Animation Help
by Ben Immel · in Artist Corner · 04/01/2007 (10:54 am) · 7 replies
Now, first off, I have searched for an answer, but when I was reading, I started to get confused, so here it goes:
First of all, I know If I use poser and use the meshes that come with it, I cannot use those in the game. But, my question is, If I made my own model, completely original, could I use poser to Animate it and use it in my game as long as I made it? As Ive said, I searched, but I couldnt find a definite answer. Thanks!
First of all, I know If I use poser and use the meshes that come with it, I cannot use those in the game. But, my question is, If I made my own model, completely original, could I use poser to Animate it and use it in my game as long as I made it? As Ive said, I searched, but I couldnt find a definite answer. Thanks!
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#3
04/02/2007 (6:22 am)
Poser[5] is cool. I didn't like it at first; I'm getting used to it now. Nice IK and animation control. Watch your Groupings[names!]; it's how weighting is schemed, used to at least in this older version. The Grouping dialog's two ways of adding to/removing vertices act a little differently; the plus[+] & minus[-] toggles are great, it's the palette buttons that are a bit...hhmm?
#5
05/02/2007 (8:39 pm)
I was wondering, does Poser take a specific skeleton to use, or does it make a skeleton for me?
#6
You can build a rig in Poser[which would be best]; because I believe that there are some restrictions towards releasing/selling something native content, which a preassembled/limited rig would be; also I'm more confident about the meshes being a no-no to use and it's understandable.
Or you can take an existing rig and apply it to a Prop...either way works.
Have fun. Poser is a gas to animate with! and I love the control handles/widgets.
Materials and Textures and Surfaces are a little more mysterious to figure out.
...and the big secret: how to get all this into Torque! ;)
05/03/2007 (6:41 am)
Poser comes with preAssembled skeletons; they are based upon the Poser 'line' of characters[geometry/meshes]. Each version of Poser had a default skeleton that advanced in number of armatures[chains] included along with any other previous version's content. The very first rigs didn't have fingers/toes...they now do. The rigs also now contain Eye bones for control of those polygons...they are quite good base skeletons and IK setups. The weighting Schema is strange, very strange; does not parse well, basically a 1:1 weighting influence, with custom on-the-fly redistribution of influences....You can build a rig in Poser[which would be best]; because I believe that there are some restrictions towards releasing/selling something native content, which a preassembled/limited rig would be; also I'm more confident about the meshes being a no-no to use and it's understandable.
Or you can take an existing rig and apply it to a Prop...either way works.
Have fun. Poser is a gas to animate with! and I love the control handles/widgets.
Materials and Textures and Surfaces are a little more mysterious to figure out.
...and the big secret: how to get all this into Torque! ;)
Torque Owner Neo Binedell
If you created the mesh yourself by definition you can do with it what you like ;p