Attached Link: http://www.markstef.com

PLEASE READ THIS MAJOR HELP NEEDED!!!!!!! WHOSEVER IDEA I USE WILL GET CREDIT IN MY MOVIE AS "Art Consultant" if they want. Hello all. I am having some trouble thinking this out and I need some major help. My project is called Waterdogs www.waterdogs.8k.com. I spent a ton of money on Daz models and other models + Mimic. I want this movie which will be a 5 part, 5 min. each webisodes and then transferred to dvd for 1 full episode with all the cool stuff, etc..... O.k. here is were the problem is. I am using Maya now and I really realy want to get into it and learn it well. But I love Poser. I love the models and the animation is easy to do. But what I do not like is the lighting. Plus no fluid effects,paint effects, etc.. in Poser and I cannot really model structures in Poser, You can but a lot of work goes into it. I am having trouble exporting the files into Maya. Everytime I export as an .OBJ in Poser it does not load in Maya, Everytime I export it to.3ds it comes in wierd. VERY wierd. Like half her face does not come in, it is just empty like the poly's dissapear. But what I did was bring the .obj into deep paint then export it as a .obj and then load it into Maya and it works........wierd? But it is a long process doing this. Especially with 5 characters and the face blends. I have Mimic and I am going to record different sounds people make like laughing and shouting and blah blah blah. I am going to export those face morphs and then load them into Maya as blends so when they talk I can lip sync them. I think about 30 is enough. So in the end I really need to know - A. how to export them from Poser and load them into Maya. b. What is the esiest way to do this. c. Is there a way to kepp the bones d. is there a way to keep the textures. Oh ya I am also using- Poser 4 propack Maya 5 G4 dual 867 2gb ram or an Intel 2.4 windows 2000 1gb ram

Attached Link: http://www.reiss-studio.com

Check out www.reiss-studio.com They have a Poser/Maya plugin You will need Poser 5 and Maya 4,4.5 or 5 This plugin will host your Poser file inside of Maya. This means you can animate your scene inside of Poser have it play inside of Maya. Cloth comes over, hair comes over, textures and animation come over. It is definately the way you should go if you want to work with Poser and Maya together. Joe www.3-AXIS.com

Is there a free version of this plug in?

Nope... That's why the price says $299.00 :) Upgrading to Poser 5 so the plugin works won't be free either.

Thanks, It seems the more you want to do the more you have to spend. Makes it tough for us new to the game.

I know what you mean. I feel your pain. Once you reach a certain plateau you end up spending 10 times as much to get 1% more. It sure makes your work look better but dang, what a hard pill to swallow. All the best, Joe @ 3-AXIS