Forum: Poser Python Scripting


Subject: Moving morphs between different figures

Cage opened this issue on Dec 20, 2006 · 1232 posts


Cage posted Wed, 05 March 2008 at 11:31 PM

@JoePublic: Glad to hear someone is using this script, at least.  I use it a lot, myself, but I've found some of the secondary functions creating mysterious crashes in Poser 7.  So I'm trying to clean things up a bit.  I still haven't come up with a straightforward way to integrate neighbor geometries into a run, to help with body part edges....

I recently used your reduced resolution character trick in reverse, using TDMT.  Rather than creating a reduced Miki, I created an intensified Vicky 1.  If you're like me (and who isn't?), you've said to yourself, "Golly, Vicky 1 was a great figure - I'll bet she'd be even better with four times as many vertices!"  Cough.

But, anyway.  The process worked - and I didn't even get the "lumpy" morphs problem we've seen with going uphill.  I think that may have been avoided because of the specific mesh intensification process used by Modo, but I really don't know.  I was surprised.  Great success.  Although I had to correlate half of the body part edge matches by hand (a week of agony, that).

@Spanki: No, I haven't tested your suggested tweaks yet.  Sorry.  I was working on trying to figure out how to express a vertex's relationship to its neighbors in terms of weighted values, then got distracted by some refinements for the shrink-wrapping script.  I'm in no way trying to criticize the existing code in TDMT.  I suppose I'm just picking your brain.  Hurm.

The script is working very well, but I still keep wondering how to make it better.  I really did have some headaches, comparing two identically-shaped meshes.  That kind of got me thinking about how to improve things, if possible.  Anyway, I'll try an internal scaling factor for the script.

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.