Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Newly created figure is invisible - What did I do wrong.

Thorgrim opened this issue on Feb 10, 2003 ยท 11 posts


Thorgrim posted Mon, 10 February 2003 at 2:09 PM


PheonixRising posted Mon, 10 February 2003 at 2:15 PM

Sometimes the figure is invisible on the very first load. Delete it from the scene and try to load it again.

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Thorgrim posted Mon, 10 February 2003 at 2:24 PM

Okay, I'll try that. I've done this a number of times before but this is the first time in Poser 5.


Dave-So posted Mon, 10 February 2003 at 10:11 PM

Attached Link: http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/02/07/japan.invisible.ap/index.html

its not a problem...its wearing the new invisible suit form Tokyo

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tasquah posted Mon, 10 February 2003 at 10:51 PM

LoL Good one Dave-So


Thorgrim posted Tue, 11 February 2003 at 12:01 AM

That didn't seem to work and my object is much beter camouflaged than that jacket. ;) The CR2 file has no entries for textures so it appears that Poser did not save the texture mapping of the object parts when it created the figure. Is there a reason it fails to do this? It looks okay in UVMapper. The figure is an articulate prop not a biped figure, if that makes any difference.


tasquah posted Tue, 11 February 2003 at 12:19 AM

ok this happens to me sometimes when a OBJ file is not were its suppose to be so did you check to see that were the CR2 is going to find the OBJ that its really there ? Texture really shouldnt matter or as far as i know in makeing it invisable because it should show up if you change the display to wireframe or something.


SAMS3D posted Tue, 11 February 2003 at 7:44 AM

It isn't above the camera level is it...sometimes that happens...Sharen


Thorgrim posted Tue, 11 February 2003 at 6:22 PM

Still no luck. The OBJ file created by poser is in the New Figures directory. This is where the CR2 file is looking for it. I was wrong there are material entries in my CR2 so that has nothing to do with it. I have looked all over the studio for the object but I can't see it. I also tried scaling it up and down.


Brad.C posted Mon, 12 January 2004 at 12:20 AM

I had similar problem using Poser 4.03 on MacOS 9.2.2. Made group in Hierarchy from spawned props from grouping tool. Created New Figure in Hierarchy. It showed up in New Figures Library. I loaded it and it appeared in selection menues and hierarchy editor but was invisible in scene. Discovered this workaround. Saved group I intended to make figure from as prop group to Poser prop library. Then loaded prop group from library into scene. Then Created New Figure from the newly loaded prop group in Hierarchy editor. Loaded it back into Poser from New Figures library and it was visible!!! Somehow the transit into and back from Poser's prop library blessed it? If anybody has insight into this I would appreciate it.


shadownet posted Mon, 12 January 2004 at 1:04 PM

Hi, you might try making the figure again, and giving it a new name. Or deleting the old cr2 first. I have had this happen in the past, where it acts like it is making the figure only it doesn't. I think this may be a low memory issue when it makes the figure. I also get the same thing when I save pose files and props, sometimes no thumb shows, and sometimes I get a thumb but no prop saves. Just empty an pp2. The other thing I have found in making figure in the way you mentioned is that it works better if the internal names and the part names are the same. You can change the friendly name later. In other words, if you have rForeArm as the intername name and Right ForeArm for the Heirarchy name, it sometimes fails to make the conversion right when setting up the new cr2.

Anyhow, those have been some bad luck experiences I have had. Not sure it that is what is happening with you, but it might give you something to check.

Rob