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This document provides instructions for installing Poser Pro software. It begins with an overview of key new features in Poser Pro such as network rendering capabilities and 64-bit rendering. It then covers installing Poser Pro, including requirements for Windows and Mac systems. Instructions are also provided for installing the optional Queue Manager for managing network rendering jobs. The document concludes with brief descriptions of technical features and capabilities within Poser Pro such as gamma correction, normal mapping, COLLADA import/export, and hosting plug-ins for other 3D software.

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Reference Manual for Windows and Mac OS X®
Poser Pro Reference Manual CREDITS The following people contributed to Poser Pro: Teyon Alexander Sehera Nawaz The following companies provided technology or Laurel Becker Tori Nichelle Porter content used in Poser Pro: Jason Cozy Steve Rathmann Automatic Sync Technologies LLC Steve Cooper Brian Romero Pixels Digital, Inc. John Csaky Rich Smolen RuntimeDNA Sarina DuPont Tobias Sugar Singular Inversions, Inc. Colin Gerbode Jack Walther Size8 Software, Inc. Darrell Glidden Larry Weinberg Joe Grover Stefan Werner Jianhua Shen Steve Yatson Dave Kennedy Ulrich Klumpp Special Thanks to: Matt Ko Wim van de Bospoort, Charles Taylor. Mark Leitch Susan McKay Trademark Copyright NoticE Poser, the Poser logo, PoserFusion and the Smith Micro Logo are trademarks and or registered trademarks of Smith Micro Software, Inc. Poser copyright © 1991-2008 All Rights Reserved. All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders . Licensed product.
Poser Pro Reference Manual Contents Poser Pro 6 Gamma Correction and Linear Rendering 22 What’s New in Poser Pro 6 Gamma Correction Per Texture 23 Installing Poser Pro 8 Normal Mapping 24 Poser Pro Installation (Windows) 14 Poser Pro Installation (Mac) 15 High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) Export 26 Installing Queue Manager 16 Installing Queue Manager on a Remote System (Windows) 16 COLLADA Import/Export 27 Installing Queue Manager on a Remote System (Mac) 16 Importing COLLADA Files 27 Licensing 16 Exporting COLLADA Files 27 Network Render Queue 17 PoserFusion Hosting Plug-ins 30 Sending Jobs to the Queue Manager 17 Hosting vs. Importing 30 Using the Render Queue for a Single-Frame job 17 3ds Max 30 Using the Render Queue for a Multi-Frame Job 17 Cinema 4D 37 Using the Queue Manager 18 Queue Menu 18 PoserFusion for Maya 40 Job List 18 Selected Job Panel 19 Render in Background 21 64-Bit Render Engine 22
Poser Pro Reference Manual Poser Pro What’s New in Poser Pro Network Render Queue Poser Pro, the 3D character animation solution for production Save time and cut production costs by using networked computers environments, offers fully animated scene integration into 3ds to render complex scenes and lengthy animations. The Network Max, Maya and Cinema 4D, with Collada export, 64 bit rendering Render Queue allows you to set-up a rendering network, distribute and the Network Rendering Queue. Poser Pro helps save design rendering jobs across that network, and manage those rendering time and production resources by providing access to a market of jobs to suit your schedule. With the Queue Manager, distributed hundreds of ready to use, studio quality, pre-rigged and textured renderings can be paused and resumed, or fully rendered on slave characters plus thousands of diverse props to detail any scene. machines so you can keep working in Poser Pro on your master machine. The Network Render Queue distributes rendering jobs across as many networked machines as permitted by your license. Render in Background Increase personal productivity with background rendering in Poser Pro. Work on Poser scenes in the foreground, while rendering time consuming still frame images with the Firefly render engine in the background. When rendering in the background, Poser Pro allows you to open and close other scene files, save your project, and continue working to fully utilize your production time. 64-Bit Render Engine Poser Pro lets you take advantage of high performance 64-Bit Operating Systems and hardware with the new 64-Bit Firefly Render Engine. The 64-Bit render engine efficiently uses all available system memory to render even the most complex scene files in the shortest possible time. Distribute 64-bit rendering jobs via the Network Render Queue for even greater time savings at render time.
Poser Pro Reference Manual Gamma Correction/Linear Rendering shadows. Poser Pro rendered images can be exported in Radiance With Poser Pro Gamma Correction you can specify gamma and (.hdr) or OpenEXR (.exr) format giving you greater control over apply the values to textures, as well as specifying the gamma the luminosity, opacity and reflectance range of your work. With values that will be applied to exported images. This allows you to HDRI optimized output, you can take advantage of the extra perform linear rendering for increased luminance accuracy. Poser precision, flexibility and physically correct image operations in post Pro Gamma Correction gives you the confidence that what you see production that standard image formats don’t support. is what you’ll get because input and output data will comply with COLLADA Import/Export your selected gamma values . Poser Pro offers Data Exchange with the industry-standard Poser Pro Gamma Correction on the Texture Manager COLLADA format. Gain maximum flexibility by transporting Poser allows you to specify gamma values per texture, giving you content to a large list of applications that support COLLADA such the ability to exclude certain textures from scene-wide gamma as Softimage XSI, NVIDIA FXComposer or Adobe Photoshop CS correction for maximum flexibility when dealing with displacement Extended. Experience the added benefit of creating and exporting or normal maps. animated character content with Poser Pro’s pre-rigged characters Save 3D objects created in modeler programs as COLLADA files Normal Mapping and import them into Poser Pro, for props or as the basis for Poser Pro’s Normal Mapping is a resource-efficient technique creating new figures. to add the appearance of complexity and surface detail to 3D objects. It can transform object surfaces, making them appear PoserFusion Hosting Plug-ins more intricate than they actually are, without the added overhead Use Poser Pro as a character animation solution in 3ds Max, Maya of polygonal detail. This saves designers valuable time and offers and Cinema 4D. Poser Pro includes robust plug-ins, allowing you to increased creative flexibility by allowing faster and more light open and host Poser scene files and 3D content within production weight computation of rendered results. environment applications. Integrate static or animated Poser Pro scenes with these powerful 3D tools for increased productivity and High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) Export instant access to the vast libraries and marketplace of pre-built, Create vivid, life-like images with HDRI output. HDRI images pre-rigged, and textured Poser character content. accurately represent a full range of intensity levels as found in real world scenes, ranging from the brightest sunlight to deepest
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Poser Pro 13 Reference Manual Program interface or Content. is limited. Poser Pro Installation (Windows) • Queue Manager: Installs the Poser Queue Manager. 1. Click on the Poser Pro installer to start the Installer. Use this option for installing additional network 2. The Welcome screen will appear, click Next to continue. rendering nodes. 3. The Poser Pro End-user License agreement (EULA) 7. Select the location for the Poser Pro content Runtime appears. Accept the agreement and click Next. directory. Based on the descriptions below, select the location that works best for you and click Next. 4. Review the Readme file. This file contains information that was too recent to be included in this manual. Please take • Poser Directory: The content library resides next to the a moment to read this file, as the changes outlined therein Poser Pro program files. may affect how you install and/or use Poser Pro. When • Shared Documents Directory: Files can be shared— you have finished reading the Readme file, click Next to useful in multi-user environment. proceed with the installation. • My Documents Directory: The files will only be 5. Select the destination location where you want to install accessible to the user who installed them. Poser Pro. You can use the default location or click the Browse button to specify another location, click Next to • Choose Other Directory: Specify the directory of your continue. choice. 6. Select your desired installation option. When you have 8. The Select Start Menu Folder screen will appear. You selected an installation option, click Next. can use the default location or click the Browse button to • Full Installation: Most users choose the Full specify another location. When you are finished, click Next. Installation option. This option performs the complete 9. Select Additional Tasks screen will appear. Enable the installation of Poser Pro including the Queue Manager. check boxes to create desktop icons for both Poser Pro and • Minimum Install: This installs critical Poser Pro files the Queue Manager, click Next. and minimal new content and is useful if hard drive space Install to install the Poser Pro and Queue 10. Finally, click Manager applications. When they are finished installing, click Finished.
14 Poser Pro Reference Manual Poser Pro Installation (Mac) • Minimum Install: This installs critical Poser Pro files 1. Double-click on the “Install Poser Pro” icon. and minimal new content and is useful if hard drive space is limited. 2. The Authentication window appears, and you will be asked to enter your user account password, or an account name and • Queue Manager: Installs the Poser Queue Manager. password with Administrator privileges, in order to proceed Use this option for installing additional network rendering with the installation. nodes. 7. Select the location for the Poser Pro content Runtime 3. The Poser Pro Readme file appears. This file contains information that was too recent to be included in this directory. Based on the descriptions below, select the location manual. Please take a moment to read this file, as the that works best for you and click Next. changes outlined therein may affect how you install and/or • Poser Directory: The content library resides next to the use Poser Pro. When you have finished reading the Readme Poser Pro program files. file, click Continue to proceed with the installation. • Shared Documents Directory: Files can be shared— 4. The Poser Pro End-user License agreement (EULA) useful in multi-user environment. appears. Click Continue. Click Agree to continue the • My Documents Directory: The files will only be installation. accessible to the user who installed them. 5. The Poser Pro Installer window appears. Select the location • Choose Other Directory: Specify the directory of your where you wish to install Poser Pro. You can either accept choice. the default selection or use the Select Folder... button to visually locate your desired installation folder. 8. Finally, click Install to install the Poser Pro and Queue Manager applications. When they are finished installing, click 6. Select your desired installation option. Quit. Once you have made your selection, click the Continue button. • Easy Install: Most users choose the Easy Install option. This option performs the complete installation of Poser Pro including the Queue Manager.
Poser Pro 15 Reference Manual Installing Queue Manager System (Mac) The Queue Manager can be installed as part of your initial Poser 1. Click on the Poser Pro installer to start the installation. Pro installation using the Full Installation (Windows) or Easy Install 2. The Welcome screen will appear, click Continue. option (Mac). You can install just the Queue Manager on remote 3. The Poser Pro End-user License agreement (EULA) systems by following the instructions below: will appear. Accept the agreement and click Continue. Installing Queue Manager on a Remote 4. Review the Readme text and click Continue. System (Windows) 5. Select the destination location where you want to install 1. Click on the Poser Pro installer to start the installation. the Queue Manager. You can use the default location or 2. The Welcome screen will appear, click Next to continue. click the Browse button to specify another location. Click Continue. 3. The Poser Pro End-user License agreement (EULA) will appear. Accept the agreement and click Next. 6. Using the pull-down menu select Queue Manager and click Continue. 4. Review the Readme text and click Next. 7. Click Install to install the Queue Manager. When the 5. Select the destination location where you want to install installation is done, click Quit. the Queue Manager. You can use the default location or click the Browse button to specify another location. Click Licensing Next to continue. The first time you start the Queue Manager, you will be prompted to type 6. Using the pull-down menu select Queue Manager and in your name and your Queue Manager serial number in the Queue click Next. Manager Personalize screen. It is important to know that you can install the Queue Manager on as many systems as you wish. However, 7. Select Additional Tasks screen will appear. Enable the the number of systems you can use simultaneously will be limited to the check boxes to create desktop icons for both Poser Pro and number of Queue Manager nodes that are included with your Poser Pro the Queue Manager, click Next. 8. Click Install to install the Queue Manager. When the installation is done, click Finished. Installing Queue Manager on a Remote
16 Poser Pro Reference Manual Purchase. You can determine how many nodes are available to you by looking at your Queue Manager serial number. The second set of numbers between dashes indicates how many systems (including the one on which Poser Pro is installed) can operate the Queue Manager simultaneously.
