How to create a fail safe full body or partial body morph in Hexagon for PP2012 SR3

What this is:
A failsafe workflow tutorial to create a failsafe full body morph for Poser figures in Hexagon. As of SR3, this is also a way to create partial full body morphs as SR3 allows to selectively delete unused and empty dials from imported full body morphs. This will be covered in Chapter2.

What this is NOT: A Hexagon tutorial. Hexagon has been free for a while and there are lots of hi-quality tutorials available for Hexagon.

The advantage of this workflow is that file size does NOT increase for a full body morphed character and allows the end user to create a full body custom character from a bare-base existing obj file.

It requires some preparation work but this preparation ensures the fail safe part, and brings the advantage that he/she does not overwrite any existing object or texture file.

I will use Alyson as my source in this tutorial.

What do you need ?

• PoserPro2012+SR3
• Hexagon free
• Uvmapper free
• cr2editor (or equivalent) available here
  http://www.morphography.uk.vu/dlutility.html

The preparation:

So you want to make a personal morphed character?
In this tutorial we will call her “Wendy”.

Create a folder “Wendy” in your runtime.
Public/Documents/Poser Pro 2012 content/Runtime/Libraries/Characters/People/

Copy the following files in this Wendy folder;

• P8Alyson_HR.obj  => You will have to unzip the obz to a obj file.
• Alyson.cr2 => you will have to unzip the crz to cr2

IMPORTANT 1 !
Unzip the P8Alyson_HR.obj a second time to somewhere else on your HD.
Rename this to Wendy.obj and then move this Wendy.obj file in the Wendy folder.

Optional..
Put a copy of uvmapper free in the same folder.
Put a copy of cr2editor (or equivalent) in the same folder.
I like to keep things organised when working on a new figure/character.
It speeds up the process if you keep things close together.

IMPORTANT 2 !
Rename the Alyson.cr2 to Wendy.cr2
Edit the Wendy.cr2 using cr2editor (or equivalent) and change BOTH lines pointing to Alyson:P8Alyson_HR.obj  to pointing to Wendy:Wendy.obj

Intermediate test. Told you we want to make this procedure fail safe.
Open Poser, and load your Wendy character from the library.
It should load without any problems and Use Alysons default textures.
We only changed the path to the object file in the cr2
Close Poser.

What you minimum should have to continue in the Wendy folder is;

• P8Alyson_HR.obj  => Copy has to stay here as you will need this afterwards.
• Wendy.obj
• Wendy.cr2
  A typical folder structure looks like this SCREENGAB1

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