Acadia opened this issue on Aug 30, 2006 · 54 posts
Latexluv posted Fri, 22 February 2008 at 5:18 PM
Back in the day, with Poser 3 and Poser 4 (Poser 4 being the new program on the block then), a whole slew of people made morphs for the Poser figures (Traveler being one of the best), someone kindly taught me how to spawn a morph as bagginsbill described. I loved it immediately and used it all the time. It made one neat dial and you could use Morph Manager then to strip out the individual morphs I'd loaded in and keep just my one neat dial. There was also the method of saving the face pose and just clicking on that. If I remember though, that would change the face on the figure to your set up but didn't give you a dial on the figure. Then, as bagginsbill described, people figured out how to hack the pose file and the MAT pose was born. At that time, there weren't nice little utilities that would create these for you. You had to go into a text editor and hack it yourself in order to save out the material information. I had to do this with my first texture packages that I put up in the brand new Renderosity store for a few of Xurge's armor props. He was the one who taught me how to hack the pose file to make a MAT file. Fast forward in time, and here comes Victorial 3 with her Injection system. I use it because I have to, but I have never liked it and I didn't like seeing it come back into play on the new V4.2 and Aiko 4. Now I have to use Injection Pose Builder to create character morph poses. It at least does most of the work, but sometimes there is still some hand editing that's needed. Even though the Spawn Morph technique still works, I think I read that it's a no-no for commercial character packages and I'm not even sure how to use it for such a purpose. Heh, back in the day, people used to give away their morph set ups in cr2 files. Can't do that anymore. Someone probably does and might chime in here.
For those new to the Morph Injection system though, it's quite daunting and hard to explain. I'm sorry Arcadia, I feel for yah. I remember opening up V3 for the first time and having to try to figure out how the whole system worked.
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