Poser Pro 17 Reference Manual Network Render Queue Using the Render Queue for a Single-Frame job Rendering large and complex scenes (jobs) can take a long time to process and monopolize your computer system. The Queue To send a single-frame job to Manager distributes jobs between one or several nodes in a the Render Queue, from the Network Render Queue. When you use the Queue Manager for Main Menu, select remote tasks, the Network Render Queue will distribute jobs based RenderRender In Queue. on the systems that are available. You can send single-frame or The current frame with the multiple-frame jobs to the Queue Manager. current FireFly Render Engine settings will become the Sending Jobs to the Queue Manager rendered job. Name the job, select a file format from the pull-down Once the Queue Manager is running on your system and/or on menu, and specify the output location. Click Save. This will submit another network node, you can send jobs to render in the Queue. the job to the Queue Manager and add the job to the job list. Poser Pro will launch the Queue Manager if it is not already Sending a job to the Queue launches the Queue Manager if it is not running on your system. However, in order process a job in the already running. Network Render Queue, the Queue Manager must be running on the remote system(s). Using the Render Queue for a Multi-Frame Job The first time you send a job to the Queue Manager you will be To send a multi-frame job to the render queue, from the Main prompted to locate the Poser Pro application using the standard Menu, select AnimationMake Movie. In the Movie Settings File Chooser. Navigate to where the Poser Pro application is dialog select Image Files from the Format pull-down menu. installed, select Poser Pro and click OK. The Movie Settings will become the job properties, including: Options, Resolution, Time Span and Increment. (For more information on Movie Settings refer to Chapter 35 your Poser Reference Manual.) Once the movie settings have been defined they cannot be changed, and the job will retain those properties when sent to the Render Queue. Next, click on Send Render To and select Render Queue. Name the job, select a file
18 Poser Pro Reference Manual format from the pull-down menu, and specify the output location. or not the Queue Manager will process tasks from other Click Save. This will submit the job to the Queue Manager and systems. Local jobs will always have priority. add the job to the job list. Sending a job to the Queue launches the • Show Log Panel: Enabling Show Log Panel lets you Queue Manager if it is not already running. see a detailed log of the jobs being processed. The Log Once you have submitted a job to the Queue, you can begin can be useful for troubleshooting and tracking how other editing, start another project in Poser Pro, or start working in machines are being utilized. another application. Job List Using the Queue Manager The Job List shows a job’s properties including Document, The Queue Manager has three sections: The Queue Menu, the Output File, Start Time, Completed Time, Status, Frame, Job List and the Selected Job Panel. Start, End, Increment, Host and Order. On the Selected Job Panel sort the jobs by clicking on any of the property headers. Queue Menu This will not change the job order. The Queue Menu allows you to configure how jobs are distributed • Document: The name of the document in Poser Pro. for processing. • Output File: The job name when submitted to the • Suspended: Selecting QueueSuspended, suspends Queue. the operation of all jobs. • Start Time: The time the job was received by the Queue • Process Jobs Locally: Enabling or disabling Manager. QueueProcess Jobs Locally, specifies whether or not the Queue Manager will use your local system to • Completed Time: The time the job was completed. render your jobs. • Status: • Send Jobs to Network: Enabling or disabling Running: The job is currently being processed. QueueSend Jobs to Network, specifies whether Waiting: The job is waiting to be processed. or not the Queue Manager will distribute jobs to other Suspended: The job is on hold. systems. Done: The job is processed and is shown on the job • Accept Jobs from Network: Enabling or disabling list for reference. QueueAccept Jobs from Network, specifies whether
Poser Pro 19 Reference Manual • Frame: Indicates the frame that is currently being Chapter 39 in your Poser Reference Manual.) rendered. • Host: Indicates the node this job came from. • Start: Derived from the movie settings dialog. (For Selected Job Panel more information about this option refer to Chapter 39 in your Poser Reference Manual.) Select a job to access the following options. • End: Derived from the movie settings dialog. (For more • Output Path: Displays the output location of a selected information about this option refer to Chapter 39 in job. your Poser Reference Manual.) • Go To Folder: Find the output location of your job • Increment: Derived from the movie settings dialog. anytime by highlighting the job and clicking on the Go (For more information about this option refer to To Folder. This will bring you to the output location.
20 Poser Pro Reference Manual • Order: Once a job is sent to the Queue Manager the job will appear on the job list. You can change the order of the jobs by selecting Lower or Raise. • Actions: Select a job from the Job List to change its status using the following actions: Cancel: Click Cancel to abort a job (Running, Waiting or Suspended). Delete: Click Delete to remove a completed job from the Job List (Done). Suspend: Click Suspend to put a running or waiting job on hold. Resume: Click Resume to continue processing a suspended job. If you are experiencing difficulty with the Network Render Queue, verify the following: • All network cables are plugged in and the network is functioning properly. • Remote systems in the Network Render Queue are up and the Queue Manager application is installed and running. • Your personal firewall is allowing communication between Poser Pro and the Queue Manager, locally and remotely. If you are unable to resolve a network communication issue, contact your Network Administrator.
Poser Pro 21 Reference Manual Render in Background Clicking on the Preview Tab will allow you to continue to modify your current project while it’s rendering. Render and work at the same time! Using Poser Pro’s If you find you need to cancel the Background Rendering in background rendering capabilities you have the ability to render progress, just click on the Cancel button. large, complex still frame scenes while you work. With the FireFly render engine you can continue to work on your current scene while sending another project to render. To Render in the background, from the Main Menu select RenderRender in Background. Alternatively from the Render Settings dialog, and from the FireFly Tab, you can also click on the Send Render To button and chose Background on the menu, to render the current state of the scene in the background. After the Background Rendering has initialized, the Progress Bar on the Document Window will show your Background Rendering progress as you continue to work. Poser Pro’s Background Rendering capabilities allow graphic artists to render and work at the same time.
22 Poser Pro Reference Manual 64-Bit Render Engine Gamma Correction Poser Pro ships with 2 versions of its FireFly render engine: A 32-Bit and a 64-Bit version. Traditionally computers utilize a 32-Bit and Linear Rendering Operating System, which can only address a limited amount of By configuring the gamma correction you can specify the gamma memory. However, there is an increasing amount of computers that that has been applied to textures, and the gamma that will be are equipped with a 64-Bit Operating System. If your computer applied to exported images. This allows you to perform linear has a 64-Bit Operating System, Poser Pro will use its 64-Bit FireFly rendering for improved luminance accuracy. Render Engine to access as much memory as possible. To utilize Poser Pro’s Gamma correction on the Texture Manager the 64-Bit FireFly Render Engine, you must select Render in allows you to specify gamma values per texture, giving you Background. the ability to exclude certain textures from scene-wide gamma Hardware Requirements for 64-Bit Render Engine: correction for maximum flexibility when dealing with displacement G5 PPC CPU or normal maps. Intel Core 2 Duo CPU or better When you create a new scene, the default setting for Linear AMD Athlon 64 CPU or better Rendering is 2.2. You must use the FireFly Render Engine to set the Poser Pro supports the following 64-Bit operating gamma value. When you are opening a document from a previous systems: version of Poser, you will need to enable the gamma correction if Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” you want to perform linear rendering. Windows XP x64 HDRI files will be read and written in a linear fashion with a Windows Vista 64 Gamma value of 1.0, ignoring whatever gamma value might be Poser Pro will automatically select the appropriate Render Engine specified in that location. for your system. If you are using a 32-Bit system and render in To enable Gamma Correction, from the Render MenuRender Firefly, Poser Pro will use the 32-Bit Render Engine. If you are using Settings, select the FireFly Tab and then check the Gamma a 64-Bit system and render in FireFly, it will use the 64-Bit Render Correction Box from the Options Panel. The default gamma value Engine. This allows the Render Engine to access more memory is 2.2 for most image formats. You have the option to specify thereby better utilizing available memory. a custom gamma value in the text field. The text field is only
Poser Pro 23 Reference Manual accessible only when the Gamma Correction Box is enabled. Gamma Correction Per Texture Local gamma correction is important if you know that not all your incoming data has the same gamma value applied and you know you need to adjust the value for certain textures. Gamma correction on the Texture Manager allows correction per texture. Most all applications read and write displacement maps linearly, even if the format used might specify a different gamma value. When you display a displacement map, it might look slightly different from the effect it will end up having on the geometry, therefore we recommend that you adjust the Gamma Value to 1.0 for Displacement Mapping. We also suggest adjusting the value for normal maps as well. For information on how to access the Texture Manager please refer to Chapter 16 in the Poser Reference Manual. Once you are in the Texture Manager you can specify a custom gamma value in the text field for the selected texture.
24 Poser Pro Reference Manual Normal Mapping • • Normal Map (tangent space) Normal Map (object space) A normal map is an image, wrapped around the object that works • Gradient Bump—Legacy option for Poser gradient with the scene lighting to give the appearance of 3D texture on an bump maps. otherwise smooth object. Normal maps can be used on individual objects or parts of a figure to emulate any manner of textures, from Refer to Chapter 33 in the Poser Reference Manual for wrinkles and pores in skin, to raised patterns in clothing or props, information on working with Nodes. to cracks and bumps in stone. Note that normal maps simply replace an object’s normals. Thus, if you apply a normal map to a sphere, the surface will seem rough while the edges remain smooth. Poser Pro’s Material room contains a Displacement channel, which allows you to use displacement maps to actually alter the geometry of the surface. For example, applying a displacement map to a sphere would make the edges appear rough, as well as the surface. To load a Normal Map, from the Material RoomMaterial Palette, Advanced tab, connect the Image Node containing a normal map to the Gradient Bump channel on the Poser Surface Node. The channel value controls how much influence the normal map has on the surface. Higher values yield more effect, or rougher surfaces, while lower values yield less effect and smoother surfaces. Next, select the type of normal map from the Gradient_Mode pull-down menu according to how the normal map was exported from the application it was created in. Select from the following options.
Poser Pro 25 Reference Manual Without normal map applied With normal map applied
26 Poser Pro Reference Manual High Dynamic Range Image from the Main Menu, select RenderRender SettingsMovie Settings, select Image Files from the Format pull-down menu. (HDRI) Export When you save the file(s), you will be given the option to save as Radiance (.HDR) or OpenEXR (.EXR). With Poser Pro you can render and export files that are optimized for HDRI output. Files can be exported as Radiance files or While more precise, files optimized for HDRI output can lead to OpenEXR files. HDRI optimized files accurately represent the wide perceived loss of anti-aliasing and banding in very subtle gradients. range of exposure found in real scenes, including the details, Optimizing for HDRI output omits dithering that would otherwise shadows, and high-contrast lighting. be applied to eliminate banding. To optimize images for HDRI export, from the Main Menu select Optimizing images for HDRI output provides maximum flexibility in RenderRender Settings and enable the HDRI Optimized post-production, performing color correction or adjusting exposure Output check box. To Export an HDRI file, from the Main Menu without having to re-render the image. select FileExport. To make a movie optimized for HDRI output, Same HDR Image at varying exposures in Adobe Photoshop CS.
Poser Pro 27 Reference Manual COLLADA Import/Export Exporting COLLADA Files COLLADA offers increased flexibility by allowing to export a more Poser Pro offers data exchange with the industry-standard comprehensive representation of your Poser scene. For example, as COLLADA format. Gain maximum flexibility by transporting Poser a game designer, you might want to import your scene exported content to applications such as Softimage XSI or NVIDIA FX from Poser Pro as COLLADA file into 3ds Max or Softimage. You Composer without having to rely on hosting plug-ins. can work on your scene in those applications, and then transfer it to your game engine with COLLADA. Your scene remains editable Importing COLLADA Files at any position in the pipeline. COLLADA is a feature-rich format Importing COLLADA files allows you to import geometry with that can store various aspects of your scene, thereby preserving a standard surface materials, cameras and lights. COLLADA import maximum of information upon export. Provided that the application in Poser Pro does not currently support Cg shaders, morph targets, you are exporting for supports those features, you can choose to bones or animation. transfer data such as figures, props, morph targets, cameras, lights To import a COLLADA file, from the Main Menu select and animation. FileImportCOLLADA. Enable the appropriate import To Export a COLLADA file, from the Main Menu select options and click OK. FileExportCOLLADA… (.dae). Import Lights: With • Select a range of frames to be exported and click OK. this option enabled, Poser Pro will add lights stored in the COLLADA file to the current scene. For more information about lights refer to Chapter 9 of your Poser Reference Manual. • Import Cameras: With this option enabled, Poser Pro will add cameras stored in the COLLADA file to the current scene. For more information about cameras refer to Chapter 8 of your Poser Reference Manual.
