Dr. Strangelove

[SkyFod]

I have 3dsmax 6, Poser 5, MSFS 2004.  
How hard would it be to put a poser figure on top of an airplane like in the movie Dr. Strangelove?  

[Felix/FFDS]

If you build and compile everything yourself, not hard.

BRing your poser figure into 3DSMax, export as x file, compile with the makemdl.exe, and create the folders/files for FS2004.

Considering that poser figures tend to have high polygon counts, I'd expect an unsmooth 2-3 fps in FS2004.

Of course, if you do a less polygon intensive setup, so much the better!

Good luck!

[Travis]

What is Poser 5?  I assume its a modelling prog for people, right?

[Firestriker]

Ender,

Generally speaking, Poser is not a modeling program but more of a rendering system. Most Poser addon characters are actually constructed outside and then imported into Poser. You do setup a bone system in Poser so you can bend body parts. Then you build a scene with the characters and props much like building a scene in a movie. You can animate objects using key frame animations, and manipuate lights and cameras in the scene. Once you have a scene built you render it to an image file or in the case of an animation you can make an AVI/MPG digital movie type file.  Like so many other programs nowadays, there are tons of plugins and addons, even one called Mimic so you can make a characters mouth move like it is talking in time with a wav file. Here is a simple render



Lou

[Travis]

What's the poly count on that?  Or does that term even apply?

[Felix/FFDS]

[quote]What's the poly count on that?

[Firestriker]

hehehe....

Body = 74510 faces + 12 1950x1950 textures
Hair = 10351 faces  + 3 3000x3000 textures
T-shirt = 5234 faces
Skirt = 3238 faces
Boots = 1695 faces each
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Total = 96723 faces

[Felix/FFDS]

hehehe....

Total = 96723 faces

At least *I* can't afford that...  :)

[Travis]

*Huuuumppp!*  [Chokes on own tongue . . .]

[Firestriker]

Actually, it is not all that bad. Yes, by FS standards. you would have poor frame rates if you were to use the figure there. My system is a couple of years old. AMD 1.3ghz, 512mb PC133 memory, Win2kPro, Riva TNT2 Ultra w/32mb memory. Poser4 Pro, for the most part, runs fairly smooth, but Poser 5 is pretty piggy.

Lou