EZSkin v2 is nearing completion.

It requires Poser Pro 2012 or Poser 9 with Service release 2.1 installed to run

Release Candidate 3 of the script (without any documentation yet) is available for download at:

ESKin v2 download

A user guide is currently being prepared with the help of basicwiz.
I'm hoping to release the final, documented version in about two week's time.

If you do decide to try the undocumented script, please post any problems found to this thread. If you make any cool renders using EZSkin we'd love to see them, and might ask permission to use them in the user guide :-)

Thank you,
Snarly

Great news! Thank you so much for your efford and contribution! It is a must have tool!

Thanks!

Thanks. Been looking forward to this.

Looks like displacement has gone a bit mental!

Ha ha! That's pretty screwed up :-)

I'm away from home and Poser for a bit, but I'll see how I messed up with that when I get home! Is the normal soapy option broken too?

Quote - Well here's an interesting effect: slightly soapy skin on V4.

Looks like displacement has gone a bit mental!

Picasso might have appreciated that .

Looks like you have Poser Display Unit (PDU) = PNU, and the displacement amount was supposed to be in inches.

Switch your PDU to inch and try again.

Snarly, all the other effects seem to work OK; BB, my units are metres - I'll see if switching to inches sorts it.

EDIT: Nope, units to inches produces the same result.

Marvellous news! Thank you very much, Snarly

Did I do something wrong when I placed it in my Python folder???? It says that V4 is an unsupported figure.

Quote - Did I do something wrong when I placed it in my Python folder???? It says that V4 is an unsupported figure.

Did you use the import to get the figure from the cfg file?

Ummm, import????

Yes, check the "EZSkin beta testing notes.pdf".

Hello,

sometimes when EZSKin says "unsupported figure" it's due to saving a morph-loaded character back to the library and reloading it. In this case the geometry file name would change. You can see that with the info script. Try loading a fresh V4 character.

Thanks Snarly, for the great work!   I will try the 2.0 version today.

Best regards,

   Michael

Figure definitions need to be imported.

I forgot about that, too, and thought the problem was due to my renaming Victoria 4 to my character's name in the Properties tab. But once I imported the defs, all was well.

Here's a replacement effects file. Remove the '.txt' bit at the end, of course.

Snarlygribbly,

Should everyone replace the soapy file?

Quote - Snarlygribbly,

Should everyone replace the soapy file?

Yes. I'll also include it in the next (RC4) update.

Here's an updated 'Wet Skin' effects file (remove the '.txt' bit as usual). I think it looks a little better and has reflection too.

Transparency and refraction aren't going ot do any good - what is there to see through the 'water'? There's no skin beneath the water because the drops are just the skin with some bump applied...

I'll do a couple more effects over the next few days.

Release Candidate 4 will be posted soon. I'm letting the beta testers play with it for a day or so first, then I'll let everyone have a go. Hopefully that will also be the final version!

Cheers.

Looks pretty-pretty man.... Nice work you did.

Snarlygribbly I bought a new character from the marketplace here EchuDr by Dinoural,
when I load him and use EZSkin (The new version 2) and I apply a pose to him,
his eyes disappear! I thought maybe it was a problem with the figure, but if I
load him and don't use the EZSkin script he poses fine and no eyes disappearing.
His eyes are there in the zero pose after using the script, but any pose and
poof their gone. Thanks for any ideas on what may be causing the problem.

Ha ha! He's a cute little guy, isn't he?

His eyes work fine in EZSkin v2 for me (see attached pic)

Here's the figure definition file I used.

Save the file and remove the '.txt' bit at the end, i.e. the file name should be 'echu.cfg'.

Then import the figure definition in EZSkin

Ok that worked for me, I don't know what I did wrong. Thank you for your help and a great script!

Cool :-)

I just replaced the previously posted release candidate with the final version, by the way (same link as posted above). It has a few bug fixes in that were identified during the public beta.

Just need a user guide now.

Snarlygribbly, I just installed the new download and when I try and run the script it says it doesn't work with my version of poser. I am usin P9 with all the latest updates, and the other version worked fine for me.

Quote - Snarlygribbly, I just installed the new download and when I try and run the script it says it doesn't work with my version of poser. I am usin P9 with all the latest updates, and the other version worked fine for me.

