Tim Glover wrote in message <36E### [at] nettallycom>...
>Thanks for the great leads on cheap prices, now any insight into the
>technical questions?
>
>
>> I'm thinking about buying Poser 3 for use with Povray.  I'm interested in
>> creating realistic biped (mostly humanoid <grin>) and importing the
finished
>> model into Povray scenes, then adding my own hand-tuned textures, hair,
>> etc.  So far so good.  Now the questions:
>>
>
><snip - price and student version questions answered!>

Disclaimer: I don't actually own Poser 3. I'm hoping to buy it eventually,
though, and I've read a fair amount about it.

>> 3. (Most important) Can pre-existing bipeds be imported and "posed", then
>> re-exported?
>>

In theory, yes ... but it's difficult. As I understand it, in addition to
importing the model, you have to create a hierarchy file and set up joint
parameters for it. The joint parameters are the hardest part. Note that you
can modify the existing models to a certain extent by using morph targets;
there are a lot of them available for download.

>> 4. Had anyone tried using Poser to create figures (one per frame) for
>> animation?
>>

I've read a post from someone who did it one frame at a time (painfully) for
rendering in Bryce. I think someone else did it that way for rendering in
LightWave. So, I guess it's possible, but a lot of work.

>> TIA for insights and comments
>>
>> Tim G.
>>
>> tgl### [at] nettallycom

As an aside, there's a large Advanced Techniques manual in .pdf format
available for download from MetaCreations' site. It may give you more
insight into what you would need to do to get Poser to work with POV-Ray.
Also, there are lots of Poser resources on the Internet; MetaCreations runs
a Poser mailing list, and there's a large Poser Forum and Web ring. Somebody
there could probably tell you a lot more. Oh, by the way, Poser's textures
are mainly applied by UV mapping, so you'd probably want the UV-POV patch.

HTH,

Keith

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