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What are your must have character creation tools?

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,851
    edited August 2017
    cdpro_2831bbd990 said:
    Zev0 said:
    You can share by saving as a shaping preset. You can also choose character preset but that looks for loaded skins. If it is just characted shape you want, shaping preset is the way to go. And if the other user has the required morphs, they will get the same result.

    Thanks.  You know, I've never used the "shaping preset" save.  I use the character, scene subset, and material saves all the time.  But then, I almost always work by exporting a mesh.  The shaping preset makes good sense for the type of sharing described.  I can see how it might be helpful for going back and forth between machines when tweaking a shape.

    ...I just save as a Scene Subset, leaving a character in the default pose with nothing else like props, extra lights, sets or such, expressly for the purpose of merging into scenes as needed.

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    cdpro_2831bbd990 said:

    This is a bit off topic.  But, do any of you guys remember a program that could take a flat photo of a cityscape and pull 3d shapes to create a usable 3d city model?  I actually owned this in the 90's and can't remember what it was called.  It came out about the same time as Bryce and Carrara.  I haven't seen it since, but can't help but think that would be good for making semi billboard type backdrops for Studio.

    Canoma    came from the same stable as Bryce, Poser, Raydream etc   ie Metacreations        http://www.canoma.com/

  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,343
    timmins.william said:

    Ram: bah, doesn't look like it calculates Normals accurately after all. At least I got it on sale

    Weird. Never had an issue Will. So sorry! 

  • cdpro_2831bbd990cdpro_2831bbd990 Posts: 1,430
    edited August 2017
    Chohole said:
    cdpro_2831bbd990 said:

    This is a bit off topic.  But, do any of you guys remember a program that could take a flat photo of a cityscape and pull 3d shapes to create a usable 3d city model?  I actually owned this in the 90's and can't remember what it was called.  It came out about the same time as Bryce and Carrara.  I haven't seen it since, but can't help but think that would be good for making semi billboard type backdrops for Studio.

    Canoma    came from the same stable as Bryce, Poser, Raydream etc   ie Metacreations        http://www.canoma.com/

    Hey, thanks...Just looked at that page.  It looks like people are using it pretty much for what I was thinking...to make low poly environments.  This is making me want to dig out my old copy.  I have no idea if I still have it...probably threw it out years ago.  When I first bought it, I thought it was a neat gimmick, but not useful for much.  And, it crashed all the time on my old computer.  It really makes me wonder if it was just a bit ahead of its time and would be much better if released in the current market of much more high powered systems.

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    You could do what I did and do a google search for it     It isn't supported by Metacreations but it does appear that there are some still using it, or parts of it
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canoma
     

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