28 Poser Pro Reference Manual Select the objects to export and click OK. From the Export Options dialog, enable the appropriate Export Options and click OK. These options include: • Export Standard Units vs. Custom Units: Select one of the standard Poser units. If none of the standard units meet your needs, then you can define your own measurement in meters. • Scale: This allows the adjustment of the scale of a scene upon export. Adjust the scale if you want to adjust the size of the scene. • Triangles only: Forces triangulation of polygons upon export. • Include normals: Allows you to specify whether polygon normals are exported explicitly. Discarding the normals will require the target application to recompute them. Toggling this option may help resolve shading issues. • Include rigging (preserves posability and animation): Figures are exported as posable and animatable objects. • Bake all Morphs: COLLADA files with a lot of morphs can be large and resource consuming. Bake Morphs allows the export of morph targets so you get the essence of the morphs without the file size and resource expense. You will not be able to animate those morph targets any more, which sacrifices some flexibility. However, you’ll
Poser Pro 29 Reference Manual receive the same end result if you are only interested in the particular shape variation that was present in your scene upon export. • Bake Diffuse Map: Blend diffuse texture with diffuse color. If you enable this option Poser Pro will write a new texture map that is shader baked into a texture map. • Bake Transparency Map: Enable this option when your target application expects transparency information in the alpha channel of the diffuse texture rather than as a separate transparency map. • Maximum Texture Size: Textures in Poser content are often very large. Some applications experience difficulties upon importing COLLADA files with large textures. Maximum Texture Size allows you to automatically reduce texture size upon export, thereby maximizing compatibility. Your original textures remain untouched. • Power of 2: You can increase compatibility further by enabling the Power of 2 option. This option will automatically resize your textures to the nearest width and height that is a power of two. For example, a texture that is 1100x600 pixels large would be exported at a size of 1024x512. Once again the original texture remains unaffected.
30 Poser Pro Reference Manual PoserFusion Hosting Plug-ins 3ds Max When you open a Poser file within 3ds Max, the selected file retains Poser Pro includes 3ds Max, CINEMA 4D and Maya plug-ins, all of the data created within Poser Pro, including the geometries letting you open and host Poser Pro files within these applications. of the figures and props, materials, and keyframe data. 3ds Max Modeling articulated poseable figures is a difficult and time- treats hosted Poser figures/props as 3ds Max geometry primitives, consuming task. PoserFusion allows you to load one of dozens of meaning that you can perform any action to the Poser figure ready-made figures and select from a wide variety of clothing and that you can perform on any other geometry primitive such as preset poses, allowing you to get high-quality results in a short translations, rotations, modifiers, mesh edits, etc. In addition, the amount of time. Create and Modify panels allow you additional control over hosted Poser files. Hosting vs. Importing PoserFusion plug-ins allow you to host Poser files directly within Installing PoserFusion for 3ds Max these 3ds Max, CINEMA 4D and Maya. Importing or exporting The installer automatically installs the 3ds Max plug-in, which will translates data from one format to another. PoserFusion plug-ins be available to you as soon as you launch 3ds Max. serve as a liaison between the host application and the Poser files, Loading A Poser File actually opening Poser files and accessing their contents directly in the host application. This allows you to take advantage of Poser To select a Poser file to open and host within 3ds Max: Pro’s speed and ease of use and combines Poser files with the host 1. Select the Create panel. applications’ powerful modeling, rendering, and animation tools. 2. Click the Geometries button. Poser files hosted within supported applications retain all of their data including materials, articulation, textures, walks, etc. Figures 3. Select Poser Objects in the pull-down menu. and props are treated as primitives and are manipulated within the 4. Click the Scene *.pz3 button in the Object Type rollout. host application as you would any other object. You may, however, The Scene Creation rollout will automatically be open at this point. need to open the Poser file within Poser Pro depending on the edits Click the Load File (…) button to open a dialog allowing you to you wish to perform. navigate to the folder containing the desired file. The words ‘No File Loaded’ appear to the left of the Load File button if you have not yet loaded a Poser file. Click the Load File (…) button to open a
Poser Pro 31 Reference Manual dialog allowing you to navigate to the folder containing the Poser file you wish to load. The name of the object instance appears in the Name and Color rollout after you have created the objects in the scene via clicking and dragging or keyboard entry. Once a Poser file is loaded, the Keyboard Entry, Scene Options, and Info rollouts will appear. Creating Instances Once you have selected the Poser file, 3ds Max creates the Poser Universe object. To work with figures and props, you must create at least one instance of the figure(s) and/or prop(s) within your 3ds Max scene. An easy way to understand this concept is to think of the Poser file as a template from which to create new figures/props. There are two ways to do this: 1. Click, drag, then release the left mouse button. Large files may take a moment to appear after you click. Drag slowly Working with Poser Files in 3ds Max and wait for the figure/prop(s) to appear before releasing The following general rules apply when hosting Poser files within the mouse button. 3ds Max: 2. Use the Keyboard Entry rollout to specify a position and • You can host files with multiple figures. You can also scale, and then click the Create button. load one or more Poser files. 3ds Max places loaded The newly created Poser Universe, scene, and figure/prop primitives Poser files into its hierarchy as follows: appear in the 3ds Max view panes. » Geometry primitives are created for each figure and each prop in the Poser file. » When you create an instance of a Poser file, 3ds Max will create a Poser Scene object, which is the parent object for all figures and props from the Poser file.
32 Poser Pro Reference Manual » 3ds Max creates a Poser Universe dummy object The Scene Options Rollout when you load the first Poser file. This object is the Scene Options gives you the following options: parent object for all Poser Scene objects. » The Create and Modify panels will display different rollouts depending on the type of Poser object • Scene Scaling: Enter a value in selected: the Scale field or use the up and down arrows to specify the desired » Poser figure/prop: Scene File, Scene Options, Info scale for all of the objects in the » Poser Scene: Scene File, Scene Options, Info current scene. The scale value is expressed as the percentage of » Poser Universe: Info the original scale set when the file • You can modify any type of Poser object as if it were was created in Poser Pro. To scale a 3ds Max object; for example, figures and props can individual figures and props, use be edited just like any other type of 3ds Max geometry the 3ds Max Scale. When clicking primitive. and dragging to create a Poser object, the scale value will change The Create Panel to reflect the size of the scene that The Create panel contains the following rollouts: you are creating as you drag. • Object Type: Standard 3ds Max rollout • Display Tracking: Check the • Name + Color: Standard 3ds Max rollout desired radio button to specify Box Tracking (all objects in the current • Scene Creation: Please refer to the section Loading a Poser file appear as bounding boxes Poser File. for all figures/props at all times), • Keyboard Entry: Please refer to the section Creating Fast Tracking (all objects in the Instances. current Poser file displayed in full The Create panel also contains the following additional rollouts: while static and as bounding boxes for all figures/props when moving),
Poser Pro 33 Reference Manual or Full Tracking (all objects in the current Poser file are The Modify Panel displayed in full at all times). The Modify Panel contains the following rollouts: • Frame Offset/Frame Remapping: Please refer to the • Modifiers: standard 3ds Max rollout section, Animating Poser Objects in for information on controlling Poser animations within 3ds Max. • Modifier Stack: standard 3ds Max rollout The Info Rollout • Scene File: Please refer to Scene File Rollout on this page. The Info rollout appears as follows: • Scene Options: Please refer to Scene Options In addition to displaying the Rollout. PoserFusion plug-in version number, the Info rollout • Info: Please refer to The Info Rollout on this page. contains three buttons. The Scene File Rollout Clicking the Smith Micro The Scene File rollout appears in the Modify panel in addition to Graphics button opens your the Scene Options and Info rollouts: Web browser and takes you to the Smith Micro Graphics Web page. Clicking the User Guide… button opens The Scene File rollout displays the the electronic (PDF) version Poser scene file that the currently of this document. Clicking selected figure/prop or Poser Scene the About… button opens object is associated with: a window displaying more information about Smith • Reload File: Clicking the Reload File… button Micro Graphics and the refreshes the data from the Poser file that is associated PoserFusion plug-in. with the Poser Scene instance. This function reloads the associated Poser file keyframe data. Thus, if you articulate the figure in Poser, you can access your
34 Poser Pro Reference Manual changes without losing any other modifications you If frame out of range radio buttons allow you to specify how to may have made on top of your objects in 3ds Max. If handle out-of-range situations: the original Poser file has had figures/props added or removed, you will need to recreate the scene via the Scene Creation rollout on the Create Panel. • File Information: Clicking the File Info… button displays information about the current file, including the full path, Poser Pro application path, and other useful information. Enable the appropriate radio button to make your selection: Animating Poser Objects in 3ds Max • Loop: Checking the Loop radio button causes the Poser You can control how any animation of your Poser objects relates to animation to repeat as many times as necessary to fill your current 3ds Max animation by using the Scene Options rollout all of the 3ds Max animation frames. This can include in either the Create or Modify panel. a partial animation cycle. For example, if the Poser Frame Ranges animation is 30 frames long and the 3ds Max animation is 45, the Poser animation will loop 1.5 times to take up An out of range condition exists when the 3ds Max animation has all 45 frames. frames occurring before the Poser animation’s start frame and/or ends after the Poser animation’s end frame. The end frame is • Freeze: Enabling the Freeze radio button causes the defined as Poser animation to not play before its starting frame and/or after its ending frame. End Frame=Start Frame+(Num Frames – 1) • Hide: Enabling the Hide radio button causes the Poser For example, if Start Frame=10 and Num Frames=15, then End animation to be invisible before its starting frame and/or Frame=24. after its ending frame.
Poser Pro 35 Reference Manual Offsetting Frames • Number of Frames: Enter the number of frames in the You can insert your Poser animation at any desired point in the 3ds Poser file after the start frame that you wish to use in Max animation using the Frame Offset controls in the Scene the Number of Frames field or use the up and down Options rollout: arrows. You have three offset options: For example, you have a 100-frame 3ds Max animation and wish to open a 30-frame Poser animation. You could specify the Poser animation will begin at frame 45 of the 3ds Max frame. You could • Start on Frame: also specify that you wish to start the Poser animation from the Enter the 3ds Max 10th frame of the Poser file and that you wish to use the 15 frames animation frame where that follow. This scenario would cause the following to occur: you wish your Poser animation to begin by 3ds Max animation Poser animation either entering a valid Frames 0-44 As specified in the Out of frame number in the Range options. Start on Frame field or using the up and Frame 45 Frame 10 down arrows. Frame 46 Frame 11 • Poser Source Frame 59 Frame 24 Frames: You are not limited to simply running your entire Poser animation Frames 61-100 As specified in the Out of within 3ds Max: Range options. • Start Frame: Enter the number of the frame in the Poser file where you wish to begin the Poser animation in the Start Frame field or use the up and down arrows.
36 Poser Pro Reference Manual Remapping Frames Then expand the Object node under the Poser Scene object. Select You are not limited to simply specifying frame offsets. By enabling Remap to Frame and use the standard 3ds Max keyframing Frame Remapping, you have full control over the sense of techniques to remap the Poser scene’s sense of time. time that the Poser scene experiences for shortening, extending, Poser Materials in 3ds Max accelerating and decelerating the Poser animation. This provides You can control your Poser objects’ materials as you would any extended control over an existing keyframed animation in Poser Pro, other material in 3ds Max by clicking the Open Materials Editor without having to go back and adjust it in Poser Pro: icon ( ) to open the Materials Editor. Next, select the Pick Material from Object tool and click within the desired Poser Check the Enable box to figure/prop to load its materials into the 3ds Max Materials enable Frame Remapping. Editor. Enabling this option disables the Frame Offset and If frame out-of-range options. Once remapping is enabled, you can select any frame of the 3ds Max animation and map any frame of the Poser animation to that frame. This feature is extremely powerful since it allows you to literally reshape your Poser animation. You can speed it up or slow it down, run it backward, or even skip randomly through the animation. To remap frames, move to the desired 3ds Max frame using the time slider or other 3ds Max tool, turn on the Animate function, and enter a valid Poser animation frame number in the Remap to Frame field or use the up and down arrows. Once you have remapped frames, you can use 3ds Max’s Track View window to obtain full control over how the map will behave. Click the Open Track View icon to open the Track View window.
