Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Poser Morph Targets/New Technique???

MikeJ opened this issue on Sep 23, 2000 ยท 15 posts


MikeJ posted Sun, 24 September 2000 at 5:34 AM

Traveler, bloodsong, Thank you both for the info. I'm really not understanding what you mean by "centering", though. I know, for example what it means to be centered within the Poser "stage", and Amorphium also has a "centering" setting. I guess the thing is that the two programs read this "center" in entirely different terms? Traveler, the biggest problem I had with the tutorial was all the re-naming and such ( I WAS able to figure out the new windows). I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to be renaming with the file extensions as part of the new name or not, or to let the program do so itself. I must have tried it over a hundred times, but like I said, I had essentially NO knowledge of any of the technical aspects back then, which was in May, I think. Not like I'm any kind of an expert NOW, but I'd like to think I've learned something since then. :) I've had to re-format since then, and I no longer have either the tutorial, the Magic Triangle, or the Compose program, but I would LOVE to give it all another shot, if you could please tell me where I might find this stuff. Anyway, it may have been the back-asswards way of doing it, but my workaround does seem to work, although with rather unpredictable results, as I'm sure you would have been able to foresee. But, the only way I can make it work is to use a combination of several different Amorphium-made "distortions", playing around with the settings, and then save the results as a newly-spawned morph target. Then I set the other two or more to 0.000, and the new one to 1.000, and I have a new MT. Like I said, the few I've actually come up with, although unorthodox, are useful, and somehow different than any I've been able to make with the magnets and Anim8or. No money for RDS or anything else at the moment, though, so until I learn something better, I'm pretty much stuck with this stuff. One other thing: are you both saying it's impossible to do it any way other than with the compose method? When you speak of scaling, do you mean to say that it's something different than simple re-sizing? Please excuse me my ignorance... it was hard enough for me to understand how these things might relate to only one program, but when you add in the second one to the mix, it seems to be a complete mystery. Cheers, and thanks again. :) Mike PS I might mention I haven't yet tried this with a hand yet... I guess I will, and I bet then I'll understand it a bit more, eh?