https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3086&p=38278#p38278
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Nik
Saturday, 26 January 2008, 01:58 AM

Re: Looking For A 3D Editor...
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Thanks for those suggestions !

I'd found the Caligari 3 link, but I've down-loaded Blender to try...

Um, AND Python, because I did not realise it was bundled in zip, AND the MS run-time, ditto: I'm so glad I'm not on dial-up !!

Okay, Blender is a bit overwhelming, but the 'feel' is a bit like 2D GIMP, and the icon-menus now support non-eidetic non-pianists with middle-aged eyes...

D'uh, despite three decades of using computers, I've never learned to touch-type-- The *only* hot-key chord I can play is Ctrl-Alt-Del !!

I think my first priority is to craft an 'environment' that looks half-way familiar, with CAD-like orthogonal & perspective views in multiple windows. At least the program quick-start PDF says up-front that you move and edit objects in different parts of program. That has the distinct advantage that a Poser OBJ should *stay put* as a whole while I'm pushing mesh vertices about. And, yes, Blender has layers. Quite how they work is another matter...

Could be I'm getting too old for this game... Or, perhaps, I should despair of trying to *understand* what I'm doing, and switch to dynamic clothes in P7 ??