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Wow! I just discovered today that Poser can export SWF Flash animations since installing the latest Macromedia Flash Demo for version 7! Now I'm gonna have to cough up a hairball of cash for flash! Did a quickie Intro Flash for my website today!

It would look better if you could load it in and then play it, there must be some way to do that?

Well the problem is the color limitations! It only allows you to create animations with a maximum of 128 colors, hence the cartoony look of the flash. And MAN!@ It Bogs Poser Down considerably if you use a PZ3 file with an AVI Background with sound playing in the background! (Still waiting for that one to finish rendering at 100x100 64 color output quality after a few hours and several crashes!)

You should deinitely check out Swish authoring tools before before paying Macromedia prices. I actually bought SwishMAX in preference to Flash MX, even though I was buying with company money.

On the subject of getting Poser stuff onto the web; if Poser VRML2 export only worked properly, you could make 3D interactive stuff with it.

John

Talk about saving someone from a big mistake! I can buy the Swish Video to flash converter for 1 tenth of the cost of Macromedia Flash MX 2004!!! That's all I really wanted in the first place and it saves the flash videos with more than 128 colors like the icky poser restriction I ran into! Thank You thank you thank you!!!!

Glad to be of help. I don't have any personal experience of the video converter, but I'm more than happy with the Swish product I do have.

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Well the free 15 day demo does just what I wanted and as I said it's only 10 percent of the cost of the full Macromedia package! IE: $49.95 VS $499.95!!! And it reproduced the same ammount of colors in the AVI/MPG/MOV that you import whereas the Poser Export directly to SWF limits you to 128 colors. Period. End of Story!!

Message edited on: 10/23/2004 13:50

The newer animation is much better.

And Smaller too! The Poser exports using 128 colors were coming out HUGE and taking forever to upload and download. Of course the new one is three AVI's linked together then SWF'd using Swish and is still kinda large but it's still smaller than the full 128 color Poser export of Will Robinson walking towards the ship was turning out to be. Plus there's SOUND!

Message edited on: 10/23/2004 14:04

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I have made some Poser movies for Flash formats. But I never used the export feature. Instead, I made an AVI movie, took it to Jasc's Animation Shop (which I saved after making the switch to Photoshop, and just in time!), and exported it as a GIF. Add the music and any effects in Flash, and you have an animation without color restrictions - plus, in Flash or Animation Shop, you can add texts, fades, etc. RC

Thanks for the tip RC!

You're very welcome.

I'm sure that it's not exactly bandwidth-friendly (high quality rarely is), but I figure that once I get a domain and pay-host site to showcase my work adequately, I'll be chocking enough money into bandwidth that it won't matter. :)

RC PS: Not a die-hard fan of LIS, but you do some great stuff. :)

Message edited on: 10/25/2004 06:10

Not a lot of people are, most either Love LIS or hate it because of the campiness. Few seem to remember that the first season was serious Sci-Fi and Doctor Smith was an evil bastard and not a buffoon!

I can find no way to export a small and simple Poser animation so that Flash can read it. I tried one .jpg at a time and it works! . Numerous advisors tell me to switch away from Poser. I like Poser --- don't prefer to switch. i tried exporting .dxf files for importing into Strata cx. The dxf files are so big as to choke Strata to overnite one by one acquisitions. There must be a way