If I want to render the same dress in different poses, is there a way I can save the settings I use on the dress so I don't need to edit them every time I load in VWD?

@Ashfire45 : you can use the "Recorded Import" in the "Scene Import" tab. This combo box contains all the Recorded importations for all the scenes you have simulated. By selecting an item in this combo box, you will start the importation of the scene. The collision objects and the dynamic objects are imported with their parameters. This solution needs you want to make the new simulation by using the same character. I am writing a new version where a RIP file (Recorded import file) could be used to set the parameters in all the parts of the interface. This will allow to use a previous simulation to set the parameters or to create generic RIP files to obtain reproductible behaviours.

VirtualWorldDynamics posted at 10:25PM Wed, 17 August 2016 - #4280091

@Ashfire45 : you can use the "Recorded Import" in the "Scene Import" tab. This combo box contains all the Recorded importations for all the scenes you have simulated. By selecting an item in this combo box, you will start the importation of the scene. The collision objects and the dynamic objects are imported with their parameters. This solution needs you want to make the new simulation by using the same character. I am writing a new version where a RIP file (Recorded import file) could be used to set the parameters in all the parts of the interface. This will allow to use a previous simulation to set the parameters or to create generic RIP files to obtain reproductible behaviours.

Woohoo.

can VWD cloth simulation be save and exported to alembic file to be read in Lightwave 2015?

Currently, VWD generates .DYN files. These files are those used by the current cloth simulator in Poser. Many "Cache files" use the same informations. I work in 3D Studio Max which uses the PC2 files. The difference between a DYN file and a PC2 file is only 30 bytes even if the cache file is very large. I suppose Lightwave uses a Cache file system. Could you tell me the extension of these files. It would possible to write a small utility that would convert files between them. It would be also possible to use a scale transformation to adapt to the host software.

Lightwave2015 support Alembic(.abc), and MDD

Poser used to have a third party plug in for MDD back in poser 7 and it would still work in Poser 8, and stop at poser 9 I have been waiting for a way to get poser models with animation, morph, and bullet simulation into Lightwave, and finally with success to Alembic file from poser. I ask if anyone could send me a VWD output simulated example to alembic to see if lightwave can read it.

.abc files are used in Poser since the version 11. My choice has been to use VWD in all the Poser versions, so I've chosen .dyn. Have you the file format for Alembic files (.abc). If you have this file format, I can write a converter into VWD.

Alembic file format is a kind of black box. You are supposed to use an API to read/write in .abc files. As far as I know, there are a C++ and a python APi (although you have to compile the python API as there is no recent binary distribution available). Never saw anything about Delphi. I think Python is your best chance.

Hello Philippe, I will make some tests with very simple simulations in Poser. I used this method to find the .DYN format. Perhaps, this will allow me to find a conversion method.