Anyone know what causes this when a morph is applied? I made the morph from the P4 head, but it does that when applied. This is the first time I have seen that happen. This is what it's suppose to look like (this image, I just transplanted the head I wanted to create the morph from onto the P4 body):

The program you used to make the morph scrambled the vertex (point) order.

....damn. If I send you the geometry, think you could fix it for me, oh Master of the Morph? :o)

Guess I'll start all over... What a way to spend a birthday L

Once this has happened, I think it is unfix-able, I know I have thrown away enough of them in the past ;) What program did you use to make the morph?

Lightwave. Same one I have always used. Like I said, this is the first time I've had that happen :o) Guess what I'll do is load it into a background layer and pull the vertices (points) to match.... again, and hope I don't cross any points up this time.

I have never used lightwave, so I don't know the process. Did you change an export setting? (If there are any) That does it sometimes

Nope. Didn't change it. There's only one way to export to OBJ format from LW. I think I probably just got some of the points misplaced in regards to their polys.

Try exporting from and re-importing to LW - it may switch the vertex order back to Poser-friendly.

Did that before.

Are you going from the base geometry file or an export? I know in ray dream there is a scale upon import and all and when I messed with that I got some bizarre things like what you have. And happy birthday :)

Base geo.

..and thanks :o)

Welcome and not sure what else. Can do some good morphs but no expert and all. The only time it ever goofed like that was when it had user error ... Like me hitting boxes and all. Good luck Tellarite? (Sp?)

Yup. A Tellarite :o)

The morph looks inside out, did you perhaps encounter a switch in the coodinate system? I know there is a lefthanded and a righthanded system, in one of them Z is up instead of Y.... Maxx

Woo hoo! Remade it and it works this time. Just gotta refine it again.

Warrior's Bday - that explains the party hats and streamers in Poly and Bobby's homestead on my hard drive and all that ruckus last night - very quiet down there this morning. Hope you had a happy too!

Ok... Refined the nose morph :o)

The setting on these pics is only at .8, not the full morph setting.

hey, warrior! did you ever figure out what went wrong the first time around? somebody told me you cant separate out the materials of the poser body parts in lightwave, because that messes up the vertex order. or somesuch. how did you fix it or avoid it this time?

Sure you can seperate the body parts and materials in LW. When the OBJ file is loaded into LW Modeler, the surfaces come out as: Material Bodypart, ie skin head When you export, the new OBJ has that saved. So in UVMapper, you have to select them and re-assign them to their proper groups and materials for it to work on Poser. In regards to morphs, since a morph is just the points (vertices), in LW modeler, you selct all the head parts (ie, EyeBrow head, skin head, lips head, etc) and copy/paste into a new layer. Then you manipulate each point/vertice how you want, then select ALL points of the head obj, save just those to OBJ format, and the morph works. What happened to this dude (the first pic) is I had changed a couple of the polygons themselves somehow (probably when I goofed, did an Undo, and didn't fix what I goofed on in the first place), thus screwing up their order, as Traveler mentioned in his first post. When I re-did it, I just made sure I didn't modify any of the polygons in any way. Even though the first morph had an identical amount of points/vertices, the order was screwed up. Like I had said, this is the firs time that's happened to me, so I am very glad Trav was around to post what he did, and posted so fast :o) That allowed me to work on it and get it right the same night. Hats off to Eric on hte heads up!