Poser Pro 37 Reference Manual Cinema 4D Poser Object Properties To host a Poser file in CINEMA 4D: PoserFusion includes a number of options that affect the creation of textures and lights. Below is a detailed listing of the options and Go to the Plugins pull-down menu and select Poser Object. their uses. Poser File Attributes Scene Creation: After The first attributes for Poser creating a Poser object, the Objects are the Poser file properties of the object will options. show up in the Attribute Manager. Click the […] • File Browse: Choose the button located under the Poser scene file you wish to Object properties to load the import using the Browse […] Poser scene. button. Click the Browse button. (Then navigate to your Material Creation: Once Poser file using the file dialog the file has loaded, click the and click Open. Create materials button to create materials which • Reload File: Clicking the approximate the materials from Poser. Reload File button reloads the specified Poser file into Once your Poser file is hosted in CINEMA 4D, a link is maintained CINEMA 4D and refreshes to the Poser file on disk. Make sure you keep a copy of the Poser all existing instances of that file in the same location on the disk in order to re-load the CINEMA file. This button allows you 4D files that contain hosted Poser files. to work in CINEMA 4D and In addition, you can re-load different versions of the same Poser file Poser Pro simultaneously. You if you want to update your animation and poses. can quickly and easily import any changes you make to the Poser file. Just save your Poser
38 Poser Pro Reference Manual file over your previous version, and click the Reload File If Frame out of Range button. You do not have to quit Poser Pro or CINEMA 4D. When you have animation in a Poser file, there is a start and end Display Tracking frame for the animation within the Poser file. Your animation inside CINEMA 4D may be longer than the animation from Poser Each Poser object may be set to a display tracking mode. These Pro. The Frame Out of Range options are used to determine modes control how the geometry is displayed during playback of what happens with the Poser file when the frame in CINEMA 4D is animation, and scrubbing in the frame bar. outside of the animation range from your Poser file. • Box: An object that is set to Box Tracking always appears as one or more boxes in CINEMA 4D’s view • Loop: The Poser animation will loop as many times as pane. This is a very quick way to get a general idea of the necessary to fill all of the CINEMA 4D animation frames. movement within your scene without the overhead of a This can include a partial loop. For example, if the Poser complete geometry calculation. Pro animation is 30 frames long and the CINEMA 4D animation is 45 frames long, the Poser Pro animation will • Full: An object that is set to Full Tracking displays its full loop 1.5 times to take up all 45 frames. geometry and materials even during playback or frame scrubbing. This mode provides the most accurate display, • Freeze: The Poser animation will freeze before its start but can also be slower. frame and after its end frame. When viewing a frame after the end of the Poser animation, the Poser animation Disable Animation will be frozen in the same position as the last frame. When Disable Anim is enabled, the Poser file will stay at a single When viewing a frame before the beginning of the Poser frame. Animation from inside the Poser file will be ignored and will animation, the Poser animation will be frozen in the same not play back. During a render, the Poser file will stay static (not position as the first frame. moving) through the entire render. • Hide: When hide is selected, the Poser items will only be visible when your CINEMA 4D frame is inside the Poser animation range. If your CINEMA 4D frame goes before or
Poser Pro 39 Reference Manual after the frame range of your Poser file, the Poser items Frame Remapping Attributes will become invisible. You are not limited to simply specifying frame offsets. By enabling Frame Offset Attributes Frame Remapping, you have full control over playback of your Poser animation within CINEMA 4D: Using these options, you can insert your Poser animation at any desired point in the CINEMA 4D animation. For example, if you • Enable: Check the have a walk cycle that starts at frame 1 in Poser, you can use these Enable box to enable options to make the character start walking at frame 100 inside frame remapping. CINEMA 4D. Enabling this option disables frame offsets and out-of-range options. Once remapping is enabled, • Start on Frame: This you can modify the playback of the Poser animation by parameter allows you to animating the Remap to Frame parameter. This feature enter the CINEMA 4D is extremely powerful since it allows you to literally animation frame where reshape your Poser animation. You can speed up your you wish your Poser animation to begin. If you enter a Poser animation or slow it down, run it backward, or frame number like 125, then your Poser animation will even skip randomly through the animation. start to play at frame 125. Until frame 125, the Frame • Remap to Frame: To remap frames, simply animate Out of Range options will be used to determine if there the Remap to Frame parameter. Your Poser scene is movement before the start frame. will move to whichever frame number is specified in • Poser Start Frame: This indicates the first frame of this parameter. For example, to play your Poser file animation that you wish to use from the Poser file. backwards, you would animate this parameter from a Animation in the Poser file before this frame will not higher number frame, to a lower number frame. appear in the CINEMA 4D scene. • Num Poser frames: This is the numbers of frames after your Start Frame that you would like to use. If you choose to only use 15 frames, then you will only see 15 frames from your Poser animation inside of CINEMA 4D.
40 Poser Pro Reference Manual Hair Attributes PoserFusion for Maya PoserFusion has the ability to preview and render strand-based To host a Poser file in Maya, select FileImport. In the File Poser hair in CINEMA 4D. Dialog, select Poser (*.*) as the file type and choose the Poser file you want to host inside Maya. • Populate Hair: For Make sure you keep a copy of the Poser file in the same location speed purposes, only on the disk in order to re-load the Maya files that contain hosted the guide hairs are Poser files so you can re-load different versions of the same Poser visible by default. In order to view and render a full hair file if you want to update your animation and poses. Instructions simulation, turn on the Populate hair option. on updating versions of your Poser file are located in the section describing the Shelf Buttons . • Hair root scale: This is the scale of the hair geometry at the root of the hair (close to the scalp). This can be raised Import Options if the hair looks too sparse close to the scalp. Try to make PoserFusion includes a number of options for hosting your Poser this value as small as possible for quickest rendering file. To select the options for importing your file, from the Main results. Menu, select File MenuImport Options. Select the Import • Hair tip scale: This is the scale of the hair geometry at Options that are appropriate and click Apply. the end of the hair. This can be raised if the hair looks Below is a description of the options available: too sparse at the tips. Try to make this value as small as possible for quickest rendering results. Animation Controls You can play back and view Poser animations from inside Maya when you use PoserFusion. One animation curve controls the frame you will see from the Poser file. This animation curve animates the frame attribute on the mpzFile node.
Poser Pro 41 Reference Manual Animation Enabling the animation checkbox automatically sets up an animation that matches the range you specify for the Poser file. You can add animation later by animating the frame attribute on the mpzFile node. Poser Range This specifies the range of animation from the Poser file that will playback in Maya. You can use the actual frame range from your Poser file, or specify the first and last frame from the Poser file that will play back in Maya. This can be modified later by adjusting the animation curves. Maya Range This specifies Start and End frame in Maya during which animation will play back. The first frame specified in the Poser Range will start at the first frame specified in the Maya Range. The last frame specified in the Poser Range will occur in Maya at the last frame specified in the Maya Range. There are a few options for choosing the Animation Range in Maya.
42 Poser Pro Reference Manual • From Poser: Uses the animation range from the Poser Texture Options file. • Start: Specify the start frame in Maya, and the length of the range will automatically be imported from Poser. • Start/End: Set a start and end frame in Maya. The length of the Poser Animation, as specified by the Poser • Use Full Texture History: PoserFusion can maintain a Range will be compressed to fit in this range. This can be full texture history back to the original Poser file. When modified later by adjusting the animation curves. using this option, any changes in color or texture maps assigned to the Poser shaders will update the next time Repeat Before/After the file is re-loaded in Maya. This option is disabled by default for better compatibility with external renderers such as Mental Ray. The Poser animation will play back outside of the specified Maya • Process .bum Files: .bum is a special file format Range, based on the type of repeat option which is set. These that historically was used in Poser  for bump maps. options set the pre-infinity and post-infinity type on the animation When you enable Process .bum files, Maya can read, curves. This can be modified later by adjusting the pre-infinity, and and understand .bum files. This option is enabled by post-infinity options for the animation curves in the graph editor. default. Disable this option for compatibility with Mental Ray, and other external renderers. • None: No animation will playback out of the specified Maya Range. • Use Transparency Min/Max: Poser has a special function that allows a drop off in transparency based • Cycle: Animation will repeat outside the Maya Range on surface angle to camera. This option emulates this specified. The animation will play forward from the start behavior with Maya shader nodes. This option is enabled again each time. by default for highest compatibility with Poser shaders. • Oscillate: Animation will repeat outside the Maya Range Disable this option off if you are having trouble painting specified. on shader transparency textures.
Poser Pro 43 Reference Manual • Multiply Texture when Appropriate: Poser shaders • Manual: This mode lets the user set the Scale X, Scale Y, multiply the texture color by the shader color. When this and Scale Z to any numeric value. option is enabled, shaders created in Maya will have a multiply node inserted to emulate this behavior. This The PoserFusion Shelf option is enabled by default for the highest compatibility The Shelf included with PoserFusion adds a number of commands with Poser shaders. This option can interfere with some which work with Poser. These include commands to help Maya features like painting on textures, therefore disable reload files, and switch between Bounding Box, and Full Geometry. the option if you experience trouble. Scale Conversions The Poser world has a scale that goes from 0 to 1. In order to make it easier for Maya users, we have implemented an automatic scale conversion with 4 settings. File Update Buttons • Real Life: This is the setting to use if you are working in life-size scale within Maya. All geometry gets scaled up The first 3 icons are used for reloading and updating Poser files by 243.84 from within Maya without having to re-load the file Poser files are • Centimeters As Feet: A number of Maya users start set up in Maya using Construction History. This means when you with the default units (centimeters) and use them as feet reload a Poser file, all texture assignments and modifications made instead. This setting works very well with this workflow. in your Maya file remain the same. The only difference is that you’ll All geometry gets scaled up by 8.0. now be referencing the new poses/animation from the updated file. • Direct: No scale conversion occurs; the geometry is the Here is a description of the specific functions, and what they do.  same scale as in Poser.
44 Poser Pro Reference Manual File Reload Browser (selected) Playback Buttons Use the File Reload Browser to select a different version of a file from disk. The file should contain the same Poser characters as the file you already have loaded, but can contain different poses/animations. To use this function, select any character from the file you want to reload, and click on the shelf button.  Bounding Box (selected) File Reload (selected) This button makes the currently selected Poser character Use the File Reload to reload the current Poser file display as bounding boxes. from disk. The file should contain the same Poser characters as the file you already have loaded, but can Bounding Box Playback (selected) contain different poses/animations. One example of using this This button makes the currently selected Poser character would be if someone had modified the poses or animation in the display as bounding box during playback for quick original Poser file, and you wanted to see the updated changes in interaction.  Maya. To use this function, select any character from the file you want to reload, and click on the shelf button. Full Geometry (selected) File Reload (all) Use this button to make the full geometry display for all Poser characters. This command is the same as the File Reload (selected), and will reload all Poser files in the scene, regardless of what is selected. To use this Bounding Box (all) function, click on the Shelf Button.  Use this button to make the currently selected Poser character display as bounding boxes. 
Poser Pro 45 Reference Manual Bounding Box Playback (all) Camera Export Buttons Make all Poser characters display as a bounding boxes This button will export a camera pose from Maya to Poser. This during playback. feature makes it easy to line up a pose between Poser and Maya. To use this feature, first select a character you want to use as Full Geometry (all) a scale reference, and then select the camera node you wish to Use this button to make the full geometry display for all export. The Export Camera window will then appear. Enter a Poser characters. name for the new camera pose. This name must end in .cm2. The exported camera pose will show up with the camera sets in Poser.

