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User Guide

Chapter 22: Poser Integration

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4. Launch Shade and open your new Poser 
gure 

within it.

You can also export Poser
gures as OBJ
les,

allowing you to (for example) create morph targets,

create UV data, or modify material groups.

As you can see, using Poser with Shade is a fast and

effective means of adding high-quality residents to

your 3D worlds.

NOTE: Poser now supports many popular
le

formats for both texture and bumps!

The Poser bump map (*.bum) format

is unique to Poser and will not transfer

Shade. To get around this issue, simply

use the original image
le used as the

source for the Poser *.bum
le.

Hosting Poser Files in Shade

Poser
les hosted within Shade retain all of their data

including the geometries of the
gures and props,

materials, and keyframe data. Shade treats hosted

Poser
gures/props as Shade object primitives, and

allows you to manipulate them within Shade as

you would any other primitive. For certain tasks,

however, you may need to open the Poser
le within

Poser itself. For example, if you want to articulate the

gure directly or change body part keyframe values,

you will need to do this in Poser, save your changes,

and re-load the
gure into Shade.

NOTE: Poser supports saving compressed

*.pz3
les, which have the extension

*.pzz. For clarity, this chapter uses the

term Poser
le to describe either
le

format.

User Interface

To select a Poser
le to open and host it within

Shade:

1. Select the [View Menu] [PoserFusion] option 

from within Shade 8. This will open the PoserFusion

dialog window.

2. Click the Poser button and specify the location of 

your Poser application.

NOTE: Poser
gure hosting only works if you

have a valid Poser installation on your

machine. Supported Poser versions

are Poser Artist fourth edition, Poser

ProPack and Poser 5. Earlier Poser

versions are not supported.

3. Click the [Open...] button, and browse to the 

location of the Poser (.pz3 or .pzz)
le you wish to

open. When you open this
le, a new native Shade

object will be created using the
gure(s) within the

Poser
le. If the Poser
le contains animation data,

the object will be positioned within Shade at frame

zero of the animation. If you open the same Poser
le

multiple times, a new instance (linked object) of the

same
le will be created.

PoserFusion Options

The PoserFusion dialog window contains the

following options and functions: