...shoot me if this is stupid, but am curious. Starting school in sept and learning Maya a bit early since ive never used it before. Curious whats in volved in importing a poser say V4 cjaracter with clothes and hair into Maya and rendering it. Will the textures import ok or would I have to setup the UV maps and do the textures. I figure there would be alot of tweaking involved but still, rather curious.

Thx

Scott

There's a Poser Pro Fusion plug-in but I'd bet Maya lights and textures stomp on Posers renderer

even if just export and inport with .obj
uvmaps and textures would be fine.

shaders are diffrent.but that's no probeam.

fussions for rigs,animations.

I know ya new and CGI is very cunfussing.
It's a real bad idea to assume anything in CGI.
cause it will never be what ya think.
&
for ever question you ask ya get 5 different answers.
and only the crazyest of us all survive CGI.
but if ya hang in there till you truely know the definition of insanity it's worth it.

find some bussy Maya forums.
youtube has a lot of info also.
google.
and read the manuel.

and don't think ya going to get all this in a day or 2.
I've been at this for over a decade still ,don't know it all.

My generic rule of thumb for transporting a Poser scene into any external renderer, is that geometry (incl animation) is handled fine, lights and cameras are very questionable, and materials go about fine for most feautures that are manageable throught the Material Room Simple Interface (most, not all).

All features that require Advanced Interface tend to get lost, these are rather FireFly specific. This includes the results of all tools that build node trees into Alt_Diffuse etc. Great, but not for export.

Also, images will imrpove when renderer-specific lighting and materials are added into the scene, and replace the Poser stuff. So working from a Poser scene gives you a headstart, but you still have to run the rest of the race yourself.

This holds for all external renderers, Octane, Realy/Lux, Vue, maya, lightwave, whatever.

have fun!

Quote - There's a Poser Pro Fusion plug-in but I'd bet Maya lights and textures stomp on Posers renderer

sadly I dont have PRO so am guessing the plugin wont work.

Well you can still export the obj as stated above. For any category Maya will out render FF

Why do you want to render with the Maya Renderer?

Scott, you don't need a plugin; a plugin just makes things convienant for you. Everything you need is already in your possesion. Export from poser as a obj file. Import to Maya/Max (scaling up) and apply materials using the same maps that Poser uses. Then apply Maya/Max lights and render.

Good to go! :)

Quote - Why do you want to render with the Maya Renderer?

...to see what I can see..

Quote - Scott, you don't need a plugin; a plugin just makes things convienant for you. Everything you need is already in your possesion. Export from poser as a obj file. Import to Maya/Max (scaling up) and apply materials using the same maps that Poser uses. Then apply Maya/Max lights and render.

Good to go! :)

cool, will try after work when I wake up.....3ams kill me :)

"Why do you want to render with the Maya Renderer?"

Well its light years faster than firefly for one thing
and it viewport unrendered preview is unmatched in the world at the moment

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