Hi, I am considering doing the competative upgrade from Raydream(Carrara) to Cinema4D and am wondering about compatibility with Poser4. I am mainly an illustrator so having the animation stuff transfer is not a concern, but I would like to make sure that it is fairly painless (or at least there is a work around) to get poser figures and their textures into Cinema4D before I buy it. Thanks, Troy

Contact Steve Shanks over at Poser world. I think there's even a tutorial. Poser world link on the sidebar----> What's the upgrade price from RDS5 to C4D? -JH.

It is $495 even for the XL version (usually $1,495)! I will drop Steve a line at Poser world and post the answer he gives me (I just surfed out to Poser World to see if the tutorial was posted, but did not see it (but then, it has been a long day!) Thanks, Troy

It wasn't easy to find: http://the-internet-eye.com/HOWTO/1999/ptoc4dtut/default.htm -JH.

Are you upgrading to Amber (V6) coz the word is Poser figures render corect in that version..........just rumour though its still in Beta.......Steve

I am not even thinking that far ahead! In fact I am trying not to think about what the upgrade may cost... After reading the tutorial, it sounds like if you use Cinema4D you just remap the characters to start with and the process will not be too much of a hassle. I am curious if the mesh fix that UV mapper does causes problems if the character is brought back into Poser. Even if fixing the mesh needs to be your last step, if the textures are built for Cinema4D from the begining, it sounds like it might be pretty okay.

After posting the above, I found the following on a Cinema4D plugin site http://www.c4d.de/downloads_40.php3 (the official one just opened at Maxon as well). This is the Altavista translation from the German post: Poser3 OBJ Loader V0.1 - Peter Georg Schmidt (eMail:pgs@bison soft.de) import filter with the Morhtargets for Poser 3 figures to be created know. PLEASE THE CONTAINED ONE LIESMICH.TXT FILE EXACT READING! I will do "an exact reading of the contained .txt file" this evening when I get home. whether this plugin simplifies the process or not, it looks like I will be buy Cinema4D! Troy

Troy we had a big debate on the cinema forum about the poser texturing problem in cinema and its cinema thats getting things wrong Steve Cox has worked loads to try to fix the problem , if you export a figure from cinema to poser it won't work without going through uvmapper first, the export strips the uv info from the figure..........You can miss the texture map filling proccese in the tutorial if you don't mind a little post production afterwards it suprising how good lighting and antialiasing will reduce the seam marks.....can you do me a favor if you get that plugin to work will you let me know how I can't read german and the translation from altavista didn't help.......I forgot to say despite the few problems cinema has with poser figures it still rocks and IMO is the best 3d app out there especially for someone starting out......Steve PS I think the upgrade is about $500