Murdock has a background in engineering, specializing in computer graphics. Boston, MA: Thomson Course Technology, 2007. Poser 7 Revealed: The e frontier Official Guide by Kelly L. Check back to VFXWorld frequently to read new excerpts.
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This time the object and its label are imported correctly, as shown in Figure 5.įind out more about how to put the power of Poser 7 to work as you learn how to use the new Talk Designer to automatically sync facial animations to an audio track, combine the power of Poser 7 with other software packages, create new motions using the new animation layers feature and much more. This time, enable the Flip U Texture Coordinates and Flip V Texture Coordinates options and load the same model again. Then choose the File, Import, Wavefront OBJ menu again.Ħ. Press the Delete key to delete the current object. The object with its mapped image is imported as shown in Figure 4, but the label is upside down.ĥ. Then select the Super_fizzy_pop_label.tif file from the same folder and click the Open button again. Select the Super Fizzy Pop.obj file from the Chap 04 folder and click the Open button. In the Import Options dialog box, select the Centered, Place on Floor and Scale options and then click the OK button.Ĥ. The 3D object is imported correctly this time. The Import Options dialog box appears where you can specify the import settings. Select the Figure, Hide Figure menu to hide the current figure.Ģ. Figure 3 shows an image with a mapped image that is imported with the texture upside down. If the imported bitmaps on an object come in upside down or flipped left to right, you can use the Flip U and V Texture Coordinates to correct the problem. When a texture is mapped onto the surface of an object, its position on the surface is defined by a coordinate system with U for the horizontal position of the upper-left corner and V as the vertical position of the upper-left corner. If the majority of the normals are pointing incorrectly inward, you can use the Flip Normals option to change their direction. Using Polygon Normals.Ĭonsistent causes all normals to point inward or outward based on the direction of the majority of the normals. If the normal is flipped (which can happen occasionally when exporting and importing models), the back side of a polygon becomes visible and its front side becomes invisible, thus making the object appear inside out. A normal is an invisible vector that points outward from the center of the surface polygon and is used to tell the rendering engine which way a polygon is pointing. If the model being imported appears inside out, or if some of its normals appear to be colored dark, it could be that the polygon's normals are pointing inward, as shown for the bookcase on the right in Figure 2. The bitmap on this object is mapped upside down. They also can increase the file size of the model. Duplicate vertices can cause trouble for some game and rendering engines. This is especially common for mirrored objects along the center mirroring axis. The Weld Identical Vertices option reduces the total number of vertices by combining any vertices that have the same coordinates. The Place on Floor option causes the lowest portion of the imported prop to be aligned on the grid floor. The Centered option causes the imported prop to appear centered about the grid origin within the Document Window. It is used to set the initial position and scaling of the imported prop object and includes options for fixing certain problems. The Import Options dialog box, shown in Figure 1 appears when any of the previously mentioned formats are selected from the File, Import menu. You can learn more about these various import options for the various 3D packages in Chapter 17, "Using Poser with Other Software." Wavefront OBJ: Imports geometry objects using the.LightWave: Imports geometry objects using the. 3DS file format from 3ds Max.ĭXF: Imports geometry objects using the. QuickDraw 3DMF: Imports geometry objects using the QuickDraw 3DMF file format (available for Macintosh systems only).ģD Studio: Imports geometry objects using the. If the model includes materials, use the 3D Studio or LightWave options. It tends to provide the cleanest import models. OBJ format for objects without materials. Tip: If you have a choice of which 3D format to use, stick with the Wavefront.
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