Poser HELP needed...

Hi Kusalkin, many thanks for the reply.

When the Smith Micro version of Poser 11 saves a figure to the library, it creates a new object file and also recreates all morphs from scratch!
It does so by projecting the morphed shape, just like when you transfer a morph from one figure to another.

But projecting is not as precise as actually transfering the original morph data.
(Like the good old "MorphManager" app does, for example.)

Especially expression morphs are geting messed up this way, as teeth and lips usually overlap, something that mere morph "projecting" can't compensate for.

So, if you modify a figure and re-safe that new copy to the library, NEW morphs and object files get created, resulting in a defective copy of that figure.

Bondware solved that bug by giving you a new option when saving a figure. Either keep the original object file (and the original morphs), or creating a new object file and morphs.

This "fuzzy" "morph projection" is great when you want to easily transfer morphs between different figures with different meshes, but it creates a mess when you morph or re-rig a figure, and want to save a copy of the modified figure to the library!

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I COULD work my way around this by installing a cracked copy of Poser 13 (Just for the record, I also own a legal copy of Poser 13), save the modified figure as a .pz3 in Poser 11 (Strangely, when you do that the figure gets saved AS IS, without any forced "morph projection), open that .pz3 file in Poser 13, save the figure to the library with morph projection switched off, and then go back working in Poser 11.

Still, this would be a bit of a hastle. I very much would prefer to have a version of the latest Poser Pro 11 build, that does NOT need to phone home.

Many, MANY Thanks, Hades, for the excellent instructions! That was exactly what I was looking for! Seems you DO can have your cake, and render it, too. 😉

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Yeah, I'm addicted to Poser for over a quarter century, now. Still have my Poser 4 box with the installation discs and that big instruction book.

What I like about Poser is that I have full control over my figures. I can mess about with their cr2 files any way I want, thanks to the lack of encryption. And the morphbrush allows me to actually "touch" and modify them in real time, just like a real world sculptor can do with his work.

And everything is still simple enough for me to understand. 🙂

Too bad the owners of Poser got bogged down by their own hubris. Poser was always a laymans tool. Instead of trying to keep up with the Joneses, they should have made it even more easier and versatil to use. Given it options that the average user could actually use.

I'd rather have a better Poser, than a half-baked poor man's Blender.

Anyway, not my circus, not my monkeys anymore. I'll stay with Poser 11 and simple, easy to use (and modify) figures like Mike and Vicky 2, 3 and 4.
It's amazing what you can even do with Posette and Dork, if you put a little work into them!

Thanks again to Hades and for ZoneGFX for giving us a place to ask for help!

I did have Studio installed on my previous machine so I could export duf items as object files to use them in Poser.

I know I also COULD install Poser 13 on my new machine and use those duf exporter scripts written in Python 3 to load DAZ files directly.

But now I wonder if there is an easier way to extract geometry from a duf file?
(All I need is the UV-mapped object itself. I can build Poser shaders from scratch and also Poser-rig the prop if necessary by myself)

I only come across DAZ items I REALLY need once in a while, so if there is an easy, straightforward way to extract them, I'd love to know!

THANKS.

(As for the duf figure files, I guess even if in plain text, there is so much functionality crammed into them, I'd be completely lost trying to find my way around them. LOL.)

To be honest, I haven't opened a cr2 file in quite some time, mainly because Poser 11 has all the modding functionality I need nowadays already built in. 🙂