The "scale cube" method of OBJ importing from Curious Labs Poser® to Corel Bryce® Part 3 [Return to Part 2] Each figure in the Poser scene has now been exported to an .OBJ file with a "scale cube" attached. Bryce's Import functions can now use that to scale the figures correctly. Importing into Bryce 1. Select the File...Import Object... menu item and select the first of your figures with the scale cube. Because the files are now relatively small you will not get the dreaded "out of memory" error. 2. When the 2nd file is imported the success of this method will already be visible - perfect scaling and perfect placement. (And it works on any number of imported objects) 3. With all the figures imported, you can then go about getting rid of the scale cubes.They are not needed anymore! Hold in the Ctrl key (On the Macintosh the "Control Key") and click on one of the scale cubes. A pop up menu will appear and the items in the immediate area of the Ctrl-click will be listed. 4. Select the scale cube from the menu. It will be listed as "box_1_1" or something similar. The scale cube object within the imported group will now be highlighted. Press the Delete key and the scale cube will disappear. Repeat this step with all the redundant scale cubes. You can now place the remaining groups into one large group for final placement. A side view of the figures show that their scaling and positioning is perfect. 5. Now you can set up your Bryce scene further, adding lights and textures. Even if minor amounts of rescaling are needed or the positioning is a few Bryce Units out, it is easy to align and scale the figures using their attached scale cubes. Of course you must leave the scale cubes intact to do the adjustments and then delete them! The basis of the above scene (the rocks and the water) were taken from the "Real World Bryce 4" CD-ROM that came with the book. Copyright for this scene belongs to Susan Kitchens. Some tutorial sources I can personally recommend are: The Information Cave's Poser Tutorial links page. Pete's Place is a good source for Bryce Tutorials. The Internet Eye has a large Tutorial section too. Lannie's new site at 3D Model World is packed with links. Being a typical human being I am sure that I have made some mistakes, and places where improvements can be made. , and I will certainly try to improve it. Happy Scale Cubin'
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