Hi all,
I am not sure I had asked this before? (memory... oh my)

Are there tools to copy (FBM's/PBM)  morphs between .CR2?
There is some of D3D, but is there also anything free? Also someone said MorphingCLothes would ALTER the morphs somehow during copy...

I ask because the morphloader program that I want to release (PML) wants a figure artist to copy the morph from the figure dummy to the final product because the figure it was working on might get altered in an unwanted way. This is just because of certain unreliablities in Poser APIs, and safe is safe..... so I was asked for a suggestion on how this should be done.

I was thinking that those tools do exist;
but if that doesnt exist, I am wondering whether I have to develop that as a freebie....

Anybody knows?

If it had to be developed, then it might be worth to include things like ERC setup etc. also into it. I am thinking of an easy-usable, kind of drag'n'drop morph/erc setup tool, which keeps morphs and erc setup in different text files and compiles them into a .target CR2 .

But if it already exists free and uncomplicated, its not worth recreating it...

Cheers,
col

Attached Link: http://www.morphography.uk.vu/dlutility.html

 I have morphmanager running on my mac as a stand alone application without the need for windows using a freeware called winebottler.
Love esther

 I think morph manager just copies in the morph channels and one still needs to copy the morphs??

I use ** CR2Builder** for 99% of my Poser file operations that aren't done in Poser itself. For everything else, there's Editpad :)

it copies the morphs, as long as the morphs are there and not empty channels.  what it doesn't do is make morphs work across meshes.  back when people used character files for actual characters and custom morphs were plentiful, it allowed people to integrate characters.  it was never for copying morphs between separate meshes.

I think thats fine with me. Will try it out. Thanks for the hints.
If everything fails I will have to make a new tool. :/

One way to do it without 3rd-party software or scripts is to simply copy-paste. That is, select the body part or full body, CTL-C, select the corresponding body part or full body, then CTL-V. This pastes the parameter values into any morph dials that have the same name in the target figure. Obviously it doesn't paste the morph dials themselves if they are not already present in the target.

I was thinking of providing a morph-to-inj exporter.
INJ can carry morph delta data and also ERC settings as I understood?

I understood Inj only works if the required channels already do exist in a cr2, though. Can MorphManager create the channels? The CR2 Builder looks interesting, too. But I didnt have enough to time for a thorough look yet unfortunately :).

MorphManager seems to do the trick.
However I cannot find an option to mass-copy all morphs in all actors matching a given name? Is there a trick to do that maybe?

Can CR2Builder do this, do you know hatch?

It is not copying the ERC, but copies the slaving of the morph targets, so all one has to do is to create a new valueParam on the BODY actor and then the whole FBM works, that is nice.

How to copy  morphs from the cr2 file to other cr2 file ?
I guess that one step is difficult to do.  some step needed.

STEP1. Analysing FBM relationship between actors.
STEP2. Making the INJection Morph Pose file to export from the cr2 file.
STEP3. Importing the INJection Morph Pose file to other cr2 file.

STEP1 and STEP2
How to make easy injection morph pose file using CR2Builder.
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/tutorial/index.php?tutorial_id=2327

if the cr2 file have without target channels, you will see that.
How to add Empty Channels using CR2Builder
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/tutorial/index.php?tutorial_id=2325

I was able to do it more or less in two steps with CR2Builder:
1.) Open Source .cr2, filter all targetGeom myMorph nodes, and merge that into Target .cr2
2.) Copy valueParam on Body from source to target .cr2
No idea yet if that had any side effects but it seemed to at least copy the FBM.