You can't. If it's a figure such as v4 or the horse. Import the .obj from the geometries folder. If it is something that you have posed export as .obj and then import that into messiah.

cross post.

Are we having fun yet?

Wonder if there will be a forum here for messiah or if it will even be worth it. I could post in the Modo forum as that is what I model in. I could show what I'm doing there or just post at the messiah forums.

Someone posted today they still got the deal. And no we can't post the URL because someone will freak out again. Just go to the Messiah site and click on purchase. Either you get the cheep deal still or you don't.

There is no doubt that those are nice texures. That's why I bought the Reby resource disk. It is a really high rez photoshoot. Good for my own uses.

I think thier leap forward will be the 5's weightmap rigging and so on. They have shown thier hand on this. Who knows. They may work great with my pipeline now.

I don't think it was OptiTex.Though all those promises that never happend did more harm than good. They did go in with others and I think I read that one of the main founders may have left. Farr? The rumblings of things not going as planned or change in the organization policies and marketing. What ever it is, I'm not the only one that has noticed.

OK, break time over. Back to the figure I'm modeling in Modo. The sooner I get it done the sooner I can see what it will do in Messiah.

And starts up again April 2. April 1 is reserved for the millenium cube.

Besides who doesn't have the latest Carrara from some big sale already. May not have it installed but have it. I hardly use any DAZ software anymore that the last version installed is still good enough.

Dropped hexagon for Modo. Never liked DS so stayed with Poser. Vue infinite over Carrara pro and now Messiah. I think my Modo/Messiah/Vue with a dash of Poser is all the pipeline I need. Not counting my 2D animating software.

Besides there is something, can't put my finger on it, going on with DAZ lately. That and I'm getting real board with the same stuff over and over and over again with a new same old texture and an odd new name. Saturated might be a good term for it. That's the term I would use for all the Poser type sites markets.

Quote - Is the Modo/Messiah tutorial the one on their video page?

yes

Quote - How is auto-rig?

easy. I used the little alien in the modo content with the modo/messiah tutorial first. Then just grabbed v4 out of her geometries folder and rigged her.

Yes, I've been going through that PDF for some time now while using the demo. It's from the online doc. I do find having the PDF much easier to work with for me. That and the Modo/Messiah tutorial was how I managed to rig V4 so soon.

I never even thought about the similarities to Poser. But it's true. It is just a steroid induced version of Poser. Could be why I'm not struggling with the learning curve.

We sound like kids in a candy store and can't make up our minds where to start.

Wonder what the nay sayers are thinking about this so called scam now. Or did they secretly buy into it after their big stink.

So true. LOL.

So here check this out. Dynamic hair using Modo and Messiah.

http://forums.luxology.com/discussion/topic.aspx?id=52781

Quote - > Quote - Messiah is the part that completes Modo. I have my eye on that walk plugin.

In your planned workflow, after animating, what is it that makes you want to take everything into Modo? The renderer?

...the walk plugin...is that a walk cycle plugin? is it an add-on for Messiah? I guess it would not be for Modo.

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Modo does not do that kind of character animation, yet. Scheduled to start happening in version 6 but that's just the beggining. It will take awhile to have it all implimented. So Messiah fills that gap.

Model in Modo>rig and animate in Messiah. You then can go back to Modo or stay in Messiah for rendering. Depends on what your doing.

The walker is a walk cycle plugin but gives total control of everything as in walking up stairs, step distance, ect.ect. In real time. The Messiah/Modo tutorial shows and uses it. After some reading I still don't know if it is also 64 bit and how it works with auto rig 3 and Messiah 5. Will inquire over there and see if I can get some up to date answers. I think with all the new users there will be lots of questions that need up to date answering. LOL.

Messiah has not slowed down using a V4 with me. My work station is starting to get old but it is 3.6gh phenom II quad with 8gb ram and a GTX 460 1gb with 64 bit os. So I'm wondering what kind of machines are being used and getting noticable slow down. Now I will admit that I have not thrown in 10 V4's in one scene but I was using the demo and could not save anything. Now with the full 64 bit installed I will have to give it a try.

You know, I was looking for it when you posted that.

It's in the "new users" thread titled Messiah 3D bible (PDF) 901 pages.

seachnasaigh. That's good to know. Thanks. I asked at Messiah forum and wegg said yes but never really made it clear about versions of os.

testingrocky. Go to the messiah site and click on videos. A bunch of free ones that I was using with the demo. Also in the forum someone has posted a pdf of the online manual. I have been going through that as well.

I went and spent the $20 on the setup tab membership. Might as well. The last 2 weeks have be a joy playing with this with Modo. Messiah is the part that completes Modo. I have my eye on that walk plugin.

Finally got mine. Now I have to find out about os. I installed on my workstation but it is xp64. My next build will be win 7. The license won't work between the 2 only one os. I'll have to see if there is a way to move it over to the new os when it's time.

On a brighter note. The 64 bit seems to run a little better than the 32 bit demo.

Popular Unpopulars. Doesn't sound quite right does it. LOL

Very disappointed in all this now. I'm seeing those that bought the last couple of days getting thiers.