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Poser pro reference manual

  • 1. Reference Manual for Windows and Mac OS X®
  • 2. Poser Pro Reference Manual CREDITS The following people contributed to Poser Pro: Teyon Alexander Sehera Nawaz The following companies provided technology or Laurel Becker Tori Nichelle Porter content used in Poser Pro: Jason Cozy Steve Rathmann Automatic Sync Technologies LLC Steve Cooper Brian Romero Pixels Digital, Inc. John Csaky Rich Smolen RuntimeDNA Sarina DuPont Tobias Sugar Singular Inversions, Inc. Colin Gerbode Jack Walther Size8 Software, Inc. Darrell Glidden Larry Weinberg Joe Grover Stefan Werner Jianhua Shen Steve Yatson Dave Kennedy Ulrich Klumpp Special Thanks to: Matt Ko Wim van de Bospoort, Charles Taylor. Mark Leitch Susan McKay Trademark Copyright NoticE Poser, the Poser logo, PoserFusion and the Smith Micro Logo are trademarks and or registered trademarks of Smith Micro Software, Inc. Poser copyright © 1991-2008 All Rights Reserved. All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders . Licensed product.
  • 3. Poser Pro Reference Manual Contents Poser Pro 6 Gamma Correction and Linear Rendering 22 What’s New in Poser Pro 6 Gamma Correction Per Texture 23 Installing Poser Pro 8 Normal Mapping 24 Poser Pro Installation (Windows) 14 Poser Pro Installation (Mac) 15 High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) Export 26 Installing Queue Manager 16 Installing Queue Manager on a Remote System (Windows) 16 COLLADA Import/Export 27 Installing Queue Manager on a Remote System (Mac) 16 Importing COLLADA Files 27 Licensing 16 Exporting COLLADA Files 27 Network Render Queue 17 PoserFusion Hosting Plug-ins 30 Sending Jobs to the Queue Manager 17 Hosting vs. Importing 30 Using the Render Queue for a Single-Frame job 17 3ds Max 30 Using the Render Queue for a Multi-Frame Job 17 Cinema 4D 37 Using the Queue Manager 18 Queue Menu 18 PoserFusion for Maya 40 Job List 18 Selected Job Panel 19 Render in Background 21 64-Bit Render Engine 22
  • 4. Poser Pro Reference Manual Poser Pro What’s New in Poser Pro Network Render Queue Poser Pro, the 3D character animation solution for production Save time and cut production costs by using networked computers environments, offers fully animated scene integration into 3ds to render complex scenes and lengthy animations. The Network Max, Maya and Cinema 4D, with Collada export, 64 bit rendering Render Queue allows you to set-up a rendering network, distribute and the Network Rendering Queue. Poser Pro helps save design rendering jobs across that network, and manage those rendering time and production resources by providing access to a market of jobs to suit your schedule. With the Queue Manager, distributed hundreds of ready to use, studio quality, pre-rigged and textured renderings can be paused and resumed, or fully rendered on slave characters plus thousands of diverse props to detail any scene. machines so you can keep working in Poser Pro on your master machine. The Network Render Queue distributes rendering jobs across as many networked machines as permitted by your license. Render in Background Increase personal productivity with background rendering in Poser Pro. Work on Poser scenes in the foreground, while rendering time consuming still frame images with the Firefly render engine in the background. When rendering in the background, Poser Pro allows you to open and close other scene files, save your project, and continue working to fully utilize your production time. 64-Bit Render Engine Poser Pro lets you take advantage of high performance 64-Bit Operating Systems and hardware with the new 64-Bit Firefly Render Engine. The 64-Bit render engine efficiently uses all available system memory to render even the most complex scene files in the shortest possible time. Distribute 64-bit rendering jobs via the Network Render Queue for even greater time savings at render time.
  • 5. Poser Pro Reference Manual Gamma Correction/Linear Rendering shadows. Poser Pro rendered images can be exported in Radiance With Poser Pro Gamma Correction you can specify gamma and (.hdr) or OpenEXR (.exr) format giving you greater control over apply the values to textures, as well as specifying the gamma the luminosity, opacity and reflectance range of your work. With values that will be applied to exported images. This allows you to HDRI optimized output, you can take advantage of the extra perform linear rendering for increased luminance accuracy. Poser precision, flexibility and physically correct image operations in post Pro Gamma Correction gives you the confidence that what you see production that standard image formats don’t support. is what you’ll get because input and output data will comply with COLLADA Import/Export your selected gamma values . Poser Pro offers Data Exchange with the industry-standard Poser Pro Gamma Correction on the Texture Manager COLLADA format. Gain maximum flexibility by transporting Poser allows you to specify gamma values per texture, giving you content to a large list of applications that support COLLADA such the ability to exclude certain textures from scene-wide gamma as Softimage XSI, NVIDIA FXComposer or Adobe Photoshop CS correction for maximum flexibility when dealing with displacement Extended. Experience the added benefit of creating and exporting or normal maps. animated character content with Poser Pro’s pre-rigged characters Save 3D objects created in modeler programs as COLLADA files Normal Mapping and import them into Poser Pro, for props or as the basis for Poser Pro’s Normal Mapping is a resource-efficient technique creating new figures. to add the appearance of complexity and surface detail to 3D objects. It can transform object surfaces, making them appear PoserFusion Hosting Plug-ins more intricate than they actually are, without the added overhead Use Poser Pro as a character animation solution in 3ds Max, Maya of polygonal detail. This saves designers valuable time and offers and Cinema 4D. Poser Pro includes robust plug-ins, allowing you to increased creative flexibility by allowing faster and more light open and host Poser scene files and 3D content within production weight computation of rendered results. environment applications. Integrate static or animated Poser Pro scenes with these powerful 3D tools for increased productivity and High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) Export instant access to the vast libraries and marketplace of pre-built, Create vivid, life-like images with HDRI output. HDRI images pre-rigged, and textured Poser character content. accurately represent a full range of intensity levels as found in real world scenes, ranging from the brightest sunlight to deepest
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  • 11. Poser Pro 13 Reference Manual Program interface or Content. is limited. Poser Pro Installation (Windows) • Queue Manager: Installs the Poser Queue Manager. 1. Click on the Poser Pro installer to start the Installer. Use this option for installing additional network 2. The Welcome screen will appear, click Next to continue. rendering nodes. 3. The Poser Pro End-user License agreement (EULA) 7. Select the location for the Poser Pro content Runtime appears. Accept the agreement and click Next. directory. Based on the descriptions below, select the location that works best for you and click Next. 4. Review the Readme file. This file contains information that was too recent to be included in this manual. Please take • Poser Directory: The content library resides next to the a moment to read this file, as the changes outlined therein Poser Pro program files. may affect how you install and/or use Poser Pro. When • Shared Documents Directory: Files can be shared— you have finished reading the Readme file, click Next to useful in multi-user environment. proceed with the installation. • My Documents Directory: The files will only be 5. Select the destination location where you want to install accessible to the user who installed them. Poser Pro. You can use the default location or click the Browse button to specify another location, click Next to • Choose Other Directory: Specify the directory of your continue. choice. 6. Select your desired installation option. When you have 8. The Select Start Menu Folder screen will appear. You selected an installation option, click Next. can use the default location or click the Browse button to • Full Installation: Most users choose the Full specify another location. When you are finished, click Next. Installation option. This option performs the complete 9. Select Additional Tasks screen will appear. Enable the installation of Poser Pro including the Queue Manager. check boxes to create desktop icons for both Poser Pro and • Minimum Install: This installs critical Poser Pro files the Queue Manager, click Next. and minimal new content and is useful if hard drive space Install to install the Poser Pro and Queue 10. Finally, click Manager applications. When they are finished installing, click Finished.
  • 12. 14 Poser Pro Reference Manual Poser Pro Installation (Mac) • Minimum Install: This installs critical Poser Pro files 1. Double-click on the “Install Poser Pro” icon. and minimal new content and is useful if hard drive space is limited. 2. The Authentication window appears, and you will be asked to enter your user account password, or an account name and • Queue Manager: Installs the Poser Queue Manager. password with Administrator privileges, in order to proceed Use this option for installing additional network rendering with the installation. nodes. 7. Select the location for the Poser Pro content Runtime 3. The Poser Pro Readme file appears. This file contains information that was too recent to be included in this directory. Based on the descriptions below, select the location manual. Please take a moment to read this file, as the that works best for you and click Next. changes outlined therein may affect how you install and/or • Poser Directory: The content library resides next to the use Poser Pro. When you have finished reading the Readme Poser Pro program files. file, click Continue to proceed with the installation. • Shared Documents Directory: Files can be shared— 4. The Poser Pro End-user License agreement (EULA) useful in multi-user environment. appears. Click Continue. Click Agree to continue the • My Documents Directory: The files will only be installation. accessible to the user who installed them. 5. The Poser Pro Installer window appears. Select the location • Choose Other Directory: Specify the directory of your where you wish to install Poser Pro. You can either accept choice. the default selection or use the Select Folder... button to visually locate your desired installation folder. 8. Finally, click Install to install the Poser Pro and Queue Manager applications. When they are finished installing, click 6. Select your desired installation option. Quit. Once you have made your selection, click the Continue button. • Easy Install: Most users choose the Easy Install option. This option performs the complete installation of Poser Pro including the Queue Manager.
  • 13. Poser Pro 15 Reference Manual Installing Queue Manager System (Mac) The Queue Manager can be installed as part of your initial Poser 1. Click on the Poser Pro installer to start the installation. Pro installation using the Full Installation (Windows) or Easy Install 2. The Welcome screen will appear, click Continue. option (Mac). You can install just the Queue Manager on remote 3. The Poser Pro End-user License agreement (EULA) systems by following the instructions below: will appear. Accept the agreement and click Continue. Installing Queue Manager on a Remote 4. Review the Readme text and click Continue. System (Windows) 5. Select the destination location where you want to install 1. Click on the Poser Pro installer to start the installation. the Queue Manager. You can use the default location or 2. The Welcome screen will appear, click Next to continue. click the Browse button to specify another location. Click Continue. 3. The Poser Pro End-user License agreement (EULA) will appear. Accept the agreement and click Next. 6. Using the pull-down menu select Queue Manager and click Continue. 4. Review the Readme text and click Next. 7. Click Install to install the Queue Manager. When the 5. Select the destination location where you want to install installation is done, click Quit. the Queue Manager. You can use the default location or click the Browse button to specify another location. Click Licensing Next to continue. The first time you start the Queue Manager, you will be prompted to type 6. Using the pull-down menu select Queue Manager and in your name and your Queue Manager serial number in the Queue click Next. Manager Personalize screen. It is important to know that you can install the Queue Manager on as many systems as you wish. However, 7. Select Additional Tasks screen will appear. Enable the the number of systems you can use simultaneously will be limited to the check boxes to create desktop icons for both Poser Pro and number of Queue Manager nodes that are included with your Poser Pro the Queue Manager, click Next. 8. Click Install to install the Queue Manager. When the installation is done, click Finished. Installing Queue Manager on a Remote
  • 14. 16 Poser Pro Reference Manual Purchase. You can determine how many nodes are available to you by looking at your Queue Manager serial number. The second set of numbers between dashes indicates how many systems (including the one on which Poser Pro is installed) can operate the Queue Manager simultaneously.
