Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Poser is a fabulous creative tool.

Cage opened this issue on Jul 05, 2013 · 101 posts


Cage posted Sat, 06 July 2013 at 6:03 PM

Quote - Anyone want to make a nice tutorial on transferring weight maps from Blender to Poser, I promise not to argue. :-) It's something preventing me from making new figures for Poser.

If Blender Collada export and/or Poser Collada import can't help bring a weighted figure into Poser from Blender, I'm guessing such an effort would require someone familiar with Python scripting for Blender and the cr2 formatting of weight maps.  I have no idea how Blender Python works, since they changed everything a while back, but I'm sure a script could still gather all the weight data and export it to a properly formatted text file.  In its simplest form, the idea might just write out the weights and require the user to insert them manually into a cr2.  This would avoid the not-insignificant complications of trying to create a new and fully-functional cr2 using Blender Python.

How do Blender weights work, nowadays?  Is there still only one map for each joint?  If so, one complication would involve converting the single-mapped format to Poser's multi-map handling.  Presumably the result would need some manual improvement in Poser, to get ideal results.  :unsure:

If Collada will cooperate in both programs, that would probably simplify things a bit.  :lol:

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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.