Not sure what your model is meant to look like (a render in Blender might help) but in any case, in Blender, you might wish to confirm that all faces are pointing the same way. Also, keep in mind that typically, objects exported from Blender into Poser will need to be resized to 1/10th, as Poser's native size is ridiculously small.

Wow, that's annoying, Miss B. Hope you're having a wonderful holiday season (in Blender, if not in Poser )

Based on the input I've heard from people I trust (like Glitterati3D) not only did I upgrade my quiescent copy of PP11, but also upgraded Win7 Pro to Win10 Pro to run it in... this although I rarely go into Windows at home full-stop, preferring Linux or Mac. Having a play with it now, and it's the same learning curve I had before and which I'm enjoying now with Blender 2.8x. The only real reason I still use Poser at all is explained by its name: it shines for Posing Characters.

Thank you to all who replied: I'll have a go with your suggestions and let you know how I get on. I think you might have a point about Mojave, Lobo: it seems to have broken more than just how the mouse behaves... my WiFi drivers appear to have issues as well.

Thanks again!

"Some of them have bizarre behaviors when I try to import them into Blender- I think it has something to do with the size of the default 'universe' maybe? Buildings are the most problematic, they often arrive at odd angles and most of them is cut off as though there is an invisible box around them and only the part inside can be seen. What is that? How do I make it bigger or make it go away?"

Actually, it has more to do with camera clipping. In 2.79 (which I'm quite a bit more familiar with - still getting the grey matter around 2.8) it was similar to 2.8. So, in 2.8, you:

• select the camera
• in the properties panel (usually on the right) you select the second from the bottom icon - looks like a movie camera
• under the lens section, under [End] you set your clipping

Make that upper number pretty big, like 10000 or larger.

Brilliant find, Laurie... very useful, indeed! BTW, isn't Markom3D's video a riot?

Very nice work, Laurie. How are you liking 2.80, then?

The Poser-to-Blender news is quite exciting. I've actually gone back to Poser Pro 2014 as 1) it doesn't have that odd "phone-home feature" of the latest version, and 2) runs brilliantly well in Linux Mint. I've even got Adobe Air to install in WINE, so the native Poser Library works, well, in 32-bit Poser Pro, anyway.

This renders my little "shader-addon" obsolete, which is a relief, because I really wasn't looking forward to learning a new API in order to port the thing to 2.8. I doubt there's that many users anyway. I was scratching my own itch anyway, and making it available to others, as we open-source folk do... it was never meant to be anything really slick and polished.

Wow, Curtis doesn't sort-of muck around much, does he? gets straight to it. Wish more videos were as clear, condensed and quick as his are.

Thanks for the link, Lobo: that's a really neat feature of Blender I never would have thought existed!

Thank you, Lobo... very kind words. It must seem odd for me to be looking at music instead of the visual, particularly as we're being given such an amazing upgrade to our favourite software. My first love, however, is video and video requires music and sounds: it just does. Watch Lion King without the sound and you'll appreciate what I mean.

I've been trying my hand at artistic video - nothing I'd want anyone to really see, only just because it might depress the viewer, although a low-quality version is on YouTube - and find without music, the thing simply has no life. Problem is: the sort of music I wish to have in the video is, even if the composer him-(or her-)self lived almost 200 years ago, the performance of the piece was covered by copyright. {{{sigh}}}

What to do?

This is where Musescore came into the picture. I'm not clever enough to work an actual DAW (digital audio workstation) but Musescore? not a problem. And the "performance" is quite good! certainly good enough for my humble little video efforts.

So, I'm transcribing pieces I want to have in my videos into Musescore, a very involved, laborious work, but incredibly rewarding.

While I already have WIlliamson's Retopo thingie, this does look good - I remember when he was first starting out developing it. And yes, free is always good.

My passion for music has sort-of occupied my time of late - using Musescore (another free tool) a lot these days to write and transcribe music these days - but I will be getting back to Blender at some point. Need to get my head around 2.8, is all.

3dkaya posted at 9:25AM Thu, 18 July 2019 - #4357255

Oops I forgot how to import an object into blender.

Not trying to be insolent but: how to import 3d object into blender ... I would set time of search to the past year to get relevant results, as Blender has changed quite a bit over time, and you don't want information on Blender 2.32 or something. For example, here's one published just this June!

You'll want to get familiar with UV-mapping, too.

Blender has 100% of what you need to create content in terms of application capability. You can run Blender on a notebook to create content: however, rendering might require a bit more horsepower than what your netbook can provide. You'll need to have a look at the minimum specs required to run Blender.

I do find that the Blender Market has some amazing apps that can significantly make life easier for the content developer. However, the most important thing you will need is knowledge, and YouTube is an amazing resource place for that.

Another I've found quite compelling is Wayward Art Company: a bit more advanced but the presenter has a nice pace and the results astound.

Not sure you're aware, but CgCookie have over 700 videos - yes, seven with 2 naughts next to it - on YouTube, totally free! that for those who aren't about to chuck caution to the winds and dive headlong into 2.8 provide an enormous resource for Blender fundamentals, albeit usually presented in slightly older versions.

Great article, Lobo, thanks for the link. CGCookie most definitely has some of the most talented instructors anywhere.

Just wish I had more disposable time these days: I'm back into teaching instead of nursing, and it's a lot more demanding of my time.