What is the build number of your version of Poser?

EZSkin v2 is looking for build 21462 or later, i.e. SR2.1

You're too quick on final. I only just started testing.

On Eyes Tab, in Reflect amt.

*) I cannot type 100 - I have to type 99 then spin up one more step.

*) Backspace key, instead of removing a digit, passes through to Poser and attempts to delete my figure.

Actually seems like backspace does not work in any of your numeric inputs.

Nor delete.

9.02.21214  is the version numer on the screen when I start poser, and unless I missed an update, I am sure I installed sr2

Quote - You're too quick on final. I only just started testing.

On Eyes Tab, in Reflect amt.

*) I cannot type 100 - I have to type 99 then spin up one more step.

*) Backspace key, instead of removing a digit, passes through to Poser and attempts to delete my figure.

Actually seems like backspace does not work in any of your numeric inputs.

Nor delete.

This is weird.

Not only has no-one noticed that in all the testing (!), but that behaviour also appears to be the case in the oldest version of EZSkin that I've kept (v1.0.00 beta)!

At first I wondered if something had changed in a recent build of Poser, but no - in build 16510 with EZskin v1.0.0 the same thing happens.

I'll investigate ...

Quote - 9.02.21214  is the version numer on the screen when I start poser, and unless I missed an update, I am sure I installed sr2

You missed an update.

That build is SR2

EZSkin now requires SR2.1

It's confusing because the SR2.1 is still called SR2 on SM's website. Just download it and install SR2 again and you'll be good to go.

Snarlygribbly, I just checked and the update I installed to my poser 9 was sr2, I just checked Smith Micro and somehow I missed there is an sr2.1, so I am downloading that now and will see if that fixes my problem of not being able to use the EZSkin script. Thanks for your patience ;o)

Again...one more plea to SM to include the date on their service releases like EVERYONE ELSE in the world....lol.

Thank you Snarly. You are indeed a snarly among gribblys ;)

That's a compliment. I think....

Laurie

All is fine now, I have the latest update! Thanks

Quote - Again...one more plea to SM to include the date on their service releases like EVERYONE ELSE in the world....lol.

It's even weirder than that. They don't use the second number.

Release 9, SR2.1 you would think, would be

9.2.1

Nope

It is

9.0.2.XXXXX

Where XXXXX is how many official builds they have done since they began counting - years ago. They have no way to show SR2.0 versus SR2.1 because they refuse to use the second number.

I have 9.0.3.22231

Yeah, but at least a date would be nice. Would allow us to figure out whether or not we've installed that one ;).

Laurie

Quote - Actually seems like backspace does not work in any of your numeric inputs.

Nor delete.

Fixed in the attached script.

heh. I should have mentioned that earlier. I noticed that delete issue right away when I started using the previous version. Sorry.

 HAHA!

Snarly is indeed the epitome of Snarly's amongst the Gribblys! Never a better Gribbly have I encountered! :-)

Quote - Again...one more plea to SM to include the date on their service releases like EVERYONE ELSE in the world....lol.

Thank you Snarly. You are indeed a snarly among gribblys ;)

That's a compliment. I think....

Laurie

Quote - The addition of the rough surface fresnel calculation makes a huge difference. Nice job.

Uh...  gig...  gig..  giggety... 

Wow. This is awesome.

Being able to save a preset is excellent... but the new integral figure definitions are so easy to use.

I was able to set up a definition for the mildog, in a scene I'm doing, in about a minute this morning, before dashing for my bus to work.

I would never have gotten round to hand typing the XML for that figure.

I look forward to exploring the further possibilities.

I note it can do hair props now. Which is great. Is there a way of applying it to clothing props and clothing figures too?

Many thanks for all your hard work Snarly. This is fantastic!

Cheers

Quote - heh. I should have mentioned that earlier. I noticed that delete issue right away when I started using the previous version. Sorry.

LOL :-D

I was amazed when BB pointed it out. All those hundreds (thousands?) of users and all the beta testing and no-one's mentioned it until now!

My own way of working is to highlight the entire number and type in the replacement value, so I never came across the problem.

So easy to fix too! Doh!