Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Creating Characters

TheCreatureOfLegend opened this issue on Jul 02, 2001 ยท 9 posts


twillis posted Tue, 03 July 2001 at 8:23 AM

Attached Link: http://webpages.charter.net/chawkins2/

For a good tutorial on creating characters, check out the link above. (I think I'm starting to sound like a broken record.) If you want to make a brand new character (which personally I think is the most fun), you will need another program besides Poser. Any 3D modeller that will let you save obj files will work. The Anim8or program mentioned above is freeware, available at www.anim8or.com. There are other freeware 3D packages, but Anim8or is the only one I'm familiar with. A morph is basically target geometry. For example, let's say we have a cube file we want to make a morph for. Call it cube.obj. To make the morph target, you open the cube.obj file into your modeling software, and move the vertices (no deleteting, no adding vertices -- you can only change the positions). Then you save the result to a new name, like cubemorph.obj. That becomes the "target", or what the cube will look like when the morph dial is set to 1. So you see, morphs are pretty darn specific to the model they were created for, and that's probably why the morphs you downloaded didn't work the way you wanted. You might want to visit the Charactor Creator's forum, as this is the kind of stuff we talk about all day long, weirdos that we are. --Terri (I know, I know, speak for myself)