tried on Olivia G2, work seamlessly :biggrin:  a few mistakes but overall the seam guide is correct

Quote - Well, UVMapper does not like 'out of range' UVs, so that's that. I mean, I don't have the faintest idea what that program is good for, but lots of people seem to use it, so I guess I can't ignore its existence, as much as I'd like to. :biggrin:

most often i use UVMapper to correct the grouping, it's easy to select some polygons and assign to a group, a least more easier than the poser grouping tools :biggrin:

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Quote - and just to say, because i don't think it comes out in text, "if you can" isn't a challenge.  it's just recognizing that seam guides take time to make and you may not have that time.

Sure, I didn't read it as a challenge. Well, I guess I could always outsource that task. :biggrin: Or do the first release with some quick-and-dirty texture templates and put up the more detailed versions later on.

StitchWitch can do seams guide, the program is for texturing clothes but can extract textures templates from any object, but i don't know how it handle the unusual UV space

I own the program so i can give a try i you want, no need to spend time on this if a program  give the same result in one mouse click.

Pretty face, i can't wait to play with her and it's look like this day is coming soon  ;-)

Quote - Funny, I have the HD 3400, too, only the Mobility version. Proprietary driver, just updated this week. Could you show me your /etc/X11/xorg.conf by any chance? Do you get any 'ole:CoGetClassObject' errors when you run 3D-Coat?

i have the HD3400 Mobile too

rjjack@t400 $> wine 3D-CoatGL.exe
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f578,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),1,0x32f578,0x00000000), stub!
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {82c5ab54-c92c-4d52-aac5-27e25e22604c} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {82c5ab54-c92c-4d52-aac5-27e25e22604c} not registered
err:ole:create_server class {82c5ab54-c92c-4d52-aac5-27e25e22604c} not registered
fixme:ole:CoGetClassObject CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supported
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {82c5ab54-c92c-4d52-aac5-27e25e22604c} could be created for context 0x17

xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)

This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using

values from the debconf database.

Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.

(Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)

This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades only

if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg

package.

Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously

in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings

here are ignored.

If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated

again, run the following command:

#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Default Screen"
    Monitor        "Configured Monitor"
    Device        "Configured Video Device"
    DefaultDepth    24
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load    "glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Configured Video Device"
    Driver    "fglrx"
EndSection

[quote
You don't have an ATI card by any chance? Because mine is causing me all kinds of problems that apparently people with NVidia cards don't have. With the latest version of the driver, I can finally run Poser 6 under wine, but with lots of weird, very impractical effects. For example, if I switch desktops during a render, everything that's been rendered before I come back to the Poser desktop is blacked out.

Did you do anything special to get 3D-Coat to run under wine? I still have Ubuntu 8.04, anyway, so maybe it's time to upgrade soon.

I'm very much looking forward to the native Linux version.

ATI HD 3400 with the proprietary driver, 3D Coat work without any special setting, for Poser Pro i must use SreeD, C4D work but with Software Shading, everything else using OpenGL i have tried don't work (black screen)

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3dCoat looks much more advanced, but although I can run the demo, all the buttons are blank and I don't know what I'm supposed to click. I'll keep trying.

Strange, 3D-Coat run well on my Ubuntu 8.10 with wine 1.01, work far faster on Linux than Vista on the same computer

I have the version 2.10.05 installed, not tried the 3.0 alpha, but a Linux native version is on work and will come on Q1 2009

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Well, no one forced him to use attributes for the material zone names, did they? It looks like it was just one of those ad hoc design decisions that proved unwise in hindsight. Anyway, he must have fixed it by now, because V4 has been around for some time.

this is fixed with a little procedure who redefine the material to an acceptable variable for python :

material -> variable

1_HeadSkin -> HeadSkin
Skin-Body -> SkinBody

since bagginsbill replaced  the AMUCSS with the VSS who work on almost any figure i think this is not a problem anymore, and if people want to use the old AMUCSS they have the V4 version to see how to handle this

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Incidentally, does anyone know how Poser orders the material zones in its dropdown menues? From what I'm seeing, it's not the order they appear in the .obj file. It would be nice to be able to put things into some logical order.

AFAIK this is the material order in the cr2 who is taken in the menu, with maybe the Preview always moved to the last position, you may try to edit some cr2 to confirm this

Quote - i've noticed that V4 has the material names prefixed with numbers. I presume those indicate texture overlays. Do people think that's a good practice? I thought it was quite nice to see at one glance what's supposed to be on the same map. Hopefully, they don't have a patent on that or anything.

python don't like variable starting with number, the Bagginbill skin shader for Apollo Maximus must have a redefinition of the surfaces when BB adapted it to V4, they are several threads on the RDNA forums about this.

www.runtimedna.com/mod/forum/messages.php

www.runtimedna.com/mod/forum/messages.php

From my memory most figures use FingerNails ToesNails and InnerMouth in place of NailsFingers, NailsToes and Mouthwall, but for me this is not important if the material name reflect the corresponding body part. But since my native language is the french i am not a reference for anything in english ;-)

yeah, the usual Foot -> Toe setup from many figures cannot bend like this

can't wait to play with Antonia, she look like a very good figure

excellent, do you have used an additional joint between the foot and the toes ?

wow lot of details here, Antonia can smile without fear

OMG!  fantastic bending and setup, can't wait to play with her too ;-)

Quote - > Quote - Yes,a blank  distribuible cr2 file with the rigging information in it.

You mean as a template for rigging the conforming figure?

How do I make such a blank cr2 file?

i think this tutorial for obj2cr2 by PhilC can be useful

www.philc.net/OBJ2CR2_page3.htm