I'm looking for the original blender plug-in as well.

Sounds like RobynsVeil can make it work, if not, I may be able to take a look.

Has anyone found it?

== John ==

Might not be sure I am following the last couple of Post correctly but I do have two of the last versions of the Poser Tools for Blender for Blender 2.61 which I think were the last he worked on before the project was abandoned one is a PT2_4_28_12_blender_261 and PT2_05_10_2012_blender_261_windows these were originally download from his site before it went off line since I can no longer even find the site so if anyone wants I can always upload them to make them available for download

Thanks Lobo, I think that's what's needed :) If you could upload those, it would be great.

== John ==

Hello I was able to upload one and add it to the free stuff area seemed the easiest way if there are any issue downloading it please do let me know https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/poser-tools-2/76373

[Lobo3433]> Might not be sure I am following the last couple of Post correctly but I do have two of the last versions of the Poser Tools for Blender for Blender 2.61 which I think were the last he worked on before the project was abandoned...

I was in contact with the gent who was developing this some years back. He took a break from it due to real life getting in the way, but had to eventually abandon it for the same reason. The two sites that tracked it are long since closed. I tried all versions but they they never really worked well. It had a lot of promise though and it would sure be nice if someone could complete it. With Poser now using the same renderer as Blender, I'd love to see a closer relationship between the two.

I still had this on archived hard drive and since I saw that some were looking for the file so I uploaded them here so maybe someone with Python skills can pick up where he left off and maybe get this working I know there is a simlar add on for daz that is in active development called Khalibloo Panel and that can be found here perhaps someone can speak to its creator or get some ideas in which direction to go with the Poser Tools. I have no python experience so not a skill set I have

I needed to import a pp2 into Blender 2.80, so I started working on the original scripts. I think it was always pretty rough, and the years haven't been good to it, but I have a version here: https://github.com/jentron/Blender-PT2 that will let Blender 2.8x load poser prop geometry and save as well. Unfortunately, uv's are broken as are materials in general. Definitely a WIP.

So Lobo, are you the orignal author of that plugin ? I've seen from the Github repository a link to your upload on the freestuff section.
Great idea btw

jentron posted at 5:00PM Sun, 21 June 2020 - #4389254

I needed to import a pp2 into Blender 2.80, so I started working on the original scripts. I think it was always pretty rough, and the years haven't been good to it, but I have a version here: that will let Blender 2.8x load poser prop geometry and save as well. Unfortunately, uv's are broken as are materials in general. Definitely a WIP.

I don't know how much interest there is in this tool, but my git hub version is getting better. It loads most props geometry and UV maps, I still need to work out a good way to find external resources. It usually bombs if there are external obj files and it can't find textures, either. Still a good 90% solution.

jentron posted at 11:10PM Mon, 05 October 2020 - #4392661

I don't know how much interest there is in this tool

I'm very interested - but busy with another urgend project for the next week or so.

Hello,

I see people are still interested in my script.  I haven't really used blender in a few years... I see they've revamp the main GUI quit a bit. 

I don't remember for sure is the Blender API changed or if it was a python change that starting giving the script problems.

I still enjoy programming in python.  I might be interested in revisiting this project in my spare time.  Doesn't Blender have some type  of prop library now??

Blender 3.0 is on the horizon now.  It has been through at least 2 API changes since 2.58.  3.0 is getting an asset library with thumbnails, along with several other key features.

Hi Reddog9, I've got PT2 working pretty good for importing characters (PCI) the only thing I'm really not happy with mesh weighting. The prop importer (PPI) is ok. They both do a fair job loading morphs, materials, and armatures. I haven't really looked at exporting to Poser. One big structural change I made was to start moving functionality into libraries. Texture/Material loading for both PCI and PPI are handled by the same code now, and I want to move the OBJ loader into a library as well. The Poser Tools obj loader works a lot better than the Blender built-in obj loader and a standalone obj loader would be useful. Having the the mesh code split out will make it easier to support multiple meshes in a single object as well.

There have been a lot of Python API changes in Blender, I'm still working with 2.9.x I haven't looked into 3.0 yet.