Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: "DAZ|STUDIO isn't going to be competition for Poser..."

richardnovak77 opened this issue on Aug 19, 2003 ยท 75 posts


stewer posted Wed, 20 August 2003 at 11:45 AM

Note... the strand based hair doesn't export well to render in other applications. As I don't use Poser for rendering, the strand based hair is also not used by me. Would be nice if it did export via a plugin. I don't know if there are many apps outside the RenderMan crowd that render curves; Shag hair for 3ds and Shave and Haircut provide their own renderer. The thing is that these hair plugins and Poser don't store the hair as polygon meshes but just as curves for better efficiency (polygons would need at least 4x the memory). It's the renderers that turns them into polygons when required. However, if desired, it's quite easy to get access to all hair CVs and export them in a custom format. I do that in my RenderMan exporter/plugin (see the two links I posted previously), feel free to peek into the Python source to see how it's done.