Someone needs to write a script to work with and combine HD morphs in Poser... This is a combination of 4 HD morphs I made in Poser, on Lafemme.....

A while back I tried to write a script for loading HD morphs into Poser from .obj files but gave up because there were some oddities with how higher subd-level deltas are interpreted along UV seams that I couldn't make sense of. Not sure if Poser 13 has added the ability to load HD morphs not made in Poser, does anyone know? I've also had some weird issues with morphs created directly in Poser wiggling all over the place when the figure was posed. So personally, I decided to wait for full unimesh support and then check if I can make sense of the available documentation (if any) before trying anything with HD morphs again.

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Wow

Someone needs to write a script to work with and combine HD morphs in Poser... This is a combination of 4 HD morphs I made in Poser, on Lafemme.....

Beautiful one!

shvrdavid posted at 8:31 PM Wed, 19 July 2023 - #4470618

Someone needs to write a script to work with and combine HD morphs in Poser... This is a combination of 4 HD morphs I made in Poser, on Lafemme.....

@Miss B

How are you doing? Been a while since I've seen a post by you. I think there was some concern over at HW about your whereabouts.

odf posted at 2:26 AM Thu, 20 July 2023 - #4470634

A while back I tried to write a script for loading HD morphs into Poser from .obj files but gave up because there were some oddities with how higher subd-level deltas are interpreted along UV seams that I couldn't make sense of. Not sure if Poser 13 has added the ability to load HD morphs not made in Poser, does anyone know? I've also had some weird issues with morphs created directly in Poser wiggling all over the place when the figure was posed. So personally, I decided to wait for full unimesh support and then check if I can make sense of the available documentation (if any) before trying anything with HD morphs again.

HD morphs could be one of the best feature in Poser, if it was better supported. And yes, I have put multiple tickets in on this, multiple times...

I stumbled upon a series of Maddelirium's Vic4's and some of them are quite gorgeous, such as Clarisse and her Steampunk style  I know that her hair isn't 100% correctly set with the hat but that pleases me as is.

odf posted at 2:26 AM Thu, 20 July 2023 - #4470634

A while back I tried to write a script for loading HD morphs into Poser from .obj files but gave up because there were some oddities with how higher subd-level deltas are interpreted along UV seams that I couldn't make sense of. Not sure if Poser 13 has added the ability to load HD morphs not made in Poser, does anyone know? I've also had some weird issues with morphs created directly in Poser wiggling all over the place when the figure was posed. So personally, I decided to wait for full unimesh support and then check if I can make sense of the available documentation (if any) before trying anything with HD morphs again.

I make all my HD morphs directly in Poser, so I would be happy with a script that just worked with them within Poser. (Or better than that, actual support in the program itself).... Being able to combine them would be really nice. Or successfully delete them from body parts they are not supposed to be on....... As it stands now, it takes many hours to even get a decent injection out of single or multiple HD morphs. Many times you end up with a bunch of hidden morph dials all driven by another one because you cant do it in one morph within Poser. There are also bugs in the HD system that make removing parts of an HD morph more than tiresome, sometimes nearly impossible and then has to be done on a text level in the cr2..... Grrrr.... lol....

HD morphs could be one of the best feature in Poser, if it was better supported. And yes, I have put multiple tickets in on this, multiple times...

Lisa and Steffi...

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I decided to see how well some of L'homme's poses worked on La Femme. This one at least worked quite well, only needed to raise the back foot a smidge.

I decided to see how well some of L'homme's poses worked on La Femme. This one at least worked quite well, only needed to raise the back foot a smidge.

I stumbled upon a series of Maddelirium's Vic4's and some of them are quite gorgeous, such as Clarisse and her Steampunk style  I know that her hair isn't 100% correctly set with the hat but that pleases me as is.

Is that the famous Borg collective member, 7 of 1899?

Emma Peel of Bollywood???

.Stanley Beamish???

Mirrorface...

.Stanley Beamish???

"Are you going on a long voyage?  I mean a REALLY long voyage, like traveling to another galaxy? And your ship cannot possibly hold enough supplies to keep 400  crewmenbers fed for 100 years?  You don't have a personnel problem, you have a storage problem.

"Do you have a remote colony that hasn't received its annual shipment of vital supplies, and you're worried you might have to kill off half the colonists to keep the other half alive?  You don't have a logistics problem, you have a storage problem.

