Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Poser 5 Morph Targets: Who's Got What

Redfern opened this issue on Sep 11, 2002 ยท 7 posts


Redfern posted Wed, 11 September 2002 at 10:38 AM Online Now!

Before I delve into the issue, let me assure you this is not meant as a complaint. It's merely an inquiry. Hopefully one of you who have experimented for a few days can provide a solution, or at least an explanation. That was why this forum was originally created, right? Having performed my own experiments, I've noticed some interesting aspects concerning the Don and Judy meshes, specifically, their pre-loaded morph parameters. Understandably, there exist some rather obvious differences. I did study basic biology in school, you know. ;-) It would be odd for Judy to have, ahem, a foreskin morph, just as it would be equally unusual for Don to possess morph dials which could augment mammary glands. However, wouldn't it seem logical for Judy to have controls to embellish or diminish muscle groups? Don has such dials listed for most of his body sections, but Judy does not, at least in my installment. Yes, I know about the dial groups. I quickly discovered how I could click upon the "+" symbol to expand the selections. However, Judy's abdomen and hip sections only have the "Transform" group that allows me to alter the "X," "Y," and "Z" scales as well as the "Twist," "Bend," and "Side-Side" positions. I have not examined the limbs, but I suspect they have the same limitations. Is it possible I may have suffered a flawed installation? I won't scream accusations of a buggy program; system values on my PC could have corrupted the load. Or does Judy in all the packages possess minimal muscular adaptations? If so, have I missed something? Does a folder exist which houses a shipload of loadable morphs that can turn Judy from a waif-thin teenager to cherubic grandmother? Concerning the full body morphs, Judy does not seem to react to any of those specific dials when I "wheel" them. When I tweaked a pectoral morph (in the full body section) for Don, only his right pec' bulged. Now that does seem odd. Has anyone else experienced this anomaly? I won't "rag" about Judy's features. The Face Room quickly grants me more pleasing features. As someone stated, CL probably had to choose some "neutral" characteristics so that the Face Room could take best advantage. I'd like to see someone attempt to recreate Marta Kirstin, the "real" Judy from "Lost in Space." The same goes for "Don." That would be a hoot! Back to business, if anyone has any explanations or, better yet, any solutions to this anatomical curiosity, I'm sure others, myself included, would appreciate your thoughts and would gain from that knowledge. Here's to a potentially great new period of imaging endeavors!

Tempt the Hand of Fate and it'll give you the "finger"!


Jaager posted Wed, 11 September 2002 at 2:03 PM

Don: a mistake was made when loading the morphs into the CR2 files, the left collar morphs were left out. Judy: The FBM dial do not work because the ERC code was acidentally 'improved' out of the morph channels. No doubt, the proper files will be provided. It is probably a matter of trying to plug the leaks in defined increments rather than piecemeal. If you are impatient: Judy: the FBM can be redone in Poser easily. The only difference is that I set limits on the dials so that you do not get carpel tunnel turning the dials between -10,000 and +10,0000 - I don't remember the P4 figures having a ton of morphs out of the box, and V1 was not exactly loaded either and V1 was about the figure. Poser 5 is about the program. Due to circumstances, I only had 3 days to morph Judy. The history of figures in the past has been that the female gets more morphs, more quickly from third party forges. Don might have to live with what he has for a while. Having more to begin with there may work out for the best.


gryffnn posted Wed, 11 September 2002 at 2:15 PM

Didn't I read that there were .cr2s for Judy and Don on the content disk that were "loaded with extra morphs"? I went looking specifically for them, but got distracted by other goodies. Have to check later.


davistj posted Wed, 11 September 2002 at 2:50 PM

The extra morph targets are on the installation CD. They are in the bonus content folder in the form of pz3 files.


gryffnn posted Wed, 11 September 2002 at 2:56 PM

Thanks! Put the installation CD away without looking at it closely enough - Elisa/gryffnn


buck posted Sat, 14 September 2002 at 7:04 PM

I installed the Bonus Content .pz3's from the Application CD, but I can't open either pz3 file from Poser 5. Poser 5 just hangs and I have to use the old 3 finger salute to close it. Has anyone else experienced this?

Buck


Bichworth posted Fri, 27 February 2004 at 9:42 PM

I agree with Redfern, especially since P4 did have female muscle morphs. Also, female muscle morphs do not seem to be contained within the P3 figures on the instalation disk referenced by DavistJ. You can approach a gymnast/superheroine etc. build by tweaking the graph in the paraneters, but this is a headache which really only seems to work on the limbs (not, for instance, on the abdomen). Although my wallet is still aching from buying Poser V for the Mac, I would spend a few bucks on some morphs. Is anyone developing/selling them? Bichworth