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Published: 2009-06-08 20:02:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 6119; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 335
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Description Having made a start with tutorials, I seem to be on a roll! (There are several more in the pipeline.)

Thanks to ~Lord-Crios for suggesting this one!

Several of the Chronophontians have had "body transplants" - they combine a Victoria 4 body with their original heads, from older base figures. (Shirley began as a Victoria 2, Natasha as Aiko 3, and Pandora as MayaDoll.) I was unable to upgrade them entirely to V4 without unacceptable changes in their faces - I may be a tolerable portraitist, but I'm definitely not a brilliant one. So body transplants were my compromise: get the advantages of V4's modern body, while preserving those faces unchanged.

This tutorial steps you through the procedure I used. It's crude, and has some disadvantages which are explained in the tutorial. But it works.

A highly desirable aid in doing this is a good CR2 file editor. I use the Poser File Editor by Dimension3D. The tutorial promises a link here, so here it is: [link] .


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Comments: 23

kmyc89 [2018-08-14 19:56:45 +0000 UTC]

(Photo #1) The 6th model ==1st from right is my favorite =3

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Chronophontes In reply to kmyc89 [2018-08-14 22:50:55 +0000 UTC]

And thanks for the fave!

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Chronophontes In reply to kmyc89 [2018-08-14 22:33:57 +0000 UTC]

That was an early version of the Victoria 4 Pandora. I've worked on her appearance more, and now she looks enough like the "old" Pandora that the two have become friends (Which is which? ). (She didn't like the new one at first.)

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DreadedOne131 [2016-01-06 16:14:50 +0000 UTC]

Interesting, can this be used on any DAZ figure?

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Chronophontes In reply to DreadedOne131 [2016-01-06 21:35:29 +0000 UTC]

Yes, and not just DAZ.  It will work with any pair of figures that can be displayed in Poser or (presumably) DAZ|Studio.  The head of Pandora (shown here) is from MayaDoll by Studio Maya.

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CornellBlueMoon [2013-11-17 10:56:08 +0000 UTC]

I believe I have just shot myself in the foot for lack of other wording. Wanted to do a 'composite beast'. Top half Night World Lycanthropos (Abdomen up) and the bottom half Michael 4 (Abdomen down). What doesn't need to show is invisible. No textures and he looks pretty nice... Opened him up in EditPadPro after I parented the two parts, looked at the text and got completely lost. Can't figure out what to do now. Any suggestions?

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Chronophontes In reply to CornellBlueMoon [2013-11-17 19:03:25 +0000 UTC]

Interesting combination!  This tutorial is about the composites I've done: a head from one figure on a body from another. 

It sounds like you have the parenting and hiding/deleting parts of the process already. 

Since the hip-ab boundary will be pretty obvious, you would want the character to wear a sash or very wide belt to hide it.  (Fortunately the Lycanthropos figure (the DAZ one, I assume you mean) has a humanoid body.  With a conventional wolf body, the boundary with a human hip would be so extreme that even a sash probably couldn't hide it.)

If you like, I could reissue this tutorial with something more like what you have in mind.

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CornellBlueMoon In reply to Chronophontes [2013-11-17 21:13:50 +0000 UTC]

Thanks... If it's no trouble...

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CornellBlueMoon [2013-11-16 21:27:56 +0000 UTC]

Been looking for this one everywhere... Thanks for doing it

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Chronophontes In reply to CornellBlueMoon [2013-11-16 21:53:41 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome!  This was an important topic for me, because I do it a lot.

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Lord-Crios [2012-02-04 08:41:53 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome Tom

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Chronophontes In reply to Lord-Crios [2012-02-04 21:20:27 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad it helped!

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Lord-Crios In reply to Chronophontes [2012-02-06 07:31:59 +0000 UTC]

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Ziggyman [2009-06-14 20:14:22 +0000 UTC]

Thank you my friend. Very useful.

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Chronophontes In reply to Ziggyman [2009-06-16 04:15:37 +0000 UTC]

Glad it helps and thanks for the !

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Lord-Crios [2009-06-09 09:22:16 +0000 UTC]

Really usefull, thank you.

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Chronophontes In reply to Lord-Crios [2009-06-10 20:12:18 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome, and thank you for the !

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Lord-Crios In reply to Chronophontes [2009-06-11 07:33:37 +0000 UTC]

YW

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starlightpainter [2009-06-09 00:55:29 +0000 UTC]

Very interesting. Today, I learned something new!

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Chronophontes In reply to starlightpainter [2009-06-10 20:35:12 +0000 UTC]

Great! I wonder what?

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starlightpainter In reply to Chronophontes [2009-06-10 21:43:51 +0000 UTC]

Combining figures!

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Chronophontes In reply to starlightpainter [2009-06-24 08:16:40 +0000 UTC]

Excellent! - gonna try it?

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starlightpainter In reply to Chronophontes [2009-06-24 18:32:36 +0000 UTC]

Maybe one day when the need arises.

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