Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: DAZ is going Poser ;)

Jules53757 opened this issue on Jan 13, 2006 ยท 37 posts


Eternl_Knight posted Sat, 14 January 2006 at 5:57 PM

Well, while there are several things about DAZ Studio that prevent me from recommending it (primarily the speed of body part selection at this point), the Inverse Kinematic solution they have implemented is quite good. "Pin & Pose" solutions are quite good for quickly setting up the basic pose before tweaking via manual rotations. However, it is not really something that EFrontier couldn't do if they decided to set their mind to it. The folks that implemented it in Animanium (a still-born Poser-like application from Sony) published a research paper on how they did it. While not understandable for everyone (there is some in depth matrix math involved) anyone that has implemented a Jacobian Inverse Kinematics solution (one of the most common IK solutions) would be able to understand enough to implement the equivalent. Like the Material Room with DAZ though, I just don't think that the "Pin&Pose IK" is a high priority for EF at the moment. --EK