You can search for hand poses for the character you want in the marketplace or freebie section, or you can pose the bones of the hand yourself. Most preset hand poses will need some fine-tuning to fit your needs correctly.

There isn't a pre-defined hand pose prset, though a script could be used to create one, but you can just save a pose preset with only the hands checked - make it symmetric and save both hands, then when applying it you can select one of both hands and hold down cmd/ctrl while double-clicking the preset and choose to apply only to the selected bones.

RHaseltine posted at 9:48 AM Wed, 11 October 2023 - #4476116

There isn't a pre-defined hand pose prset, though a script could be used to create one, but you can just save a pose preset with only the hands checked - make it symmetric and save both hands, then when applying it you can select one of both hands and hold down cmd/ctrl while double-clicking the preset and choose to apply only to the selected bones.

RHaseltine posted at 3:28 PM Sat, 7 October 2023 - #4475935

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Tangential problem is crafting a transparency, reflectivity or emission map for a 'well wrapped' prop, typically a complex OBJ with equally complex textures.

As some UV mappers allow parts to be moved around to minimise 'wasted space' on a texture, finding eg interior mirror or small bulk-head lamp can be fraught.

Unless you're fortunate enough to spot the shape, may come down to a 'binary chop': So, apply a 'half+half' painted image crafted in eg free Irfan view.  Half-paint the portion that hit target, repeat until located...

My worst-case was seventeen (17) iterations to locate a few dozen pixels in unexpected part of a very busy 2k texture. A smear rather than a shape, it could not be found 'by inspection'...

I finally did figure out how to do it. It is a bit confusing but I will try to describe it in as few steps as possible.  It seems that essentially the obj has to be linked or connected to the texture file. If anyone knows of an easier way to do this please let me know, thanks.

For this I will be using UVMapper Classic (free) from http://www.uvmapper.com/download/uvmapper030a.zip

I am unsure if this will work with \a Poser exported OBJ, so it is best to look in your Geometries folder and find the manufacture provided OBJ's, you can go to Scripts - PrintInfo -ListFiles to find out exactly what OBJ's are being used in Poser.  If it is an OBJ you exported from Blender / 3d Max or a program you will likely want to use that.

1. Open UVMapper

2. . Hit "Load Model" - to Load OBJ to make a texture map (template)

3. Edit - New UV Map - Planar      ( I suggest making the map size bigger than the default 1024 (4096?), than hit OK)

4. File - "Save Model" to save your new model (I suggest saving a new model not over your old obj, this new model will be needed in order for the texture map to work.

5. File - "Save Texture Map" - this will be your texture map you will modify in the paint program of your choice for desired results.

6. Open Poser if its not open already, save the Figure you want a texture map for somewhere in your library.

7. Close Poser

8. Navigate to where Poser saved the figure in your library. Make note of the obj's name exactly then delete it. Place the obj you just exported from UV mapper in the File "Save Model" step to the same location where Poser saved your new figure. Press F2 and rename that file to the exact name of the Poser created OBJ.

9. Reopen Poser and use the new created texture map with the Figure.as an "Image Map" node in the material room for Diffuse Color / transparency map /bump map / diffuse map / etc etc.

Hope this helps someone.

In "Free Stuff" sometimes with a search you can find folks have made templates that emphasize the the seam guides, these work wonderfully well. 

For personal use, you can dig the jpgs out of the texture folder and repaint them, remembering to save with a different name.  This makes it very easy to find and apply the new texture for your render.

all the safe links to the free ones I use namely Pulling Shapes Roadkill and Lith Unwrap are dead sadly

I use Ultimate Unwrap 3D, Carrara, Hexagon, iClone and Zbrush to export UV templates 

Blender should also do it

Depending on which figure it is you might find something here.

There's a free version of UVMapper get that here: https://www.uvmapper.com/

Open the OBJ file for the item you need a template for.

Save the template from UV Mapper.

Good to know, I also wondered about that.

I will get back to you on this...You used to be able to right click then go into specs the settings then look at morphs this was in Poser6+

hborre posted at 10:07 PM Sat, 7 January 2023 - #4453367

Depends.  If they are dial-spun morphs then you would need to find the active dials which are usually designated with a blue dot next to them.  If they are morphs that were generated with a 3rd party app like Blender, ZBrush, etc. then you would look for uniquely labeled dials specifying the character or type of morph.

Thanks!

Thanks everyone!