Heyas, Does there exist a program which can extract the obj (with materials intact) from a pp2? If this utility doesn't exist can somebody make it? You see, although Poser is a lovely program (sometimes) and I do all my figure setup in it - I render in Bryce. That means all those great props that are only in pp2 format have to be converted to obj, and imported to bryce. That's fine for one at a time, but I'm facing a pile of about a hundred for a comic I'm starting. That's a bit daunting. :( Just having a utility that I can point at a folder full of pp2's and say "extract obj" would make me a happy happy person. Anybody? Lyrra

UVMapper (Pro or Classic) can do this. It dosn't open pp2 directly, but you can drag'n'drop anything (hr2/pp2/pz3...) with embedded geometry into the UVMapper window and then save the obj.

Well you can simply export them from poser using all settings with the exception of "As Morph Target". this will give you an MTL file also. Keep in mind that Bryce will not bring over trans maps in this fashion for any model. UVMapper seems to be a good free way to go and seems like it will do this for you. My P-Wizard will take a PP2 or HR2 file and extract the geometry out of it but also modifies the PP@ or HR2 file so that it will no longer have the geometry embedded but rather referenced to the newly exported OBJ file. This might be more than what you are looking for at this time though.

blink blink UVmapper can do that? Well that teaches me to read the manual now, doesn't it :) Thanks! Kattman Yeah, but loading and then exporting all 20 Dystopia city blocks made me VERY VERY cranky. And your right - your thingy is mroe than I'm looking for right now. But good to know for the future :)

CR2Edit will extract embedded geoms from anything and put in the ref to the new external geom, but since this is but one of about 75 tools in it, it may be WAY more than you are looking for. Dan http://www.zenwareonline.com for CR2Edit, ZenPaint, ZenTile, VueMaster and the complete line of Zenware graphics apps

Depending on how much you want to spend, vue 4 will open up pz3 files, so you wouldn't even have to do anything more than put them all together and save the poser scene. I would guess the render quality would compare, and the time you will save is well worth the money (Poser compatibility was the deciding factor for me, between bryce and poser) eric

Well my brain likes Bryce better than Vue. And since I can't upgrade my brain, I think I'll stick with Bryce :) I have a slew of minor learning disbilities that make it hard to learn certain sorts of things (certain subtypes of graphics programs, spreadsheets, databases, regular clocks, math with numbers (not algebra or trig - go figure) etc.) That's one of the reasons I've been stuck while trying to learn 3DSmax for the last few years. Very annoying. And thanks everyone for the overkill suggestions :)