Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Morph Cleanup Script

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


Cage posted Tue, 02 March 2010 at 9:16 PM

Quote - Don't worry! I wasn't serious about me stopping to talk to you. Here's the smiley I should have included:  The thing is, you understand and have thought through your process much better than I have, so feel free to ignore any part of my ramblings that doesn't make sense to you.

You're welcome to reshape and mangle Antonia in any way you see fit and use that as your reference figure. You might want to get rid of the toecaps, by the way, since no other figure has them.

Oh, good.  I'm always worried about offending someone.  Hence my disclaimer, in the sigline.  Danged internet.  Can lead to easy misunderstandings in the absence of emoticons.  :lol:

Hopefully I won't mangle her.  :lol:  What I had in mind was selective use of smoothing, to reduce some of the detail in the outer nostrils (which I've found hard to correlate; they may need cleanup in the V3 data files) and possibly the ears.  Antonia's shape is extremely flexible and should be highly effective as a reference base.  :woot:  Simplifying the shape is a great idea that wouldn't have occurred to me. 

Edit:  I think the toecaps and the jaws, tongue, and eyes would probably be unnecessary in this case.  On the other hand, I've been screening out the mouth bits.  Others may want to make use of them.  Hmm.

Quote - The close vertices and their weights are saved to the data file, which can then be used to transfer the shapes or morphs later, with no need at the time of transfer to be concerned about the actors' relative shapes.

The above quote of mine is poorly-stated and misleading.  😊  The relative positions of the actors does remain important for a shape transfer, because that process uses worldspace positions of the actors.  For morph transfer, however, relative shapes and positions are irrelevant as long as both figures are currently in the Poser scene.

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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.