Before you can start using SASHA you must first configure her.
This extra step is necessary for copyright reasons. However I tried to make the process as smooth and easy as possible, and you only have to do it once.
What you need is:
The V4 base, the Morphs++, and other other addon packages are not included and can be purchased separately at DAZ3D.
Footnote *1;
Remember that some of these full injections will make your final figure quite heavy, MB-wise!
• In it's standard configuration, with all SASHA-16, the Morphs++ and eight S4 morphs, the SASHA figure file is only around 63 MB large.
• With *all* DAZ morphs and Capsces' "Morphia" loaded it grows to a staggering 150 MB!
So only load what you really need.
Read more in the "9.1. Create your own custom Base Figure of SASHA-16" chapter.
Footnote *2;
Bringing Capsces "V4 Morphia" into SASHA:
Read this separate manual (opens in a new tab/window).
This procedure should take you about five minutes, and you only have to do it once if you save the resulting figure as a preset:
So each time you need a V4 figure, from now on this preset is your starting point.
Instead of loading the DAZ V4 as you did all those years, get used to load your SASHA preset and start from there.
Footnote *1:
This file also contains improved versions of some of the morphs from the DAZ "Morphs++" pack, so make sure you load everything in the correct order as prescribed by the numbers:
They always must be loaded *after* the injection of the Morphs++
Footnote *2:
If you don't have Stephanie 4 it doesn't matter much; SASHA will work fine without them too.
Footnote *3:
You can activate the KV at a later stage if you need it.
However, remember that once it's activated there is no way to get rid of it again, except by creating a new base figure.
After a while of using SASHA you will have adapted SASHA's configuration to your own personal preferences:
Some of the settings are useful for you while others aren't.
Just look at all the options in the BODY's "Special SASHA Controls" group.
Or maybe you have created your own preferred base figure with scaling and a specific default shape.
After all, that's what all these configuration options are made for - to taylor a figure which exactly fits your needs!
So if you ever think:
"I could use this again next time", then why not save it as a template, as described here: "9.1. Create your own custom Base Figure of SASHA-16"
SASHA started as a figure which I made for my own needs; later I shared with a couple of friends.
That was close to ten years ago; it was SASHA 1.0 back then, and it was on a long-defunct board.
During the years, and with all the new technology that Poser introduced, SASHA 1.0 became SASHA 2.0 with the introduction of weight mapping, and was first published as "SASHA-16" for the sake of a unique name.
Now you have just downloaded the latest "2019 Edition" of SASHA, which features a lot of improvements and new functions. I hope you'll enjoy.
Between the original SASHA 1.0 and the version which now lives in your runtime there were about (roughly guessed) 150 interim versions.
Between all these versions, features were added or removed, modified, mangled and dangled, turned inside-out, and sent through the External Warp Interphase Balancer to test it's Lateral Subspace Latency Delay, and then some more.
I lost the oversight long time ago already because the figure's internal working has become more complex than the Transwarp technology.
Unfortunately neither Scotty (Norpin Colony) nor Geordi (extended shore leave to Risa) were available to help me.
I had to do all this on my own, as a one-man-band.
So please have mercy with me.
I tried what I could to give you the best V4 ever.
If I didn't succeed, I'm very sorry.
Eradicate her from your library, format your HD or treat it with Thermite, or a sledge hammer, and kindly send your letter bombs to:
Mr. K.A. Karina, Esq.
17 Crater Close
New Manchester MA M11 3AA
Planet Mars, Solar System.
No "collect on delivery" letters please.
Thank you.