Thanks for clarifying the paid vs free versions of PyCharm. I will give it a try. ^____^

Very cute render, Penguinisto! Quite whimsical.

Penguinisto posted at 3:44PM Thu, 03 December 2020 - #4406346

Anyway, speaking of which, Hivewire has a similar anime head-graft thingy that I really like as well.

Did not know they kept the DS fires burning over there, but it makes total sense. Just that you rarely see it in DS (outside of HW, naturally).

Would that be one of my Universal heads? I have 2 at HW: the "Universal Anime Head", and the "Universal Chibi Head", where both come in native Poser and DS formats. :)

Another way to handle figures that are not meant for Poser is to make a morph for an existing Poser figure that looks like the figure you want. In this example, I have morphed DawnSE to look like Aiko6 in Poser.

adp001 posted at 2:14PM Thu, 03 December 2020 - #4406316

Yes, if your editor supports code hinting for external libraries. I can't tell with Sublime, but with Visual Code and PyCharm hinting is available as soon as "import ...." was successfully typed (and the editor imported/analysed the lib).

Maybe you have to create the empty file "__ init__.py" in the directory where you stored the lib. This tells Python that it is allowed to load libs from this path.

Yes, Sublime Text supports both code completion and code hinting. However, I believe that "__ init__.py" file was deprecated in Python 3. We only need it in Python 2, which has already reached it's end-of-life cycle last year. Unless you are writing Python2 code, I believe we no longer need that file to identify module folders. Yay!

Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. I will check out that code hinting link for Sublime Text. Does it do the same as your library?

adp001 posted at 2:07PM Thu, 03 December 2020 - #4406314

PyCharm is the most complete Editor ever. The version for Python is free and complete, with all bells and wistles. No need to pay for it.

I've got a copy of PyCharm from Humble Bundle that would expire in 1 year. After that, I would have to pay for the subscription if I wanted to keep using it, so I didn't even started. What if I liked it, but couldn't afford the subscription later? Now I wonder - if there is a free version with all the bells and whistles, why would people pay for the subscription? There must be a catch, right?

I have tried changing the email from my account profile, and I am having the same issue, where it claims to have sent me a confirmation email, but it never arrives. If it was fixed before, it's not working anymore. I have tried multiple times, and also checked my spam folder - no emails were received. I have waited until the next day, and still no emails from Rosity. Please help.

@ghostship2 I have personally contributed to some of Dawn 2.0's features, thanks to HW's open dev forums. She is a HUGE improvement over the original Dawn, building over the accumulated 7 years experience. Mind you, the original Dawn design was not open to public participation because she was created before the HW store and forums were up online. However, many of the SR-1 and SR-2 features came from my personal suggestion.

Dawn 2 is not just an update - it's a whole new figure. She has:

• Redesigned topology with cleaner edge loops.
• Redesigned grouping, with more groups where needed, and less when it actually gets in the way, like the double upper torso and neck are gone. The head is now a single group with the jaw becoming a ghost bone. The feet will finally have a metatarsal bone to allow for more realistic posing. The chest will have 2 new pectoral bones for easy breast posing. There are more things about the grouping, I can't list them all here.
• New skeleton to go with the new grouping.
• This will be HW's very first figure to come with a facial rig - woohoo!
• The fingernails will be double-sided split geometry, so we can morph and texture them more easily.
• Reduced number of MAT zones, grouping together the skin areas that share the same textures. The original Dawn has 9 MAT zones just for skin, which were reduced down to only 4, making it quicker and easier to edit skin materials.
• The eyes will have tear lines in geometry for more realistic close-up shots.
• The giant lashes are gone! Dawn 2.0 will have only 1 set in normal size that can be morphed to larger if needed. That used to get in the way when creating face morphs.
• Default shape is more generic, less angular and recognizable! Better and easier starting point for creating character morphs!
• Smaller shoulders, thinner arms and smaller hands and feet for a more feminine look.
• Brand new UV layout.

