In Poser 2, there was a facility to make ppl over- or underweight by 5, 10, 20 lbs. Poser 4 does not have that. Is it possible to copy the files from Poser 2 and paste them somewhere in Poser 4, probably morph targets? I really need to make people fat and thin in a project I am working on and cannot find morph targets and text maps for that. I do have both Poser 2 and 4 however. Thanks, SDG (Johan)

Poser 2 is very different from 4 .. I don't beleive there is any useful way to translate what 2 did. However ... The poser 4 people do not come with heavy and thin morphs. SO you would need to find or make morphs to do that, or use scaling of bodyparts for smaller changes. There used to be some bodyshaping morphs for the poser4 figures in freestuff here. Or, you could buy Michael 2 and Victoria 2, which do have a wide variety of bodyshaping morphs. Then your next issue will be making clothes fit the newly shaped bodies, for which I recomend the Tailor, also by DAZ.

What I've done in the past to make the P4 man heavier is use a magnet deformer and spawn a morph target for the addomen, then repeated the process with the superior pelvic area so that there is a gradual transition. You can also buy morph targets to make P4 figures heavier online here. There was a free morphed Fat Dude offered here at one time which looked good, but then there was a stipulation that came with it that it wasn't to be used for commercial projects, so I never installed it. If you use the nude figures in P4 your clothes won't conform after you make them fat. You'd have to use a utility like The Tailor to transfer the morphs to the clothing. Using the clothed figures might create unwanted distortions, but you can give it a try. The P4 casual man would be a good one to use to experiment. P2 figures won't look as realistic. The new P5 figures have better fat morphs and with the cloth room you probably could get clothes to conform using collision detection, but I can't swear by it. Anyone who has more info. on this please speak up. I don't like Don and Judy and haven't used them much. The heavy man and woman from Daz are now on sale very cheap at the loft. Rather than going through all this work you might want to check that out. I believe they are less than $20 now and are fairly realistic if not used in close ups.