Dragonhide PCS looks fantastic, but...
BeeMKay
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... I can't help wondering just how exactly is one going to stow one's arms and legs into that thing? 
I'm going to get this one anyway, it's going to work great as a robot design. https://www.daz3d.com/dragonhide-pcs-for-genesis-8-and-81-male-and-female
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they are amputees
Personally, I did some work to muck around with the proportions, to shift it more towards power armour than "mini-mecha".
"Please note that the suit utilizes a custom morph to properly fit the figure inside" = Some surgical modifications are needed.
I do believe it comes with an amputee when you load it.
This image in the gallery actually shows the morph, and as an owner of the bundle, I can confirm it's there.
Ha, that's great! I can hear yakety sax playing as that guy is constantly running 2x speed past the screen for the entire song.
It uses the same temporary body warping tech also known in Fallout and Starcraft universes.
Some designs are driven by the rule of cool instead of realism because if they were taken at face value then you'd have to modify people for interacting with the armor Warhammer 40000 Space Marine style.
Realistic designs are far more limiting, see the Appleseed franchise power armor.
That is clearly not designed by an engineer. If it was the arms and legs would not go inside the arms and legs of the suit.
Arms of the operator would fit inside and use the controls for the suit, but the legs would need to be cut off.
One approach is to make the suit a lot smaller and form fitting, as outlined above. The other approach is to make it much more of a piloted mecha sort of thing.
Or even that it's not a mecha at all but a robot:
Could be more like a set up that Ripley used.
I think they have something in the store close to that.
Humans don't bend that way. Just sayin'
Yeah, with those joints on the suit, the only 'realistic' way to get a human inside is to remove his/her legs or attach the operators head to the mechanical body/suit
I think it can be scaled to 150% to give something that is large enough to place a human in a cockpit position. Maybe think of it more as space infantry support unit rather than an individual squad member.
I would put Space Navigator in there.
As PixelSpoilting stated, it was designed from the get-go, not to capture realism, but to mimic the style of your classic Space Marine (Warhammer/Starcraft). Just google "Space Marine." If the joints were lined up realistically, a suit this bulky would be pretty much impossible to move and pose without huge chunks of armor merging into one another. If you want science behind it, I guess you could just say they were genetically modified or a cybernetic person, where their arms and legs are robotic (making them kind of "one" with the suit). I have another suit coming out later this year that realistically fits the person inside, but it will not be nearly as bulky as this and inspired by more modern tactical space suits.
Looking at the body morph without loading the suit is quite an experience, I learned the first day I bought it.
Incidentally, when I used the suit in an issue of one of my ongoing stories, I decided that the people who were in that corps not only were amputees, but had to volunteer to BECOME amputees to go into that special corps and get the suit training and so on. (This is in an SF future where they have fully-functional prosthetics to use when they're not suited up, so it's not THAT bad.) This decision ended up opening a lot of story possibilities--this corps is regarded with fear and suspicion by the regular forces, feels like they're not taken seriously, the military doesn't know how to use them and their considerable abilities well, etc etc--enough that they're going to come back a few times in future issues.
Haha, this would be the fine print in the contract on page 53, no biggy.
they could just have huge heads as GMO massive intelligence
Maybe it's like "Pacific Rim" even.
his unhorned friend fits
What happens when they want to go to the toilet ?
This thing is Perfect for what I needed - straight out of the box. Sweet!
I love the limits and how the whole thing is set up.
Really fun to animate! Thanks Herschel!!!
When I made custom aniBlocks for the Genesis 3 & 8 Face Controls, I made them for my Genesis 3 figures, but they and the dials I made for it also work when attached to Genesis 8.
Anyway, so I'm using the Genesis 8 Male version here, and I can have him bark orders while thumping through the city. Or singing... or making funny faces... or.... :)
I also really love how nicely the hand pose dials work on this thing. The image above is just the fists dialed up - no messing around with anything... it just works.
Brilliant idea to fit the rigging of Genesis to the armor. Bravo. Very well executed! Thank you!!!
Oh crap!
He's Coming this way!!!
Am I the only one going nostalgic?