Greetings all...so being tired of DazStudio finally i reinstalled my Poser 8 and forgot how to use it basically LOL

I am curious what would be the best format to export from Poser into Cinema 4D WITHOUT extra plug-ins i gotta pay for...thanks for your time :)

Hmm....without the plugins to the big software packages (comes only with pro I believe) and no collada format (definitely only comes with pro) I'm not sure how you can export and retain the rigging. I hope someone else has a solution for you :).

Laurie

I'm not into C4D anymore, but I would test OBJ first and LightWave second, perhaps in combi with FBX for the pose/animation/rigging.

Note that the poser objects themselves come in OBJ format (in the Geometries folder of your runtime), so exporting them in OBJ might give the least loss "in translation".

From a bit of surfing I understood that Lightwave is some COLLADA derivative, but that might be for later versions only. But Poser exports LW-5 as well as 6 (at least my Pro does; some programs only import LW5 - don't know for C4D).

This tut: http://designertoday.com/Tutorials/Poser/1686/Poser.to.Cinema.Animation.e.Frontier.Poser.and.Cinema.4D.Tutorial.aspx

looks recent enough, and uses OBJ.

have fun

isn't there a freebie version of IPP ?

no Frank...not to my knowledge...a demo i am sure though

I use Collada with both Poser 8 and Poser Pro 2012 and it works very well exporting to MODO.

The only downside, which why it might be better to get a plugin, is the shaders. The diffuse map will come in allright but anything else you have to recreate.

You can set the export unit to whatever you use in C4D (meters in my case) and it will come in at the correct size. Except V4 is 1.92m, but that is a DAZ curiosity.....

Also I use the CollectSceneInventory script to export all the image maps into a folder, so I don't have to search for it in the Runtime!