Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Game Poser ?

RorrKonn opened this issue on Aug 01, 2014 · 112 posts


Cage posted Wed, 06 August 2014 at 12:42 PM

Quote - With regards to removing unseen polys, isn't this the same as 'shrink-wrapping', which can be done with models that are to be 3D printed? I pretty much imagine it like taking a fully clothed figure and applying a vacuum sealed wrap around it, then taking that wrap and applying all the textures to it, effectively creating an entirely new mesh with a new, all-in-one map, depicting only what is seen on the surface.

I think the term 'shrink-wrapping' is being used for more than one type of feature.  Poser's Fitting Room will 'shrink wrap' one existing mesh around another.  Poser's Morph Brush tool will assist with this as well, without the automation of the process in the Fitting Room.  Whereas generating a new 'airtight' model with no surface gaps, suitable for 3D printing, would be generating a new mesh over the surface of the original (often using voxel fields, as I understand it).  You could perhaps attempt to create such an 'airtight' model using Poser's 'shrink-wrapping' tools, but you would be hampered by the resolution and topology of whatever mesh you're shrinking onto the other.  (There's a special term for these 'airtight' models, which evades me at the moment.  :unsure:)

Poser's Fitting Room is designed to... well, 'fit' one figure to another, and it's a very useful feature.  Poser once had a plugin available which could generate the voxel field type skin (notably without transferring any surface UV mapping), but it only worked in Poser 5.  So Poser does have useful 'shrink-wrapping' of one type available, but not the sort of 'shrink-wrapping' that you've described.  :sad:

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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.