interPoser Ltd: History

2.4.5 (2008.02.20)

• Updated MorphMixer et al to work with R10 Animation system.
• Built with Visual Studio 2005 for R10.5 compliance.

2.4.3 (2007.02.13)

• Updated Daz|Studio exported Wavefront OBJ support to better handle newer MTL file naming. Additionally, if the MTL is not found, a File dialog will open requesting it so that you can point to it. Cancelling the File dialog will not cancel the OBJ import.
• Updated Documentation to reflect information on the newer Daz|Studio export options.

2.4.2 (2007.01.29)

• R10 version only: Animation import as PLA now implemented.
  

2.4.1 (2007.01.08)

• Optimized overall code - some updates taken from interPoser Pro.
• Demo and Registered versions are now integrated. Enter DEMO into Cinema 4D's Registration window to activate demo mode. Demo mode is the same as before - there is no time-out, only the previously stated limitations.
• New R10 version for Windows, Windows 64-bit, and MacOSX. This version does NOT yet contain the ability to import animations as PLA. Still awaiting support to resolve this deficiency. It does, however, fix issues with file paths and zlib decompression as fixed in interPoser Pro.
  

2.4.0 (2006.10.21)

• Changed licensing from a license key file to a serial number entered into Cinema 4D's Registration window.
• Updated Japanese and Italian strings (although in English) as they were missing newer string entries.
  

2.3.3 (incremental: 2006.10.21)

• Added MacOSX Universal Binary support.
  

2.3.3 (2005.11.27)

• Updated the Preferences tab GUI so that the two groups, General and Materials, can be folded in order to allow other tabs to adjust to dialog resizing in a more user-friendly way.
  

2.3.2 (2005.11.25)

• A not-totally-understood and only-in-certain-cases crash whenever Runtimes removed from 'On-demand' Runtime Explorer folders has been removed (hopefully!).
  

2.3.1 (2005.11.23)

• A potential crash situation with the new 'On-demand' Runtime Explorer folders has been removed - caused by sorting.
• Expand/Collapse have been added back into Runtime Explorer.
• There is a new folder selection process which more closely mimics Windows Explorer and keeps thumbnails valid and up-to-date.
  

2.3.0 (2005.11.21)

• 'On-demand' Runtime Explorer folders now provide high-performance traversal and adding. No more coffee-runs while Runtimes are being added! With this new technique, no more need to Refresh to keep Runtimes up to date.
• Improved performance on Poser file parsing. You will definitely notice a difference!
• If no Runtimes have been added to Runtime List, you will now be able to add multiple Runtimes during Poser scene import if needed.
• New Look&Feel to the interPoser dialog interface. Stacked foldable groups have been replaced with tabs to improve workflow!
• New Preferences item to select BUM to bump map conversion quality.
• New documentation for 2.3.0!
• Commercial: License key problems now display Error dialogs.
• Demo: Runtime List limitation revoked. No more limit on Runtimes here!
  

2.2.1 64-bit (2005.09.06)

• interPoser Ltd migrated to 64-bit Cinema 4D R9.1.

2.2.1 (2005.08.21)

• Well, two lines of code caused these two bugs. They have been exterminated and functionality verified!
• Forgot one thing when updating the Runtime Explorer. Now you should have all of your thumbnails displayed.
• Broken MAT Pose application which has persisted since 2.1.5 has been fixed. Thanks to Fredy for contacting me concerning this!
  

2.2.0 (2005.08.20)

• *All of these improvements are pulled from work on interPoser Pro. :)
• Faster and much smaller memory footprint for Runtime Explorer Runtimes.
• Support for Poser 6 zlib-compressed Wavefront object files (.obz).
• Handling of some non-standard Wavefront object formatting:
  - End-of-line comments using '!' character
  - Line splices using '\' character
• Another slight increase in file reading speed.

