Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Morph Cleanup Script

Cage opened this issue on Feb 24, 2010 · 592 posts


Cage posted Mon, 01 March 2010 at 2:34 PM

Right now the main problem with trying to do full body morphs with TDMT (any version) is that the process doesn't take into account welded vertices between body parts.  These vertices can end up with transferred morph influence from both actors, with resulting bulging or distortion at body part seams.  The TDMT version that I uploaded to my site, on page 1 of this thread, has a certain level of batch processing built in, but only insofar as it will allow multiple source actors to be compared to one target actor in a single run.  I've tried reworking versions of TDMT to handle multiple actors, and the result was a confusing, messy script.  😊

Which is not to say that I shouldn't consider trying to add the potential.  I think Spanki was right when he suggested that the way to approach it would be to cross-reference vertices through the unimesh for the figure.  I'll start thinking about how I could do that.

By "smoothing utility", do you mean the Restore Detail script which spawned this thread, or the tdmt.pyd Smoother script which I posted later in the thread?  I'd never considered using Restore Detail in any sort of batch processing context.  It can work on props, so I would probably have spawned the FBM on the unimesh base geometry for the figure, then processed that and ported back only the morphs for the desired actors.  That approach could be used now, at least until such a time as I work out a good full-body approach for my scripts.

These are good suggestions.  Thank you.  :D  Left to myself, they wouldn't have occurred to me, but they are probably things I should be thinking about.

A sort of afterthought:  can't some combination of Wardrobe Wizard and Morphing Clothes be used to alter a figure enough to be able to port body morphs over?  I haven't tried it, but it seems like it might work.  I'm not sure I'd expect better results from the new version of TDMT than I know can be had from Morphing Clothes.

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.