This post reminded me that in Poser clothing doesn't automatically follow so it is a little bit more difficult to get clothing for characters like Axel who have been rescaled. This is an issue I've noticed with Diva in Poser and also to a lesser extent in DS as autofollow and smoothing will fix a lot of things in DS. That's one of the reasons I'm starting to think she will need a clothing pack from the start that will work with her. It has taken a lot of work to convert her to Poser considering what a noob I am at Poser and some may have this issue with Axel also.On the subject of characters, I think there is often this conflict between what is a figure and what is a character. Both my main V4 and Dawn characters are actually a mix of more than one 'character pack' and as long as the character is not too far away from the base figure there is no need for support. Although this is not the case with Axel, many characters are no more than the result of dial spinning anyway and even those with unique morphs tend to concentrate on the head, so once again the support would be for the base figure, not the character in question.
I agree so much with this...they have a base and then they have character types which is just another way of saying Iconics I know which have new uv's and also have characters built off of those. I must admit to thinking of Diva in that way as a base to create children but one of my testers recently said she is a character in her own right.I think you're absolutely right, Hornet. And I think that is the basic, underlying problem that leads to threads like this. I think a lot of people don't understand the difference between a "character" and a "base figure" anymore, because Daz delivers it's Iconics in such a way that if they click on it, it loads the whole figure.
Therefore, many people think that a "character" is a figure all to it's own, when in fact it is not. It is simply a morphed shape that is supporting the underlying base figure.
I think a lot of people have this confusion between "character" and "figure" - I have seen similar threads many, many times, ever since Daz started doing their Iconics the way they currently do.
Very well said, Hornet.
Miss B, there is a setting that will allow you to choose to load as a morph or a figure. If you want to do you can change this. I still have a dialogue box show up offering this each time I click on duf files like that with a figure already in the scene. However if it's not showing up you might have it set not to show.