vholf opened this issue on Mar 12, 2009 · 17 posts
cmcc posted Sun, 22 March 2009 at 1:49 AM
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i hear u and i must admit i'm kind of jealous. believe me i've got a big pull in that direction myself. when i get a big bad urge to write code i'll do something with povray. u might try doing that yourself just as a curiosity. try saving a poser file. converting it to povray with poseray and then try to fix the povray code so that you get something decent by rewriting the povray code so that your picture will at first render anything and the render a decent picture . and then as an even more fun exercixe rewrite the code that you've made so that it animates. ah there i am back to animation. something more practical and perhaps even profitable might be writing a python script that writes a tif or png to a transparent plane that can then be moved around easily in your scene with more python scripting that would keep it upright and parrallel to the x axis or maybe just parrallel to the main camera. at your discretion it would or wouldn't leave shadows. this would be particularly useful in creating text with other programs (could even be 3d text with shading.) lots of free programs do this. i do this in post editing with gimp and make it look fancy and even looks like i did it within poser. it's hard though and takes lot of fancy 2d layer work, but it's probaly easier than importing 3d text made with another 3d program into poser then posing it and then texturing it and all that. would be a chore, but by just laying some transparent lettering already textured on to a transparent screen that was limited so that it had to keep facing the main camera. instant layering. and it would probably be easy to script and it could be very useful.