Cage opened this issue on Feb 24, 2010 · 592 posts
Cage posted Mon, 29 March 2010 at 1:21 PM
Quote - Just checking here - this implies that eventually, those of us who have older versions of Poser which won't run the PYD will be able to use the same algorithmic goodness? If that's right, then whoo-hoo. And, of course, many thanks for your efforts. :)
The ray-casting hybrid will be available to everyone. It will be slower, unfortunately, just as the closest vertices alone is slower without the .pyd. Poser Python really, really, really needs a compiled vector and matrix library. Numeric can help, but it's put together sideways, it can't do everything (point distance?), some things it does more slowly than mere Python code (dot products), and Poser distributions no longer include the linear algebra module, so Numeric can't be put to full use anyway. Stewer, someone, anyone who's on the Poser team: pleeeeease! Please consider the value of adding some kind of improved 3D math support to Poser Python. It will bring Poser closer to being a true professional tool.
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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.