I hate Baltar with all my being!  ^_^

How is Galactica going? I heard they had a big drop of audience with 3rd season and that the 4th will be the last one...  But here in Italy we have only few news because it has been broadcasted only on a satellite tv and it is not well known.  (I have purchased the first two seasons DVD in UK, and I hate Baltar).

Giorgio

(did I mention that I hate Baltar?)

It seems the... thing... that cleans the house of the Teletubbies. What is its name? Noo-noo?  ^_^

Giorgio

It happened to me too. Don't know why, but I managed to restore the normal working by modifying slightly the scene: for example altering the pose of a character, or adding a prop then removing it. I hope this solution will work for you too.

Giorgio

Angelouscuitry: the texture is different. For the V3 is the "standard" hi-res texture by Daz, while for the V4 is the Ethnic Beauty Lelani V4 by Syltermermaid. The eyes too are different. At the present I am interested particularly in the face geometry. Matching the exact texture color is not a priority, because   a) is much simpler and  b) I was never fully satisfied of the V3 color and this V4 texture is actually much better  (my character is half-Hawaiian).

Cage: no, I have tried nothing with ears or teeth, because fortunately I do not need them for my renders (mouths are similar and ears are always covered with hair). And yes, I have forgotten Spanki! Please forgive me, Spanki! ^_^

BastBlack: thanks for the compliments! I am uncertain if trying to improve her look further, or if declaring myself satisfied and calling the conversion complete. As pjz99 said, it depends on how strong the vision of my character is, and actually I have not decide yet. But I think I'll make some minor adjustments, then I'll stop to spin dials and I'll start to make renders! (I still need to convert her suit!)

Giorgio
.

Giorgio

Attached Link: http://phantomgirl.altervista.org/tdmt.zip

My schedule (in random order) would be:

1. descriptions for all the commands
2. main procedures (transfer morphs and shapes)
3. exclusions and bounding boxes (if I manage to understand something about them)
4. capturing some images (or borrowing some of them from this thread)
5. being a bit more specific with copyrights and disclaimer, because thieves are everywhere even for free stuff (maybe a Creative Commons license or something like that?)
6. proofreading and boosting up the detail level.

Obviously suggestions and ideas are always welcomed (I am just an humble worker for the Great Project!  ^_^  )

Giorgio

P.S. flush your browser cache if downloading the zip you find the old version....

Cage,
thanks for the suggestion: it is very good. Actually the concept behind the online help is that you have to present information in two ways:  the referencial way, that is the list of avalable commands, and the procedural way, that is the "How to" section, where you say "if you want to do this operation, follow this procedure". So I'll add more tree branches to this section, for example "How to > Exclude regions" or "How to > Use bounding boxes". The REAL problem is that I am by no means an expert of the tool, so it's hard to write help for something that I need help too!  ^_^  But I'll do my best!

Giorgio

Attached Link: http://phantomgirl.altervista.org/tdmt.zip

Giorgio

Two quick questions:

1. Before transfering a morph, should I set to zero its dial in the source figure?  (and by extension: would be better to set to zero ALL source morphs?)

2. I am starting the documentation project. My idea would be to create a .CHM file, that is, a compiled HTML Help File. It is the standard help format used in Windows applications, it's highly customizable and I know it very well because I write online helps with RoboHelp. But I need to know a couple of things:
          a) I assume Python will have no problems with invoking the help file, right? It just needs to call "windirHH.EXE helpfile.chm" from the GUI help option.
          b) Is the CHM format readable by Mac too?

Giorgio

Cage, I have discovered the severe bug that caused the error message. The bug is that I am an idiot. I simply had NOT understood that I need to overlap the two faces! I had loaded them, then very naively I had translated one of them apart "to see them better". Basically I thought that axis translation was irrilevant.

Now I have them properly aligned and the script is doing its job. I cannot yet say anything about the quality of the result because it is still analyzing the meshes, but tomorrow I'll keep you informed (it's almost midnight here and I desperately want a bed).

This project definitely needs a tutorial and an help file. Let me think... I knew someone who worked as a documentation technical writer and was skilled with RoboHelp... who was he? Mmmm.... wait a minute.... oh, yes, I remember! It's me!   Can I help?

Giorgio

Cage, first of all thank you to have suggested your script as an answer to my "V3 to V4 face conversion" problem. I have downloaded your script and tried to execute it, but I have encountered some problems.

My goal: transfer the "hdAsian2" morph from V3 to V4 (just the first of many)

My procedure:

1. loaded V3 morphed  (my Keilani character) and V4 default together
2. launched the script
3. selected the V3 in "source figure"
4. selected "Head" in "source actor"
5. selected the V4 in "target figure"
6. selected "Head" in "target actor"
7. selected "hdAsian2" in morph list
8. Clicked on "Analyze meshes": the button stay depressed for around 20 seconds.

9).... the whole window resets to nothing selected.  ???  (on second thought, maybe I've understood the behaviour...)

1. repeat 3..7

2. Clicked on "Transfer morph"

3. A window appears saying that "Either that morph did not exist, or there was no valid vertex weightmap info for that area of the mesh".

I am using Poser 7 SR1 and I am SURE I am missing something really simple, but I am so a newbie!  ^_^

Thanks,
Giorgio

Quote - Giorgio - I just looked at your gallery. Is your "shy model" your Keilani?

Yes, Esther, she is. (The same character also appears without her mask in other pictures, check "Lost in her thoughts" for a face close-up). I'll start to work on her with dials and morphing brush: we'll see what I will able to do.

(BTW, if someone more skilled than me wants to help... not for free of course... I'll be glad to provide the original V3 settings).

Giorgio

Quote - Have you played with the morphing brush in poser yet?

No, and I am not sure to be skilled enough to use it. Anyway, I will try it if there is no other solution....

Giorgio

I already have purchased V4 for other works, but actually estherau is right: I have a character well established (Keilani, the main character of my novels, you can see her in my gallery). I would like to switch her to V4 because she poses better and also because she has some interesting clothes (the V4 catsuit is amazing). Keilani is half-Hawaiian so I had create her recipe playing with the ethnic dials (a bit of Asian, an handful of Polynesian, and so on...), and I loved the result. I am surprised that this new model does not have (yet?) the same possibilities of the old one.

Giorgio

Too bad... I was afraid of this answer.

How hard would be this kind of manual work? Is something worthing try or there is no hope of achieving a satisfactory result in a reasonable time?

Giorgio