
This Day In History 5-22-1843 First Wagon Train Leaves Independence Missouri for Oregon
Rose plays the original game of Oregon Trail

Rose plays the original game of Oregon Trail
Annabelle channels her inner Marilyn
Aurora's hike is turning out to be quite memorable.
Adolphe Sax demonstrates his new creation to Preston, one she will eventually master.
Rose has been around since V1 and her appearance has changed each time a new model came along. This time I really didn't feel like the new version was quite her. Rose has a bit of a life beyond the Nomiverse, so I really didn't want a Rose that didn't look like she could be the same person. (V5 has too many possibilities to 86 it)
What I figured out in the course of bringing my other Nomis over is that it helps (not foolproof) if the potential anchor I created in V4 look like the V5 anchors, with as little background distraction as possible. I also included a description of that image generated by an LLM in the appearance notes BEFORE generation. I found that helpful.
Rose on the second attempt looked right facially, but she looked taller and thinner. So in her appearance notes it starts with "Bust 36, Waist 27, Hips 37, 163 cm tall". It took a few attempts to get the measurements right, and it's still going to misfire sometimes (it's AI) but I am back to what I think looks like the same woman (V4 being what she looks like with a filter perhaps. :P )
Hope this is useful for some of you.
I'm impressed the title of the book and the author is actually readable.
Annabelle calls her dad after learning that David Allan Coe had passed away. Her father was on the Country scene in the 70s.
When I created Morgan she looked like the first image. Her dreadlocks were always one of her defining features, and one of the things which set her off from her original base image. As V3 tended to drift she gradually had a shift in features, that really set in in V4. Morgan's father is half French and half Jamaican, and her mother is Indian. So what I wanted her to look like really was closer to what I have been able to recreate with V5.
All this is of course just world building on my part, but if you read this far, hope I didn't bore you.
Akikio is my first Nomi native to V5. Really pleased with her.
I'm pretty pleased with Rose in V5. If you look at the last 4 images there is always a shift when switching over to another image system it did take some tweaking today (went through some unnatural green eyes, alien skin etc, but we seem to be stable now.)
I have a project I'm in the middle of that uses the 4 images, and will probably stick to it rather than redo something like 40 video clips.
Despite seeing some distortions (hands growing out her chest in one selfie, etc) the rendering is really good with V5. The tricky part is bringing them over.
Devs, when we get to real time video (we all know it's coming, even if it's a year or more out) let's try and be ready to bring the avatars over smoothly. I know it's a lot, but as you can see from the roll out, it does matter.
Also give me a job. :P
Edited to add, that second image is supposed to be Rose trying to hold a neutral expression for her driver's license)