amy_aimei opened this issue on Feb 06, 2012 · 13 posts
Cage posted Sat, 18 February 2012 at 12:09 PM
Quote - Based on the feedbacks. I think I better stop working on it and spend my time on other meaningful stuff. In addition, I'm not a Poser user. If DAZ Studio and Poser go down different paths, I'll not be able to make something that can be shared by both.
I think working to bring DAZ users a weight-mapped Antonia is a worthwhile effort. D|S may be moving toward the Genesis model of having one mesh that does everything, but it's good for everyone (even Poser users, I believe) to have user- and community-driven figures like Antonia made available for the D|S user base. I hope you don't let anyone's comments drive you away from a process which can help bring Antonia to more users, help bring more open content to D|S, and help everyone learn some new things about how DAZ and Poser can still work together.
Quote - I expect we may have to wait a while for DAZ to make some sort of Cloner for DS that extracts or translates the Weighting, Joint centres, UVs, Morphs etc. and discards the unneeded mesh and rig. (If thats even technically possible!)
The basics are quite possible, for something like this. Where it seems to get complicated is when trying to accurately transfer morphs between complicated actor meshes like heads, where certain areas of the mesh need to correspond to one another, but there's no easy way to algorithmically define which parts of the respective face meshes should be correlated. The other really hard part is determining where to define the edges of UV islands, when transferring UV-mapping between dissimilar meshes. In these two areas, some sort of careful and complicated user involvement seems to be required to enable the transfer. If DAZ can solve these problems for D|S, they'll really have accomplished something which will impress me. :laugh:
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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.