Forum: Poser Technical


Subject: Anyone Know why?

ScottA opened this issue on Mar 13, 2000 ยท 9 posts


Kevin posted Mon, 13 March 2000 at 10:00 PM

The problem is that the obj is broken up into some 5 to 8 thousand groups. RDS automatically crunches them together, but lots of other programs don't. That is why importing the geometry files into Painter 3d doesn't work. That is part of what my utility fixes. The zillion groups are an artifact of the way Zygote builds the figures. The build half a figure and mirror it. In addtion, they have lots of vertices as members of multiple groups. RDS goes bonkers when it sees that, and poser doesn't like to all that much. So they get fixed as a final step before the UV maps are done. The multiple groups are removed and some of the groups are converted into materials. But in Alias 4.2 the tounge is an actual seperate object (group). It is also part of the inner mouth group, and part is a member of the left half group, and the face group, etc. Zygote accidentally shipped the black and asian female nudes with the complete obj heirarcy. Interesting to look at, if not very useful for poser.