Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Prop Creation Help...

MiKo0 opened this issue on May 14, 2003 ยท 13 posts


maclean posted Wed, 14 May 2003 at 2:51 PM

You mean you want a prop that loads from an outside obj file? If so, it's called external geometry and it's easy to do in notepad. Open your pp2 file in notepad and you'll see something like this. (I've cut out most of the vertice lines). --------------------------------- { version { number 4.01 } prop myprop { geomCustom { numbVerts 24 numbTVerts 24 numbTSets 36 numbElems 12 numbSets 36 v -2.092500 0.000000 0.000000 v 2.092500 0.000000 0.000000 ----- a lot more vertice lines ------ f 13/24 10/21 17/22 f 17/22 21/23 13/24 } } prop myprop { name myprop on bend 1 dynamicsLock 1 hidden 0 etc, etc, etc --------------------------------- You need to replace those vertice lines, (which are the text representation of your prop's points in 3d space), with a path to your obj file. Replace this part ..... --------------------------------- prop myprop { geomCustom { numbVerts 24 numbTVerts 24 numbTSets 36 numbElems 12 numbSets 36 v -2.092500 0.000000 0.000000 ------- etc, right down to ... --------- f 13/24 10/21 17/22 f 17/22 21/23 13/24 } } --------------------------------- with these lines ...... --------------------------------- prop myprop_1 { storageOffset 0 0 0 objFileGeom 0 0 :Runtime:Geometries:myfolder:myprop.obj } ----------------------------------- The folder name must be the folder in Geometries where you're going to store your prop, and the prop name must be the name it has in poser. Also, you have to write 'myprop_1', because poser always adds an ID number after multiple props or figures. Your final file will look like this -------------------------------- { version { number 4.01 } prop balcony1_1 { storageOffset 0 0 0 objFileGeom 0 0 :Runtime:Geometries:myfolder:myprop.obj } prop myprop_1 { name myprop on bend 1 dynamicsLock 1 hidden 0 -----etc, etc------------ Save the whole file with a new name (just in case) and the extension .pp2. Put it in props and open it. All you're doing is telling poser the path to read the geometry from, as opposed to reading it from the pp2 file itself. mac