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If I find it, I'll link it and the process for using it. Sorry I can't be more specific, but Brain is off the clock at the moment. The program is old and most people don't know about it, these days. It's a bit complicated to use, but it has a decent workflow once you get used to it.

Body poser how to#

I have a copy on another comp and, if I can find it, I'll write out how to use it. I can't remember the name of the program (free, made by a Japanese fan) and I think the site is dead, so it may only be available on Wayback. The first involves the use of a java program that preserves a file reverence for the vertice order and produces an ungrouped, welded, model for morphing.

Body poser full#

(There is a reason Poser's groups have 'Load Morph Target' on each one and even allow the import of Full Body Morphs for the figure and it's not because this is somehow impossible to do, even when creating full-body morphs from outside the application. There are two 'old-school' ways to actually export from Poser that I'm used to, using Poser's export functions, to use a mesh welded from inside Poser during export, creating morphs for it, then applying those morphs from within Poser.

(Deformed objects, magnets applied, weird JCMs applied, operator-error, etc.) It's always due to user-error in my experience or an object that has something funky going on with it and doesn't conform to Poser's native rigging expectations. But, Poser, itself, doesn't cause problems with vertice reordering on export.

Vertice reordering operations for wavefront.obj files are common as they travel across multiple applications during workflow and even single-group objects can get jumbled up when imported then exported from an application. They can happen for a variety of reasons, obviously application specific. Vertice order problems are not exclusive to creating morphs from Poser objects or exports or anything to do specifically with Poser. However, if you don't need this solution, don't worry about reading through all of it. (Native CR2 specs) So, I am very sorry for the length of the post. I'm trying to provide a one-stop-post for a solution for people that want to create Full Body Morphs for their poser figures using multi-grouped objects that otherwise conform to Poser's native rigging requirements. I joined specifically to try to clear up a few things about what 'can't' be done, what 'must' be done, and, importantly, 'how to do them.' Therefore, if you didn't create your own groups before rigging the models in Poser, you CANNOT use it to replace OBJs created by Poser because they won't contain any grouping information. Looks like Blender and Modo are the only programs I know of that can handle groups without splitting the geometry. All Autodesk modeling programs are like this, to include 3DSMAX and Maya. The problem with creating body groups outside Poser is that MOST 3D modeling programs do not know how to make groups while keeping the mesh in ONE piece. This will only become more apparent when we start creating morphs for it, or try to use the morph targets in DS, which doesn't work with split geometries. This is why Tony was suggesting NOT to use OBJs created by Poser, because they WILL be saved as split geometry and NOT as single mesh as the geometry was when it was originally created and imported. Whenever I tried to export OBJs from ZB as morph targets for Poser, I ended up with differences in vertex count, vertex order, and even in scale. This is where GoZ comes in - it automatically handles the groups for us between Poser/DS and ZB, while keeping the mesh in ONE piece. Even when it imports groups, it will not know how to export them back, because it only works with vertexes. ZBrush, on the other hand, doesn't use or need groups, but can still import them as means to help making selections. When it welds on exports, all body groupings are lost. It doesn't know how to export properly welded OBJs while preserving groups. At least that's what happened when I tried. Poser offers an option to 'weld' groups when exporting to OBJ, but this will change the vertex count and order comparing to the version it internally uses, making it invalid for morph targets. This can result into tears, gaps, and rendering artifacts between groups, in most cases just involving a few faces.

Body poser pro#

Even in Poser Pro 11 there are some cases where it fails to properly weld all groups when rigging new models. DS4 works with single mesh internally, while Poser breaks it into split geometries, and only welds them back in runtime. Poser and DS internally use groups in different ways.