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Hornet3d
Wise
Thank you for that I will give that a try.
Hornet3d
Wise
When changing figures one of the big questions for me is why do it? There is always a long time needed to get to know the figure and adapt clothing or extra expense in buying items. For Dawn two, the answers, for me are, emotions are going to be easier to set up and much more realistic and secondly, the same is going to be true for poses.
If, like me, you have no skills working with the new figure is a question of a lot of trial and error but seems it is working for me.
This uses Simple Elegance for Dawn 2 by Sunfire which must be the easiest way into dynamic clothing I have come across, chose the dress style and click the simulation button, all in the prop library and watch the magic happen.
If, like me, you have no skills working with the new figure is a question of a lot of trial and error but seems it is working for me.
This uses Simple Elegance for Dawn 2 by Sunfire which must be the easiest way into dynamic clothing I have come across, chose the dress style and click the simulation button, all in the prop library and watch the magic happen.
You see you did not changed just a figure , you changed a Base Figure that will allow you in the near future to use great characters with . The changes was nesesery to move forward with new stuff to make it better . But I am sure you going to find it out very soon . You doing good as usual , have fun !
edgecenter
New-Bee
What is the blond hair used in your promo?
Thanks. Love the new D2.
Thanks. Love the new D2.
Very beautiful @Deecey love it !
Forgot the name , it was old transmapped hair for Genesis 8 , the Creator hair fits always so nice manually , I use it as a prop in both DS and Poser .. I will let you know the name tomorrow when I am on the PC
Hornet3d
Wise
I understand what you are saying and I guess I should have explained myself a little better. What I am doing at present is seeing what Dawn 2 gives me in relation to DawnSE from the box and getting to know the base figure. When I made the change from V4 being my base figure of choice to DawnSE it must have taken eighteen moths to two years before I was as comfortable with DawnSE as I had been with V4. All I am doing at the moment is starting that process with Dawn 2.
Dawn 2 is a very different figure, even more so I think for Posers users, like me, than DS users because there was no 'Genesis step' so there may be more to learn. There are other changes as well the, for example, the Simple Elegance for Dawn 2 by Sunfire has the ability to run the simulation without stepping into the Cloth Room. No doubt is still uses the Cloth Room but that fact is not seen by the users. It is the first time I have seen this and is a nice to have feature for me but I think it might be a real gamechanger for many that have avoided dynamic clothing until now.
Gabriela_CH
New-Bee
Hello and good morning!
This is my first post on this forum and I already have a question
I have just purchased the new Dawn 2 figure. I love her physique, but have problems with changing her skin. So far, I still work mainly with V4 figures. When I wanted to change the skin to, for example, add tatoos, I just loaded the skin-jpg in Photoshop, changed it there and copied it as new skin in the appropriate Runtime folder. When I do this with Dawn 2 and select the modified skin in "Materials", the skin doesn't change in neither preview or render.
Can you please tell me what I have to do to get a custom.made skin for Dawn 2?
Thank you,
Gabriela
This is my first post on this forum and I already have a question
I have just purchased the new Dawn 2 figure. I love her physique, but have problems with changing her skin. So far, I still work mainly with V4 figures. When I wanted to change the skin to, for example, add tatoos, I just loaded the skin-jpg in Photoshop, changed it there and copied it as new skin in the appropriate Runtime folder. When I do this with Dawn 2 and select the modified skin in "Materials", the skin doesn't change in neither preview or render.
Can you please tell me what I have to do to get a custom.made skin for Dawn 2?
Thank you,
Gabriela
Hornet3d
Wise
Hello Gabriela welcome to the forum.
It is a long while since I used V4 so it is hard for me to comment on the procedure you have described, instead I can outline what I would do to add a tattoo to Dawn 2.
Assuming I want to add a tattoo to the body I would select the body image map in materials marked 3C_Body (Object Dawn 2 Material 3C_Body) and click on the diffuse map and then the image source which in this case is Dawn2_TorsoColorC.jpg. That is the map I would select for Photoshop, or in my case PaintShopPro. and do the changes to that map. I do not want to loose the original map so I would save the modified map to something like Dawn2_TorsoColorC_Tattoo.jpg. Back in the Poser I would now click the browse button on the diffuse map and select the new image as my diffuse.
If you want the tattoo to be somewhere else on the body you can use the same procedure but you will have to select the appropriate material such as Arms, Face, Legs and so on.
I will stress this is how I would do it and it has always worked for me, there may be better and more efficient ways to achieve the same aim and, knowing what a helpful bunch of people that post here are, I am sure they will put me straight.
Hi Gabriela welcome in the forum , please post your questions in the future regarding Dawn 2 and all issues in this thread : Questions/Issues with Dawn 2? Ask them here - all welcome to help!
Dawn 2 render thread is reserved only for renders .
Thank you in advance!
Cath
Gabriela_CH
New-Bee
I am sorry Cath, I didn't knew this... as this was my first visit on the forum.
Just to reply to Hornet3d, let me answer here one time...
Thanks for your answer, this is basically just the same like I did it... it doesn't work this way, but your comment gave me another idea, which actually worked: I modified the Dawn2_TorsoColorC.jpg-image in Photoshop and saved the modified file under exactly that name in Runtime. I kept the original by renaming it *_old* to keep it. Now it works... the modified skin is shown.
Gabriela
Just to reply to Hornet3d, let me answer here one time...
Thanks for your answer, this is basically just the same like I did it... it doesn't work this way, but your comment gave me another idea, which actually worked: I modified the Dawn2_TorsoColorC.jpg-image in Photoshop and saved the modified file under exactly that name in Runtime. I kept the original by renaming it *_old* to keep it. Now it works... the modified skin is shown.
Gabriela
Hornet3d
Wise
Whoops, sorry I should have noticed that.
No problem ! Just letting you know , I hope you don't mind.. hopefully your issues get fixed because I never experienced that .
Funny Simon .. lolWhen life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you bikinis, do pool shoots ..View attachment 79366
Hornet3d
Wise
With a lot of trial and error and some very subtle tweaking of both scale and transitions, I manged to get a decent outcome of Celeste Sci-Fi a dynamic outfit for DawnSE that I had in my runtime. Footware is EV Bootie sneakers - Dawn 2 Poser by EVargas.
Hi @edgecenter it was Karla Hair for Genesis 8 from Daz Store, sorry no links are allowed .
Artist: WindField