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Key things to get you going using Poser 5 to do this. Your texture maps have to be at 1450X1450 300 dpi for the image to fit right on the Poser figure. Go into the materials room and click the eye dropper onto the body part you want to use a texture map on and that brings up the Root Node for it, upper body for example. You will need to create a new node for the upper body by right clicking on the top of the Poser Surface box and selecting New Node, then 2D Textures then Image Map. The Image Map node needs to be connected to two places in the root node, Diffuse Color and Specular Color. You will then need to go to the new node and select the image you want to use as a map, click on image source and Brows to the image and open it. That should have your image mapped to the Poser figure in the window.

I am writing this because the manual that comes wih Poser 5 does not tell you how to do this, in fact the manuel doesn't tell you much of anything really really helpful a lot of the time. It tells you how to create a node but nowhere does it tell you what connections are needed to get a specific result ie getting an image map onto a figure. Hopefully this will get you started.

I have a non-pro version of Maya 6, which tbh, I haven't ever used. Now I have an excuse!

With that, does anyone know how to import the .obj file into Maya? The only file I can seem to import into Maya is the PNG file, and then, it displays the PNG only within the previewer. When I try to import the .obj or .bvh files, Maya throws an "unrecognized file type" error (or something to that affect).

Thank yas!

Very cool thank you

Thanks for the help....I'll give that a try in a bit.

I gave it a try and it didn't work at all. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I did EVERYTHING you said in your post. Maybe the file type is wrong...is it not supposed to be a .TGA file? I can see my image on the bottom of the Root Node...but nothing shows up on the model but a bland color. I might just be stuck paying the L$10 everytime...lol.

To preview your texture on the model (without rendering), be sure to use "Texture Shaded" on the document display style menu(cute little balls at the bottom).

If the image shows up in the preview then it should work but try .jpg instead. If it is centered in the preview then it is sized correctly. Also you have to physically drag a connection from the Diffuse and Specular tabs to the node. You should see lines connecting to the two nodes together. If you look there is a plug icon on one side and a socket icon on the other, ya gots to plug 'em in.

Try that, I figgure that is the problem since I had a devil of a time with it myself.

I have the same problem, I had a look on the alias website and it looks like you need the full version in order to load the plugin's neccessary to load .obj files.

chip, you are a crazy maniac.

i thought you were using a photogrametric software like Shapecapture or ImageModeler.

Ah, crud! Guess I gotta go out and spend money, now.

haha, nope. That would have been cheating (er, actually I hadn't thought of it)

Anyone figured out how you can use these w/ poser 4? I imported the obj files but it seems to treat the figure like a prop rather than a figure. Anyone know of a converter(s) that I can use to use so I don't have to upgrade poser?

The obj files aren't what you want. Those are for use with other 3d apps. Follow the instructions in the readme for getting them working with poser. You just need to copy the folder into the right subfolder in your poser install It should work the same for 4 as it does for 5.

hehe my thoughts exactly

Im using DAZ (cause its free) but i cant apply a texture to it. All i can do is put a color.
Or is there another program (free) that i would be able to add textures to make clothes?

You can't make clothes using daz - you can just preview them. Daz doesn't allow you to export textures or save them. Its use seems to be to make pretty pictures.