TRAVISB opened this issue on Feb 24, 2001 ยท 12 posts
TRAVISB posted Sat, 24 February 2001 at 1:44 AM
i use lw and carrara is this possible?
Jaager posted Sat, 24 February 2001 at 2:37 AM
PC or Mac? If PC, yes - MASA'a MTmirror.
TRAVISB posted Sat, 24 February 2001 at 2:50 AM
pc i tried it but i cant find a tut when i try to load the geom or obj files it wont let me sayinthat it isnt sym or exceeds lines
Jaager posted Sat, 24 February 2001 at 7:26 AM
1- You need a base for each group 2- You can not pull the X=0 verts out of line. This makes using it for magnet morphs tricky. The base groups are a single group if it is a central group = chest, neck, abdomen the pair if the group comes as a left and right pair. And only the group - no complexes rCollar&lCollar = yes rCollar&chest&lCollar = no The morph group must be the same complex as the base. It does not like Mike's chest or collars very much. It will swap, but not mirror. not a problem with collars, potential problem with chest
Bof1 posted Sat, 24 February 2001 at 1:56 PM
With LW 6 you can put symmetry to on
ronmolina posted Sun, 25 February 2001 at 9:12 AM
Bof is right and you can do full body morphs.I do it this way using the PPP and LightWave. Here is what I do: 1) I import from the Poser geom files the body obj I want to morph into Poser. 2) using the grouping tool I spawn props which gives me a prop for each body part. 3) I delete the original object and then export all the body parts as one mesh in LightWave format. Now I have a base figure and do not have to repeat steps 1 through 3 for that body type ever again. These three steps take less than two minutes. 4) I import into LightWave. 5) In LightWave I now have an object with all the material groups normally defined in Poser and a material for each body part. I can now pic a single body part to work on or multiple parts at the same time. 6) In Lightwave I set the mode to symmetry. Now for example I can pick the right forearm and anything I do to it also occurs on the left forearm I do my reshaping with a multitude of tools. I can also just pick a few points or polys on one side of the body and the change happens on the other side even with more than one body parts polys or points selected. 7) I pick the body parts I have morphed one by one from the Statistics window in LightWave and export them in object format. Now I have morphs that I just apply to each body part in Poser. Hope this helps. Ron
TRAVISB posted Sun, 25 February 2001 at 10:48 AM
Thank you very much ron 2 qustions do you import from the obj sile before (step one or just loadd from the character library? also do you have to select one body part at a time with the grouping tool? thanks pal
TRAVISB posted Sun, 25 February 2001 at 10:53 AM
ok i figured out the first two questions oh yeah did i say you KICK ASS
ronmolina posted Sun, 25 February 2001 at 10:55 AM
Glad you got it Trav any questions just ask will be gone from home for a few hours. Ron
TRAVISB posted Mon, 26 February 2001 at 10:54 AM
ok ive only had lw for a few days and just wanted to ask how do i decrease the load i have 400mhz ram and it isnt respondin almost at all how do i select body parts
TRAVISB posted Mon, 26 February 2001 at 11:39 AM
ok say i give vicki a big butt i go to statistics and choose l buttock_skin body it wont select only the cheek and when i export it doesnt work
ronmolina posted Mon, 26 February 2001 at 12:38 PM