This may be a dumb question, and it may be information that's sitting in my Poser manual at home, so please excuse me if I'm delving into territory that's already been covered... Is it possible to utilize Poser, Poser figures, etc. in the creation of a Pc game? Not a flash animation game, but say, something along the lines of Diablo, Thief, etc.? I have a friend who's one hell of a programmer who's starting to develop one, and he asked me if Poser could be used for it. Even a simple yes or no will be of great benefit. :) Thanks!

No.

Poser figures are too high-res. It wouldn't work.

It wouldn't be legal, either. You can use 2d rendered images in games (to make sprites, say). You cannot use the 3d mesh.

I figured that was the case as far as the high-rez issue was concerned, but didn't know about the legality issue. Thanks for the info! :)

so m3 and v3 cant be used commercially?

so m3 and v3 cant be used commercially? Yes, of course they can. They just can't be redistributed. That would be a copyright violation.

it's really a difference of distributing the mesh vs a render from the mesh.

Render = good
Mesh = bad = lawsuit = really bad = cry :`(

Since you'd have to send the mesh in the code so the ingame render can properly render the item then it's a no-no

You could how ever go the route of the old school Doom, Duke Nukem, and Castle Wolfenstein games and use renders layered on over 3D rendered map, but since that's still using flat images it's concedered dated by todays standards.

the other method would be to see if you could find a royalty free mesh to use and ask the modler real nice like. Ohh and like stated before there is the sprites method to make the whole game out of flat renders and spoof 3d. A good example of this is the old Mortal Kombat game (I think newer ones used meshes, but I'm not 100% sure on that.)

Message edited on: 09/22/2005 13:49

so even if you run v3 or m3 through say rational reducer, which will total modify, and re construct the mesh to a lower polycount, you still can use it in 3d? its no longer the V3 or M3 mesh, and theres no way to reverse engineer mesh complexity reduction

Even if you change the polycount, you still can't re-distribute the 3d mesh.