I am trying to find a easier and quicker way of doing my movie scenes. I do all my animations in poser 5 I use poser 4 millennium figures though. After I have done one animation I import it (obj format) into cinema 4d unfortunatly I do not have the textures with the figure I imported. I know there is a plug in but it never works for me. ontop of which I still have to textuize all the frames of the animation. my question is I have been consider purchasing Lightwave, 3ds max or some other program that allows me to import the animation texturized and with all the frames in tack is there a program that does this it would really speed up a big portion of my work?

those other progs have some tremendous learning curves but once you really get the hang of them, they're amazing. try the demos and then decide. at first you'll be frustrated but that's normal. i use lightwave from newtek, and there's a plugin made by greenbriar studios that should help you import poser figures. i guess the pro pack has a plugin too, but i've heard mixed reviews on that. either way, good luck. most bigger apps will give you different abilities that you can't find in poser, such as volumetric clouds, particle effects, realistic hair and fur and grass, and, of course, modeling :)

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The Curious Labs free Lightwave import for PPP works fine for me. You still have to tweek the textures a bit.

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Jerr3d what do you mean tweak a bit? will I have to re put all the textures in again?

Using the PPP import plugin, the figure and textures load automatically into Lightwave, but you have to invert transmaps for eyebrows and some hair models. Takes me about half an hour, at the most per millinium figure. You might also want to consider Vue/Mover, since that will work too.

vue e'spirit? whats mover?

now you would export the animation from poser in lwo format right not obj? does the animations go with it?

Mover is the Vue add on for importing Poser animations.

can you still make corrections once you have imported it there? animation wise

Yeah it imports the whole scene. I would not say Vue or Lightwave is easier than Poser5 for animating though. It is usually easiest to stay in the program you created the animation in.

thanks jerr

thanks jerr