Cobalt
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A Bare In His Native Habitat
🕑 Added 2016-01-24 12:46:41 +0000 UTC (continued from previous post)If you folks will recall, back in December I posted several images of my 3D Cobalt, on FA and here on the ol' Patreon here. And I mentioned that the model was badly outdated and that I should think about updating him.
Well, with those thought in mind, as my semi-new-years-resolution, a couple days ago I upgraded my copy of POSER to the latest version, to see if they'd added any new tools that would make the job easier. And in fact, they have - they've actually added something the program has desperately needed since it was created.
A way to import models at an accurate scale.
For most of it's life, Poser allowed you to import a model one of two ways - at 1:1 scale, or at a percentage of "standard figure size" and if you Google for that, you'll discover that nobody actually knows what Poser's "standard figure size" is.
So, why is this a problem? Because for some reason, Poser scale isn't the same scale every other 3D program uses. It's actually 1% of it. Poser models are TINY.
This meant that if you opened up 3DS Max and constructed a cube at one foot by one foot by one foot - when imported into poser, it would be 100 feet by 100 feet by 100 feet.
And building at 1% normal scale in your average 3D program isn't feasible, since it tends to be so small that most of the building tools don't work properly, and trying to get a camera in there to see what you're dong is also nearly impossible.
Poser now allows you to import objects at a percentage scale of your own choosing. So, build at full size, and import at 1%, and everything lines up perfectly on import.
This is such a no-brainer idea that I'm amazed it took them 11 versions before adding it.
I dug out my old, unfinished UNREAL model of the Skypad, and started importing bits. And it imported pretty much perfectly.
The model itself is far from done, only a couple rooms got built, and mostly what I had were empty rooms and empty shelves. SO I knocked up those bits of bric-a-brac to fill the place out a bit.
And once I begin work on Cobalt 2.0 I'll be able to import him into the program at exactly four feet tall, rather than trying to guess how close I can get to that compared to "standard figure size."
Comments
Cobalt
Maybe back in version 3 or so, but once they added rigging tools, and an import function, it was odd not to have a way to import models at anything resembling an accurate scale.
Albert Temple
Poser didn't put that function in because hardly anyone imported anything that needed huge amounts of adjusting into Poser - Poser was what you exported things out of.
Rnixon
Man, those Studebakers had roomy interiors.
