Re: Poser 3DMFs and Quesa-RealBasic

[Roger H. <rog...@mi...>]

Hi,

Some of my company's customers used to import 3DMF from Poser into our
products back in the days of QuickDraw3D. We have done some testing and
found that recent versions of Poser produce files purporting to be  
3DMF, but
which can not be read either by our OS-X products using Quesa or even by
our original OS-9 products using QuickDraw3D. Maybe we were just unlucky
with the particular files we tested, maybe some files do work. When  
tested
with the older versions of Poser, we could import its files into any  
of our
products, including the OS-X ones using Quesa. I believe the fault  
lies in
Poser, but their technical support people seem disinterested and suggest
we use 3DS (which lacked any texture data when we tried it). They then
suggested another format, the name escapes me and my emails from
that week got wiped from my machine. I understand (from a third party
who downloaded a demo version of the very latest version) that there
was no 3DMF support. Of course it might be they have no 3DMF export
in a demo version, but perhaps do in the issued product. Personally I
hope that I get a pleasant surprise when they fix it, but it looks  
unlikely.

Roger Holmes.


On 26 Dec, 2005, at 17:46, Don Bice wrote:

> Hello,
>
> When I export a 3dmf from poser 6, rb crashes when trying to open  
> it. I
> have the latest update for poser.
>
> Anyone know what the deal is with poser 3dmfs?
>
> If I export a .lwo 3d object from Poser, my other 3d program Cararra
> can open it and then save it as a 3dmf. These 3dmfs from Cararra work
> fine in rb. The bad news is that in the process, a 100k 3dmf (when
> poser exports it) turns into a 1mb 3dmf when Cararra exports it. So,
> this becomes an issue when having a lot of objects/shapes in rb3d
> spaces.
>
> Another issue with poser is that if an object has a texture, (like
> pants or a custom face) the texture gets lost when opening it in
> Cararra (ive tried every 3d format).
>
>
> I think all these issues would go away if Poser 3dmfs didnt make rb
> crash. But, I realize this is probably Poser's fault and not quesa's
> fault, but this is a serious bummer. Does anyone have any insight in
> this?
>
> Thanks.
>
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