Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Upgrading Question

Tomsde opened this issue on Aug 16, 2015 ยท 12 posts


LaurieA posted Sun, 16 August 2015 at 9:41 PM

Hey there, wondered where you disappeared to.

In short, no. If you intend on using Genesis1/2 in Poser then you have to use the D-SON plug-in. I think some have said that it has improved since its initial release but that seems to be a case-by-case opinion.

There are others who have taken on the challenge of digging deeper into things and created their own versions of Genesis1/2 that are saved into Poser's library, but it's not a simple process and has to be done with every item you use, as far as I understand it. And most of the functionality is gone that way, so it's a situation where you're saving each character as its own figure, something to that effect. And iirc, it does require the use of DS initially, to get the genesis figure out of DS properly.

And, no, on the male figures.

Cross-posted with hornet.

Dawn does have a male counterpart named Dusk, but none of the fun bits.

There is also Rex and Roxie that came with Poser 10, but very little content available for Roxie, and virtually nothing for Rex.

You can get Genesis 1 and 2 into Poser to use natively but like Shane said it does take some work, but it isn't difficult. Some functionality maybe gone, such as geografting, but the lion's share of the features remain. The downside is that you need to have DS installed at least to export the CR2's out of for using in Poser. If you hate DS then you probably don't want to have it installed nor take the time. However, if you have purchased a lot of Genesis content then it may be worth your while to at least try making CR2s for your figures so that you can use them in Poser. I guess you'll have to weigh it ;). FWIW, Genesis 2 looks just about as good in Poser as it does in DS as a native CR2 after the work is done. I use DSON and native CR2s. Conversely, you CAN get Genesis 3 (the newest one) into Poser as a CR2, but I'm afraid for that figure it DOES take a lot of difficult work and you still lose all the facial expressions. Not really worth it for version 3.

The most detailed tutorial to get Genesis 1 and 2 out of DS as a CR2 is at RuntimeDNA. Do a Google search for "exporting Genesis 2 as a CR2 for Poser" and chose the RDNA link with the tute posted by moriador.

Laurie