It has everything I wished for! (^____^)/

As for DS users, remember the bulk of HW figures are animals, and I have seen them all over the DS galleries. For the record, all HW figures are first created in DS, and only then a Poser version is created. Therefore they don't make DS versions afterwards, it's the other way around. Remember the HW crew are all ex-DAZ people who wanted to keep supporting both sides after DAZ departed from the Poser market. :)

@randym77 I am VERY excited about Dawn 2.0 as well. With only 1 modeler/morpher (Chris) and 1 rigger (Paul), it's amazing how many awesome figures these guys have created so far. Dawn 2 was initially postponed for about a year while Paul was rigging the HW tiger, but now he has been working on Dawn 2 full time. Yay!

DAZ3D simply came out of the blue asking Chris to sell ALL of his animals at DAZ, but there was a catch:

1. Chris could NOT sell his own animals at HW.
2. Chris could NOT use his brand (Hivewire3D) on the animals. He would have to make it less recognizable in a short form, like "HW3D".

Sounds unfair, right? Well, he ended up accepting, but he was NOT happy about it. Meanwhile, at DAZ, their own vendors who also created animals were NOT happy about this deal, and started making pressure on DAZ to quit the deal, or they would quit instead. Things started to heat up. NOBODY was happy about that deal, for either sides. In the end DAZ gave up to internal pressure, and drop their own deal after HW had already accepted. In the official record, they blamed HW for complaining about the deal, as means to remove any responsibility from their side for making a deal that made everybody mad.

This was a rather weird case from any side you look at it. First, DAZ made claims HW figures were "unusable and unworkable" (their own words), and convinced customers not to support HW. Early on, DAZ had also claimed "HW wouldn't last even the first year" (their own words). And then, all of the sudden they want to sell the HW animals with an exclusivity deal, which contradicts everything they had previously claimed about HW figures. I remember DAZ even started to advertise the HW animals at their store front page for a short while, before they backed off from their own deal. If DAZ didn't back off, their own vendors who also made animals would revolt, and HW wasn't too happy about not being able to use their own brand on the animals. This was a crazy deal that couldn't last.

That was some of the weirdest things I have seen in a while.

But who has the source codes? Are they available somewhere?

If I just import the module as described above, would that alone provide code hinting?

Thanks, man. I am not really looking for changing editors, especially not those with strings attached to subscriptions. I am happy with Sublime Text. I have paid for it, and it's mine forever. I just wanted to know how to use your script with Python3 in Poser 12. Sublime Text supports code hinting, but it is very limited, and obviously has no clue about the PoserPython API. Are you saying your library adds code hinting for the PoserPython API? That would be cool and really helpful. Is it possible to use it with Sublime Text?

Winter is coming! Figures are both DawnSE, rendered in Poser 12 with Superfly.

Thank you @Rhia474. I am a newbie here, and it's good to know some people know me. ^____^

@wolf359 Like I said, DAZ3D was one factor, and there were many. I would agree that it was business as usual if I haven't seen what actually happened between DAZ and HW back in 2013-15. Since Chris is their former founder, DAZ took it personally. I was there and I saw everything in first hand, and it wasn't pretty. All I can say is that DAZ didn't play fair. There were a few punches under the belt. That's all I am willing to disclose here. I just don't want people to go thinking it was the "usual" kind of business competition. Chris and his crew are GOOD, honest and talented people, and they deserved better. They were BRAVE to stand against the giant, and I am glad it was just the store that went down, and that they are still in business. :)

Hi, I am a newbie here at Rosity. Just wanted to ask what is this FakePoserLib3 used for? I use Sublime Text to write my Python code, and I wonder if this would allow me to debug from within the editor? Structure has mentioned it is possible to connect Sublime Text with Poser 12 by creating a new profile to use with Tools -> Build System, but that didn't work in my attempts. All it does is open the default Poser scene, no matter what code is executed. I wonder if this FakePoserLib3 would be related to what I want to do - run and debug code without Poser?

