Thanks!

The timing of your post is ironic. I just finished taking a Poser figure into Motionbuilder and bringing the resulting BVH animation back to into Poser again, so I appreciate your tips.

Another way to bring a Poser figure into Motionbuilder is through DAZ Studio using the FBX Exporter. You can export it from DS as an FBX file and then bring it into MB that way.

And that tutorial you linked to is one that I found useful also, although Motionbuilder has changed a bit from when that tutorial was done. But the concepts are all there, and it was very helpful to me, too.

(By the way , when you click on both of your links, they both go to your Youtube video. The only way to get to the tutorial is to copy the link and paste it in a browser. You might want to edit your post to fix that.)

Why use Motionbuilder?

Well, it opens up a world of animation files that are already out there. And Motionbuilder is great at adapting pre-existing animation to suit a new figure. Also, I'm playing around with motion capture and my mocap process outputs files for Motionbuilder, so it's an easy way for me to bring my motions into Poser.

Anwyay, thanks for your tips. Much appreciated!

-jjsemp

Attached Link: THE CRYPT OF CREEPORIA

I use Poser to animate and tell cinematic stories without having to raise huge amounts of cash and without being hounded by interference from others.

I use Poser to think up an idea and then see it realized onscreen quickly. It helps me grow creatively.

I use Poser because I like Digital toys - but I don't like to spend ridiculous sums of money on them.

I use Poser to have fun with animation and get a quick result without working too hard.

I use Poser for things like this:  www.creeporia.com

-jjsemp

It's worth pointing out that the original version of Truespace (called Caligari - which later became the company name) for the Amiga cost $2000.00 !! It was waaaaay ahead of every 3D app out there at the time.

-jjsemp

Bookmark and thanks!

Bookmark and thanks!

Quote - I do that for large armies. The trouble I have with that method is that the quality of the image gets messed up after a couple passes.

It shouldn't, as long as you keep everything the same (image size, rendering resolution, etc.). I save my renders out as tifs so that there's no compression and no degradation of the image. If you plan your image well, you shouldn't have to do it for more than three or four layers, anyway - but I have gone as high as six or seven.

-jjsemp

A trick that I use in animation much of the time hasn't been mentioned here, but might save you from having to bother with Photoshop (a program which I don't enjoy because it's so very unintuitive).

Render your furthermost background element first. Save it as a jpeg (or a tif, tga -- whatever you prefer).

Then start a NEW scene and load that image back into Poser as a BACKGROUND image.  The menu selection is:

"File > Import >: Background Image"

Then arrange the next closer layer of new objects in FRONT of that background image.

Now save that combined image out also as a jpeg (tif, tga, whatever you prefer). 

Then start a NEW scene and load that previously rendered jpeg in as a background image for the next layer of new stuff.

Keep rendering out stills and load each previously rendered image into Poser as a background image for the next new scene.

If you build your image up this way, you can do the whole complicated thing in Poser without ever having to meddle with bucket sizes, texture resizing or any of those messy things (I've been using Poser for years and I have no idea of what a "bucket size" actually is, nor do I ever want to mess with it).

I even do this with animation and moving-camera shots, rendering background stuff first and then loading it back into Poser as background avi's.

You end up only rendering what your computer can handle, but you're not limited in any way in terms of the complexity of your image.

Hope this helps!

-jjsemp

www.creeporia.com
(animated with Poser)

Thanks very much for the kind words...and the "bump"!

-jjsemp

Attached Link: CLICK HERE TO SEE CREEPORIA!!

Garee, the accent is real. It's Dutch.

Acadia, sorry about your sound problem, but I'm not sure what you can do to fix it,  since nobody else seems to be having it. I'd recommend that you visit Creeporia's Myspace page at...

www.myspace.com/creeporia  

or go to...

www.creeporia.com (this site has the highest resolution image, but it requires the download of a Divx active-x plug-in)

or...

www.creeporia.tv

...where you will find video links that might play better for you. 

FYI, Creeporia is on EVERY major video site. Just go to ANY site and search for the keyword "Creeporia".

Thanks for watching!

-jjsemp

Creeporia is all too real!!

But, speaking of coffins,  here she is coming out of hers to thank you for watching!

-jjsemp

Attached Link: CLICK HERE FOR "CRYPT OF CREEPORIA - EPISODE #2"

Hey Everybody,

CREEPORIA RETURNS in EPISODE #2 which you can see here....

** CLICK HERE FOR EPISODE #2 of "THE CRYPT OF CREEPORIA".

**
It features thrills, chills, a few laughs and even MORE POSER animation and content!

Boogity!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

-jjsemp

Phil C delivers a "Make Art" button with Wardrobe Wizard.

-jjsemp

I took a while to get to you because I'm a busy guy and, to tell the truth, I forgot all about it. It wasn't that big of a deal. I knew it was a fixable problem and that you were a reliable vendor. Reading your post here reminded me that I needed to contact you.

Anyway, thanks for fixing this for me. And I just bought Chthulhu 2 as well.

You fill an imprtant niche in the Poser marketplace and I think it's great that your store is back.

-jsemp

I"m glad to see that you've returned to the marketplace, too. 

However, when I bought your previous $4.99 figure, I got a receipt from Paypal (#3949-8690-9324-7068), but no figure, and no communication from you with a link for download.

I sent you a query about it via your web site contact form.

Hope to hear from you soon.

-jjsemp