Staby opened this issue on Oct 10, 2001 ยท 5 posts
mglant posted Thu, 11 October 2001 at 9:24 AM
Again I am early in this process, but reading the tutorial from Poser 4 ProPack f/x & design, it seems clear that you should set up your figure in Poser, create its animation then you import into LW (works in 5.6 yo 6.5, may not be functional in 7). Then you "host" this poser figure + its animation in LW. You do have access to the textures of the Poser figure via the LW Surface editor. So it seems that all of the morphs and joint set up enter LW but I am not sure how much you can additionally manipulate them. However, I have been asking about the best way to do this in a variety of discussion groups (looking at Messiah, Animation Master, LifeForms 3.9, LW7 updates, etc) and one artist told me he had experience with many of these packages and he was using LifeForms to broaden his animation abilities and Poser for characters and with LW new animation enhancements it was not worth it to get Messiah and Animation Master did not integrate well at all. So I am planning to us these 3 products (I bought Credo's MeGA Mocap CDs on sale so with Lifeforms there are about 1000 motion files...at their site you can review and purchase/download individual file sets for about 50 cents per file but you have to get a small set as I remember maybe 5-10 files). I have seen that there is one issue with LifeForms and Poser motion files...most do not animate the hands. So be aware that separate work will be needed in such detailed movements. Hope this helps. I am "feeling my way throught this" as well. An aside...I am using instrumental music for most of my work that comes from my sons work at mp3 (www.mp3.com/patrickglant) which is a spectrum of film music, hiphop, r&b...somewhat cross genre material that appeals to a broad spectrum of listeners. We rotate the ability to download songs and are looking to license work. Check it out if you like...I have storyboarded "Sleeping Under Stars", "If Looks Could Save" and have concepts for "Anticipating Love" and "Ambient Anxiety". Good Luck