pigfish opened this issue on Jan 22, 2003 ยท 11 posts
pigfish posted Wed, 22 January 2003 at 1:28 PM
My co-worker has exported a poser figure to another 3D program like Lightwave or Canoma to morph the figure by moving the vertex points around (push, pull, etc.). He is looking for a tutorial, help or advice on how to bring it back to Poser and it still work with the poses. pigfish
pigfish posted Wed, 22 January 2003 at 1:35 PM
Oops, I meant Carrara NOT Canoma.
pdxjims posted Wed, 22 January 2003 at 1:49 PM
Attached Link: http://interneteye3d.com/Tutorials/2000/sept/posermorph/default.asp
Steve Shanks wrote an excellent tutorial on how to make morphs using Anim8or. The same principles apply to other 3D modeling programs. http://interneteye3d.com/Tutorials/2000/sept/posermorph/default.asp
pigfish posted Wed, 22 January 2003 at 2:57 PM
Thanks, pdxjims. I think I actually tried using this tutorial with Anim8or (I only get Poser and Photoshop at work.). Unfortunately, I have a brain which isn't hardwired for good spatial ability. I simply cannot "see" the 3D image which is supposed to be created from the 3 flat planes. Drafting class and I did not get along very well.
kbade posted Wed, 22 January 2003 at 6:33 PM
At the top of this page, click on the link for tutorials, then the link for offsite links, then on the search link to search for "Carrara" or "Lightwave." You'll get a number of results, from which you can pick ones that make sense to you.
PabloS posted Wed, 22 January 2003 at 7:11 PM
If all you're doing is moving stuff around, not adding or deleting, you could probably just edit the cr2 to reference the new obj file. I've never done it. Just my guess.
_dodger posted Wed, 22 January 2003 at 9:48 PM
Correction: If you're not addng or deletng, and only moving vertices around, you probably want to built morph targets. If you are actually adding to the geometry and/or removing from the geometry, you will have to make a new OBJ and point a copy of the CR2 to that.
PabloS posted Thu, 23 January 2003 at 6:30 AM
dogger, the morph target route would give 'em more flexibility with the single character, but the cr2 method would work too...only they wouldn't be able to revert to the previous chracter, right? Like I said, I've never done this before. ;)
_dodger posted Thu, 23 January 2003 at 6:32 PM
Palboze: The MT route would be more easily distributed as a normal character. However, if they built MTs for their new figure it would certainly be possible to use the new figure with as much flexibility.
PabloS posted Thu, 23 January 2003 at 11:03 PM
Thanks dodgemeister :)
_dodger posted Thu, 23 January 2003 at 11:57 PM
No worries B^) (Hey, I'm getting good at being subtle about the name thing! Cool!)