1. When I make a character in Poser 5 (low poly P3 figure) I create a texture from one of the figure templates that works fine in Poser, but when I export the figure to a model (I've tried 3DS, LWO & OBJ along with MTL texture), the texture is misaligned and even MED reports that the texture is a different size to the model. All my 3D programs fit the texture incorrectly. I have checked for UV flipping upon export, it's just that the texture fits right, but theres an odd anomoly that creates ugly seams. I can't use MAX2MDL because Max says the texture format is incorrect. Is there a Poser standard for these textures?

2. MED will not allow me to import and append frames from 3DS models because it says there are too many verts in them. Is there a way to reduse the amount of polys or verts on a model while keeping its shape?

Can someone help me? Thanks in advance.

You got some expensive toys

1. Not sure

2. Yes,

A. You could do it by hand... Long process but best route to take.As you control where verts and faces are removed

B. Use a decimation program blender has one.... However that will ussually lead to messed up deformations in the animations.

As I said there are ways... However Ive yet to find a way other then by hand that will do it good enough where it wont mess with the animation process. Blender has a decimation moddifier as im sure other modeling packages do as well.

The main problem with it is that it just decimates the entire mesh and doesnt take in to concideration areas that are needed for animation such as knees elbows ect... Which most of the time really effects the way the animations look.

Your best bet would be either A. Find a different model import into poser rig and animate it or B. Remove the unnesscary polys by hand

...you might also want to read the 'rules' on using Poser figures as 3d objects for games/applications. Basically, you can't. You can use Poser to make, uh, "pretty" pictures and animations. You can't export the models, import them into your game for use as, say, player characters or NPC's. Well, that's how it used to be waaaaay back around Poser 2 or 3.

Anyway, take a look into their terms of use, EULA and stuff. Maybe they changed it. Better safe than sorry.

Oh, and I *think* Poser uses some crasy propriatary way of handeling texture/uv mapping...not sure though.

Well, I managed to pull it off, except for the texture. I exported a figure with a reasonably low poly count and then imported the model into Max. I coloured the model by chosing only elements and polygons and made a half decent character. I'm now trying to figure out how to export the colours I used in the material editor out to a texture. Wavefront OBJ works with the MTL, but I can't use that in MED.

With the 3DS model however, I successfully created a 67 frame MDL, only to output a 12 megabyte MDL and without a texture. (I wanted to skip ahead to make sure all that I'm doing is viable.) It worked in WED apart from a few animation quirks I've yet to work out. I'm still only a newbie with A6 and it seems I've a lot to learn. I have not yet got around to making at least a room with something to do in it.

I once heard a wise man say, "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." I guess I will be patient and take one step at a time.

This might be a stupid question but does your model have a uv map?

Anyways if you can get it exported to obj then a possible solution would be to also download blender. Ventilator released a wonderful mdl exporter for it which you can find by doing a search here. Good luck.

I have done this any number of times for experiments and whatnot.. the long and short of it is: you will never get a very good result using poser models and decimating them. You can get a decent result appropriate for testing, but nothing that will be particularly professional.. the reasons are simple, automatic decimation will never be sensitive to animation needs...

Basically a decimated model may look good, but will almost never animate well. You are better off exporting your poser model, and recreating it entirely by hand in your model program, using the poser mesh only as a guide. This way you get the correct seams and faces, and there is no copyright problem.

You can however, export poser animations and convert them to a 3DMax biped file using some conversion tools..they can be useful.

I once used Poser, a polygon-decimator program
and Gimp, to make a textured poser model.

The poser model get exported, polygons get reduced,
and the texture is simply 4 screenshots in poser, that get assigned
to the skin in MED.

Its a lot of work, but at least it works correct if you just one good model.

Äh, You are NOT AOLLOWED to use Poser modells in games. It was said before.