"Do you just plain come from an overly large family and want some space and alone time for yourself?  Well, you DO have family problem, but you ALSO have a storage problem.

"Act now, and your galaxy can join the Kelvan Empire for free as a protected client state that can, in a few thousand years, earn a full citizenship in the Empire."

Combination reference and texture photo, from the TrekCore media site:

I liked the displacement mapping better, as it gave a rougher appearance, but I couldn't figure out how to keep the surfaces from floating above the seams of the object.

And I had repeated incidents where somehow, the normals of some faces got reversed, a fact I usually discovered after saving the object and trying to bring it into Poser.  I quickly found that Hexagon has a feature/bug, where if you change the normal of a single face, all of the faces of the object lose their material definitions. (At least the actual material definitions survived, but all of the list storing the actual polygon/material assignments emptied itself.)

At least the over all UV mapping stayed intact, but even there, the UV map image saved to disk, while LOOKING like the UV map in the program,  had the actual mapped locations flipped vertically. In order for the texture map and the UV map to work together, I had to flip the texture map vertically.  And realizing that I was going to have an unknown period of further study to try and duplicate the achievements in Blender, which had already taken far too many DAYS, not hours, in Hexagon, I decided to temporarily stick to Hexagon to finish this ridiculously easy (in theory) project, instead of changing horses in midstream.

That said, I have only one more modeling project to accomplish in life, and I have to convince myself that it's worth teaching myself Blender, and how to accomplish the same things I learned to do with Hexagon in Blender's far superior environment, for just one last project.

I knew I was not particularly skilled in 3D modeling (which is why I will be using Joe Quick's supersuit developer kits for suits, gloves, and boots and then reshaping them), but this experienced with the cuboctahedron was downright humiliating. It makes me wonder if I've always been an idiot, or whether these things are a sign of slowly developing cognitive impairment.

Which is probably too much drama and TMI for everyone else here.  I'm an over-sharer; sorry about that.

Y-Phil posted at 2:43 PM Thu, 20 July 2023 - #4470672

I stumbled upon a series of Maddelirium's Vic4's and some of them are quite gorgeous, such as Clarisse and her Steampunk style  I know that her hair isn't 100% correctly set with the hat but that pleases me as is.

Is that the famous Borg collective member, 7 of 1899?

This one:

https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/104901/mdd-clarice-for-v42

Three pix for Superfly Fans...

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I liked the displacement mapping better, as it gave a rougher appearance, but I couldn't figure out how to keep the surfaces from floating above the seams of the object.

The surface might float because there is some positive displacement pushing the surface out. Since you only want negative displacement for the holes, you could use a Math node to subtract some value from your displacement map. I'm not sure how the values map to the gray scale but you should be able to come up with a decent answer with a little trial and error.

May also need some subdivision if you use superfly, but that looks like firefly to me.

The other possibility might be that the displacement map has an incorrect Gamma setting.  However, if a diffuse map is used to impart displacement, that map should be connected through a Gamma node to correct its value and then converted to a grayscale image.  How much contrast and brightness will determine displacement height when projected on the object?

Thanks!  I'll try looking into both of those possibilities. It seems to me to be very likely that the gamma is incorrect., as I didn't bother checking it. And I haven't played with subdivision at all yet.

This is a "work in Progress" in combination with the Owl Helmet. The Ork Harpy is a Unimesh single skin Poser figure using own tools to create the gigging until Poser 13 will have them Released.

Standalone Figure Rigged Posed and Rendered in Poser13 "Superfly"

ChromeStar posted at 6:38 PM Sun, 23 July 2023 - #4470955

Thalek posted at 7:21 AM Sat, 22 July 2023 - #4470816

I liked the displacement mapping better, as it gave a rougher appearance, but I couldn't figure out how to keep the surfaces from floating above the seams of the object.

The surface might float because there is some positive displacement pushing the surface out. Since you only want negative displacement for the holes, you could use a Math node to subtract some value from your displacement map. I'm not sure how the values map to the gray scale but you should be able to come up with a decent answer with a little trial and error.

May also need some subdivision if you use superfly, but that looks like firefly to me.

Added a gamma correction node, added an HSV desaturation node, and used subdivision . It was the subdivision that opened the can of worms, as the cuboctahedron looked more like a sphere even with just one level of subdivision . So I added a small chamfer to round all of the edges a little. This not only made subdivision behave better, it looked more like the original.

