So my first product is now live in the Hivewire store. Random Hive is a Poser script that I hope will help inspire people. A little later today I'll post some renders using Diva but I thought I'd start by talking about the why and what I hope my script will help people do.
A few months ago when I started playing with Dawn I ran into what I often run into. I'm not a sculptor, so it's often hard for me to see beyond the initial shape of a figure to what that figure can become. Also I had quickly gotten VW's faces of Asia and Africa morphs, and the required morphs for them, but didn't really know what all those morphs did.
I already had a script to randomize morphs, but I didn't like how it worked with Dawn. It tended to 'pull' in the basic expressions included in Dawn's Basic INJ so she'd be frowning, or angry or closing her eyes, or sometimes just have a really goofy expression. The underlying faces may have been great, but the time spent hunting down the expressions so I could see face underneath wasn't fun (I now know where to find them all, but I didn't at the time).
So I decided to build something better. One problem I had found with scripts that create random results, is that although random can be fun, and if you roll the dice enough times, eventually you will get something good most of the time you might get something interesting, but not quite right. Either one morph just didn't belong, of it just needed the smallest bit of tweaking. What I really wanted I realized was something that would give me a new starting point. Something to give me inspiration and help me find new characters.
So RandomHive was designed not around the idea that a random product will just be awesome, but around the idea that if you have the tools to adjust it, you might find something new and cool.
The script does ignore all of Dawn/Dusk/Luna's expression and control morphs that come with BaseINJ. But it also tells you what morphs it used, so you can get rid of morphs you don't like, or easily adjust ones that are either a little too much, or not quite enough. It also lets you randomize certain parts of the face, like just the nose, or mouth, or ears, so you can either adjust an existing figure, or possibly create a sister or brother.
Finally, it may not sound quite as sexy, but it also comes with a helper script I've called MorphCleanBot. This script helps you quickly get rid of all the morphs you aren't using so it's easier to adjust and dial in the ones you are, but it still leaves behind all the control morphs that make the Hivewire figures so nice to use.
I'm really excited to see what others are inspired to create with my script, and if anyone has any suggestions, I'm definitely open to updating if theres something that would make it more usable.
If you actually read through all of that, you can also see a demo of how the script works here:
Happy creating
A few months ago when I started playing with Dawn I ran into what I often run into. I'm not a sculptor, so it's often hard for me to see beyond the initial shape of a figure to what that figure can become. Also I had quickly gotten VW's faces of Asia and Africa morphs, and the required morphs for them, but didn't really know what all those morphs did.
I already had a script to randomize morphs, but I didn't like how it worked with Dawn. It tended to 'pull' in the basic expressions included in Dawn's Basic INJ so she'd be frowning, or angry or closing her eyes, or sometimes just have a really goofy expression. The underlying faces may have been great, but the time spent hunting down the expressions so I could see face underneath wasn't fun (I now know where to find them all, but I didn't at the time).
So I decided to build something better. One problem I had found with scripts that create random results, is that although random can be fun, and if you roll the dice enough times, eventually you will get something good most of the time you might get something interesting, but not quite right. Either one morph just didn't belong, of it just needed the smallest bit of tweaking. What I really wanted I realized was something that would give me a new starting point. Something to give me inspiration and help me find new characters.
So RandomHive was designed not around the idea that a random product will just be awesome, but around the idea that if you have the tools to adjust it, you might find something new and cool.
The script does ignore all of Dawn/Dusk/Luna's expression and control morphs that come with BaseINJ. But it also tells you what morphs it used, so you can get rid of morphs you don't like, or easily adjust ones that are either a little too much, or not quite enough. It also lets you randomize certain parts of the face, like just the nose, or mouth, or ears, so you can either adjust an existing figure, or possibly create a sister or brother.
Finally, it may not sound quite as sexy, but it also comes with a helper script I've called MorphCleanBot. This script helps you quickly get rid of all the morphs you aren't using so it's easier to adjust and dial in the ones you are, but it still leaves behind all the control morphs that make the Hivewire figures so nice to use.
I'm really excited to see what others are inspired to create with my script, and if anyone has any suggestions, I'm definitely open to updating if theres something that would make it more usable.
If you actually read through all of that, you can also see a demo of how the script works here:
Happy creating
But since he's a Dusk morph, he should mix in just fine.
