odf opened this issue on Dec 16, 2021 ยท 223 posts
adp001 posted Sat, 01 January 2022 at 9:19 AM
Are you sure you want groups for full body morphs? I for sure don't.The reason: Sculpting with a brush is impossible if the model is not welded.
A full body morph is nothing else than what my script does in the end.There is a "master dial" in the body that triggers all morphs in the individual parts (that's basically the whole description for "FBM"). If you first save a figure in the default pose with my script, then use that in Blender to sculpt and let the script load the result, you get a typical FBM.
In the parts where nothing was changed, no morph is created at all. This works reliably.
About the speed of Python: My script doesn't do any great mathematical stunts, but saves and loads OBJ files via Python (without Poser) and does a few things with the morph data. Also without Posers help beside the Python API. After the first time (the image files are copied to the project directory if desired so that the model doesn't look so naked in Blender :) ) saving and loading is very fast on my machines. On my oldest laptop with an old I5 Dual-Core, 8 Gig memory and SSD it is still reasonably fast. In Poser clicking the scripts "save" button, then switch to Blender and load OBJ goes quickly without a coffee break. And vice versa.
In Python, even more sophisticated things can be surprisingly fast in my opinion: I made a script some month ago to rotate and move morphs in Poser. In "real time". A cube is loaded, which can be moved with the mouse. The morph follows the movements reliably. I used Numpy for this. The script spends most of its time doing callbacks when you move a dial or the cube.
My "trick" when loading OBJ files: react only on "v" lines and abort as soon as something else comes. Because for morphs you only need the vertices, nothing else. Sure: It can happen that someone creates an OBJ file with a modeler that doesn't output the data sequentially. But this is quite rare (nowadays). To slow down the majority of users because of that I think is nonsensical. I'm happy to send users who are affected a version that works for them - which is then unfortunately correspondingly slower.