  • 15. Poser Pro 17 Reference Manual Network Render Queue Using the Render Queue for a Single-Frame job Rendering large and complex scenes (jobs) can take a long time to process and monopolize your computer system. The Queue To send a single-frame job to Manager distributes jobs between one or several nodes in a the Render Queue, from the Network Render Queue. When you use the Queue Manager for Main Menu, select remote tasks, the Network Render Queue will distribute jobs based RenderRender In Queue. on the systems that are available. You can send single-frame or The current frame with the multiple-frame jobs to the Queue Manager. current FireFly Render Engine settings will become the Sending Jobs to the Queue Manager rendered job. Name the job, select a file format from the pull-down Once the Queue Manager is running on your system and/or on menu, and specify the output location. Click Save. This will submit another network node, you can send jobs to render in the Queue. the job to the Queue Manager and add the job to the job list. Poser Pro will launch the Queue Manager if it is not already Sending a job to the Queue launches the Queue Manager if it is not running on your system. However, in order process a job in the already running. Network Render Queue, the Queue Manager must be running on the remote system(s). Using the Render Queue for a Multi-Frame Job The first time you send a job to the Queue Manager you will be To send a multi-frame job to the render queue, from the Main prompted to locate the Poser Pro application using the standard Menu, select AnimationMake Movie. In the Movie Settings File Chooser. Navigate to where the Poser Pro application is dialog select Image Files from the Format pull-down menu. installed, select Poser Pro and click OK. The Movie Settings will become the job properties, including: Options, Resolution, Time Span and Increment. (For more information on Movie Settings refer to Chapter 35 your Poser Reference Manual.) Once the movie settings have been defined they cannot be changed, and the job will retain those properties when sent to the Render Queue. Next, click on Send Render To and select Render Queue. Name the job, select a file
  • 16. 18 Poser Pro Reference Manual format from the pull-down menu, and specify the output location. or not the Queue Manager will process tasks from other Click Save. This will submit the job to the Queue Manager and systems. Local jobs will always have priority. add the job to the job list. Sending a job to the Queue launches the • Show Log Panel: Enabling Show Log Panel lets you Queue Manager if it is not already running. see a detailed log of the jobs being processed. The Log Once you have submitted a job to the Queue, you can begin can be useful for troubleshooting and tracking how other editing, start another project in Poser Pro, or start working in machines are being utilized. another application. Job List Using the Queue Manager The Job List shows a job’s properties including Document, The Queue Manager has three sections: The Queue Menu, the Output File, Start Time, Completed Time, Status, Frame, Job List and the Selected Job Panel. Start, End, Increment, Host and Order. On the Selected Job Panel sort the jobs by clicking on any of the property headers. Queue Menu This will not change the job order. The Queue Menu allows you to configure how jobs are distributed • Document: The name of the document in Poser Pro. for processing. • Output File: The job name when submitted to the • Suspended: Selecting QueueSuspended, suspends Queue. the operation of all jobs. • Start Time: The time the job was received by the Queue • Process Jobs Locally: Enabling or disabling Manager. QueueProcess Jobs Locally, specifies whether or not the Queue Manager will use your local system to • Completed Time: The time the job was completed. render your jobs. • Status: • Send Jobs to Network: Enabling or disabling Running: The job is currently being processed. QueueSend Jobs to Network, specifies whether Waiting: The job is waiting to be processed. or not the Queue Manager will distribute jobs to other Suspended: The job is on hold. systems. Done: The job is processed and is shown on the job • Accept Jobs from Network: Enabling or disabling list for reference. QueueAccept Jobs from Network, specifies whether
  • 17. Poser Pro 19 Reference Manual • Frame: Indicates the frame that is currently being Chapter 39 in your Poser Reference Manual.) rendered. • Host: Indicates the node this job came from. • Start: Derived from the movie settings dialog. (For Selected Job Panel more information about this option refer to Chapter 39 in your Poser Reference Manual.) Select a job to access the following options. • End: Derived from the movie settings dialog. (For more • Output Path: Displays the output location of a selected information about this option refer to Chapter 39 in job. your Poser Reference Manual.) • Go To Folder: Find the output location of your job • Increment: Derived from the movie settings dialog. anytime by highlighting the job and clicking on the Go (For more information about this option refer to To Folder. This will bring you to the output location.
  • 18. 20 Poser Pro Reference Manual • Order: Once a job is sent to the Queue Manager the job will appear on the job list. You can change the order of the jobs by selecting Lower or Raise. • Actions: Select a job from the Job List to change its status using the following actions: Cancel: Click Cancel to abort a job (Running, Waiting or Suspended). Delete: Click Delete to remove a completed job from the Job List (Done). Suspend: Click Suspend to put a running or waiting job on hold. Resume: Click Resume to continue processing a suspended job. If you are experiencing difficulty with the Network Render Queue, verify the following: • All network cables are plugged in and the network is functioning properly. • Remote systems in the Network Render Queue are up and the Queue Manager application is installed and running. • Your personal firewall is allowing communication between Poser Pro and the Queue Manager, locally and remotely. If you are unable to resolve a network communication issue, contact your Network Administrator.
  • 19. Poser Pro 21 Reference Manual Render in Background Clicking on the Preview Tab will allow you to continue to modify your current project while it’s rendering. Render and work at the same time! Using Poser Pro’s If you find you need to cancel the Background Rendering in background rendering capabilities you have the ability to render progress, just click on the Cancel button. large, complex still frame scenes while you work. With the FireFly render engine you can continue to work on your current scene while sending another project to render. To Render in the background, from the Main Menu select RenderRender in Background. Alternatively from the Render Settings dialog, and from the FireFly Tab, you can also click on the Send Render To button and chose Background on the menu, to render the current state of the scene in the background. After the Background Rendering has initialized, the Progress Bar on the Document Window will show your Background Rendering progress as you continue to work. Poser Pro’s Background Rendering capabilities allow graphic artists to render and work at the same time.
  • 20. 22 Poser Pro Reference Manual 64-Bit Render Engine Gamma Correction Poser Pro ships with 2 versions of its FireFly render engine: A 32-Bit and a 64-Bit version. Traditionally computers utilize a 32-Bit and Linear Rendering Operating System, which can only address a limited amount of By configuring the gamma correction you can specify the gamma memory. However, there is an increasing amount of computers that that has been applied to textures, and the gamma that will be are equipped with a 64-Bit Operating System. If your computer applied to exported images. This allows you to perform linear has a 64-Bit Operating System, Poser Pro will use its 64-Bit FireFly rendering for improved luminance accuracy. Render Engine to access as much memory as possible. To utilize Poser Pro’s Gamma correction on the Texture Manager the 64-Bit FireFly Render Engine, you must select Render in allows you to specify gamma values per texture, giving you Background. the ability to exclude certain textures from scene-wide gamma Hardware Requirements for 64-Bit Render Engine: correction for maximum flexibility when dealing with displacement G5 PPC CPU or normal maps. Intel Core 2 Duo CPU or better When you create a new scene, the default setting for Linear AMD Athlon 64 CPU or better Rendering is 2.2. You must use the FireFly Render Engine to set the Poser Pro supports the following 64-Bit operating gamma value. When you are opening a document from a previous systems: version of Poser, you will need to enable the gamma correction if Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” you want to perform linear rendering. Windows XP x64 HDRI files will be read and written in a linear fashion with a Windows Vista 64 Gamma value of 1.0, ignoring whatever gamma value might be Poser Pro will automatically select the appropriate Render Engine specified in that location. for your system. If you are using a 32-Bit system and render in To enable Gamma Correction, from the Render MenuRender Firefly, Poser Pro will use the 32-Bit Render Engine. If you are using Settings, select the FireFly Tab and then check the Gamma a 64-Bit system and render in FireFly, it will use the 64-Bit Render Correction Box from the Options Panel. The default gamma value Engine. This allows the Render Engine to access more memory is 2.2 for most image formats. You have the option to specify thereby better utilizing available memory. a custom gamma value in the text field. The text field is only
  • 21. Poser Pro 23 Reference Manual accessible only when the Gamma Correction Box is enabled. Gamma Correction Per Texture Local gamma correction is important if you know that not all your incoming data has the same gamma value applied and you know you need to adjust the value for certain textures. Gamma correction on the Texture Manager allows correction per texture. Most all applications read and write displacement maps linearly, even if the format used might specify a different gamma value. When you display a displacement map, it might look slightly different from the effect it will end up having on the geometry, therefore we recommend that you adjust the Gamma Value to 1.0 for Displacement Mapping. We also suggest adjusting the value for normal maps as well. For information on how to access the Texture Manager please refer to Chapter 16 in the Poser Reference Manual. Once you are in the Texture Manager you can specify a custom gamma value in the text field for the selected texture.
  • 22. 24 Poser Pro Reference Manual Normal Mapping • • Normal Map (tangent space) Normal Map (object space) A normal map is an image, wrapped around the object that works • Gradient Bump—Legacy option for Poser gradient with the scene lighting to give the appearance of 3D texture on an bump maps. otherwise smooth object. Normal maps can be used on individual objects or parts of a figure to emulate any manner of textures, from Refer to Chapter 33 in the Poser Reference Manual for wrinkles and pores in skin, to raised patterns in clothing or props, information on working with Nodes. to cracks and bumps in stone. Note that normal maps simply replace an object’s normals. Thus, if you apply a normal map to a sphere, the surface will seem rough while the edges remain smooth. Poser Pro’s Material room contains a Displacement channel, which allows you to use displacement maps to actually alter the geometry of the surface. For example, applying a displacement map to a sphere would make the edges appear rough, as well as the surface. To load a Normal Map, from the Material RoomMaterial Palette, Advanced tab, connect the Image Node containing a normal map to the Gradient Bump channel on the Poser Surface Node. The channel value controls how much influence the normal map has on the surface. Higher values yield more effect, or rougher surfaces, while lower values yield less effect and smoother surfaces. Next, select the type of normal map from the Gradient_Mode pull-down menu according to how the normal map was exported from the application it was created in. Select from the following options.
  • 23. Poser Pro 25 Reference Manual Without normal map applied With normal map applied
  • 24. 26 Poser Pro Reference Manual High Dynamic Range Image from the Main Menu, select RenderRender SettingsMovie Settings, select Image Files from the Format pull-down menu. (HDRI) Export When you save the file(s), you will be given the option to save as Radiance (.HDR) or OpenEXR (.EXR). With Poser Pro you can render and export files that are optimized for HDRI output. Files can be exported as Radiance files or While more precise, files optimized for HDRI output can lead to OpenEXR files. HDRI optimized files accurately represent the wide perceived loss of anti-aliasing and banding in very subtle gradients. range of exposure found in real scenes, including the details, Optimizing for HDRI output omits dithering that would otherwise shadows, and high-contrast lighting. be applied to eliminate banding. To optimize images for HDRI export, from the Main Menu select Optimizing images for HDRI output provides maximum flexibility in RenderRender Settings and enable the HDRI Optimized post-production, performing color correction or adjusting exposure Output check box. To Export an HDRI file, from the Main Menu without having to re-render the image. select FileExport. To make a movie optimized for HDRI output, Same HDR Image at varying exposures in Adobe Photoshop CS.
  • 25. Poser Pro 27 Reference Manual COLLADA Import/Export Exporting COLLADA Files COLLADA offers increased flexibility by allowing to export a more Poser Pro offers data exchange with the industry-standard comprehensive representation of your Poser scene. For example, as COLLADA format. Gain maximum flexibility by transporting Poser a game designer, you might want to import your scene exported content to applications such as Softimage XSI or NVIDIA FX from Poser Pro as COLLADA file into 3ds Max or Softimage. You Composer without having to rely on hosting plug-ins. can work on your scene in those applications, and then transfer it to your game engine with COLLADA. Your scene remains editable Importing COLLADA Files at any position in the pipeline. COLLADA is a feature-rich format Importing COLLADA files allows you to import geometry with that can store various aspects of your scene, thereby preserving a standard surface materials, cameras and lights. COLLADA import maximum of information upon export. Provided that the application in Poser Pro does not currently support Cg shaders, morph targets, you are exporting for supports those features, you can choose to bones or animation. transfer data such as figures, props, morph targets, cameras, lights To import a COLLADA file, from the Main Menu select and animation. FileImportCOLLADA. Enable the appropriate import To Export a COLLADA file, from the Main Menu select options and click OK. FileExportCOLLADA… (.dae). Import Lights: With • Select a range of frames to be exported and click OK. this option enabled, Poser Pro will add lights stored in the COLLADA file to the current scene. For more information about lights refer to Chapter 9 of your Poser Reference Manual. • Import Cameras: With this option enabled, Poser Pro will add cameras stored in the COLLADA file to the current scene. For more information about cameras refer to Chapter 8 of your Poser Reference Manual.
