corblet opened this issue on Jan 05, 2002 ยท 14 posts
corblet posted Sat, 05 January 2002 at 11:40 PM
I've been doing a lot of back-and-forthing between Poser and both 3DS and trueSpace, and in typical fashion the scaling values have been a real pain (for 3DS; trueSpace seems to handle the scaling a lot better and truePose helps tons. Alas, some stuff I just can't do in tS so gotta rely on 3DS now and then). One thing I worked out tonight regarding inerchange with 3DS really helped loads so I thought I'd share in case someone else didn't already know this. First, use Objaction scaler! Here's the cookbook: 1. Save Poser item as OBJ 2. Expand to 100000 (yep, one hundred thousand) 3. Import to 3DS (I use the Habware plug-ins) 4. Edit away, careful not to change center or scaling 5. Export to OBJ (again, Habware plug-in) 6. Reverse the Scaler, shrinking by 100000 7. Import to Poser, unchecking everything but place on floor and scale -- use 97% for the scale factor. The last bit, the 97% scaling, was the last piece of the puzzle for me. I tried several exports of entire characters, deleting some part in 3DS, and bringing it back into Poser superimposed over the original character for accuracy. Round-off errors made the new figure slightly larger than the original once all was said and done, and thus far the 97% change has resulted in almost perfect superimposition of the edited version. I kept everything else at defaults all the way around, and thus far that's worked fine. Hope this helps someone; I was having a heck of a time getting stuff back without needing manual scale tweaks until I ran this experiment. Enjoy! Mark