Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Morph Cleanup Script

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


Cage posted Tue, 02 March 2010 at 2:08 PM

I need to test doing the shape transfer back from Antonia to V3, but if all goes well, I think I'm on board with odf's idea for a base reference figure for use in comparisons.  The obvious nominee seems to be Antonia, assuming her head shape and vertex count or vertex order won't be changing before Antonia version 2.  The Antonia shape can be shared freely and users could shape a geometry as Antonia and distribute that as a morph.  If a library of Antonia-shaping morphs is built up for different figures, the figures can be compared to Antonia or to one another by going through the Antonia shape.

That is, assuming the shape transfer still handles well in tests beyond this first one with V3 to Antonia.  If we can't easily get the base shape of a geometry, going through a common shape won't help as much when you want to create transfers from, for instance, V2 to V3.

If we were to go through Antonia as a universal reference, I wonder whether it is appropriate to use her geometry as a base for male figures.  For the head, I'd see no problem, but the body might not be as effective.  If a separate male base needs to be used, the obvious candidate would seem to be Brad, once he's released, and assuming phantom3D approves and Brad reaches a point where his base geometry won't be changing.

A website could be set up for the scripts, where comparison files and universal reference morphs for figures can be hosted (or linked), hopefully providing a nice resource for morph transfer, once an adequate library of shapings and comparisons is built up.

I assume this was basically what odf was suggesting, earlier.  (Am I correct in that, odf?)

So I need to do more testing with shape transfer.

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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.