I hope the moderators don't mind my bumping this thread because alot of time has passed and I am still in search of some tutorial on this conversion process.

I've been spending a little more time in Daz, just getting a look around and doing some simple things such as camera settings and simple renders.

I'm at the point now where I would just need to know to convert the existing Daz-related files of this model to Poser language, how to target the Daz files to my Poser Runtime directories and how to use the DSON plugin to import all the elements that make up this architectural scene and get it staged into my Poser.

Thanks

SpookieLilOne posted at 7:46PM Thu, 31 January 2019 - #4344379

To the best of my knowledge you can keep going until your computer starts begging you to stop and blows up LOL

Heh-heh That's what I was careful of so as to not allow to happen but from the other responses in this thread it appears Poser is capable of a whole lot more, Great CPU, lots pf RAM and hefty graphics card are a plus.

Open Poser. Andy appears. Delete Andy. Set your preferred resolution and render settings. Set your preferred camera settings. Save as a New Scene in your 'Scenes' folder. Then you can set the 'New Scene' file as the default scene Poser will load when Poser is started.

skinklizzard posted at 8:50PM Thu, 24 January 2019 - #4344174

can't read the text on your image, but if that selected tab on the left says viewport drag it and dock it to the main window space.

otherwise go to the window menu > panes (tabs) > viewport as well as window > viewports, and check the options

Found it. Thanks!

It somehow got shrunk down to real little and was probably hiding behind one of the other (docked) panes (if that's possible) but I found it in the Panes menu and with your help I was able to know what exactly to look for.

Thanks for the help!

'How do I...'

Uh- help... Since I'm still getting familiar with the basics in Daz, you can see here that I messed something up in a hurry and now I can't get a preview of an open scene. How do I get it back to normal?

Thanks.

Heh-heh I think the issue with Daz crashing was me initially because I wasn't at first familiar with Daz and was initially uncomfortable with Daz.

Okay, so I have saved the scene in Daz. But at this point I might need pictorial of how to go about finding and then properly using the DSON script within Poser once I open my Poser. If you could offer some screen captures that would be so helpful.

Thanks much.

Spending some time in Daz, familiarizing myself with some of the controls whilst working with this preload scene and I managed to come away with some rather nice renders of this scene, of which I will share with you so as to help you get a better idea of what I'm working with.

I've created the Cr2 file which does show up in my Poser Figures library, but since there are alot of props, some of them rigged to move within the figure such as doors and windows, I would need to convert the .dsf files in Daz into the file format Poser requires for props and it seems I should be able to accomplish this using the DSON plugin within Poser but how? Even if it involves importing each of the separate props and UV sets one by one (and there are some 347 folders respective to each piece of the house and property) in order to get this scene staged within Poser that's what I'm willing to take the time to do but if there is an alternative way of getting the job done in not as many steps I am certainly open to those suggestions too.

Hi.

It appears you have quite a powerful machine for creating things in Poser.

It seems the colours of the uniforms can be changed to whatever you like in Poser Material Room meanwhile any patched or badges that appear on the uniform could be modified in Photoshhop by layering in the image of the badge or patch over top any German-related badge or patch.

I hope this helps somewhat and please let me know if you do find the other things like the mask and the cap.

I too was looking for a mask, a sort of a fighter pilot's mask and flight cap for one of my Poser figures who flew an F-86D Sabre Dog fighter jet while in the USAF and is now a commercial airliner pilot. I want to put my figure in the F86-D again with the mask and all.

OK so as to help illustrate what I actually have to accomplish and to clarify, I'm in need of converting this scene, which was originally made for Daz only, to use in Poser 11. This screenshot (which Daz barely allowed me to get before it crashed and burned) shows what I'm working with. It is a scene. A preloaded scene. It is of a building and property. I did my best to get the entirety of the scene to within the screenshot so you can see pretty much all of what's there, at least the exterior. Obviously this scene model has alot of moving parts like windows and doors.

WandW, I may be wrong but what I've gathered from your post about the app you suggested I try and I bought it and installed it, it seemed like you were describing the process of exporting or converting Poser scene or figures for use in Daz, which is the opposite direction I need to go with this. What you were describing was a bit confusing and when I gave it a try for importing Daz files into Poser I didn't get any results.

Honestly I'd just stay in Daz with this scene but Daz seems so much more difficult since I'm so unfamiliar with it but very familiar with Poser, plus with Poser any editing done in a project is non-destructive and you can undo or go back, whereas in Daz, if a mistake is made in editing within a project there is no going back or undo feature, well at least I looked everywhere for it and it may be buried pretty good within all the buttons of the Daz interface.

So converting this scene for use in Poser is the option and if I can get that to work there is a good likelyhood that I will be buying alot more Daz-related content to enhance and continue to build my library. But first I need to get this one converted and to understand how so I can move forward.

I totally don't know what I'm doing in Daz. I wanted to offer a screenshot of the scene view so I could show you an example of what I'm working with but I obviously messed something up in Daz to where I now can't even get a preview of the scene once it is loaded into the Daz stage so that I could take a screenshot of what I'm working with. Fairly familiar with Poser but Daz appears so different and alien to me and obviously indicates quite a few limitations as opposed to what I can do in Poser.

The other thing is that I'm limited on time since I have a heavy work schedule so, given the days and weeks gone by (and extra money spent) that I have been chasing this around and not really having time to properly pore over this conversion task I think it's gonna be better that I have someone who really and truly knows what they're doing in Daz that they could get the conversion job done for a reasonable price.

I've already messed things in my Daz app to the point that I think I'm probably looking at a full uninstall and reinstall of Daz to restore things because I've undoubtedly done something wrong enough to warrant that.

The steps that I've attempted to follow in this dialogue haven't produced the results expected and part of the problem is I am unfamiliar with Daz and the other problem is I am pressed for time so some assistance with this would come in handy. Once I get this scene into Poser stage with all the moving parts working I'm good to go.

Thanks. I gave that a try this morning but got nothing but a popup message that said 'List index out of range.' I'll have some time to check this out proper once I get back from work tonight and I won't be rushed but to get started can you walk me through this step-by-step?

Thanks.

Gave that a try this morning and it did not work for me either.

I think at this point I'd be willing to pay someone for a service of converting Daz scenes for use and full functionality in Poser and there's no doubt in my mind alot of Poser artists would greatly appreciate such a service so as to accomplish this. If the price for the service was fair it would be an attractive and very helpful service.

Is there anyone here who can offer such a service?

Well I installed the DSON importer and it appears as it should under the Scripts menu in Poser.

Then I followed a video tutorial on how to create a Poser scene from within Daz Studio. The procedure did produce the Cr2, png and and Py files, of which I then copied into a new folder in my Poser Runtime/Character folder. Then I could find the scene I just converted in my Poser Figures library but when I brought the scene onto Poser stage nothing appeared. What is the next step?

Just to clarify, the scene I'm converting is just that, it's a scene with a house, a yard, a ground plane and plants & trees.

Thanks. I currently have 16 Gb Onboard. I might try in the not-so-distant future increasing that to 32 Gb & see what kind of improvements in render speed that offers.

What is the amount of RAM you recommend?