don't have it properly under control yet.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Originally Posted by: zombiecharger65

When I said Base Resolution and not High Resolution, I did not mean morphs themselves. Select your figure and under the Parameters tab, General Tab and then Mesh Resolution tab. You have to change it from High Resolution to Base Resolution for the graph to blend seamlessly. You can turn the Sub Division up as much as you want as long as it is Base Resolution. The HD morphs will deactivate automatically (or rather, lose finer details) if Sub Division levels do not meet their needs. This is the best solution but it is not a great solution. Hope that helps.

Also, what I have decided to do is just use morphs and call it good enough. Sonsy has some good nipple and areola morphs but keep in mind that because G9 lacks polygon totals in the chest area that you will never get the great morph definition of chest morphs on G8 figures or G3 figures. The geometry just isn't there as G9 shifted polygon density to the face area. I swear, if Daz just put out a high polygon model that used the G9 head and a G3 body, we would have soooo many options for detailing our model's form.

You really do not need the G9 head anymore if you combine AI with your renderings. The only exception is if you're doing side head shots. AI still sucks at swapping faces at weird angles. I prefer shots where the character is at least looking at the camera to the extent that AI can work with the face.

I came back to DS last year after some time away, trying to help someone doing AI art whose AI couldn't understand the pose he needed a character in to fill a commission, and I found he could use images as prompts so dusted off DS, posed a figure as wanted and gave him a rendered image for use as a prompt.

But i'm also doing stories (but not comic format), And my understanding from that AI image creator was that ti would only accept a certain number of details in prompts - if you gave more it was random which details got included. And it left it pretty impossible to maintain the details of backgrounds, a lot of details about characters etc. Rndering in DS I have to do all the details, which can be tiresome, If a scene takes place in a car park I ahve to populate the damn place with all the cars not just say 'in a car park'. But i get a consistent scene for use in multiple images from differnt angles following the action, and a consistent character.