If you have her and want to make her into a character, post to, or bookmark this thread. Maybe we can get geep to create a primer for her. It's a lot of work to create the primer, so the more people interested, the better the chances are he will do it for us. Even if you don't have Phils Mesh (it's for sale on his site), you can still learn how to make a poseable character. Maybe geep will read this thread and be 'motivated' ;-) BillyGoat

There was a "gingerbread" thread about a year ago (more or less... I have no sense of time) that said how to create a posable character, but I could never get it to work quite right. Anything by Geep is good, so maybe if he posts a primer I can figure out what went wrong before... Pretty please?

Yes, please sir, may we have another? I'd love to make myself into a Pose Character, along with the rest of the family. Just think, It would be possible to Poserize the entire family into one vast virtualy family that wasn't nearly as dysfunctional as the meat-based one. ;-}

If I ever see that gingerbread tutorial again I will take hostages. I have an idea how it all works, but I could be mixing up 2 or 3 different methods. Wish this thread could attract more attention. In the mean time i'll try to bribe the Doc.

I remember a teddy bear character creation tutorial from thornworks. Is that still around somewhere?

I remember the gingerbread tut... vaguely. Meanwhile, I did nab PhilC's mesh, figuring that I could bring it into Carrara someday and create some females which wouldn't look quite so much like the current "standard of beauty". I wish that he'd do a male too. (I've drawn vikings and knights for decades and they are too different from the wimps and the football freaks sold now... so I'll have to do my own.) A good tutorial on poserizing the resultant mesh might get me to pushing those vertices into position. Carolly

Figure out which Poser figure matches closest to PhilC's mesh. Scale PhilC's mesh to match as close as possible and save as OBJ. Use the Poser Grouping Tool, UVMapper, or your favorite modelling program to slice it up to match the Poser figure, then save again. Put the new OBJ into the Poser Geometries folder and edit the Cr2 for the matching Poser figure to point at the new OBJ. You will probably have to do some joint tweaking, but it would probably work fairly well.

"Maybe geep will read this thread and be 'motivated' ;-)"

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Consider Doc motivated RIGHT HERE.

cheers,
dr geep
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Attached Link: Poserize and Boning a 3d mesh for use in Poser

Yeah, I've had collected several links and such, including the Gingerbread Man tuto and posted it over at the Modelers/Wings3D forum some time ago. If you want to have a look, click on the above link. At some point someone asked, if it would be useful to have such a tutorial and after he saw how many of them already exist, he decided to not do another one.

Thanks for the links Bryde.

One can never have too much information, no?

Dr Geep decided to do a tut on making a posable Figure because ...

... it's fun!
(and it only requires Poser)

And, there's NO BONES about that. ;=]

cheers,
dr geep
;=]