Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Swapping and managing Morphs for Mil2 and Mil4 figures on a Mac

shante opened this issue on Sep 10, 2014 · 18 posts


Jaager posted Wed, 10 September 2014 at 7:08 PM

Yes, I made morphs for V1/V2, so you are welcome.

PMD  are external binary morphs.  They work quite well in PP2014.

The morphs will live in a PMD file that PMDedit or Poser itself generates.

( * = the new name that you choose. )

If you enable " use external binary morphs" in PP2014 preferences.   when you open a V2 cr2 with the morphs that you want and save it back to the library, Poser will generate a *.pmd (with the new *.cr2)  which will contain the morphs and the *.cr2 will have a line of code at the beginning (and again later) to call up the morphs when you reopen it.  Do that for each CR2 that has different morphs in it - each saved with a different new name,  of course.   You will now have several PMD files.

You can use PMDedit to copy all of these morphs into one pmd file if you wish.  If the name is *.pmd, they will all appear when you open *.cr2.

This is not as versitile as using an INJ pose but it is a less involved use of the PMDedit utility.  PMDedit does not need or use Poser.

Start PMDedit.

Open *.pmd

Click "Add PMD"  and find one of the other new PMD.

Highlight the morphs you want to add and click OK

Do this for each new PMD.  If you get morphs that you do not want, highlight and delete.

Save

A PMD file is just the deltas of the morph.

If you wish to keep the JCM function with MillieJCM, you will need to use that cr2 as the base - the *.cr2.  The JCM script can be in an INJ pose, but you must edit that in by hand. The INJ poses that PMDedit makes only contain very basic information - one level of grouping (no tree), the top level dial names, and a code line that makes a FBM dial in BODY.  It is only a good starting point if you want more involved pose files.

You can use D3D Poser File Editor to make very sophisticated INJ poses, but it helps if you understand the nuts and bolts in the guts of Poser Library files.