2 files over 1 gig.... My lord, the program that ate New York!

 

Quote - Oh I didn't see aspersions - just like to keep the data real for people who read it.

By the way, I'm not supposed to talk about such things, but I'm testing the next version of Poser, and looking over the program file and all the content downloads, I can pretty much promise that nobody without a reliable high-speed Internet connection (cable or FIOS) is going to be able to DL it with ease. It's a mind-bogglingly huge set of files. There are many files, and at least two of them are well over 1 GB. I'm not counting legacy either.

On the whole compatability thing. I'd do what was said above... just export as a obj from Studio to Poser, and use what is there if Studio can't do what Poser can. There is a lot of 3D software out there with different functions, etc. People go back, and forth between Zbrush, Poser, Max, Studio, etc.

I use to rant about Studios interface, etc. Saying I'd never use Studio, etc. But, after spending "a lot" of time messing with Studio's interface, and configuing it to something understandable.... I find Studio rather cool. It has it's shortcommings. But, no software is perfect.

If future versions of Poser never support genesis, etc. It's not going to be the end of the world. I'll just use whatever 3D software package out there, to help me do what I want to get done at the time.

I wonder if one could access the 3d displacement abilities of firefly thru python?

Quote - > Quote - Displacement is also limited to deforming a surface along its normals, so the types of baked deformations would be limited.

stewer (Stefan Werner - SM's maintainer of Firefly) told me that Firefly displacement is actually 3-dimensional. It accepts a vector, much like normal maps do. But only a simplified form (equivalent to bump mapping) was exposed in the material room.

I just gave up on this. I have more important things going on right now (Job related). I'll come back to this later if ever. Thanks much.

Crap, the above did not work. It worked once, then got same error again. I may have some kind of virus on my pc. Well thanks for your help everyone that responded.

Ok, I figured out why this was not working. When writing a python program in notepad, or any other text editor, you have to save the program as *.txt. Then rename the program as *.py. Saving the file as *.py to begin with causes odd characters to be placed in the file, which causes the poser python interpreter to do strange things.

Damn.... this is so strange. I went, and loaded vssmainbuttons.py into textpad. I then erased one line, and then retyped it in. Saved in ansi format. Then ran it..... no error.

I then erased all the code but, import poser. I then typed in print "hello world". Saved file in ansi format. Then ran it. It worked no error message.

I then went, and then created test.py again from scratch with import poser, etc in it. Saved in ansi format. Ran it, and got my error again.

I'm thinking I'm getting this ValueError: invalid x escape error, due to a end of file character mix up, or a character that indicates a start of file.... something like that.

Runnig other scripts? Can't remember. I don't use Python that much except for Bagginsbills's vss scripts. I just reloaded Poser, and ran vss.... no problem. Then my test.py script, with various encodings..... no luck. I'm going to find, and download a dedicated python editor, and see what happens. First, I'm going to take a python script from poser that works, and erase a line of code, and then retype it in, and the run it. Just to see what happens. I'll save a backup first of course.

Tried wordpad, and notepad using plain text. Same error. Scratches head. It's got to be something in the test.py script file. I've ran a couple  of python scripts from the Poser 2010 directory. Some scripts work perfect, no ValueError invalid x escape message. Then some don't, and I get the damn message. This is driving me bonkers.

I was using " in the script instead of '. I changed them thinking it was the problem.

Somehow, I'm getting funky characters in the script, or whatever. I wrote up this test.py script in TextPad.

import poser                                                                                                                      print "Hello World"

Then I ran it. What I got was this:

ValueError: invalid x escape                                                                                        Hello World

So, something odd is going on. I wish I could figure out what. test.py is a very simple script, that should not give a error.

What I ment about the python script working fine, is the script does what it is suppose to do. Just that I get this popup window with  said error afterwards.

Totally gave up on the whole thing. I decided to try figure mixer in Daz Studio. The docs say you can't mix generation 4 figures together cept for M4, and V4. I mixed together M4, and K4, then applied all of the morphs available for M4 (Base ,Creature ,Ethnic Faces, Hiro 4 ,M4 Morphs ++ ,Muscle ,Freak 4 ,Guy 4 , Vladimir , Freak Expansion , M4 Enhanced). Tried all the morphs out to see if the they worked, and they did. Here is a pic of the character I made with M4 mixed with K4 at setting of .5. I added beach hair, and a pair of shorts for M4 with little tweaking. Also buffed him up a bit. Oh, and added Koji texture for M4 to my new teen character. The character will not work in Poser. The mesh distorts when you try to pose, or morph. I am not going to try to fix the problem. Just have to get use to playing with Daz Studio a bit more.

Doing real good did not need steps 3a and 3b after all. D'OH!!!

Damm forgot a couple steps.
3a) Export out each k4 body part as a separate obj file
3b) Import in each K4 body part obj file.
Trekkie:  Thanks for the info.

Quote - Well I figured out how to fix the prob sort of.

1)  Load in m4, and then pose.
2)  Export each body part out as a separate obj file.
3)  Load in k4. Then pose like m4.
4)  Select a k4 body part, and then load in as a morph target the same m4 body part obj.
5)  Repete step 4 until all body parts have been done.

Only prob with this to morph k4 into m4, or anything in between you have to goto each body part, and turn the morph dial. Then there is the thing with exporting each body part.

Well I figured out how to fix the prob sort of.

1)  Load in m4, and then pose.
2)  Export each body part out as a separate obj file.
3)  Load in k4. Then pose like m4.
4)  Select a k4 body part, and then load in as a morph target the same m4 body part obj.
5)  Repete step 4 until all body parts have been done.

Only prob with this to morph k4 into m4, or anything in between you have to goto each body part, and turn the morph dial. Then there is the thing with exporting each body part.