Merchant Resources

[CajunBeauty]

I hope this is the right place to ask, but I was wondering there were any nice merchant resources that are free or cheap that I can use for my characters. I am working on my first character and she is for Dawn, but I don't have much to use except for a head morph resource kit. I will have to alter the skin and eyes myself as well as make my own makeups. Then I will have to figure out how to shape the body without a resource kit. I am also really new at doing this so i am also learning as I go. Can any help me out with anything? That would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Lorraine]

Are you doing a commercial or freebie? Because if it's commercial, the skins that came with the Dawn figure are merchant resources, both the original and the SE. Same for Dusk and Luna.

 

[Lorraine]

Oops, just read your post again and it's morphs you're after. Dvl has a nice package on sharecg. And all the HW morph packages including what came with Dawn can be used for resources too.

 

[CajunBeauty]

Oops, just read your post again and it's morphs you're after. Dvl has a nice package on sharecg. And all the HW morph packages including what came with Dawn can be used for resources too.

I thought that the ones that came with Dawn was only allowed to be used as a shape preset and not part of a custom morph?

 

[Lorraine]

I could indeed be mistaken, it happens a lot

 

[CajunBeauty]

I could indeed be mistaken, it happens a lot

Yeah I really need to know though before I go combining all the morphs I used into one dial.

 

[Lorraine]

Send a message to Alisa, she will definitely know.

 

[Alisa]

The morphs in Dawn and the HW morphs are not MRs..in other words, you can not create morphs using them that would mean people could just buy and use YOUR product without requiring the Dawn/morph product(s). It is the texture that is a MR

From Dawn SE Product page:

This skin texture set is also a Merchant Resource kit that can be used to create new products (not for creating freebies)

 

[Lorraine]

Thanks for the clarification, Alisa

 

[CajunBeauty]

The morphs in Dawn and the HW morphs are not MRs..in other words, you can not create morphs using them that would mean people could just buy and use YOUR product without requiring the Dawn/morph product(s). It is the texture that is a MR

From Dawn SE Product page:

This skin texture set is also a Merchant Resource kit that can be used to create new products (not for creating freebies)

Can we make shape presets with the base morphs instead?

 

[RAMWolff]

Shape presets are of course allowed just make sure you include in the ReadMe "You must own" sort of note.

 

[Alisa]

Yeah, what Wolffie said .

The product would have to be required (there's a spot in submissions where you list required products). There are lots of products in the store that have presets (or INJ/REM) which dial up and dial down various existing morphs when applied. That's perfectly fine!

 

[CajunBeauty]

As far as the skin how much do you have to alter it to use it as a MR? I want to make sure I do everything right.

 

[RAMWolff]

Color shift in Photoshop or what ever photo manipulation program you use. Use the Heal brush to get rid or move moles and little bits like that. Add in your makeups, tattoo's and / or scars. Make your own Iris maps, nail colors and lipsticks. You'll be surprised when your done how differently your finished product looks than the original.

 

[Faery_Light]

I just created a morph for Dawn using her Body shapes, HST MR combined with custom morph using the morph brush in poser.
This is a pmd morph with no information available in the morph itself.
So would the user still need those packs?

 

[Alisa]

I don't know about the HST MR (not sure what it is you're referring to), but if you are using ANY HW morph packs, then your pmd MUST call for the body shapes.

Try it without the body shapes in any active runtime/library. If it doesn't ask for you to find the Body Shapes, you need to revisit it.

 

[Faery_Light]

Oh, HST is the Handspan Studio Morph Kit 1 for Dawn.

 

[Alisa]

Ah, ok. That one you bake the morphs in, and people do NOT need to have the product. Not so with the HW body shapes

 

[Faery_Light]

Okay, thanks.
It is okay to use the body morphs in my retail character as long as I state that they need the pack, isn'it?
For Poser it is pmd anyway, in DS I have no idea.. Lol.

 

[Alisa]

Yes, as long as they HAVE to own the Body Shapes in order for that to work. It would require the Body Shapes