Hello,

I see people are still interested in my script.  I haven't really used blender in a few years... I see they've revamp the main GUI quit a bit. 

I don't remember for sure is the Blender API changed or if it was a python change that starting giving the script problems.

I still enjoy programming in python.  I might be interested in revisiting this project in my spare time.  Doesn't Blender have some type  of prop library now??

If I remember correctly, the mtl file simply refers to the location of the textures.  You'll have to copy/move the texture files to the directory specified in the mtl (You can open it with a text editor and see.)

Quote - I've followed these instructions:

• Unzip the compressed file into your Blender/Scripts/Addons folder.
• Start Blender.
• Open the User Preference Window and select Addons.
• Check the box to enable 'Poser Tools'.

However, I had to actually go to Install Addon... the Poser Tools 2 thingie didn't show up in the list until then even though I'd unzipped to the addons folder and closed and re-opened Blender. And it will not let me make it active (Enable Addon).

Blender 2.63 Final, Linux Ubuntu 12.04, 32-bit.

Hi Robyn..  You'll have to bare with me.. I'll be working on Linux compatibility over the next month.  It usually takes a little bit to account for the different directory listing formats of Linux.

Quote - This is fully Blender 2.63-ready? Going to have a play with it right now!!!! And thanks so much for all your hard work on this, RedDog9

At this time, I've been testing / working with Blender 2.61.   Will work on updating what I have with 2.63 +.  It's almost hard to keep up with all of the Blender updates.

Attached Link: Poser Tools Update

The browser allows you to set quick links for the Props, Character & Pose directories.

Quote - Reddog9 great job on the poser tools.

 

could you also add an option where we can import into blender figures that are already posed?  right now we have to export and then import into blender. could this be added?

 

thanks

The Character importer is still under developement.. The next release has a Directory Browser included. 

Quote - this mat reader will work on any version?

Version of? Material file?  I believe so.. there's still much testing to do. 

The current version of PT2 I've been testing with Blender 2.61 & Windows 7.

I'm going to fall back and work on Linux updating now. 

I'll be working on catching up the Linux version next.  If any one is using Mac OS and is experiencing problems.. please take screen shots / quote the error messages and send them my way.. I'll do my best to correct those, although I do not have a Mac for testing on at this time.

Project page is located here:

Posted an update this morning with the first material file reader version..

Give it a try.  :)

http://blender3dc.com/?p=113

Quote - So this reads the MAT's on the objects in poser and applies them to the imported objects in blender...???  Am I getting this right?

The scripts are designed to read Poser files, ie .CR2, .PP2, .PZ2 (.MC6 soon / possibly) directly into Blender. 

The sample I'm working on now, Daz Millenium Dog, was imported via the Character importer script.  Default materials are created at that time when the character is loaded. 

The Mat Reader I'm working on now directly reads a Poser Material file, .PZ2, and applies the material changes to the selected object.  (The character must have the materials created & assigned in the first place which is what the character importer does).

It will change color values, alphla values, assigned textures, etc. 

The dog in the example above was loaded with the default colors via the character importer (The middle section of the dog).  With the material reader, I was easily able to click and load the textured Mat (The front section of the dog), then the all white Mat file (The back section of the dog) and easily click and load back to the default colors..

I over laid the 3 samples with Gimp just to create the sample image.

These are the pure blender renders:

Mat reader coming along well so far:

Basically, just select the file and load.   The script will determine if new images need to be loaded and/or if materials need to be created before applying them to the selected model. 

Existing materials with the same name are changed to new settings / new texture images.

As soon as I have a more complete version, I'll post an update.

With Blender's multiple texture mapping options and texture painting abilities, a Mat file writer should make an excellent addtions for phase two of this part of the project.

:)

Working on getting a new site up.   The new script page is located here for the time being.

http://blender3dc.com/?page_id=9

The Blog page was undammaged.

Quote - WOW !!! i can't wait until you've finished the new version

i searched for a script like your's and was happy to found it, but unfortunately it don't work for blender 2.61

thank you for your efforts

If you've run in to bugs with 2.61, please send me what ever info  you have so I can make the corrections needed.. 

Ughhh..  just found out all my sites were Hacked..  :(

I took some time off over the holidays.. but have started working on the project again.  My goal at the beginning of the year was to update to the latest version of Blender.  After a few test, I decided that an independent material file reader / exporter would be a great addition..  So that's what I've been working on over the past couple of weeks.

Quote - Hi Reddog9!

I just found stumbled across that Poser Tools projects, and am very interested!  I see you are tackling material assignments.  That is awesome!  I haven't tried from Poser to Blender, but I have tried from Carrara to Blender, and materials seem to be the tough spot!

Would love to hear how its going!

The current version has been tested with 2.58 thus far.  After the 1st of the year, I'll go back and update it for the latest version of Blender before adding more to it.

Quote - Hi,

I've got Blender 2.61 and just tried PT2 11/21/11. It doesn't work on my 64 bit Windows machine.