Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Interesting observation about Poser6,Firefly, and obj Materials in re: Renderin

byAnton opened this issue on Apr 24, 2005 ยท 181 posts


Spanki posted Fri, 06 May 2005 at 3:24 AM

...(sorry if this is more than some of you want or need to know ;), but for the techies...), just to clarify the above, Poser seems to be tracking and interpreting which 'total set of groups' a poly belongs to, as opposed to which 'group SUBset' a poly belongs to (as some of the group naming used here might imply).

So... poly X could actually exist within the logical 'head' group (say on the tip of the nose), but might also be part of a 'extremeties' group, which also had polys from the fingers and toes in it (for example).

Where this is used most often, WOULD be more as a subset - ie. a Lip or Jaw group, 'contained within' the Head group, to allow you to attatch magnets to that subset grouping for morphing a smile (for example), but I don't believe it's limited to that.

[Edit...] ...obviously, all of the above is only referring to the actual .obj file and how it's formatted. As mentioned above, for Poser to interpret a 'figure' correctly, so it can bend in the right places, etc., at least some of the grouping information (naming, etc) will need to match information im the .cr2 file.

Message edited on: 05/06/2005 03:29

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