Hi Reddog9, I've got PT2 working pretty good for importing characters (PCI) the only thing I'm really not happy with mesh weighting. The prop importer (PPI) is ok. They both do a fair job loading morphs, materials, and armatures. I haven't really looked at exporting to Poser. One big structural change I made was to start moving functionality into libraries. Texture/Material loading for both PCI and PPI are handled by the same code now, and I want to move the OBJ loader into a library as well. The Poser Tools obj loader works a lot better than the Blender built-in obj loader and a standalone obj loader would be useful. Having the the mesh code split out will make it easier to support multiple meshes in a single object as well.

There have been a lot of Python API changes in Blender, I'm still working with 2.9.x I haven't looked into 3.0 yet.

Very minimal editing besides the pose... Poser3 handled. :)

I'm working on updating it, but the original from 9 years ago has got a lot of sharp edges and repeated code. I think I've got the prop importer working pretty good. Most poser props I've tried import with shape keys (morphs) functioning. Today I'm looking at the character importer, I'm wanting it to import compressed files next, and then maybe fix bone naming before diving into morphs. Fixing textures is high on the list, too.

I'm looking for ideas on how to handle multiple RUNTIME folders, case sensitivity, and other file location issues.

jentron posted at 5:00PM Sun, 21 June 2020 - #4389254

I needed to import a pp2 into Blender 2.80, so I started working on the original scripts. I think it was always pretty rough, and the years haven't been good to it, but I have a version here: that will let Blender 2.8x load poser prop geometry and save as well. Unfortunately, uv's are broken as are materials in general. Definitely a WIP.

I don't know how much interest there is in this tool, but my git hub version is getting better. It loads most props geometry and UV maps, I still need to work out a good way to find external resources. It usually bombs if there are external obj files and it can't find textures, either. Still a good 90% solution.

I needed to import a pp2 into Blender 2.80, so I started working on the original scripts. I think it was always pretty rough, and the years haven't been good to it, but I have a version here: https://github.com/jentron/Blender-PT2 that will let Blender 2.8x load poser prop geometry and save as well. Unfortunately, uv's are broken as are materials in general. Definitely a WIP.

Are all your normals lined up or do you have some flipped backwards?  Also, are you leaving complex polygons for Poser to triangulate for you?

Attached Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_epsilon

I've had great luck with Hurricane Electric http://www.he.net/

Hmm, never occurred to me to check the nekkid flag on that post...

Attached Link: A hole in the ground

( Actually, its a completely different mesh)

Cool, Posette has a new torque using this method and the poser primative cylinder!

You may not have the specular nodes set up quite right, or they need to be tweaked for this hair.

The purpose of the blend node between the blinn shader and the alternate_specular input on my example is to apply the transparency map to the blinn shader, Stewer is doing the same thing by plugging his Image_Map_3 into the Anisotropic shader's Specular_Value node.  You may certainly bypass it for a test render as SamTherapy says. 

Try setting the blinn node Specular_Color to white.  Also increase the SpecularRollOff and Eccentricity towards 1. 

Quote - Poser uses gzip compression,: I tried copying a Poser 5 --.ppz prop file to a name ending with --.,zip , and my Winzip could do noithing with it.

The correct extension for gzip files is .gz not .zip.  That may have confused winzip, but I can't find anything on thier site that says they handle gzip files.