Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Morph Cleanup Script

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


Cage posted Wed, 24 February 2010 at 12:18 AM

This is a Python script which I've been finding extremely useful and I thought I'd post it so others can use it too.

The script works on a morphed actor and applies a smoothing method which, instead of averaging vertex positions, moves the vertices back toward the distance relationships they had in the unmorphed mesh.

The result is rapid cleanup of a morph which might otherwise take hours of work by hand.  Basic shaping changes are retained while basic vertex relationships present in the original mesh are restored.

The example I provide here (attached images) is intentionally extreme.  But the script is useful for minor adjustments.  Magnets can easily be used to create morphs which are incompatible with other morphs on an actor.  (Example, a magnet-derived character morph disagreeing with expression morphs on a head.)  This script pulls the morphed shape back toward the base shape, making it more likely that morphs will cooperate.

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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.