https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=3991&p=45340#p45340
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Nik
Friday, 10 April 2020, 06:29 PM

Re: Mesh Format Viewer / Conversion.
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PP 11.3 has *not* mended the quirks of the FBX importer, nor has it added a 'scale to figure' option per OBJ.

When you've done a 'binary chop' on the scaling, anything between 0.5 ~~ 5000 of nominal 100%, Round#2 of cage-fight begins...

A very, very few FBX figures arrive rigged, upright and compliant. As for the rest, well, if you're lucky everything arrives. Some have the body merged to one mesh, cannot be posed without surgery and rigging, both currently beyond my wits. Others are a loose formation of body parts. And, hierarchies ? 

Fortunately, I was informed that the easiest way to tame such 'swarms' is to parent them to a dummy figure. Free on R**y, Les Bentley has 'MinFig' [NOT MiniFig], while Anthony Appleyard has 'Dummy'. 

You may have to change the origin on latter, to allow twirling of 'bound' FBX without problems.

D'uh, editing figure's zero/origin used to be *easy* in P4. In P11, I fumbled and blundered around parameters etc, eventually did it by accident. The on-line manual may have it, and it may even be easy, but I could not find the relevant search term.

OT: It's obviously an American manual, the index auto-generated by sorting document paragraph & chapter headings. Which only works if you know what *they* call the topic. At work, I used to plow through our lab instruments' thick technical manuals, annotating such auto-generated indexes with essential page references that we'd otherwise only find by accident...

I miss bound paper manuals...