  • 26. 28 Poser Pro Reference Manual Select the objects to export and click OK. From the Export Options dialog, enable the appropriate Export Options and click OK. These options include: • Export Standard Units vs. Custom Units: Select one of the standard Poser units. If none of the standard units meet your needs, then you can define your own measurement in meters. • Scale: This allows the adjustment of the scale of a scene upon export. Adjust the scale if you want to adjust the size of the scene. • Triangles only: Forces triangulation of polygons upon export. • Include normals: Allows you to specify whether polygon normals are exported explicitly. Discarding the normals will require the target application to recompute them. Toggling this option may help resolve shading issues. • Include rigging (preserves posability and animation): Figures are exported as posable and animatable objects. • Bake all Morphs: COLLADA files with a lot of morphs can be large and resource consuming. Bake Morphs allows the export of morph targets so you get the essence of the morphs without the file size and resource expense. You will not be able to animate those morph targets any more, which sacrifices some flexibility. However, you’ll
  • 27. Poser Pro 29 Reference Manual receive the same end result if you are only interested in the particular shape variation that was present in your scene upon export. • Bake Diffuse Map: Blend diffuse texture with diffuse color. If you enable this option Poser Pro will write a new texture map that is shader baked into a texture map. • Bake Transparency Map: Enable this option when your target application expects transparency information in the alpha channel of the diffuse texture rather than as a separate transparency map. • Maximum Texture Size: Textures in Poser content are often very large. Some applications experience difficulties upon importing COLLADA files with large textures. Maximum Texture Size allows you to automatically reduce texture size upon export, thereby maximizing compatibility. Your original textures remain untouched. • Power of 2: You can increase compatibility further by enabling the Power of 2 option. This option will automatically resize your textures to the nearest width and height that is a power of two. For example, a texture that is 1100x600 pixels large would be exported at a size of 1024x512. Once again the original texture remains unaffected.
  • 28. 30 Poser Pro Reference Manual PoserFusion Hosting Plug-ins 3ds Max When you open a Poser file within 3ds Max, the selected file retains Poser Pro includes 3ds Max, CINEMA 4D and Maya plug-ins, all of the data created within Poser Pro, including the geometries letting you open and host Poser Pro files within these applications. of the figures and props, materials, and keyframe data. 3ds Max Modeling articulated poseable figures is a difficult and time- treats hosted Poser figures/props as 3ds Max geometry primitives, consuming task. PoserFusion allows you to load one of dozens of meaning that you can perform any action to the Poser figure ready-made figures and select from a wide variety of clothing and that you can perform on any other geometry primitive such as preset poses, allowing you to get high-quality results in a short translations, rotations, modifiers, mesh edits, etc. In addition, the amount of time. Create and Modify panels allow you additional control over hosted Poser files. Hosting vs. Importing PoserFusion plug-ins allow you to host Poser files directly within Installing PoserFusion for 3ds Max these 3ds Max, CINEMA 4D and Maya. Importing or exporting The installer automatically installs the 3ds Max plug-in, which will translates data from one format to another. PoserFusion plug-ins be available to you as soon as you launch 3ds Max. serve as a liaison between the host application and the Poser files, Loading A Poser File actually opening Poser files and accessing their contents directly in the host application. This allows you to take advantage of Poser To select a Poser file to open and host within 3ds Max: Pro’s speed and ease of use and combines Poser files with the host 1. Select the Create panel. applications’ powerful modeling, rendering, and animation tools. 2. Click the Geometries button. Poser files hosted within supported applications retain all of their data including materials, articulation, textures, walks, etc. Figures 3. Select Poser Objects in the pull-down menu. and props are treated as primitives and are manipulated within the 4. Click the Scene *.pz3 button in the Object Type rollout. host application as you would any other object. You may, however, The Scene Creation rollout will automatically be open at this point. need to open the Poser file within Poser Pro depending on the edits Click the Load File (…) button to open a dialog allowing you to you wish to perform. navigate to the folder containing the desired file. The words ‘No File Loaded’ appear to the left of the Load File button if you have not yet loaded a Poser file. Click the Load File (…) button to open a
  • 29. Poser Pro 31 Reference Manual dialog allowing you to navigate to the folder containing the Poser file you wish to load. The name of the object instance appears in the Name and Color rollout after you have created the objects in the scene via clicking and dragging or keyboard entry. Once a Poser file is loaded, the Keyboard Entry, Scene Options, and Info rollouts will appear. Creating Instances Once you have selected the Poser file, 3ds Max creates the Poser Universe object. To work with figures and props, you must create at least one instance of the figure(s) and/or prop(s) within your 3ds Max scene. An easy way to understand this concept is to think of the Poser file as a template from which to create new figures/props. There are two ways to do this: 1. Click, drag, then release the left mouse button. Large files may take a moment to appear after you click. Drag slowly Working with Poser Files in 3ds Max and wait for the figure/prop(s) to appear before releasing The following general rules apply when hosting Poser files within the mouse button. 3ds Max: 2. Use the Keyboard Entry rollout to specify a position and • You can host files with multiple figures. You can also scale, and then click the Create button. load one or more Poser files. 3ds Max places loaded The newly created Poser Universe, scene, and figure/prop primitives Poser files into its hierarchy as follows: appear in the 3ds Max view panes. » Geometry primitives are created for each figure and each prop in the Poser file. » When you create an instance of a Poser file, 3ds Max will create a Poser Scene object, which is the parent object for all figures and props from the Poser file.
  • 30. 32 Poser Pro Reference Manual » 3ds Max creates a Poser Universe dummy object The Scene Options Rollout when you load the first Poser file. This object is the Scene Options gives you the following options: parent object for all Poser Scene objects. » The Create and Modify panels will display different rollouts depending on the type of Poser object • Scene Scaling: Enter a value in selected: the Scale field or use the up and down arrows to specify the desired » Poser figure/prop: Scene File, Scene Options, Info scale for all of the objects in the » Poser Scene: Scene File, Scene Options, Info current scene. The scale value is expressed as the percentage of » Poser Universe: Info the original scale set when the file • You can modify any type of Poser object as if it were was created in Poser Pro. To scale a 3ds Max object; for example, figures and props can individual figures and props, use be edited just like any other type of 3ds Max geometry the 3ds Max Scale. When clicking primitive. and dragging to create a Poser object, the scale value will change The Create Panel to reflect the size of the scene that The Create panel contains the following rollouts: you are creating as you drag. • Object Type: Standard 3ds Max rollout • Display Tracking: Check the • Name + Color: Standard 3ds Max rollout desired radio button to specify Box Tracking (all objects in the current • Scene Creation: Please refer to the section Loading a Poser file appear as bounding boxes Poser File. for all figures/props at all times), • Keyboard Entry: Please refer to the section Creating Fast Tracking (all objects in the Instances. current Poser file displayed in full The Create panel also contains the following additional rollouts: while static and as bounding boxes for all figures/props when moving),
  • 31. Poser Pro 33 Reference Manual or Full Tracking (all objects in the current Poser file are The Modify Panel displayed in full at all times). The Modify Panel contains the following rollouts: • Frame Offset/Frame Remapping: Please refer to the • Modifiers: standard 3ds Max rollout section, Animating Poser Objects in for information on controlling Poser animations within 3ds Max. • Modifier Stack: standard 3ds Max rollout The Info Rollout • Scene File: Please refer to Scene File Rollout on this page. The Info rollout appears as follows: • Scene Options: Please refer to Scene Options In addition to displaying the Rollout. PoserFusion plug-in version number, the Info rollout • Info: Please refer to The Info Rollout on this page. contains three buttons. The Scene File Rollout Clicking the Smith Micro The Scene File rollout appears in the Modify panel in addition to Graphics button opens your the Scene Options and Info rollouts: Web browser and takes you to the Smith Micro Graphics Web page. Clicking the User Guide… button opens The Scene File rollout displays the the electronic (PDF) version Poser scene file that the currently of this document. Clicking selected figure/prop or Poser Scene the About… button opens object is associated with: a window displaying more information about Smith • Reload File: Clicking the Reload File… button Micro Graphics and the refreshes the data from the Poser file that is associated PoserFusion plug-in. with the Poser Scene instance. This function reloads the associated Poser file keyframe data. Thus, if you articulate the figure in Poser, you can access your
  • 32. 34 Poser Pro Reference Manual changes without losing any other modifications you If frame out of range radio buttons allow you to specify how to may have made on top of your objects in 3ds Max. If handle out-of-range situations: the original Poser file has had figures/props added or removed, you will need to recreate the scene via the Scene Creation rollout on the Create Panel. • File Information: Clicking the File Info… button displays information about the current file, including the full path, Poser Pro application path, and other useful information. Enable the appropriate radio button to make your selection: Animating Poser Objects in 3ds Max • Loop: Checking the Loop radio button causes the Poser You can control how any animation of your Poser objects relates to animation to repeat as many times as necessary to fill your current 3ds Max animation by using the Scene Options rollout all of the 3ds Max animation frames. This can include in either the Create or Modify panel. a partial animation cycle. For example, if the Poser Frame Ranges animation is 30 frames long and the 3ds Max animation is 45, the Poser animation will loop 1.5 times to take up An out of range condition exists when the 3ds Max animation has all 45 frames. frames occurring before the Poser animation’s start frame and/or ends after the Poser animation’s end frame. The end frame is • Freeze: Enabling the Freeze radio button causes the defined as Poser animation to not play before its starting frame and/or after its ending frame. End Frame=Start Frame+(Num Frames – 1) • Hide: Enabling the Hide radio button causes the Poser For example, if Start Frame=10 and Num Frames=15, then End animation to be invisible before its starting frame and/or Frame=24. after its ending frame.
  • 33. Poser Pro 35 Reference Manual Offsetting Frames • Number of Frames: Enter the number of frames in the You can insert your Poser animation at any desired point in the 3ds Poser file after the start frame that you wish to use in Max animation using the Frame Offset controls in the Scene the Number of Frames field or use the up and down Options rollout: arrows. You have three offset options: For example, you have a 100-frame 3ds Max animation and wish to open a 30-frame Poser animation. You could specify the Poser animation will begin at frame 45 of the 3ds Max frame. You could • Start on Frame: also specify that you wish to start the Poser animation from the Enter the 3ds Max 10th frame of the Poser file and that you wish to use the 15 frames animation frame where that follow. This scenario would cause the following to occur: you wish your Poser animation to begin by 3ds Max animation Poser animation either entering a valid Frames 0-44 As specified in the Out of frame number in the Range options. Start on Frame field or using the up and Frame 45 Frame 10 down arrows. Frame 46 Frame 11 • Poser Source Frame 59 Frame 24 Frames: You are not limited to simply running your entire Poser animation Frames 61-100 As specified in the Out of within 3ds Max: Range options. • Start Frame: Enter the number of the frame in the Poser file where you wish to begin the Poser animation in the Start Frame field or use the up and down arrows.
  • 34. 36 Poser Pro Reference Manual Remapping Frames Then expand the Object node under the Poser Scene object. Select You are not limited to simply specifying frame offsets. By enabling Remap to Frame and use the standard 3ds Max keyframing Frame Remapping, you have full control over the sense of techniques to remap the Poser scene’s sense of time. time that the Poser scene experiences for shortening, extending, Poser Materials in 3ds Max accelerating and decelerating the Poser animation. This provides You can control your Poser objects’ materials as you would any extended control over an existing keyframed animation in Poser Pro, other material in 3ds Max by clicking the Open Materials Editor without having to go back and adjust it in Poser Pro: icon ( ) to open the Materials Editor. Next, select the Pick Material from Object tool and click within the desired Poser Check the Enable box to figure/prop to load its materials into the 3ds Max Materials enable Frame Remapping. Editor. Enabling this option disables the Frame Offset and If frame out-of-range options. Once remapping is enabled, you can select any frame of the 3ds Max animation and map any frame of the Poser animation to that frame. This feature is extremely powerful since it allows you to literally reshape your Poser animation. You can speed it up or slow it down, run it backward, or even skip randomly through the animation. To remap frames, move to the desired 3ds Max frame using the time slider or other 3ds Max tool, turn on the Animate function, and enter a valid Poser animation frame number in the Remap to Frame field or use the up and down arrows. Once you have remapped frames, you can use 3ds Max’s Track View window to obtain full control over how the map will behave. Click the Open Track View icon to open the Track View window.
