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.