Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Poser 5 A Bad Purchase?

kmwhitt opened this issue on May 31, 2004 ยท 13 posts


who3d posted Mon, 31 May 2004 at 8:47 PM

Cinema4D has it's own scaling factor setting for each file type, so Scaler 3.0 is proba bly redundant. Kevin.. There isn't a function that I know of to "fit all to window" like Cinema4D has. However, having said that probably the easiest way to find something in a scene if you've lost it is to select a camera (main, aux, or posing cameras would be favourite here). Make sure it's selected in the "current item" indicator/controls under the display window. Then select "Point At" from the Object menu. Select some part of the object you want to find (for example "Body" works for a figure). your currently selected camera is now pointing towards the center of your indictaed object - zoom in and out to set the scale. Importing the OBJ file hasn't actually collapsed it into a single mesh, it's just that Poser treats "groups" differently to many modleling applications (which I hasten to add Poser is not). If you want to "split apart" the groups from within an imported .OBj within poser then... Select the object (.obj) in question. Select the "Grouping Tool" from the editing tool strip. You should immediately recognise that there's a drop-down list of your "groups". Click "spawn props" button. This will create duplicate copies of each group as seperate objects. Close the Grouping Editor AND DELETE THE ORIGINAL OBJECT! (Ignore this step and you'll tear your hair out, probably). You now have all the individual "groups" as seperate entities. Hope that helps - Next? (be aware I will likely not respond again till tomorrow due to it being late here). Cheers, Cliff