Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: starwars

jose33 opened this issue on Apr 14, 2004 ยท 16 posts


JHoagland posted Mon, 19 April 2004 at 6:34 PM

You want Star Wars stuff? Just take a look at my Free Stuff: the X-Wing, B-Wing, Imperial Shuttle, TIE Fighter, and Landspeeder... all Poser figures and props. There are a number of issues when converting an existing 3ds (or obj) file to work in Poser: 1) You get a "flat" prop with no moving parts. This is good for a Star Destroyer (or Enterprise) model, but bad for an X-Wing. After all, what good is an X-Wing if the wings don't open? And if the canopy can't open, how can a person get in? :) 2) The geometry may not be "optimized" for Poser: the mesh may be triangulated or have odd-shaped polygons. This may work fine in Lightwave or 3D Studio Max, but it won't work so well in Poser. The additional (and usually unnecessary) polygons will just bog down Poser. 3) And related to that: when you convert a 3ds or obj file, it becomes a large pp2 file- any imported geometry is included into the prop. This means that there is no obj or rsr file for Poser to use as a "resource file". 4) Converting someone else's mesh usually requires their permission before you can offer it for free on your site. --John


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