Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Question to a TOP Poser & any high-end 3D package user

javierdl opened this issue on Feb 25, 2006 ยท 22 posts


maxxxmodelz posted Sat, 25 February 2006 at 8:06 PM

"Maxx..'Final Render' MTD displacement seems to be the fastest of all of them.(& I've heard Vray is even faster)" Hmmm. I haven't really tested the microtriangle displacement in FR, but I know Vray's is very fast (until you mix it with GI) hehe. MentalRay's seems several degrees slower to me, but more accurate than Poser's. I know there's a trick to getting 16 bit floating point displacement in Poser, so that could help it's accuracy, but it seems like a pain to do. javierdl, I've tried GestureMax and Bodystudio in the past, and quickly decided to learn to rig figures from scratch instead. I mean, both work as advertised, but they both have weaknesses I didn't like. For one thing, Bodystudio simply hosts the PZ3. That's fine if you want to animate everything in Poser, but you can't adjust the animation in Max once it's in there. It also screws with textures and stuff if you try to save a max file with the plugin still active. Gesturemax is promising in that it translates the Poser rig to a Max rig or CS Biped rig. It also imports all morphs, textures, etc., for you. Problems with this occur when dealing with envelopes, which Gesturemax likes to screw up if you are using CS, and adjustments are almost always needed anyway. Bodystudio also tends to make Max unstable in some situations, and crashes happen more often than I had liked. It also slows down the viewports even more than usual, and as you might know, Max is already notorious for that problem.


Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.