thanks guy,,.. thats some good info. helps,

but what im also nevrous about is sometimes when converting obj's to vertex, carrara wants to create new vertices due to something not normal or something (sorry, im on laptop now cant actually look up what it says, will do tomorrow) Im just hoping hat doesnt screw up the polygon count

very good tut iloco! thats really useful. thanks

nice site paul, good reading there   thanks too  :)

yup.. ill be getting the vob for sure.. i tried a 3ds one that came with a tut.. when i imported it to vue all the leaves are squares. :(    just for kicks and further reference, is there something i can do to fix the transparency on that texture? in vue? i also have carrara if thats a better way t fix it

ahh.. i had no ida they came as vobs :) thats good to hear.. thanks you

I downloaded some demo tuts from xfrog and they came with a few sample files.. cd4 and xfr.. thats why i asked if vue could handle xfr

Quote - Why "not be owned by Daz"?

Because I want to be able to check for new releases without worrying that someone else can see my screen.

Because I find borderline pedophilic pinups distasteful.

Because Daz Studio has an impossibly awful interface, and I expect nothing more for Carrara.

Because I don't want to belong to a club.

umm.. ok  lol

but look what daz has done conmpared to poser as far as content is concerned.. im just hoping for more plugins and shaders and addons for carrara :) some gained popularity from daz would help

Quote - I've had no distortion trouble with importing OBJs into Carrara and editing them in the Vertex modeler.  There are a few strange things, of course:

1:  When exporting a model from Poser as an OBJ, for some reason, I have to select the figure, select the body part (let's say it's the head), and then I have to "step out of Poser" (briefly open another -- ANY other -- program) and then back into Poser before I'm able to select the option that allows the head to be exported for a morph target.  I don't know if this is a Poser bug or a "Dex's computer" problem, but whatever the case is, it took me forever to figure this one out.

lol.. i think that be a dex bug, we all got stuff like that, but i havnt encountered that yet with carrara....... yet

ya the scaling when exporting from poser is microscopic isnt it.. i just scale it by 1000% then when im done i rescale it by .001 %. but just seems i loose some of the shape when i convert to vertext room..   wondering is i shouldnt be smoothing polygons when importing or should lower fidelity or something..  thanks for the input

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1. Not be owned by Daz

umm why? I think its great.. especially for all us poser/daz geeks who use carrara.

and some one already suggested my wish about the scalable moon :)

are you planning to animate or pose the poser figure in carrara after importing it there? If not, you could export the poser figure as an obj after posing it in poser and import it into carrara that way

ya.. i wanna do some morph injections i the pose folder.. the head and body morphs for v3..   i tried changing there names and now if i load a morph that requires them inj's, poser asks me to search for them manuelly

great site.. just what i need :)

try drgeep.com  

there is some great tuts there and if i remember correctly he has some on uvmapper and/or making textures

ahhh...  thanks guys   thats what i wanted to hear  :)  now off to find a tut to edit names with text editor  :0

thanks again