Poser 6 to Carrara 5, part 2: I just tried it - it sort of works: I saved a character from Poser 6 with the options I mentioned switched off, as a Poser scene (.pz3). It will OPEN (I haven't tried using IMPORT) in Carrara 5 using the native importer option, but some of the pose I used was missing (in the hands). Can someone who ONLY has Poser 6 try this and see if it works for them?

Poser 6 to Carrara 5: What about switching off the external binary morph and file compression options (Poser 6) in preferences? This enables Poser 5 to open Poser 6 scenes after a 'newer version detected' type message (minus any of the new shader features). As Carrara 5 can import Poser 5 scenes maybe that would work.

Export the dynamic cloth (in it's final posed state) as an .obj file. You'll save yourself a load of time and effort doing that. Oops - cross posted, it's still a time saver for still images

Message edited on: 10/28/2005 17:16

Hi Trav, I'm no Poser expert, but this might be useful to you: have you checked to see if the texture (in Poser) is a bitmap or not? If it's not you'll have to see how it was made and then rebuild something similar in carrara. Otherwise the textures aren't loading in correctly - I just load everything in myself anyway. Also, is the clothing one object or a group? If its a group you'll need to texture each piece separately - not a problem with C5's new copy & paste options in the texture room (finally!) I have a question: has anyone managed to use SSS with a Poser character? And what settings have you used? This is one thing I haven't been able to use succesfully. The rest of the new features work fine, but so far rendering out Miki (EFrontier) has crashed/restarted my system everytime. Thanks

I agree with that - the Shade vs Carrara thing.
Hi Michvanz, don't know if you've tried this, but do a search for 'poser' in this forum (carrara) - you'll find loads of info on exporting poser stuff as obj files. I'm not sure if dynamic hair will work, but you'll still have access to dynamic clothing. And check out echo871's gallery here, he/she(?) has been doing really cool stuff with poser and carrara from before transposer so I don't think having carrara and p6 will be a complete waste of your money.
I agree with you though, it's really annoying that I've still got to have p5 installed on my system, as well as p6. It's not so bad on my desktop, but I do notice the extra space it takes on my laptop.

Message edited on: 10/23/2005 12:34

The artist is Eun-hee Choi website: http://www.kjun.org/homepag/k&j_framevv.htm Theres more pictures like this in 97bzo gallery (last link on the page).