SKYLAB CHAT

[skylab]

The files are showing the sleeveless coat as being dynamic, the rest is conforming...yes!!!

 

[Terre]

Great!

A friend elsewhere is just starting to poke into Poser animations and has what sounds like a newbie problem. I posted a link to this thread and told him that of the people I know you have the most experience with such. This sounds like just his second attempt so I figure it's probably something simple that you figured out long ago.

 

[skylab]

Sure, I'll help if I can And, as usual, if I don't know, I'll try to find out where they can get help.

 

[skylab]

I'm getting a "searching for PMD files when I go to load the conforming clothing for Paul, so it shows that it's on the preview screen, but invisible. The dynamic coat however loaded beautifully...and the textures are really nicely done...will try to run a sim now on it.

 

[Terre]

I hope you get it to work well.

 

[Miss B]

Hey Sky. I sometimes get similar errors when the pp2 (for dynamic clothes) has the wrong path to the file in the code.

 

[skylab]

Sorry, I got side-tracked...yes, Miss B, I'm tending to think it's on the code level. Here's the dynamic coat...great potential as a magi garment. I substituted a pair of shorts since the rest of the outfit isn't functioning yet.

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Oh, that's gorgeous, Sky!

 

[Miss B]

That is nice. It was hard to tell how nice from the promo on the download page.

 

[skylab]

Right, the outfit appeared dark in the promo, so that's why I mentioned I'd set up a test...the textures are well done.

 

[skylab]

Running a test using M4 now

 

[skylab]

Close enough...shows possibilities with tweaking...nice I did scale it up some since Paul has a smaller build...I scaled it up to 108%.

 

[skylab]

Going off now to get dinner. See you all next time

 

[Miss B]

Doesn't look too bad for M4 either.

 

[skylab]

Some of that might be my fault for upscaling quite that much...but I could see that it was going to need to be larger, but was difficult to judge how much...I'd say probably 104 or 105 might be enough.

 

[Miss B]

That's what I was just thinking too.

 

[skylab]

I left a note on the ShareCG download page about the PMD file searching on the conforming items...I thought they'd want to know about the issue. The readme mentions it possibly happening on one particular item for Pauline, but all the conforming items stall and search, and never become visible, even when rendered. Maybe that can be fixed

 

[Miss B]

Well if it's the PMD file, then it's the Binary Morph Editor that's needed. I think that's one of D3D's goodies over at R'osity. If it's the pp2, that can be done with his Poser File Editor. You can also edit a pp2 with a plain text editor, but with all the lines of code, you'd need to "find" all the paths to correct them. I don't believe you can use a plain text editor for a PMD as it's a binary file.

 

[Terre]

I hope that gets sorted out easily.

 

[skylab]

Hey Terre Hope things have settled down for you on the job. All is well here.