Poser has indeed supported swapping body parts geometry as far as version 3 (or 4?), where I have used and abused this feature in my renders for years. However, geo-grafting is a whole different story, where the replacing geometry is actually welded to the mesh at vertex level, which temporarily changes the figure geometry and vertex count while preserving weight maps and morphs. The obvious advantage is a seamless integration with the figure that can survive even subdivision. Conforming alternatives are not seamless, and in some cases that can be an issue in renders and animations. We can try easing that up with transparency maps, but that can be a hit or miss depending on the case. If the figure is wearing clothes and has hair, things like tails and horns don't need to be seamless.

However, I was commissioned several times to create a geo-grafted replacement for the ball of the feet on Genesis 3 and 8 figures, where the low poly geometry and simplified topology have compromised feet posing on that area, creating ridges that look bad in renders. This can only be done with geo-grafting, and lucky me, those are DS figures where the feature is available.

I would love for Poser to have this feature, but Rendo has other things that have higher priority at the moment, so (IMHO) this is not the best time to ask for it.

I have been with HW since before they opened the store, supporting Dawn when she was their only figure back in 2013. If you know DAZ, then you probably know who Chris Creek is. Along with Dan Farr, Chris has founded the original "Digital Art Zone" (DAZ), which later got incorporated and became DAZ3D. If you really want to know why the HW store is closing now, we have to look back to see the context. Chris has left DAZ3D by claiming "it no longer does what it was created for". Once DAZ got incorporated, it was then ran by a board of directors - businessmen. Only later Chris understood this was a mistake, because he wanted a company that was ran by artists to serve artists.

That's how HW was born, which explains the friendly atmosphere everybody enjoy there. However, the whole company is made of only 4 people: Alisa, Chris, Lisa and Paul. They have accumulated a huge backlog of products that take time to complete because... there are only 4 people in the whole company. On top of that, they are also running a store, with banking systems for handling payments, a legal department to handle disputes, a web master to handle the store and forums site, and a marketing department to manage store advertisement and QAV. But, there are only 4 people there, usually wearing many hats during the day, and with a HUGE backlog of products in development that need to be finished. All this while standing tall against DAZ3D, who never took this lightly.

Needless to say, there are pros and cons for artists running a company. The pros is a friendly environment and productive interactions to create new products. HW has allowed me to actively participate on the design and specs for the upcoming Dawn 2.0 in their open forums - something we don't often see nowadays. However, the accumulated fatigue for wearing so many hats can take its toll over time. That's how RuntimeDNA was closed - they grew tired of wearing too many hats over time. Defending themselves against the DAZ3D corporation with such a tiny company was also a factor that took its toll.

To be fair, Renderosity had kept a friendly relationship with HW throughout they years, where HW figures (human and animals) were sold here, too. Even now that Rosity has acquired Poser, they still bundle HW figures with it - even more of them than SMS did in Poser 11. Assumptions that Rendo would have something to do with the HW store demise are unfounded. Conversely, DAZ3D has forbidden any HW contents to be sold at their store from the very beginning, also forbidding vendors from supporting HW in any shape or form. They have been openly hostile against HW from the very beginning, and that is more likely to have contributed for the HW store closing over time.

Therefore the end of RDNA and HW stores are somewhat similar - the owners got tired of wearing all the hats. That can wear you off over time. But perhaps it was a bit more severe with HW because of their large product creation backlog. Without the store, they will have more time to dedicate themselves to working on new contents. And believe me, if you saw the new Dawn 2.0, you will want that figure, so maybe this a change for the better. Consider I am a guy who will be loosing the store I had with HW for the last 7 years, so I am not saying this lightly. If they have to close the store to better serve the community with quality products, so be it.

Remember only the store is closing. HW will keep producing more contents under their brand here at Rosity, and the HW forums will keep running as usual. This is NOT the end of HW, like it was with CP and RDNA. It's just the store.

Wow, those rocks rock! ^___^