Hiya. I came across a problem. I downloaded some figures from a Japanese Poser site. They would not work correctly with my English version. I was wondering it was possible to still use them? or maybe perhaps convert it somehow into a workable version?

That's a new one. Never seen any of the work from the Japanese contributors that needed any type of conversion. Care to share the link and let us try it?

Ive asked this before myself. Theyre in something called a m3d format, and none of the converters seem to work. A real shame, because theyre all gorgeous work.

He used the term "figures", as opposed to models or meshes, so I assumed they were already Poser files. Not so MZ? Whups, sure enough, it's in his thread title. Just curious, but where have you found the .m3d files VirtualSite?

If you go into ISO's site, there's a link to something called "Neo-Japan", which takes you to a page that has all these extremely cool Japanese props on it. If you follow those individual links, they take you to something like eight pages of props, all gorgeous, all in that damn m3d format. Somehow these work in the Japanese version of Poser (according to one of the folks I corresponded with), but not in ours.

New one for me. Have you found out what app the format originated with?

No idea. I believe there was a thread about this some time ago, so I'll check the archive and see what it was described as back then.

VirtualSite is right. That is how I found them almost to the letter. Man, that's s~o depressing because they really are amazing. :(

m3d format is for "3D My home designer". One of most popular Japanese casual-3d-cad program published from MEGASOFT. (URL http://www.megasoft.co.jp/) I've never heard/seen coverter from m3d to another. But if you can get "3d my home designer", perhaps you can export data using it(perhaps DXF format).

I sent a note to Megasoft to inquire about a converter. Ill let you know what I find out.