AmbientShade posted at 1:54PM Sun, 19 November 2017 - #4318263

How were people making morphs for all the years when there was only Poser? When zbrush didn't exist or wasn't a standard?

The same way they would do now, use the original obj to morph from the geometries folder. Also keep in mind DS can export an obj (such as the head part only from V4) and import a modified version back in, so some used that for development. But a lot of products used just the provided morphs from Morphs++ to create their products. And that is still the same workflow you would do now, unless you own a copy of zbrush to pass the obj to.

Never said you have to have zbrush. You can use blender or magnets and the morph brush if that's what you want. And there's scripts that import morphs for you if you can't get them to import correctly on your own.

Yes you can but if you're using blender, you're still going to the geometries folder for the obj. And magnets can be converted to morphs and saved in a pmd.. but not as the obj file.

Pretending Poser is impossible for people to make content for doesn't make it true.

I never said it was impossible. What i said it's harder than it needs to be; simple functionality like the obj export and groups should be fixed so you're doing more work with the tools within Poser. Poser added the ability to create the injection files for morphs, but it puts it in a PMD file that you can't edit without a 3rd party tool. That doesn't make the workflow easier, it makes it harder as you're jumping from program to make a product, or you're hand coding things that should be automated. I've said before that SM really needs to talk to actual vendors that make the products they want to target, but that hasn't happened yet.. and it's certainly what I've heard from some of the vendors formerly from RDNA that sat down with DS and realized that they don't have to do as many steps as they've done before. That's not how you keep your vendors if find they can do things easier with another program than with the one they love.