Hiya, I want to export my Poser 6 models to Quicktime VR (QTVR) movies because I want viewers to be able to interactively view and look around my static scenes. Can anyone recommend PC software that will enable me to import a fully textured model, exported in one of the Poser formats? I know that Poser already has viewpoint Experience Technology, but unless I'm missing something, it sucks! The textures are mapped wrong, there are cracks in the seams, clothes and hair don't fit right, and transparency doesn't translate properly. The image-based approach of QTVR seems preferable unless anyone has a better solution that is both universal on the web, cross-platform, and easy to generate. There appear to be plenty of programs for creating QTVR panoramas, and even objects from photos, but none that work from models. Failing that, and only as an ABSOLUTE last resort, how can I move the camera around my object at an even distance, in precise degree increments in all three axes? Is there a way to automate the process of moving and rendering? I'd need to move the camera 360 degrees in at least 22.5 degree increments in the horizontal plane, and through 180 degrees in the vertical plane, which by reckoning means 128 render positions.

I've never rendered a QTVR image but I do have some experience with panoramas. Back in my Truespace 3 days I used the demo "smooth move" panorama plugin that came with the Trueclips disc to make a pretty cool panorama of some aliens in a UFO.

a Panorama Uses Fisheye lense style images so I imagine you need a really low focal length in your individual render. I'd just do a google search on QTVR and see what the actual requirements are. FYI Truespace 4 can natively produce QTVRs and it is very cheap software these days... though you would need to get the LUUV plugin to import still OBJ files from poser

Message edited on: 06/06/2005 23:45

Thats a really good question! In the marketplace... http://market.renderosity.com/softgood.ez?ViewSoftgood=24309 The page has a sample avi which has the camera rotating around the figure, which while not exactly what your looking for might give you an idea of hows it's done.

If you have Bryce you can import your Poser models into it and render a QTVR directly out of it.

Hiya, Bryce can only render panoramas - but thanks anyway.

Sorry, It's been quite a while since I used Bryce for that. There must have been some intermediate program that I used to convert the Panoramas into QTVRs.

Another option is to wait until the next time 3DWorld or one of the other CG magazines has the Cinema 4D 6 CE on the cover disc. It can render out both QTVR scenes and objects.