Zaarin
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I hop you enjoy them! I'd love to see any renders you do.Those are perfect!!!!!! Got them, so Diva has lots of playmates!
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Hi Zaarin (I knew you as Blackthorn from the 5+ years I worked at RDNA). I thought you had a morph set that was just African head morphs, and now I can't find it in my downloads from RDNA, or anywhere else. Am I wrong about you having that pack? I'm looking for male African heads I can use in DazStudio even if it means using M4 in DS and trying to figure out how to get your morphs to work on the Genesis line of figures.
Thanks, Suze
Thanks, Suze
Glitterati3D
Dances with Bees
I don't remember an African set, but I do remember Native American sets for both V4 and M4. They were lovely, too.
Men of Cahokia
Zaarin
Brilliant
Sadly I do not have a set of just African morphs. I do have Nigerian, Ethiopian, Berber, and Egyptian morphs in the Mélange packages, and Ethiopian, Berber, and Egyptian in the Faces of Youth for K4 as well. I do have another Mélange set sort of in the works that I intend to include Egyptian, Malagasy, Hausa, and Khoi-San faces in, but it may be a while. It's unlikely I'll ever do a set of exclusively of African faces simply because I find them the hardest to get "just right."
(As for using them with Genesis, I don't use DS myself but I do know people have used the Gen4-to-Genesis morph converter to use my faces on Genesis. I believe I remember seeing @JOdel do such a thing?)"Women of Cahokia" is currently in my store here but "Men of Cahokia" is not. It was my first product and there are a number of things I wish I'd done differently with it to meet my current standards. Among the other projects I'm working on at the moment is "Men of Cahokia 2.0," which will make the faces more accurate and also no longer require every morph set in my library.
(I think I even used Freak 4 in that set for some unknown reason...)That being said, I think I have Native American morphs pretty well covered between Woman of Cahokia, Unfinished Business in Cahokia, Men and Women of Canandaigua, plus Pawnee/Quechua/Mayan/Inuit morphs in the Mélange sets.
I'm not sure about your ethnic morphs -- I do have several packages of them, but yes, I used GenX to port over a *lot* of gen4 morphs to Genesis 1. It worked well within the parameters I needed, although there were sometimes eye issues when I did something like port over an A3 character.
Actually, what I seem to have used it most for is building old people. There never have been all that many of those and I needed a lot of them.
It was also really good for porting over expression presets. Most gen4 expressions were one-click presets and GenX put them onto dials which made them all *much* more useful.
Actually, what I seem to have used it most for is building old people. There never have been all that many of those and I needed a lot of them.
It was also really good for porting over expression presets. Most gen4 expressions were one-click presets and GenX put them onto dials which made them all *much* more useful.
I have these packs:
American Indian Men
Men and Women of Cahokia
Unfinished Business in Cahokia for Men and Women
Men of Canandaigua
Melange pour Homme and Melange pour Femme (which have Nigerian and Ethopian)
Women of Yerevan
Jazz Age Dames
I missed out on Women of Canandaigua somehow.
I'll have to check and see if I have the Gen4 to Genesis converter. I also have GenX and GenX2 but I heard you can't have them both installed at the same time, and I have X2 installed, so maybe I'll have to uninstall that first?? Never thought of aging them JOdel, good tip!
Thanks for all the info Zaarin and JOdel!
American Indian Men
Men and Women of Cahokia
Unfinished Business in Cahokia for Men and Women
Men of Canandaigua
Melange pour Homme and Melange pour Femme (which have Nigerian and Ethopian)
Women of Yerevan
Jazz Age Dames
I missed out on Women of Canandaigua somehow.
I'll have to check and see if I have the Gen4 to Genesis converter. I also have GenX and GenX2 but I heard you can't have them both installed at the same time, and I have X2 installed, so maybe I'll have to uninstall that first?? Never thought of aging them JOdel, good tip!
Thanks for all the info Zaarin and JOdel!
I missed out on Women of Canandaigua somehow.
You do realize that this and many other packs of Zaarin's are in the store here? Thus the "Zaarin's Products" Thread
Women of Canandaigua for Victoria 4 - A Zaarin 3D Creation
Sorry, no, didn't realize. Been a bit frantic around here, and last I knew of him he was 'Blackthorn', so I didn't make the association when the forum thread was titled 'Zaarin's Products'.You do realize that this and many other packs of Zaarin's are in the store here? Thus the "Zaarin's Products" Thread
Women of Canandaigua for Victoria 4 - A Zaarin 3D Creation
Yep, many of the previously "Blackthorn" products as well as any new Zaarin ones will be found here:
The 3D Artistry of Zaarin
The 3D Artistry of Zaarin
Zaarin
Brilliant
I changed my vendor name because I go by "Zaarin" everywhere but RDNA, so I thought it would be easier.
GenX 2 is the later version of GenX. You don't need to uninstall it. That was the upgrade version when people wanted to port heir morphs over to Genesis 2 and beyond. It needs a swarm of add-ons in order to do it, but you can get things ported all the way from gen3 to G3.
Yeah, it took a while before Zev0 brought out his aging morphs. So suddenly we had a scattered collection of gen4 older characters which had built up over the 5 years that gen4 had been the be-all and end-all, and then suddenly there was Genesis, which had nothing whatsoever for the first year or so.
The issue for me was that Genesis and DS 4 worked so much better on my rig than DS 3 *ever* had, that I wasn't about to fight with gen4 any more than I absolutely had to. But I still needed a collection of old people.
Yeah, it took a while before Zev0 brought out his aging morphs. So suddenly we had a scattered collection of gen4 older characters which had built up over the 5 years that gen4 had been the be-all and end-all, and then suddenly there was Genesis, which had nothing whatsoever for the first year or so.
The issue for me was that Genesis and DS 4 worked so much better on my rig than DS 3 *ever* had, that I wasn't about to fight with gen4 any more than I absolutely had to. But I still needed a collection of old people.
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Ok, that explains it then, thanks!!I changed my vendor name because I go by "Zaarin" everywhere but RDNA, so I thought it would be easier.
Thanks Alisa.
I wishlisted the Women of Canandagua since I only have the Mens' pack.
I don't use K4 really at all anymore since Genesis 1 can be a baby to kid to adult, monster, demon, etc., but Omar (Berber) is so adorable! I not only love his face, but his teeth as well with the separation. Real world teeth always make a character more 'human'.
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OMG, then I guess I have to actually read the readme on this one. So I guess I'll install the GenX since you say it plays nice with GenX2. thanks for that info. I just need to go from V4 to Genesis 1 first to get comfortable, then maybe try going further.
Zaarin
Brilliant
Thanks! The perfect Disney teeth that Poser figures so often exhibit drives me crazy; real people have crooked teeth, teeth gaps, sharp canines, buckteeth, etc.Thanks Alisa.
I wishlisted the Women of Canandagua since I only have the Mens' pack.
I don't use K4 really at all anymore since Genesis 1 can be a baby to kid to adult, monster, demon, etc., but Omar (Berber) is so adorable! I not only love his face, but his teeth as well with the separation. Real world teeth always make a character more 'human'.
Tucked away in my long list of projects that I'd like to do is a full set of vintage faces for V4 and M4, which was my original plan for Jazz Age Dames before I had to rush it to meet the group release deadline.