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Squee!!!! Welcome Fabiana
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YAY, they are here!!! ~waves wildly at Fabi and Lu~
It is going to be so great having you two here at the Hive. I've got the new set in my wishlist, but have to wait 'til I get my checks deposited after tomorrow's holiday (and cleared), so I will definitely be picking it up before the sale is over.
It is going to be so great having you two here at the Hive. I've got the new set in my wishlist, but have to wait 'til I get my checks deposited after tomorrow's holiday (and cleared), so I will definitely be picking it up before the sale is over.
Welcome Fabi and Lu too!
I'm so looking forward to more products from you two Fabi. I love what you do.
I'm so looking forward to more products from you two Fabi. I love what you do.
I was waiting on funds but picked them up earlier in the week. Haven't had chance to do a render as I've been working on Diva...
Yes, it's only the materials that will NOT work in DS
@Pendraia Yes, what Alisa said. I have the set (and I love it!), and from what I can tell it is like most Fabi and Lu jewelry; all but the materials work just fine in Studio!
@Alisa They come in properly placed for me; I just make sure I have Dawn selected and in Zero-pose, then load the Necklace cord. THEN I make sure I have the Necklace selected and load the jewel. So long as it's done that way, the pendant will come in parented to the necklace cord, and then all I have to do is parent the cord to Dawn's Chest 2 body part and I'm good to go from there.
The key is to just make sure we load the items in BEFORE we begin posing the figure (or else if I've already started posing on Dawn and decide down the road that I want the jewelry on her, I just have DS memorize the figure pose, then have it ZERO the pose, apply jewelry and then tell DS to restore the pose and then resume my working from there). Works beautifully for me in DS 4.8.
I don't really view this as fiddling. Maybe it's because I've just gotten so used to it over the years, but I have seen many V3, V4, or Genesis and G2F jewelry items that have to be done the same way. But I learned aeons ago back on Poser 4 (LOL!) to always check and make sure everything is parented to the figure when I load such items...
@fabiana Fabi and Lu - it is SO nice to see you two here! Can't wait to see what else you bring to the table. I've been a fan of your items ever since the 3DCommune days!
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Oh, I make LIBERAL use of the Memorize/Restore pose function in DS! LOL!! I am such an off-the-cuff artist, that I frequently am adding and removing things all the way through the scene until I get the "final setup" that I'm going to render, and if anyone thinks I'm going to manually re-pose every finger, toe, or joint on my characters just to load in a piece of jewelry, they're smoking something and not sharing it! I love that little trick.
I sometimes also make use of the Memorize Figure Shape/Restore Figure Shape as well, if what I'm doing is changing a hair object out (and I NEVER conform my hairs, they always get parented to the heads), or adding in things like a headband or crown or such where my morphed figure's shape overly complicates matters. You can do both at once - memorize the shape, then have it memorize the pose, then set both to zero, make your changes, and restore each one and you're off and running again. I love that little function, it saves SO many headaches and helps keep our swear jar a little less full. 
I love that little trick.I sometimes also make use of the Memorize Figure Shape/Restore Figure Shape as well, if what I'm doing is changing a hair object out (and I NEVER conform my hairs, they always get parented to the heads), or adding in things like a headband or crown or such where my morphed figure's shape overly complicates matters. You can do both at once - memorize the shape, then have it memorize the pose, then set both to zero, make your changes, and restore each one and you're off and running again.
I love that little function, it saves SO many headaches and helps keep our swear jar a little less full. 
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Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! I am happy to see you here! You make incredible products!
Great tips, Seliah! May have been that I didn't have things selected right when I tried it - maybe I did sometimes and that's why I didn't mention it in the ReadMe lol!
Have we noted that you can mix and match the pendants from different sets?
Have we noted that you can mix and match the pendants from different sets?
I've just reminded Lisa and Alisa to see if we can do just that.
I picked mine up today. Of course, the store insisted I'd entered the wrong security code, when what I'd done was entered the wrong expiration year. Silly me.
