darquevision opened this issue on Aug 25, 2012 · 63 posts
wolf359 posted Wed, 29 August 2012 at 7:23 AM
"But the rising prices of Cinema 4D is a problem. What is there for alternatives? There is not one single program but maybe two. The combination of Carrara and Blender may be a viable solution.
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As far as DIRECT support of the poser formats ouside of poser itself (PZ2, PZ3, etc etc)
the combination of C4D &Interposer Pro has NO Equal .
However I recently began Experimenting with my Old seat of Lightwave 9.6 for VFX work because C4D cant do any realistic Volumetric smoke without buying more plugin Like Dipit or Turbulence.
I realized that Lightwave 9.6 Can import poser figures with textures intact.
and can apply animation as long as it is baked to a PLA animated mesh via its native MDD plugin
There is a "poser to lightwave" kit some where online that bakes poser animation to PLA
but I am successfully doing this from C4D Via RipTide pro .
More steps involved than just rendering in Cinema
but I am going to need lightwaves production proven hypervoxel particles for some projects So I am going to need my animated poser actors moving within lightwave itself.
On the Matter of the forums CG society,
It isfunny that many of the C4D users there slam poser until I post links to my animations showing how poser can do several things that even the new C4D R14 cannot do
Examples:Combine Cloth-Ragdoll-& Rigid body Dynamic Simulation (via poser physics plugin).
or easily transfer Character animation from one figure to a completely Different one Via animated pose sets,
Whenever I do this the thread suddenly falls silent.
Cheers