Does anyone know if p5 will continue to talk to other apps using the current version of propack? IOW, will all this dynamic cloth/hair/face creator stuff translate to my c4d?

Hi,

If I understood it right there won't be any updated version of the pro pack. POSER 5 will include it. Hence, when POSER 5 will be released the pro pack will become useless...

According to Steve Cooper, there will be a POSER 5 to C4D plugin with more feature than the current PzrForC4D pro pack plugin... it will allow us to "edit the animated character in the native timeline of the hosting application".

But I don't think that this new plugin will be available soon :

POSER 5 (september 2002) and Cinema 4D XL 8 (november 2002) must be first released. Then we'll surely have to wait a few months (beta testing, bug fixes, updates, etc...). So, I guess that the "POSER 5 plugin for Cinema 4D R8" will be released in january/february 2003.

Of course they could release a POSER 5 / Cinema 4D XL 7 plugin sooner. But that's not how 3D business goes...

:) Eric

oooooooooooooo... And LW?

Interesting. I think the edit-in-the-native-timeline refers to the f-curves, don't you?

krimpr : if they make a plugin for Cinema 4D, they'll make also one for its "twin sister" - Ligthwave !

madriver : I don't know how the POSER data will be included in the "native" timeline... We'll surely get a "poser track" in C4D's timelime for each character. But I have no idea what kind of modifications we'll be able to make.
Moving the keyframes and editing the timesplines : surely. But editing the morphs ? How ? By importing all the morph targets ? that'll make hundreds of additional tracks...

:) Eric

I would image the Poser to LW plugin must be in the works since the Dragon Con workshop about these 2 software systems suggests this synergy. I signed up for it and the Poser 5 workshop on Sunday. Mick

Uh oh... f-curves, what the heck are they? I'm a new Poserperson and aren't really all that well aquainted with it yet; but hope to be soon. Actually four or so months ago I got Lightwave 6.5 and have been working hard at learning to use it. Then a friend showed me Poser 4 and I became curious. Having seen all of these posts and previews of P5 I'm sitting on the edge of my seat waithing to find out if LW can host Poser as I understand PPpack can. I haven't bought PPpack yet as I am hopeful that P5 can do it all! I love my LW, but reading all about character animation is more confusing than studying to be a doctor or a lawyer.

I come from a film background but learning 3d is much tougher. Programs like Poser and C4D make it fun. As I understand it, f-curves, or function curves, are splines within a program's timeline that influence certain characteristics of an animation. Poser actually has something like this in its "graph" menu. Select an object in poser, go to window>graph and you'll get an idea of what f-curves are and what they can do.