ah Brilliant Gill. Super helpful. Just going to check that out now. Thanks John

Gill. Thankyou for your response. Do you know how i save the file so that I preserve transparency? Thanks again.

ah cheers - do you know how i expect the files correctly from photoshop?

Thanks again for the advice - so is this a possible workflow?

1.Sculpt in Mudbox,

1. Export med/high res to Maya and Retopologize,

2. Unwrap new Retop mesh,

3. Import mesh back to Mudbox,

4. Open up retopo'ed and unwrapped mesh in a new Mudbox scene - and continue sculpting/painting?

Thanks for all the advice. Very helpful. Its made me re-think. I am wondering if I can model the whole figure in Mudbox. Anyone on here have experience with this software (considering its often budled with Maya)? There isn't a mudbox forum. My question is can I pull out (sculpt) tentacles from the side of a Mudbox mesh base model figure? Is there a problem given that this stretches out the mesh? will will this create problems later on?

Thanks in advance for any advice

OK to explain this more precisely - and I'd be grateful for any answers/ideas/feedback.

I am using a MAC 2 x 3.2 Ghz, Quad core, Intel Xeon - with NVidia GeForce 8800 GT graphics card and OS 10.5.4. And Vue Infinite 8.5

Vue Infinite states there are 1,192 objects, 1 light and 3,184,376 polygons in the file. In fact there are 'only' 41 objects (Poser and DAZ objects, and a few .objs).

The problem I am having is with materials. When I try to open files I get a pop-up saying "Unable to find fileApplicationObjectsJenny_Col_Body.jpg. Would you like to locate it?" I then get about another 40 more similar pop ups asking me to find other jpgs. Regardless what I do - whether I try to find the file or if I click "no", or "no to all", at some point the file crashes.

In fact I do not need the Poser materials because I am applying materials in Vue Infinite.

Is there any way I can reduce the number of materials in Poser objects - ideally to one?

Any ideas?

Thanks for both answers.

So Shaun, would you recommend  I create a new folder, ,rename the texture .mats I'm using and copy them to this folder? This is possible as i am using a limited range of materials.

As I explained I'm using a range of objects (from Poser/DAZ and elsewhere) and texturing them in Vue Infinite.

Also is there a way to reduce the number of textures on an object. For instance poser files have many objects can I combine/merge these and then apply one texture to the whole object?

J

silverblade that sounds good

sorry to be a dunce but how do i get high specularity and copy the bump layer to the rainbow texture?

thanks

j

yes thats what i di just now. downloaded thePC version from DAZ and opened it on a pc then copied it back to my mac seems to be the same files?

cheers

i downloaded the pc version from DAZ and opened it on a PC then copied back to my MAC - it seems to work.

cheers

ok I sorted it. Was able to locate a pc and open it on that. the files are same - I hope! haven't opened them up yet.

thanks for response

j

OK thanks for all the suggestions. I will re try the various options. Only success i have had so far is having the p6 runtime on an external drive. then it seems to accept it. i will try again.

many thanks

The problem is when I go through to Libraries box in Poser which shows all the current Poser 7 content and press the + symbol at the bottom to add an additional Runtime it tells me my old Poser 6 Runtime "...does not seem to be a Runtime folder.." as above.

If after Poser has opened I change the name of the Runtime folders, that is change the name of the old Poser 6 Runtime folder to 'Runtime' and the current P7 folder to 'Runtime2' (for instance) then it imports the renamed P6 folder OK. But Poser 7 won't start up with the Poser 6/Poser 7 folders named in this way.

Is an externalm library different to what I have suggested above (ie adding an additional Runtime through the libraries)?

I have tried re-naming the folder to Poser6 and putting the Runtime folder in another folder but I get the same message. Am I doing something wrong?

I have a new computer [MAC]. I installed Poser 7 fresh. Then I copied the Runtime from my previous computer into the Poser 7 folder on the new computer. Should I copy across the whole old Poser 6 folder including the Runtime?