It also wiped out my original unfolded UV mapping, so I now have to do that over with the somewhat more complicated geometry. (Took the original 14 poly object to something like 300 polys. ) But the subdivision made the displacement map look pretty good.

Thank the deities for incremental saves, so the new modified geometry is saved,  and I only have to fuss with the remapping aspects.

This is a "work in Progress" in combination with the Owl Helmet. The Ork Harpy is a Unimesh single skin Poser figure using own tools to create the gigging until Poser 13 will have them Released.

Standalone Figure Rigged Posed and Rendered in Poser13 "Superfly"

In Cycles and Superfly, half is no displacement. (median) So if your range is 0 to 1, 0.5 is no displacement. 0 is max negative displacement, and 1 in max positive. 

shvrdavid posted at 1:55 AM Tue, 25 July 2023 - #4471045

In Cycles and Superfly, half is no displacement. (median) So if your range is 0 to 1, 0.5 is no displacement. 0 is max negative displacement, and 1 in max positive. 

Thank you for bringing an old dilettante up to date again.  Once I get the thing remapped again, I shall certainly try that.  (I spent much of today simply estivating, as my air conditioner is slowly dying, and it was, IMHO, too hot for anything requiring finicky detail, and patience.)

still working on this. Heavy texture editing in Photoshop.

Great!

I was given permission to post sneak peeks of LF2 here and there so here, have this.

It's nothing special, just me testing various things (new P13's HDRI support, LF2 Pro included morphs and skin variations, and a pose set for her that I'm working on).

Knee and feet looking lovely!!!

Rhia474 posted at 7:25 PM Tue, 25 July 2023 - #4471119

Knee and feet looking lovely!!!

And thanks! We're being very very detailed with LF2's creation. :)

Especially the feet. Thank you for working on that!

I will be looking forward to test her out once she is released.

I was given permission to post sneak peeks of LF2 here and there so here, have this.

It's nothing special, just me testing various things (new P13's HDRI support, LF2 Pro included morphs and skin variations, and a pose set for her that I'm working on).

Looks pretty good to me, but admittedly, I am not as sharp-eyed as many others, even when my glasses are up to date. I was not able to spot any problems with the previous version, either, so my endorsement is possibly less useful than some.

I have been busy giving the Morph Brush a once thru.... I should be catching up on sleep, but is that even possible?

Guess who?

I was given permission to post sneak peeks of LF2 here and there so here, have this.

It's nothing special, just me testing various things (new P13's HDRI support, LF2 Pro included morphs and skin variations, and a pose set for her that I'm working on).

Wow... I agree: she's gorgeous, and those feet and hands: fantastic, indeed.

And: you're speaking of a new Poser 13's HDRI support? something new to come soon?

And: you're speaking of a new Poser 13's HDRI support? something new to come soon?

Until I can get a new figure to play with, I'll have to satisfy myself with older ones. This is a character for a new story I've been working on

Had to re-render this one with unimesh setting because seams were showing.  Is this a shader or lighting problem since I use this texture often with other setups & haven't had problems before. 

Also tweaked in photoshop since the built-in post-effects don't work on my ancient W7 system.

Until I can get a new figure to play with, I'll have to satisfy myself with older ones. This is a character for a new story I've been working on

Miss B posted at 11:12 AM Wed, 26 July 2023 - #4471181

RedPhantom posted at 9:05 AM Wed, 26 July 2023 - #4471171

Until I can get a new figure to play with, I'll have to satisfy myself with older ones. This is a character for a new story I've been working on

Very nice Red, and I'm really liking that office scene furniture set.  :slight_smile:

Had to re-render this one with unimesh setting because seams were showing.  Is this a shader or lighting problem since I use this texture often with other setups & haven't had problems before. 

Also tweaked in photoshop since the built-in post-effects don't work on my ancient W7 system.

Body part seams showing in a non-unimesh setting are typically caused by the subsurface scattering. I render all my figures with unimesh welding on because of that.

thanks, i'll try to remember that.

Until I can get a new figure to play with, I'll have to satisfy myself with older ones. This is a character for a new story I've been working on

RedPhantom posted at 9:05 AM Wed, 26 July 2023 - #4471171

Until I can get a new figure to play with, I'll have to satisfy myself with older ones. This is a character for a new story I've been working on

Very nice picture