These are looking spectacular! Great work, both of you!
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Help? I'd dearly love to update my horse costumes for Harry
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Hey Lyrra, Paul is the person to talk to about converting weightmapping between the two programs. I believe his preferred technique is to start in DS and convert to Poser, however Ken1170 has converted lots of things the other way.
From my own experience I would say that most likely when you pop that saddle on the horse in DS and go to fit it, if it's legacy rigging you will get an autofit dialogue at least that's what happens with Poser Weightmapped items. If you left the boxes at default and hit okay I'm not sure how much of the original rigging it would keep if you don't use a template but my guess would be that it might be none...parented would probably be okay...as I've said before though I'm not an expert. The best bet would probably be to use the transfer utility.
From my own experience I would say that most likely when you pop that saddle on the horse in DS and go to fit it, if it's legacy rigging you will get an autofit dialogue at least that's what happens with Poser Weightmapped items. If you left the boxes at default and hit okay I'm not sure how much of the original rigging it would keep if you don't use a template but my guess would be that it might be none...parented would probably be okay...as I've said before though I'm not an expert. The best bet would probably be to use the transfer utility.
I have GOT to listen/watch my webinar again on the clothing conversion, I've forgotten nearly everything! At least I finally found it again on my hard drive.
So I'm hardly a master rigger or weight mapper, in fact I'm just a beginner, but here's my two cents on which way is 'easier' to go. I think DS is much better at copying weight mapping over smartly from the figure the item is made for. This means that you have less tweaks to do overall, and then when you bring that into Poser, you also don't have as much adjustment to do. But if you weight map something in Poser first, it won't be totally broken in DS, you'll just have possibly done a lot more work to get the item up and running to begin with, and then still have to tweak in DS.
So I think possibly it's almost always faster to start in DS, but. . . I don't like working in DS and feel far more comfortable working in Poser, so for the sake of my sanity it's 'easier' to start in Poser. At least I know that my mesh can work, if I do it that way, so all my DS frustrations end up being rather minor. If that makes sense. . .
Yep...makes sense and matches what Littlefox says in her tutorials about rigging that it's easier to start in DS but she uses a different method to Paul for getting stuff across to Poser.
I do know that many items that have been made for Poser can be converted easily to DS others are more difficult. I've converted a lot of things made for Dawn using autotransfer and the transfer utility. Problem is there is a difference between what is okay for your own use and what is okay for distributing for sale. So they would require more tweaking than I would need to do for something I want to use in one render.
I do know that many items that have been made for Poser can be converted easily to DS others are more difficult. I've converted a lot of things made for Dawn using autotransfer and the transfer utility. Problem is there is a difference between what is okay for your own use and what is okay for distributing for sale. So they would require more tweaking than I would need to do for something I want to use in one render.
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Wondering how these are coming as i would LOVE to have them!!
