Replacing the head?

llastffirst1234

Is there a way to replace the head of a character model?

kaotkbliss

That depends on what you mean by replace? Often characters come with a separate body and head morph, as well as a full body (both head and body).

Simply dial in the body you want, and a different head.

If it's a special character that just a single full character morph with no separate head/body, then that will take quite a bit of work, probably geographing a new head onto the body.

Cybersox

I assume you're talking about putting the head from one figure on another very different figure, not just swapping morphs, right?  If so, the easiest way is just to put the two figures in a scene together, line them up so the head of the one you want to add is sitting on the neck of the figure who's head you're replacing, parent the new head to the old head, then hide the head of the old body and rest of the new head's body. Then you just have to match the textures of the two so they appear to match.. or cheat by having the join covered by clothing.  .     

mwokee

I do it all the time but with Photoshop.

kyoto kid

....I did that many years ago with Aiko3 and Sadie.

Cris Palomino

Until we know exactly what the OP is asking to do, we're all just guessing.

1) What do you mean by replace?

2) Replace with what specifically?

WendyLuvsCatz

Another head 

Cybersox

kyoto kid said:

....I did that many years ago with Aiko3 and Sadie.

There are a number of commercial characters out there that do the same thing.  3D Outlaw and MayaX's Anime Doll for Genesis 2 Female over at Rendo uses the Genesis 2 body with a seperate head attached, and way back in the day Stahlrattte's Girl 3 combined the original The GirI's head with Aiko 3's body. https://web.archive.org/web/20190201130008/http://www.planit3d.com/source/poser/stahlratte/stahlratte4.html

Cris Palomino

OnlyLuvsCatz said:

Another head 

That doesn't answer my questions.

If the OP doesn't understand how this all works, it may be a simple matter of morphs.

llastffirst1234

Cybersox said:

I assume you're talking about putting the head from one figure on another very different figure, not just swapping morphs, right?  If so, the easiest way is just to put the two figures in a scene together, line them up so the head of the one you want to add is sitting on the neck of the figure who's head you're replacing, parent the new head to the old head, then hide the head of the old body and rest of the new head's body. Then you just have to match the textures of the two so they appear to match.. or cheat by having the join covered by clothing.  .     

Okay, Cybersox definitely has the right idea. This is what I'm trying to do. I'm attempting to do this now, but to make this process a bit easier in case I can't figure it out from just this, could you (or another user who is familiar with this) walk me through the steps?

kyoto kid

Cybersox said:

kyoto kid said:

....I did that many years ago with Aiko3 and Sadie.

There are a number of commercial characters out there that do the same thing.  3D Outlaw and MayaX's Anime Doll for Genesis 2 Female over at Rendo uses the Genesis 2 body with a seperate head attached, and way back in the day Stahlrattte's Girl 3 combined the original The GirI's head with Aiko 3's body. https://web.archive.org/web/20190201130008/http://www.planit3d.com/source/poser/stahlratte/stahlratte4.html

...the difference  was i didn't use RTE Encoder or Morph Manager.  I simply grafted Sadie's head to Aiko3's body.

Subtropic Pixel

When I saw this thread, I asked myself, "how do these people know I need to replace the toilet in the executive washroom?"

Patrick Tyner

There was an old tutorial from back in the V3 days. I downloaded each of the web pages and even used them to create my own character. I have to find them on my back up drive. I can see if the next page link brings up the website. If so I will post. It showed the process with Poser, so I am guessing having not looked at it for a while that the process would be similar.