♥ PosetteForever ♥

A couple of test renders, before and after my afternoon of wrangling...

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Not yet figured what I did 'right', will re-re-caffeinate and try again.

But, collected 20+ DA freebie multi-format figures with same 'style' from same 'porter' to test any fix I think I've found...

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There's something weird going on with the textures around the figure's eyes. I reckon I'd serendipitously hit a 'sweet spot', as even a few percent either way on a dozen settings look very wrong...

Took most of the day to 'iterate' back to where I'd begun, progressively simplifying...

My best guess is Poser does not need the eye-liner etc transparency masks. At least with them removed, there's a broader 'solution'.

Also, eye-liner etc textures' PNGs may be 'wonky': I had to strip out their Alpha channels...

I *think* I've caught the hint of a viable work-flow. Won't know until I can reliably load the FBX and texture this figure, then several more...

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Thank you kindly Nik! I wonder, if there is a specific application, common amongst those who successfully port well-behaved FBX figures. What is it, that those porters do, that achieves that ?

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I've asked and asked, but there's such a zoo of eg Blender rigs, I/O plug-in versions and parameters, that a lot seems down to dumb luck and serendipity.

IIRC, one artist's cute FBX figure port was perfect, impeccably behaved in Poser. Another figure port, barely a fortnight later, with 'exactly' the same work-flow and parameters, was a wreck. Between, Blender and/or plug-ins had had teeny-tiny, apparently trivial updates, but the 'wheels came off the bus'...

To that artist's credit, was very upset...

Older versions of FBX, ~6.1, are usually better than recent 7.4+, but there are honourable exceptions, such as the render above. 'Rigged in Maya' usually works. I must surmise that has such a high 'seat price' it includes Autodesk's actual SDK, rather than Blender's open-source reverse-engineered plug-ins.

Though 'Make Human' exports at FBX v6.1 (2016) seem to work in Poser, I still cannot get that 'Guards ! Guards !!' freebie trio to network-render with textures.

Okay, I haven't tried for several weeks, but they're on my 'ToDo' list...

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