I wonder if SM could supply WM version of their old characters in a future update.

Posette has almost as many polys as Genesis...

Weight-mapped G2 Sydney is in progress at Poser Place,  but it would be nice indeed to have a bigger stable of weight-mapped figures.

Here is a script that will change existing rigging to its weight mapped equivalent. You can fine tune from there as required.

http://www.philc.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3676

Wow, thanks Phil I'll try that out now.

Well, I tried the script. I got quite a few 'unable to process' errors. Examples below:

Unable to process Hip zOffset Unable to process Hip yOffset Unable to process Hip xOffset Unable to process Hip Scale Unable to process Hip xScale Unable to process Hip yScale Unable to process Hip zScale Unable to process Hip Twist Unable to process Hip Side-Side Unable to process Hip Bend Unable to process Hip xTranB Unable to process Hip yTranB Unable to process Hip zTranB Unable to process Hip xTran Unable to process Hip yTran Unable to process Hip zTran Unable to process Abdomen heroAb

Posette came with Poser4.

And as far as Poly distribution goes, it is one of the best figures that ever existed in Poser.

All newer figures that came with Poser had way more poly's. BUT !
AS A RESULT OF BLINDFOLD SUBDEVISION OF LOWER POLY FIGURES WITHOUT CLEANING UP AFTERWARDS.

Posette, Judy and Genesis, are the only figures that USE all their poly's.

That is correct.

Rather than try and second guess exactly which parameters would convert I encased the process in a "try/except" clause. That way when the script comes up against something that Poser can not process it just moves on to the next item rather than crashing.

The printout is just informing the user of what is going on.

Do you have the PP2012 SR1 installed?

Thanks Phil, guess I should have read the script!

Thank you PhilC

Thanks for the script Phil. ^^

Thanks much, Phil. This will make life alot easier :)

Thanks for the script I will use that on Nea which is based on Posette :thumbupboth:

How about the Dork?  Does he have as many polys as Posette?  I have a really good character for him by Arduino called Claudio.  I really think these gems are very overlooked because they came with such poor, low res maps.

@ Tomsde - There's a site (if it's still going) which had some first class maps for Posette, by Staale Loseth, IIRC.  Well, they were first class for the time, anyhow.  Can't remember the name of the site, unfortunately.

Of course when I say Dork, I mean the P4 male figure.  I don't think he had as many things availalble for him as Posette did.

There seems to be quite a bit of stuff here:

http://www.posetteforever.com/search-morphs-vt3651.html

you all may have already seen this...

I'll have to check it out.

Yeah, if they'll let you register.  I got banned from there because I was a moderator here when Tormentor had a meltdown.  Guy has a loooong memory and bears grudges.  It's a shame because it's not a bad site at all and has some cool stuff.

Not that I'd know for sure, since I'd never dream of registering at a site by using false credentials. ;)

I haven't been to Posette Forever in ages; it's a nice site.  I shoold play with Posette more-I see her at the Lowes checkout every week.  :biggrin:

Many new original morphs (266 face  & 81 body morphs) and many new features

Nea has been updated to 2.12 you can get her here:

Nea 2.12 big update

Cool render, is this PP 2012?

She's very pretty.  On other forums people look down upon older figures, but many have their own merits and are very usuable and create believeable human likenesses.  I wish someone would develop some other stuff for the Dork (P4 man) or even Don (P5 man).  I think Don had a lot of potential, but he was generally ignored and under utilitized.  To me he has a better, more natural look than James.

Yes PP 2012. Default lights. Not much effort yet. Just getting everything installed and setup. Next to try an IDL set up.

I love Posette too (although using V4 now). What makes the difference between figures is the amount of available textures, character set, facial expressions and of course cloths.

3Dream put a skin merchant resource over in FreeStuff last week...

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/details.php?item_id=67839

And there are some other recent ones (maybe the same btw) on sharecg.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2317206&section_id=&genre_id=&np

Try BB's VSS Skin Shaders on her, then she will really pop.

I just bet a WM Posette/Nea with VSS would be a Poser lady for all seasons.  Maybe, just maybe, David's claim about her bending abilities (the dirty auld bugger) would finally become a reality. ;)

Sorry to be stupid! But how do you use Philc's script? There doesn't seem to be any way to download it! Cheers

Goodness! Who knew? Impressive stuff.

Quote - Sorry to be stupid! But how do you use Philc's script? There doesn't seem to be any way to download it! Cheers

Copy the code in his post, paste it into Notepad and save it as weightmap.py

VonCroy very cool Nea render, also love the clothes, are those made for posette?

Thanks pitklad and for the impressive Nea package. The clothes are by Deerpath made for G2 Sydney. I converted using WW and they came out very well indeed. 

i did a lot of work with posette back in the day, i enjoyed working with the mesh and have in my archives somewhere a ton of morphs i made that i never released... i even made a whoopi goldbreg morph for her at one time...lol...pitklad's Nia is a beautiful character, well made and nice to work with...thanks for sharing this great work

:O)

Sooo many people move on to the new and shiney without ever realizing the full potential of the older figures. It's sad if you ask me. Don & Judy from Poser 5, was well as their kids can use Michael & Victoria 2 skin textures. Don uses Michael 2 and Judy & the kids use Vicky 2 skins.

Steve Jax, I've tried M2 textures on Don, and there is a problem around the eyes.  Is there a way to correct for that?

I have no idea. I've never used them for closeups and never really noticed.

This needs to be fixed on a UV program, but than Don will not work on Face room any more

I've tryed in the past to remmap Don's eyes to match exactly Mike's texture but than face room gave me a wrong message...

Attached Link: PosetteV3wG (PosetteV3 with Genitals) - Nudity!!!

dph

Quote - Posette came with Poser4.

And as far as Poly distribution goes, it is one of the best figures that ever existed in Poser.

All newer figures that came with Poser had way more poly's. BUT !
AS A RESULT OF BLINDFOLD SUBDEVISION OF LOWER POLY FIGURES WITHOUT CLEANING UP AFTERWARDS.

Posette, Judy and Genesis, are the only figures that USE all their poly's.

?? figures don't use all their polys? 
how do you set up a test for this?

thanks,
really piqued curiosity

Posette is my default toon, as she is so easy to body paint - about 95% of my females are simple dial alterations of her base, so this thread is giving me more ideas. :)