DCArt opened this issue on Jan 07, 2010 · 121 posts
gagnonrich posted Wed, 13 January 2010 at 10:30 AM
Some more beginner to intermediate tutorials that would be useful:
Adding props to a figure's hand that aren't smartpropped. I tend to build an image by first posing figures and then adding clothing and props. I learned the hard way that it's a lot easier to save the file I'm working on, start a new one, load the default figure, put the prop in the figure's hand, and save it as a smart prop. Then the saved file can be reopened and loading the smartprop will put it in the posed figure's hand. It otherwise takes hours to try to move a prop into a posed figure's hand because of the awkwardness of moving a 3D object in a 2D interface.
Similarly, tutorials on adding hair to characters they weren't designed for; and parenting two hands together (such as for a sword or baseball bat).
Importing 3ds, dxf, lightwave, and obj and dealing with import issues and gimbal lock.
My visual indexes of Poser
content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon