Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Prop with morphs to reference an obj?

RetroDevil opened this issue on Oct 19, 2011 · 46 posts


lesbentley posted Thu, 20 October 2011 at 8:27 PM

bagginsbill,

Quote - However, we lack a spec for OBJ.

Perhaps we do lack an official specification, but there are certainly plenty of unofficial ones, and it seems to be generally accepted in those that "#" should be used to start comment lines in obj files. Lines that do not comprise part of the geometry or actions to be performed on it, and do not start with "#" are by common consensus, outside of the specification, and do not belong in a compliment obj file. Granted, it is the Poser parser that really matters here, not the spec, but who knows how it works? Not me.  

Quote - "Anything that does not begin with v, t, f, etc. is a comment."

Perhaps that is so, but the "etc" comprises quite a long list, including at least a couple of words used in common language.

Quote - ... then it would be technically accurate to say that any file that contains geometry in OBJ style is an OBJ file, even if it contains a million lines of other stuff.

You make a good point... but. If I take a Microsoft Word document (.doc) version of War and Peace, paste the geometry from an obj file into it, and rename it with an obj file extension, then try to import it into Poser, Poser may well be able to load the geometry, but I think it is stretching the point a very long way to say that you can convert Word documents into obj files by changing their file extension to obj.

I guess just about any file type can be made "to become an obj" by that logic, but personally I still think that War and Peace, even with a bit of geometry code added, and the file extension changed, is still a novel, not a Wavefront object file, and that an "obj" file with all the contents of a pp2 inside it is just a pp2 with the wrong file extension, not a Wavefront object file.