Mastectomy?
themissourisavage
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Dear creators for Daz,
Could one or multiple of you come up with a morph/geoshell or geo-graft for a mastectomy?
Thanks,
Me
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https://www.daz3d.com/transgender-shapes-for-genesis-8
I thought about mentioning that, but to the best of my knowledge you can't do just one breast with it. (Excuse my crude way of putting it.)
Maybe this;
https://www.daz3d.com/shape-splitter
This may be good for a single breast removal, but not for a double. My scar runs straight across my chest, ending just under my arms.
When getting one of these surgeries, they not only remove the breast, but also lymph nodes, hence the reason why the scar reaches under the arm.
For single removal, the anchor scar from the Daz product would be more common, also for reduction surgeries.
Might want to experiment with deformers, maybe? I know that there are some video tutorials on modeling in Studio using deformers. It would call for some subtle adjustments, but a lot depends on the polycount of the original.
Probably would need to do some texture editing, too. There are a number of sets of LIE scars available, but you'd probably need to get rid of the nipple.
Biala at Renderosity has packs of multiple Mastectomy morphs for both G8F/G8.1F and G3F Look for Amazons Mastectomy in their store.
This depends a bit on what you want.
A while ago I made geograft prosthetics for G8F because I wanted them for one of my transgender characters.
I suppose they would also be useful props for characters who've had a mastectomy, and while I'd have to do some work on them before they were shared (I'd have to try to improve the shape compatibility, and split them into right and left variants), if there's enough interest in that I can try to put it on my to-do list.
I would be interested, would be great with the morphs from the renderosity product.
The way this is set up, this is a geograft where the prosthetics keep the actual shape of the main figure morph and instead add in a flat chest underneath. So it's not a prop that you'd put over a mastectomy morph, but you could certainly use both separately depending on whether the character is or isn't wearing the prosthetics.
(It's done this way because it works way better with clothing fits. Here you can just put the clothes on and they'll fit properly over the prosthetics as part of the figure, rather than having a load of hassle like you would need to if they were a separate prop.)
That said, I guess it'd be an option to include separate prop versions for when they're not being worn, taken on/off, etc.
I have an idea... This may be an awkward, and might only work in specific situations (I haven't tried it), but if you load two instances of the character and hide everything but the breast/pectoral of one, then apply the mastectomy morph to the other, you could fake having one side flat and the other not. You'd just want to be sure to parent the mostly-hidden version to the other, possibly at the chest, so that they stay together believably when posing. Just a thought!
Going on top of my head here but couldn't you just clone the morph while ignoring either pectoral at import time? :
1) load a base G8 figure
2) apply the mastectomy morph (both breasts)
3) delete eyelashes
4) set G8 resolution to base
5) export as OBJ
6) load base G8 figure
7) edit --> figure --> morph loader pro
8) load your exported OBJ, with "reverse deformations" on, "attenuate by" --> "facet selection" --> "face groups" --> "rPectoral" or "lPectoral" and then "strength" --> "-1"
9) dial your morph
10) joint editor --> adjust rigging to shape
11) ERC freeze
12) file --> save as --> support assets --> morph asset --> your morph
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Ok I was definitely looking at things wrong lol. Was tired when I looked at the 2 links and read the posts.
Basically to get what I think is being mentioned is a morph that flatten the breasts, which would need the textures with bump for the scars, then have one or 2 props, depending on if single or double mastectomy, that are similar to the padded forms one would wear in a bra to make it look like you still have breasts.
The other method is to have breast morphs to represent rebuilt breast, which if course would not have nipple, except in some cases, depends on the doctor and if the surgery was the anchor or line type. Same with reduction surgery, they use the anchor and just have it go around the nipple so it stays put and also doesn't loose sensation.