Are you still at your Yahoo address? If so I'll email you from my post-Morphography address and you can send the file old-style. There was plenty of discussion about the script in that thread, but I came to the conclusion that it had been shared elsewhere / elsehow.

You can attach an image to a thread, and I thought there was a workaround where you could change the extension of a zip to jpg, for instance, but that seems not to work any more. Incidentally, thread attachments from the days when you could attach things have been destroyed. [rant deleted]

You mean this one? Antonia & Walk Designer

To the best of my knowledge, such as it is, attachments to forum posts are no longer possible. Hard disk space is so expensive these days. :) You should be able to post a link to an external file host though.

Oh, by the way, you may want to update your sig line some time. ;)

Thanks for the run-through! Much appreciated.

I can't see any actual conversion taking place, though. It's just a simple copy of the joint angles between the figures, and factors like the difference between the angles of V4's and V3's feet aren't taken into account. However that could conceivably be taken care of by a little Python, if I'm careful in the choice of figures I use to substitute for the lo-res ones. I think I can cook up a solution.

Sam, what seems to be happening for me is that when I answer a thread, I become unsubscribed from it even though I've checked the 'notify me' box. Maybe the logic of that box has become reversed? I'm going to try unchecking the box for this reply (I habitually leave it checked) and see what happens.

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Yes, that did the trick. If I check the box, it unsubscribes me; if I clear it (as you do) it subscribes me. Good grief.

There's your workaround, anyway; tell the forum to do the opposite of what you actually want.

Thanks folks. I've tried PoseWriter Panel, but I can't find any specific features relating to converting poses between figures. Maybe there was a PoseWriter Pro or something like that?

It may help if I explain why I want to do this. Over the years I've been making a graphic story / comic which has grown without any real planning. One problem I have is that I used older figures such as Victoria 1, and low-res figures such as Lorenzo Lores in the background in some early scenes, which is fine; but now some of these background characters have become more important to the plot than I'd originally foreseen, and their limitations are getting in the way.

It would be great if I had a relatively painless way to re-cast those characters. I don't mind a little tweaking of poses - poses always need tweaking anyway. I don't mind that the new characters will look different; that's partly the point. I'll have to re-render the updated scenes, of course, but the computer does most of the work there. I just want to avoid re-working a lot of poses. They could run into the hundreds, and I'd rather spend my time making new images. Posing is one part of the process that still takes a lot of effort; I've got better at it over time, but I've also got more self-critical so the net gain tends to zero. :)

Thanks @hborre! I probably don't use PoseWriter enough, I'm aware it does lots of useful stuff but keep forgetting it's there, hidden in the jungle of my scripts menu. :)

And now I've been unsubscribed from this thread even though I ticked the 'notify me' box when I replied - I was subscribed when I arrived.

(I should explain that I'm deducing my subscription status according to the button at the top of the thread: if it says 'subscribe' I assume I'm not currently subscribed, and vice versa. My reasoning could be as faulty as the forum code, of course.)

I posted a thorough analysis of the problem in June 2015, and it had been going on for some time prior to that. Every other forum on the Internet has got the hang of notifications...

I just visited another thread I'd posted in and I see I've been mysteriously unsubscribed from it, which may be what's going on in your case?

Great! Glad you got it sorted out.

After I'd posted, I'd remembered that some IDL set-ups - even with ray-traced shadows - can also generate artifacts which vary semi-randomly between frames and can be distracting in an animation. It's not the problem for you, but I'll leave this here in case someone else comes looking for an answer.

And here's me not getting notifications for threads that I am subscribed to. You can send me some of yours if you like, Sam. :)

Use ray-traced shadows. As the others suggest, depth mapped shadows aren't as accurately drawn, and this adds up to slight errors from frame to frame which will dither about when played back.

I get error 500 regularly too. It seems to happen if I follow a product link from a Renderosity email, for example telling me about a new release or one that's on sale. It seems not to happen if I've already visited Renderosity that day.

It's no big deal really, because refreshing the page fixes it; but it does damage the site's reputation.

PhilC's OBJ Import Plus script is what you want, I think:

https://sharecg.com/v/63883/gallery/11/Poser/OBJ-Import-Plus

I use Irfan View to manually extract Alpha channel from such models' PNG textures, save as JPG and use as stand-alone 'transparency' maps.

Thanks for that nugget. I had a method of extracting an alpha image which was co convoluted that I actively avoided it if I possibly could - now replaced by something much simpler.

While trying that out I also spotted a few other things I hadn't realised IrfanView could do. I use it every day, but hadn't really looked at the menus for a long time.

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May your unprintable consequentials be sorted out in an unexpectedly trouble-free fashion.

I believe that the Wavefront OBJ format specifies the maximum number of distinct materials as 512. However my experience has been that Poser's import can't handle that many. I'm not sure of the exact limit, but it's somewhere in the 300s. The way around that would be to split the mesh into separate sections so that each part has fewer material zones, and that would help a little with the material room navigation too.

As for your naming problem, my approach would be to hack the OBJ and MTL files as necessary. They may be inefficient, but in situations like these their  human-readable format makes search-and-replace relatively easy to do. You'll need a decent editor, of course: my recommendation is Notepad++.