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Show Us Your Dawn Renders!
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I know these things can be confusing. When PSS (Pixar Subdivision Surface) was first introduced (in Poser 10?), it couldn't be applied to split figures in Poser because it required unimesh geometry. The Morph Tool was the same thing - it was incompatible with split figures, and required unimesh geometry. For that purpose, SMS had introduced a way to convert split figures into unimesh geometry, and that's the command we find in the main menu to convert to "Unimesh Skinning".
This creates a version of the geometry that is unimesh, and it's only used for PSS. In some cases, you might also want to use Unimesh Skinning when using the Morph Tool, because it can spike out verts between split groups.
However, Poser is still internally using the split version for general operations, because it doesn't know how to handle single piece geometries. The new Unimesh Skinning is only used in PSS, optionally (but recommended) when using morph brushes, and when rendering. You can say this is a kind of chimera creature, which explains why PSS has such an impact on Poser performance.
With unimesh Poser, the figures will ALWAYS be a single piece geometry, so we no longer need to convert to "Unimesh Skinning". In other words, Poser would no longer split the figure groups into separate geometries when loaded. This has deep repercussions in how it works inside. As it is now:
* Groups can only exist as split geometries,
* Morphs are applied per specific groups, not the entire figure,
* Viewport selections only work if the groups are split,
* Skeleton binding can only be done per split geometry group.
etc....
All this will be gone in unimesh Poser. A lot will have to change on how it works internally. All the other Rooms will have to adapted to how the new core operates. One could say they will basically have to rewrite Poser. The deepest change ever done to it.
Wow! So if I understand what you are saying correctly. Up until now it creates an overlay on a split figure to allow you use a figure as unimesh. The new versions of Poser they are talking about rewriting to allow a full version of unimesh to be used.
Am I correct in thinking that this will bring in closer to DS and how it operates? So when loading a morph for example you can load it to the whole figure?
Am I correct in thinking that this will bring in closer to DS and how it operates? So when loading a morph for example you can load it to the whole figure?
YES!
Poser will be working [internally] just like DAZ Studio. It will no longer split the figures when loaded. It will always use "unimesh skinning". ^^They have already started. ^____^
In the meanwhile, I made a script to export unimesh geometry straight from Poser 12. It makes it possible to export morph targets from Poser to DS, which was never possible before. ^___^
Only in 12. P11 uses Python 2, which has reached its end-of-life deadline in December 2020, and is no longer officially supported.
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One thing I always wished was that Poser be modified to at least store the maps when it splits. This would have helped a lot. 2 maps: original (source OBJ) to split (what poser uses). 2nd map: split to welded (what poser exports on weld). They're easy enough to generate (most times.) But Poser knows absolutely what they are.
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I made a Blender add-on that creates a unimesh (in original SRC OBJ order) from a Poser split mesh. I made it for sculpting morphs in Blender. If I'm just sculpting the original mesh, then I don't need this; I can just morph a copy of the original (source) mesh.
It's only if you manipulate the mesh in Poser (in any way) and you want that manipulated mesh as a unimesh for some other reason (for me: further morphing in Blender to be used as a FBM in poser). Sometimes I combine morphs, scales, etc. in Poser. Then I use Blender's sculpt tools to manipulate the mesh even more (great for head morphs).
You can use it to create a Poser morphed unimesh of the original OBJ.
Let me know if it would be useful to you. So far I've used it in Blender 2.8 though 3.2.
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It did mine as well. Luckily, years of therapy helped that
The GUI starting at 2.8 got a *lot* better. And each release since has improved on that. So much better having waited
And while Blender has become easier, there are still very obtuse ways to do some things that you'd think would be more obvious. But that's any software, I suppose. Insanity is not a requirement but it helps
Poser seems to me to do a pretty good job at letting even the *marginally* sane people do cool CGI
I use Blender for mesh manipulation and UV. But I use Poser for... well, posing (and rigging). So much easier.