What I have just done is:

• Downloaded a trial version of Poser Debut from the SmithMicro website; because for Poser Pro 2012 and Poser 9 I couldn't find trial versions
• In the Poser Debut content dir, there IS a dir 'RuntimeGeometrieshorseHi'; it contains the file 'horseHiP3.obz'; which I have unzipped to the file 'horseHiP3.obj'
• Loaded the legacy DAZ Full Horse Carousel into DAZ Studio
• When asked for the file 'horseHiP3.obj', located it in the dir above

And voila: Eventually the legacy DAZ Horse Carousel HAS the correct P4 Horse geometry to make it seemingly function correctly ! Hallelujah !

The DAZ Horse Carousel
    1. is a legacy item which is NOT sold anymore by DAZ
    2. does need the legacy P4 Horse; which was probably never sold by DAZ itself ...

Since I own the legacy DAZ Horse Carousel and still like it, I created this thread ...

This Poser Horse CAN be used with the DAZ Carousel; BUT: It doesn't work properly !

See the Screen Shot of the DAZ Carousel Rocker in the file attached to this thread.

I would be quite sad if I can't use the legacy DAZ Carousel properly ! Therefore, I will probably contact SmithMicro and point them to this thread !

Thanks for Your efforts !

Kai

Hello Phil !

I have Poser Pro installed; and additionally several Poser Legacy Content Packs; but alone: The P4 Horse has NEVER been installed on my machine.

So I've searched high and low for the P4 Horse ! And got aware that I'm not alone with this search ... Others have already given up to ever get access to the P4 horse ...

If there a legal issues to make this old horse available: Does it perhaps make sense to contact SmithMicro - the owner company of Poser - directly ?

Cheers and Tschüss

Kai

I have attached a screenshot of Poser Pro; perhaps You can tell me if Your Poser Pro UI looks quite the same ?

What I have done now:

1. Changed the background color of the main window and the document window like so:
      - Select 'Paint Bucket/Color' Tool and proceed like Phil describes it

2. Changed the appearance of dedicated windows - e.g. of the animation palette window - like so:
      - Brightened the colors of all the .psd files in Runtime/ui like pjz99 describes it

BUT: I am still NOT satisfied with my Poser Pro UX ! There's still so much brown-like colour in the UI ! And the look of the animation bar at the bottom of the main window has not changed at all ! It's difficult for me to hit the right buttons ...

So yes: Can anybody tell us about how to accomplish a complete skin change ? Or is it just me who has problems with the default UX ?

Another question: Do the newest Poser (Pro) versions support a decent UX - all controls are at least clearly recognizable - out of the box ?

Attached Link: Verlsnake's Allerlei

Attached Link: Making polygon hair with pony tail dynamic

Thanks for responding ! But I couldn't achieve better results using the overhauled .obj file ...

Ideal it would be if - based on the head movement - the provided hair morphs would be triggered automatically; but I don't know of any approach for that scenario ...

Please take a look at the attached Renderosity Poser Forum Thread !

If You could provide the hair geometry with such an invisible string builtin, that could perhaps really help !

Cheers and Tschüss

Kai

Attached Link: Verlsnake's Allerlei

I have taken the approach of one constrained group - everything but the pony tail -, and one dynamic group - the whole pony tail; BUT: The pony tail gets decomposed ...

The hair has some morph targets built in; but I don't know an approach which can leverage those morph targets automatically to synchronize the pony tail movement with the head movement ...

To me, one main attraction of DAZ Studio is its relatively new, integrated Decimator Plugin; it allows me to do Polygon Reduction on figures in a way that preserves animations, morphs, etc.; another workflow of mine is: Export .obj files from Poser for each keyframe of an animation; then do polygon reduction on these .obj files using standalone 3rd party polygon reducers; BUT: The polygon-reduced .obj files have very probably NOT the same vertex count and order; the DAZ Studio Decimator allows me to export polygon-reduced .obj files which have exactly the same vertex count and order ... That's why I'm so keen on importing Clothify Animation into DAZ Studio, too ... Maybe importing a series of Poser-exported .obj files could be a way to go ...

New enlightenment: I don't need 'Multiframe Export' in this case; the 'Export' function exports the current keyframe object automatically !
So I've set

• 'exportOptions[poser.kExOptCodeMULTIFRAME] = 0'
• 'exportOptions[poser.kExOptCodeFIRSTFRAME]' NOT at all
• 'exportOptions[poser.kExOptCodeLASTFRAME]' NOT at all

And all keyframe models are output automatically !

I have something rudimentary in place - having used the existing python script 'PythonposerscriptsRenderControlexport.py' as a blueprint ...

BUT: Multiframe Export doesn't seem to function from script:

• When I call
           myExportObject.Export('obj', 'File Format Wavefront', '/Keyframes/Keyframe.obj', exportOptions)
    with
           exportOptions[poser.kExOptCodeMULTIFRAME] = 0
    then the current figure is output

• When I call the same method with
           exportOptions[poser.kExOptCodeMULTIFRAME] = 1
    then NOTHING happens ...

My script IS actually cruising the keyframes of the current animation, but the Multiframe Export method is not working properly ... A known bug ?