https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=729&p=8491#p8491
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Tormie
Monday, 12 April 2004, 08:10 AM


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Ok Guiltypleasures, my solution for this is very, very radical but it could help you very much:

1- If you don't have it search the UVMAPPER program (www.uvmapper.com, free version)
2- In uvmapper File->Open Model
3- now go in your poser directory and search for the file Geometries/dazpeople/blMilWom_v3.obj and load it

Now you can see a very messy template of the Daz V3 woman, I think they made her in this way so people would find very hard to make their own texture for the model... But we can make things easier...

4- In Uvmapper got to Edit->Color->By material
5- Edit -> New Uv Map ->Planar. Here select  Aligement = Z-Axis Orientatio=Orizzonthal Split=by orientation.

Now you can see a Posette  :heartbeat:  :heartbeat:  :heartbeat: like template.

I think that for your kind of texture it should be enough, it should be easier to work on this template with photopshop.

6- In Uvamapper File->Save model

Be Warned: DON'T USE the same name of the original model (blMilWom_v3.obj), use another (for example newvicky.oby).

7- In Uvmapper File -> Save texture Map: you can save the new template in a directory easy to find, you'll use this to build your new texture.

8- Now you have to modify the CR2 model of one of your vicky to use the new obj. So open Poser and choose one of your vicky, open it... ehm... her... and save it with another name, just to work on a copy.

Assuming that you saved the obj file (newvicky.obj) in the same directory of the original (blMilWom_v3.obj) it's easy. 

9 - open a text editor, the window notepad is enough, and search for the copy of vicky character you have just made, if your name was "mynewvicky" in poser, you must search for "mynewvicky.cr2" file.
Assuming that you have saved her in the default (Daz People) directory, you have to find the file:

c:/Program files/Curious Labs/Poser 5/Runtimes/Libraries/characters/Daz/Daz People/minewvicky.cr2

10 - In notepad search and find "blMilWom_v3.obj" , delete it and write "newvicky.obj" (the name of you modified obj file). There are usually 2 "blMilWom_v3.obj" in the cr2 file, change all of them and save the file.

Now in poser when you open the copy of your vicky she will use the new obj file and the new easy texture template.

Using the Uvamapper you can also separate the materials in the new map, for example you want to make a very detailes texture for the lips and fingernails, after you have done the new texture map, in uvmapper, go to Edit->Select->By material and choose for example "lips", now you have a "select box" that you can move and stretch in a different position so it can be easier to work on it later.
Save the obj file and follow the same instructions....

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