  • 35. Poser Pro 37 Reference Manual Cinema 4D Poser Object Properties To host a Poser file in CINEMA 4D: PoserFusion includes a number of options that affect the creation of textures and lights. Below is a detailed listing of the options and Go to the Plugins pull-down menu and select Poser Object. their uses. Poser File Attributes Scene Creation: After The first attributes for Poser creating a Poser object, the Objects are the Poser file properties of the object will options. show up in the Attribute Manager. Click the […] • File Browse: Choose the button located under the Poser scene file you wish to Object properties to load the import using the Browse […] Poser scene. button. Click the Browse button. (Then navigate to your Material Creation: Once Poser file using the file dialog the file has loaded, click the and click Open. Create materials button to create materials which • Reload File: Clicking the approximate the materials from Poser. Reload File button reloads the specified Poser file into Once your Poser file is hosted in CINEMA 4D, a link is maintained CINEMA 4D and refreshes to the Poser file on disk. Make sure you keep a copy of the Poser all existing instances of that file in the same location on the disk in order to re-load the CINEMA file. This button allows you 4D files that contain hosted Poser files. to work in CINEMA 4D and In addition, you can re-load different versions of the same Poser file Poser Pro simultaneously. You if you want to update your animation and poses. can quickly and easily import any changes you make to the Poser file. Just save your Poser
  • 36. 38 Poser Pro Reference Manual file over your previous version, and click the Reload File If Frame out of Range button. You do not have to quit Poser Pro or CINEMA 4D. When you have animation in a Poser file, there is a start and end Display Tracking frame for the animation within the Poser file. Your animation inside CINEMA 4D may be longer than the animation from Poser Each Poser object may be set to a display tracking mode. These Pro. The Frame Out of Range options are used to determine modes control how the geometry is displayed during playback of what happens with the Poser file when the frame in CINEMA 4D is animation, and scrubbing in the frame bar. outside of the animation range from your Poser file. • Box: An object that is set to Box Tracking always appears as one or more boxes in CINEMA 4D’s view • Loop: The Poser animation will loop as many times as pane. This is a very quick way to get a general idea of the necessary to fill all of the CINEMA 4D animation frames. movement within your scene without the overhead of a This can include a partial loop. For example, if the Poser complete geometry calculation. Pro animation is 30 frames long and the CINEMA 4D animation is 45 frames long, the Poser Pro animation will • Full: An object that is set to Full Tracking displays its full loop 1.5 times to take up all 45 frames. geometry and materials even during playback or frame scrubbing. This mode provides the most accurate display, • Freeze: The Poser animation will freeze before its start but can also be slower. frame and after its end frame. When viewing a frame after the end of the Poser animation, the Poser animation Disable Animation will be frozen in the same position as the last frame. When Disable Anim is enabled, the Poser file will stay at a single When viewing a frame before the beginning of the Poser frame. Animation from inside the Poser file will be ignored and will animation, the Poser animation will be frozen in the same not play back. During a render, the Poser file will stay static (not position as the first frame. moving) through the entire render. • Hide: When hide is selected, the Poser items will only be visible when your CINEMA 4D frame is inside the Poser animation range. If your CINEMA 4D frame goes before or
  • 37. Poser Pro 39 Reference Manual after the frame range of your Poser file, the Poser items Frame Remapping Attributes will become invisible. You are not limited to simply specifying frame offsets. By enabling Frame Offset Attributes Frame Remapping, you have full control over playback of your Poser animation within CINEMA 4D: Using these options, you can insert your Poser animation at any desired point in the CINEMA 4D animation. For example, if you • Enable: Check the have a walk cycle that starts at frame 1 in Poser, you can use these Enable box to enable options to make the character start walking at frame 100 inside frame remapping. CINEMA 4D. Enabling this option disables frame offsets and out-of-range options. Once remapping is enabled, • Start on Frame: This you can modify the playback of the Poser animation by parameter allows you to animating the Remap to Frame parameter. This feature enter the CINEMA 4D is extremely powerful since it allows you to literally animation frame where reshape your Poser animation. You can speed up your you wish your Poser animation to begin. If you enter a Poser animation or slow it down, run it backward, or frame number like 125, then your Poser animation will even skip randomly through the animation. start to play at frame 125. Until frame 125, the Frame • Remap to Frame: To remap frames, simply animate Out of Range options will be used to determine if there the Remap to Frame parameter. Your Poser scene is movement before the start frame. will move to whichever frame number is specified in • Poser Start Frame: This indicates the first frame of this parameter. For example, to play your Poser file animation that you wish to use from the Poser file. backwards, you would animate this parameter from a Animation in the Poser file before this frame will not higher number frame, to a lower number frame. appear in the CINEMA 4D scene. • Num Poser frames: This is the numbers of frames after your Start Frame that you would like to use. If you choose to only use 15 frames, then you will only see 15 frames from your Poser animation inside of CINEMA 4D.
  • 38. 40 Poser Pro Reference Manual Hair Attributes PoserFusion for Maya PoserFusion has the ability to preview and render strand-based To host a Poser file in Maya, select FileImport. In the File Poser hair in CINEMA 4D. Dialog, select Poser (*.*) as the file type and choose the Poser file you want to host inside Maya. • Populate Hair: For Make sure you keep a copy of the Poser file in the same location speed purposes, only on the disk in order to re-load the Maya files that contain hosted the guide hairs are Poser files so you can re-load different versions of the same Poser visible by default. In order to view and render a full hair file if you want to update your animation and poses. Instructions simulation, turn on the Populate hair option. on updating versions of your Poser file are located in the section describing the Shelf Buttons . • Hair root scale: This is the scale of the hair geometry at the root of the hair (close to the scalp). This can be raised Import Options if the hair looks too sparse close to the scalp. Try to make PoserFusion includes a number of options for hosting your Poser this value as small as possible for quickest rendering file. To select the options for importing your file, from the Main results. Menu, select File MenuImport Options. Select the Import • Hair tip scale: This is the scale of the hair geometry at Options that are appropriate and click Apply. the end of the hair. This can be raised if the hair looks Below is a description of the options available: too sparse at the tips. Try to make this value as small as possible for quickest rendering results. Animation Controls You can play back and view Poser animations from inside Maya when you use PoserFusion. One animation curve controls the frame you will see from the Poser file. This animation curve animates the frame attribute on the mpzFile node.
  • 39. Poser Pro 41 Reference Manual Animation Enabling the animation checkbox automatically sets up an animation that matches the range you specify for the Poser file. You can add animation later by animating the frame attribute on the mpzFile node. Poser Range This specifies the range of animation from the Poser file that will playback in Maya. You can use the actual frame range from your Poser file, or specify the first and last frame from the Poser file that will play back in Maya. This can be modified later by adjusting the animation curves. Maya Range This specifies Start and End frame in Maya during which animation will play back. The first frame specified in the Poser Range will start at the first frame specified in the Maya Range. The last frame specified in the Poser Range will occur in Maya at the last frame specified in the Maya Range. There are a few options for choosing the Animation Range in Maya.
  • 40. 42 Poser Pro Reference Manual • From Poser: Uses the animation range from the Poser Texture Options file. • Start: Specify the start frame in Maya, and the length of the range will automatically be imported from Poser. • Start/End: Set a start and end frame in Maya. The length of the Poser Animation, as specified by the Poser • Use Full Texture History: PoserFusion can maintain a Range will be compressed to fit in this range. This can be full texture history back to the original Poser file. When modified later by adjusting the animation curves. using this option, any changes in color or texture maps assigned to the Poser shaders will update the next time Repeat Before/After the file is re-loaded in Maya. This option is disabled by default for better compatibility with external renderers such as Mental Ray. The Poser animation will play back outside of the specified Maya • Process .bum Files: .bum is a special file format Range, based on the type of repeat option which is set. These that historically was used in Poser  for bump maps. options set the pre-infinity and post-infinity type on the animation When you enable Process .bum files, Maya can read, curves. This can be modified later by adjusting the pre-infinity, and and understand .bum files. This option is enabled by post-infinity options for the animation curves in the graph editor. default. Disable this option for compatibility with Mental Ray, and other external renderers. • None: No animation will playback out of the specified Maya Range. • Use Transparency Min/Max: Poser has a special function that allows a drop off in transparency based • Cycle: Animation will repeat outside the Maya Range on surface angle to camera. This option emulates this specified. The animation will play forward from the start behavior with Maya shader nodes. This option is enabled again each time. by default for highest compatibility with Poser shaders. • Oscillate: Animation will repeat outside the Maya Range Disable this option off if you are having trouble painting specified. on shader transparency textures.
  • 41. Poser Pro 43 Reference Manual • Multiply Texture when Appropriate: Poser shaders • Manual: This mode lets the user set the Scale X, Scale Y, multiply the texture color by the shader color. When this and Scale Z to any numeric value. option is enabled, shaders created in Maya will have a multiply node inserted to emulate this behavior. This The PoserFusion Shelf option is enabled by default for the highest compatibility The Shelf included with PoserFusion adds a number of commands with Poser shaders. This option can interfere with some which work with Poser. These include commands to help Maya features like painting on textures, therefore disable reload files, and switch between Bounding Box, and Full Geometry. the option if you experience trouble. Scale Conversions The Poser world has a scale that goes from 0 to 1. In order to make it easier for Maya users, we have implemented an automatic scale conversion with 4 settings. File Update Buttons • Real Life: This is the setting to use if you are working in life-size scale within Maya. All geometry gets scaled up The first 3 icons are used for reloading and updating Poser files by 243.84 from within Maya without having to re-load the file Poser files are • Centimeters As Feet: A number of Maya users start set up in Maya using Construction History. This means when you with the default units (centimeters) and use them as feet reload a Poser file, all texture assignments and modifications made instead. This setting works very well with this workflow. in your Maya file remain the same. The only difference is that you’ll All geometry gets scaled up by 8.0. now be referencing the new poses/animation from the updated file. • Direct: No scale conversion occurs; the geometry is the Here is a description of the specific functions, and what they do.  same scale as in Poser.
  • 42. 44 Poser Pro Reference Manual File Reload Browser (selected) Playback Buttons Use the File Reload Browser to select a different version of a file from disk. The file should contain the same Poser characters as the file you already have loaded, but can contain different poses/animations. To use this function, select any character from the file you want to reload, and click on the shelf button.  Bounding Box (selected) File Reload (selected) This button makes the currently selected Poser character Use the File Reload to reload the current Poser file display as bounding boxes. from disk. The file should contain the same Poser characters as the file you already have loaded, but can Bounding Box Playback (selected) contain different poses/animations. One example of using this This button makes the currently selected Poser character would be if someone had modified the poses or animation in the display as bounding box during playback for quick original Poser file, and you wanted to see the updated changes in interaction.  Maya. To use this function, select any character from the file you want to reload, and click on the shelf button. Full Geometry (selected) File Reload (all) Use this button to make the full geometry display for all Poser characters. This command is the same as the File Reload (selected), and will reload all Poser files in the scene, regardless of what is selected. To use this Bounding Box (all) function, click on the Shelf Button.  Use this button to make the currently selected Poser character display as bounding boxes. 
  • 43. Poser Pro 45 Reference Manual Bounding Box Playback (all) Camera Export Buttons Make all Poser characters display as a bounding boxes This button will export a camera pose from Maya to Poser. This during playback. feature makes it easy to line up a pose between Poser and Maya. To use this feature, first select a character you want to use as Full Geometry (all) a scale reference, and then select the camera node you wish to Use this button to make the full geometry display for all export. The Export Camera window will then appear. Enter a Poser characters. name for the new camera pose. This name must end in .cm2. The exported camera pose will show up with the camera sets in Poser.