Thank you for the detailed reply with illustrations.  I have definitely bookmarked this one.

Using subdivision in Poser makes the edges a little bit too rounded- I'd like that to be last resort.  Today, I am going to see what happens if I split the edges (separating the caps from the cylinders), or beveling the edges in Blender.

I assume this is no longer a problem in Poser 12?  I actually just bought Poser 12, but haven't installed it yet.  I've been delaying installation because I know I can't just plug in my old Runtimes and files, and I've been dreading the work it's going to take to make everything usable.  I'd like to finish current projects before dealing with changing version; but I also don't want to spend too much extra effort modifying objects as work-arounds for problems in Poser 10.

Ok this is really strange, such a phenomenon never occurred to me ! Was worth a try :) Does the same thing happen in Blender when you hit Smooth Vertex ? or do they stay together?

They stay together when I use Smooth Vertex.

RedPhantom posted at 1:42 PM Thu, 9 March 2023 - #4458005

My guess would be that vertices aren't welded along the edges. I can see it happening with the latch portion too. Since it sounds like you've checked that, I'd look and see if it isn't somehow becoming split in the export/import process, perhaps something to do with the seams because it is following those.

My other thing would be to try turning off the smooth polygons in Poser.

Do you mean to turn Smooth Polygons in the Render Settings checkbox?  Or on the object, or both?  I tried unchecking it in render settings.  The edges don't tear- but now they aren't rounded at all.

I've done remove doubles and delete loose geometry.  Multiple times, as I have remade it a few times to see if more subdivisions or holding edges would work.

I was wondering at first if seams could be the issue, but there is only a seam around the edges of the bottom part of the plate where it would touch the door.  The top edge away from the door has the split too, but it doesn't have a seam.

Richard60 posted at 4:46 PM Thu, 9 March 2023 - #4458019

Yars ago on the Smith Micro forum there was a discussion about splitting faces.  Part of the problem is the order in which the faces are read.  The other part has to do with smooth polygons.  Smooth polygons is only meant for figures as in people and animals.  Not for hard surfaces that only bend in one direction.

I could try beveling those edges a little, but I was trying to avoid using more faces than necessary, especially when they are going to end up being very tiny faces.

Let me revise my update.

I had been using both Custom Scaling and Custom Text Size enlargement.

It was Custom Scaling that was causing the parameter name cutoff.  The Custom Text Size was not causing the problem.

Y-Phil posted at 4:23 AM Mon, 8 August 2022 - #4442480

What surprises me is the difference in sizes between the labels and the inputs in your dialogbox
Even though this is a Poser11 dialog box, and if I remember correctly, the sizes and fonts remain coherent:

So that I wonder if you haven't ask Windows for bigger fonts, somewhere?

I searched for ways to adjust font sizes in Poser 10, but couldn't find anything. I assume it is not possible?

This is persistent among loading files/figures.  Resizing and moving the palette don't help.  It doesn't even seem to be affected by length of parameter-name, some short ones get cut off.  And then didn't get cut off at all before switching computers (difference between using Windows 10 and Windows 11 somehow?)

Try using negative values in the displacement. Instead of .001 try -.001, you will also need to reverse your light and dark areas.

I should add that I am using grayscale displacement maps in Poser 10.  I don't have much experience with normal maps- is a normal map the answer?

kelchris3 posted at 11:27AM Tue, 12 January 2021 - #4410061

Got the XL library manager in the marketplace. It works!!! Will take me a little getting used to but I will do it.

Is that still available? I just did a search in Marketplace for it and could not find it.

Edit: With a little more persistence, I think I found it.

Azath posted at 10:51AM Tue, 12 January 2021 - #4410019

Open your Poser.ini found in your settings normally in

AppData/Roaming/Poser Pro/ "Version of Poser"

Open the Poser.ini with Preferable Notepad ++ Free software. Activate in search Incremental search ! search for the line

LIBRARY_IS_AIR 0 and replace with LIBRARY_IS_AIR 1

LIBRARY_EMBEDDED_TYPE 0 and replace to LIBRARY_EMBEDDED_TYPE 1

While it's already been said a few times, it can be said one more time: Thank you!

I re-ran the simulation, adding a Voluptuous morph to V3, and adding the chair (used 0.1 for static friction for it). It's now a 60 frame simulation: 1-15 crosses the legs, 16-30 adds the Voluptuous morph, 31-60 bends the legs and sits V3 on the chair. (V3's rear does not touch the chair; there's a small gap of about 0.01 Poser units) The simulation takes about 0.5 seconds per frame for 1-30, slows down to about 3.0 seconds per frame on 31-60. I don't know that the extra frames helped anything, I could probably halve the whole thing and get the same results.

It's certainly not perfect, but the simulations are taking me 1-2 minutes each, so it wouldn't be too time consuming to experiment with tweaking it.

It's probably easier once you have experience with the cloth room.

I tried something quick with V3 and a close-fitting knee-length dynamic skirt. I didn't spend too much time setting it up, and mostly used defaults on settings. The settings I changed were unchecking drape, setting collision offset to 0.1, and setting static friction to 0.1. I used the first 15 frames to cross the legs upright, then the last 15 frames to bring them to sitting. I forget the simulation time, but the simulation took about a minute or so to run.

The skirt creases are rough, I don't know if different simulations settings would smooth them out, but unless I could find a quick answer to that, I'd probably use the fitting room tool or Photoshop to deal with the creases. The skirt isn't as tight as I'd anticipated, so I'd have to add a chair and rerun it with a step to sit her on the chair

I have a conforming version of the same skirt. It has extra rigging to work with walking poses, but it's useless with the cross-legged sit.

Another thing that might help a potentially tight simulation is using the additional cloth collision options (object vertex on cloth polygon, object polygon against cloth polygon). It makes the simulation take longer, but in my experience, even my slow computer handles it okay. (I've only had problems with objects with really, really high polygon counts.) As I understand it, those two options are different ways to double- and triple-check each frame of the simulation to make sure the cloth doesn't get too close to the collision objects.