{"id":12735,"date":"2019-12-23T02:46:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T02:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=12735"},"modified":"2019-12-23T02:46:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T02:46:09","slug":"how-to-strip-your-poser-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2019\/12\/23\/how-to-strip-your-poser-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"How to strip your Poser characters"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to strip your Poser characters… to clay.<\/p>\n

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1.<\/strong> Download SnarlyGribbly’s free EZmat<\/a>, unzip. Inside there is another<\/em> EZMat.zip. Unzip that too, and copy the ..\\runtime folder there to your usual main ..\\content\\runtime folder by copy-merging.<\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> Then copy the rest of the EZMat folder content to ..\\content\\ezmat and use Windows Explorer to clipboard-copy the filepath for the \\plugins\\ folder. e.g.: C:\\Users\\YOUR_USER_NAME\\YOUR_PATH\\content\\ezmat\\Plugins<\/p>\n

3.<\/strong> Load Poser. Under the top “Window” menu, and then right down at the bottom, you now find the main way to launch the core EZMat panel…<\/p>\n

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4.<\/strong> In this core panel you paste in your path to the many EZMat plugin scripts. These are a wide variety of helper scripts, doing things such as adding rust overlays and even special ‘furry moss’ textures for standing stones, all explained in the PDF documentation. <\/p>\n

In the screenshot below I have the truncated path ..\\content\\ezmat\\Plugins\\Official shown for security, but your own full path will be required in your install. You may then need to reload Poser to get the plugins-list loading into EZmat. Choose the EZClay plugin<\/strong> from the selection in the EZmat panel.<\/p>\n

5.<\/strong> The workflow on the EZmat panel is then fairly straightforward, if a little roundabout…<\/p>\n

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Be warned that ‘apply to “whole scene”‘ is ticked by default.<\/p>\n

6.<\/strong> If your translucent or glass materials are then looking jaggy in Preview, such as on Robo-kitty’s visor, then set the shadow quality on your scene lights to 1024 instead of 512.<\/p>\n

Enjoy your test Robo-kitty in grey clay. This particular kitty ships for free with Poser 11.2, and once installed is found under Figures | Toys | SA Kitty. <\/p>\n

Update: Further testing seems to show a small problem with EZmat in Poser 11.2.x: to load it for a saved Poser scene, its panel first needs to be opened briefly on an unsaved<\/strong> Poser scene. After that it will load fine on saved scenes, but will otherwise refuse to fully do so.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How to strip your Poser characters… to clay. 1. Download SnarlyGribbly’s free EZmat, unzip. Inside there is another EZMat.zip. Unzip that too, and copy the ..\\runtime folder there to your usual main ..\\content\\runtime folder by copy-merging. 2. Then copy the rest of the EZMat folder content to ..\\content\\ezmat and use Windows Explorer to clipboard-copy the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,9,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automation","category-freebies","category-poser","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}