Nyghtfall3D opened this issue on Sep 17, 2014 · 168 posts
ssgbryan posted Sun, 09 November 2014 at 1:18 AM
Poser does - copy morphs from. What is truly great about it is that you no longer need to have ANY character morphs in the clothing. You can load a figure, apply a character, turn that dial-spin into a single FBM (via dials to single morph) then use copy morphs from to inject the resulting FBM into the clothing. Viola! Even better, once you do that, you can go and delete all of those now unneeded morphs to make a smaller figure. I am able to take a fully loaded V4 (292MB figure) and reduce it to 22MB. Not important if one is doing NVIATWAS renders, but for storyboarding multiple figures in a scene, it is almost mandatory.
Good to hear! It's one of those features that is pure money in my book...
Can you take V4 clothes and put them on a different figure as well? I love the ability to take my existing shedload of V4 stuff and put them on a more capable figure w/o a hitch.
Multiple ways of doing that. Wardrobe Wizard has been around since the Poser 6 days - was integrated into Poser 8. Xdresser is a 3rd party app that has been around for a few years. The latest version of Poser Pro comes with the Fitting Room. I can take a V4 outfit & slap it on Dawn in about 30 seconds (when using Lyrra's most excellent - Fitting room magnets for Dawn), other figures take between 90 seconds and 5 minutes (if adjustments are needed). Not 100% perfect, but this is version 1.0 for the new room. I expect better things in the next version, next summer. The GameDev version of Poser adds even more power with Combine figures which allows me to take a figure & clothing and reduce it to 1 figure. Reduce Polygons allows me to make the figure even lighter. Want the latest weightmapping tech in your legacy figures? - Merge all zones to weight maps automagically does most of the tedious work for you, allowing you to concentrate on just adjusting JCMs. It doesn't do all of the work, what is left to do isn't all that hard, just attention to detail stuff. Then of course there is the ability to subdivide - you can also apply this to legacy figures. See Attached image - That is the LoRes Poser 2 female figure (Left - subdivision 0 Right - subdivision 3).
Don't need to go out & spend hundreds of dollars on new figures (and content), when you can simply upgrade the figures you currently have. Numerous legacy figures have already been weight mapped to include V4, V3, D3, Terai Yuki, Antonia, Michelle, Kez, & Koz. As far as newer figures, we have Dawn & Dusk (from the creator of the original Victoria & Michael), Ryan2, Alyson2, Miki 4, Rex, & Roxie.
Lots of capabilities in Poser, one just has to read the documentation & use it.....
Well, apparently, the new & unimproved forum will not allow me to post an image - what a POS.