Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Are figures created in the Pro pAck usable in Standard Poser?

arabinowitz opened this issue on Nov 14, 2001 ยท 8 posts


arabinowitz posted Wed, 14 November 2001 at 6:19 PM

Hi- I'd like to create some poser figures in the Pro pack, but I don't know if they work in regular poser. Anyone have any experience with this sort of thing? Aharon


jamball77 posted Wed, 14 November 2001 at 6:30 PM

If you are going to create stuff for people I'd suggest you invest the extra HDD space and install poser twice. Once as 4.03 and once as PPP. I use PPP and what I find is that there are a number of funny little things that happen: when people open your stuff from the library they get a disconcerting but harmless error message saying that the file is the wrong version. (the .obj file header is the culprit i think) no fingernail is created for P4 people. PPP makes a .png file for the fingernail and p4 wants a .bum file for the bump map which it will make but PPP can use .jpgs or whatever. all in all a rough ride for the newbie who may buy your stuff.


SAMS3D posted Wed, 14 November 2001 at 6:57 PM

We test our stuff in Pro Pack and in Poser 4, but it is all put together in Poser 4 so all people can use it. But you can use both together. Sharen


WarriorDL posted Thu, 15 November 2001 at 1:22 AM

I have ran into a couple of files made in PPP that, while it'll load and conform in regular Poser, it won't re-save to the Library.


thip posted Thu, 15 November 2001 at 4:36 AM

Have a few Mike items in freestuff - they're all PPP, but so far, I've only heard of one user who's had problems in regular P4. However, I do not use bump maps, so I have no experience with any problems they may cause.


arabinowitz posted Thu, 15 November 2001 at 9:15 AM

Thanks everyone. WarriorDL, is your site still up? Aharon


WarriorDL posted Thu, 15 November 2001 at 12:12 PM

It's at http://poser.3dgladiators.com these days.


arabinowitz posted Thu, 15 November 2001 at 6:19 PM

Thanks. Her's a question while we are on the subject, how do you create a UV map for PPP created figures. What geometry do you base the UV map on? Or, do you need to map it before you bring it in to Poser? Thanks.