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An NPC.

[Improved version posted later!]

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I swore I wasn't going to put anybody in the damned showgirl outfit again, and then remembered there is a story need for this character. I spent over half an hour fine-tuning the arm and leg pieces that have to be hand-posed, putting them in exactly the right spots ... and didn't realize until much later in the day after I'd finished overdressing the set that I'd parented them to the wrong thing. You can't just reparent them back to Gwen, or they won't move with the pose. If I actually reparented them to specific joints/bones, they'd have moved with the pose. (Or at least that's how it works with other items. These have a history of being uncooperative with Genesis 8.)

Anyway, so, when I sat her on the stool, the arm and leg feathers didn't go where they were supposed to. It looked like she was holding two of them in her hands, so I threw the other two onto the makeup table and the other stool and got a nice downtime image of her in her grubby dressing room and called it a day. Actually, both images where she's needed are in the dressing room so I don't think she's going to put them back on for the other one.

Incidentally, the set may not look overdressed to you, but I placed a number of props that can't be seen in the image, and that makes it overdressed by my standards. Normally I dress for the camera frame only, because I am lazy and positioning props is annoying. But I didn't know what angle I was going to use when I dressed the set, and it's going to be needed for a second render, so, for example, there's a second stool and mirror setup off-camera left, and the shelves off-camera right actually have things on them. And that, children, is how you waste a whole afternoon doing setup for a render.

The mirror is a kitbash. (Well, it's all a kitbash. Including the set itself and the props you can't see, there are about nine different packages involved.) It's an art deco round mirror, surrounded by a rescaled letter O from a set of old-fashioned bulb marquee letters.

Description

An NPC.

[Improved version posted later!]

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I swore I wasn't going to put anybody in the damned showgirl outfit again, and then remembered there is a story need for this character. I spent over half an hour fine-tuning the arm and leg pieces that have to be hand-posed, putting them in exactly the right spots ... and didn't realize until much later in the day after I'd finished overdressing the set that I'd parented them to the wrong thing. You can't just reparent them back to Gwen, or they won't move with the pose. If I actually reparented them to specific joints/bones, they'd have moved with the pose. (Or at least that's how it works with other items. These have a history of being uncooperative with Genesis 8.)

Anyway, so, when I sat her on the stool, the arm and leg feathers didn't go where they were supposed to. It looked like she was holding two of them in her hands, so I threw the other two onto the makeup table and the other stool and got a nice downtime image of her in her grubby dressing room and called it a day. Actually, both images where she's needed are in the dressing room so I don't think she's going to put them back on for the other one.

Incidentally, the set may not look overdressed to you, but I placed a number of props that can't be seen in the image, and that makes it overdressed by my standards. Normally I dress for the camera frame only, because I am lazy and positioning props is annoying. But I didn't know what angle I was going to use when I dressed the set, and it's going to be needed for a second render, so, for example, there's a second stool and mirror setup off-camera left, and the shelves off-camera right actually have things on them. And that, children, is how you waste a whole afternoon doing setup for a render.

The mirror is a kitbash. (Well, it's all a kitbash. Including the set itself and the props you can't see, there are about nine different packages involved.) It's an art deco round mirror, surrounded by a rescaled letter O from a set of old-fashioned bulb marquee letters.