Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Where can I buy Poser or BVH Animations?

Omadar opened this issue on Jul 14, 2006 · 18 posts


Tguyus posted Thu, 20 July 2006 at 6:46 PM

Quote - They send a download link and password to you.  Paypal always asks for verification.  Good luck! ...

I just bought the Ultimate Dance collection yesterday.  I don't use Paypal but ES3D store does let you use a credit card, though it is submitted through Paypal (but no difference to purchaser than regular credit card transaction as far as I could see).  Anyway, they sent the download link right away so I was pleased with how well the purchase process went.

And I really like the collection.  Only gripe is that there is no readme which lists the dance numbers and matches them with the dance description, at least that I could find.  Had to go to the ES3D website and capture the list and dance descriptors off the product page.  But then that didn't work that well since the web page text would not cut and paste and I had to just capture the entire web page as an htm file.

And then I was chagrined to find that the numbered dances 1 through 62 on the product page didn't correspond to the numbering of the dances in the two separate pose library directories you get.  In fact, they start renumbering the second batch again from 1, so Dance 62 on the web page is actually the PZ2 named Dance Motion 21 in the second pose library.  Very confusing.

Plus, if you wanted to combine the two subdirectories you would overwrite 21 of them unless you change the file names before combining (i.e., both directories have different dance motion files which share the filenames Dance Motion 1.pz2 through Dance Motion 21.pz2).  I plan to go through and renumber all the files  (thank goodness for Explorer XP and its bulk renaming) and then find some way to generate an index page without having to view the entire catalogue page as an htm file. 

But I like the set well enough to go through all that.  I've already started modifying the PZ2s so they work better with my characters, including less extreme movements for some body parts, adjusting height off floor, setting foot bend for high heels, etc.  Thank goodness for Ockham's Emphasparsifizer python script!