bluecity opened this issue on Jun 10, 2005 ยท 7 posts
bluecity posted Fri, 10 June 2005 at 2:09 AM
(Sorry if I'm beating a dead horse in here with all my long questions, but...) Since Poser 6 seems to have so many problems for me with rendering anything over two figures (with 2 GB of RAM!!!), what I've started doing is basically using DAZ Studio as my final renderer. While DS can directly import Poser content, the problem is that I have lots figures that have magnets and clothing items that are not compatible with DZ when brought in as a PZ3 or character file (for example, the Universal Deformer Magnets by Wyrmmaster). To work around this, I started turning the finished figures into OBJs, reimporting them back into Poser, scaled them properly, put the transparency information back in manually, then saving OBJ as a Prop. DS (or Poser) can then bring the prop in and render no problem. The "prop" figures also seem to have the nice side effect of not hogging as many system resources in Poser or DS so I can add more to a scene. While I have been please with the result of this technique, it is a lot of manual work - I'm really just looking for better some way of doing it, or finding a utility, or script that can automate this process better between Poser and DS. I've also been playing around with VUE 5 (a demo) because it can also directly import Poser content (and doesn't seem to have some of the compatiblity problems DS has), but I really don't want to spend $250 and have to take the time to learn how to use it properly just to render. I noticed in the DAZ shop there is a utility call "Turbo Import" for Bryce - this seems like the kind of thing I'm looking for. Does anyone know if it works from Poser to DS, or if there is something similar for P6 to DS? I would greatly appreciate any help.