Just to update... I had a hard-drive failure and lost this project. As well as all my Poser runtimes, models, texures etc. I'm off on a tangent trying to get Debian Linux installed on the new hard-drive. The latest wine is from 1 Dec 2004, haven't tried it to see if Poser will work.

Phily, Are you using a Mac?

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I called the folks at DAZ, and the basic license does not allow you to distribute the 3d models in any binary format. So you couldn't use them in a game.

Bill,

The cart is waaay in front of the horse here!

If (and that's a big if) something saleable comes of this project, licenses for meshes would have to be negotiated with whichever company, probably on a percentage/royalty basis.

My current line of thinking is to use Poser compatible models directly from disk so it would be possible to distribute the software and leave it up to the end users to obtain meshes, by going to DAZ and downloading them or buying a copy of Poser. That is what DAZ is doing with DAZ Studio.

It really depends on how this project comes together.

JentRon

E.B., Thanks for the link! Just on a whim I pulled in blMilWom_V3_V2.obj (V3's mesh) it took forever to load, but it pulled 7 fps... these rates are for static .obj's, once the anim stuff starts getting applied between every frame... I woulda posted a screen shot, but with no mtl file it looked like an alpha channel, just pure black and white. Gotta add default material code... I realize Poser meshes are copyright, I'm playing with caswoman and posette because I have them and they are colored (meaning they generate intresting mtl files) and look o.k. without textures applied. I'm not going to make and bone meshes for vaporware ;). If this project starts coming close to fruition there are several options for meshes; Mayadoll is free for use and redistro by individuals and group colaborations, licenses from CL, DAZ or other artists, rolling my own, etc.

Well, the first thing I need is a quick .obj viewer I can use for double-clicking files from explorer. This app is almost there now. The camera controls need more work, I want textures, and I may add a feature to dump the uv map template to a file... Longer range I'm thinking along the lines of an interactive game engine using Poser rigged characters... Although it looks like even Posette is a drain on the system. She only gets 25 fps on my system, Maydoll is about the same. The P4 lowres mesh runs over 200. I haven't tried V3 yet.

That's funny, I just posted the same link to you on the other Poser forum! :) As far as Mac goes, I'm currently using Cygwin, GCC and OpenGL, and I'm going to try to keep the Windows stuff segregated out. Porting to FreeBSD/Mac might not be impossible, assuming something worthwhile comes of this.

pooba,

It was over on the Poser Techincal Forum, I ran acrossed it yesterday while I was searching for the CR2 format.

It was in the open source idea developing a Poser-like Open Source application by Pixeldust1

The app was called Goser and was being developed by kim99

Message edited on: 11/22/2004 01:38

Looks alot like what I got using Wine. I ended up putting windows 2000 on this machine because I couldn't get Poser to work under Linux.

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You could try turning the fold resistance way down in the cloth room, too.

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