2.1.6 (2005.07.25)

• Fixed several problems with the Scene Configuration dialog (this applies to both the Regular and R9 versions):
  - 'Load Cameras and Lights with Scene' does what it's supposed to do.
  - Scene section will no longer be disabled (greyed out) if no matching Poser scene found.
  - Alternative Poser scene is now applied when 'Apply Materials from Scene File' checked.

2.1.5 (2005.07.21)

• A new version has been compiled for Cinema 4D R9.1 users! It includes support for Poser 5+ sub-polygon displacement maps. In the Materials section of interPoser Ltd Preferences, you'll find a new section, "Sub-Poly Displacement", which controls Cinema 4D Material Displacement channel settings. One setting to be aware of is the "Height Relative to Import Scale" checkbox. When unset, the displacement value from Poser is used directly for the Displacement channel's Height value. When set, the import scale is taken into consideration in setting this value.
• Change in method to associate Cinema 4D materials with Poser Materials greatly increases proper association by disallowing less exact name associations to overwrite exact name associations. Also adds performance enhancement.

2.1.0 (2005.07.12)

• A "Doh!" moment. The code to associate materials when the Poser Scene figure numbers didn't match with those of the exported OBJ file used a bad sub-string extraction. With this fixed, you should find that most textures are loaded irrespective of the mismatch of figure numbers. Be warned that if too many figure numbers mismatch but have identical material names, you may end up with the wrong texture images on certain figures.

2.0.5 (2005.06.01)

• A more resilient and well-considered approach to assigning Poser materials to the scene's Cinema 4D materials. This should allow for more correct and flexible assignments as well as adding a boost to Poser scene input speed. Explanation: In the past, the Cinema 4D '.N' automatically appended to Material names was considered (in a backwards fashion for correlation). Going the other way, only considering Poser material names with any figure number therewith associated, makes the entire process more robust and logical.
• Speed increase in loading Runtime Explorer thumbnails from .rsr files.
• Lingering conditional references between 8.2 and 8.0/.1 versions were removed to enhance performance (these were previously needed because of changes in materials in the SDK from 8.0/.1 to 8.2).

2.0.0 (2005.05.16)

• General enhancements to both interface and processing. New looks. Full documentation that includes all 1.0.0 - 1.4.1 material as well as 2.0 features.
• Ability to import Poser cameras and lights from Poser scene file.
• Scene Configuration dialog now allows selection of Poser scene file to apply.
• Runtime Explorer can now act to change camera settings, change/add lights, and load props/hair props directly into Cinema 4D.
• Camera, light, and prop animations are supported. Note: Non-linear interpolations between keys are not exactly duplicated.
• Props load fully textured, inter-parented, and morphable. Morphs are supported using interPoser's Morph tag system.

1.4.1 (2005.04.18)

• Fixed a broken search section of the PathFinder feature that was circumventing using the full path to the texture image when available and correct. This might have happened during source unification.

1.4.0 (2005.04.17)

• Added import of Wavefront .obj and .mtl exported from DAZ|Studio (0.9.19.0). The new option can be found in the File menu or group as"Load Daz|Studio Object...". The support is rudimentary as there are no other export options and no way to parse the .daz file. A way to fix this is in the works!
• Increased parse speed by making fundamental changes to parse algorithm and removing unused parse parameters.
• Fixed MAT Pose file application with respect to Environment+Reflection and Transparency|Alpha.
• Finally created unified source base for Windows and MacOS.

1.3.1 (2005.02.23)

• Added Preferences switch to deselect objects after an action. Otherwise, they remain selected.
• Added Preference switch to only show Scene Configuration dialog if animation is detected. When set, if a matching Poser scene file is detected and "Automatically Apply Material from Poser File" is not checked, materials will not be applied. "Show Scene Configuration dialog" and "Only show Scene Configuration for Animations" are mutually exclusive.

1.3.0 (2005.02.20)

• Can select folder containing "Runtime" folder in order to add to Runtime List or Runtime Explorer, as well as the previous method.
• Increased Poser scene parse speed slightly.
• Correctly reference local textures of merging document for host document as well as copy them to host document folder during "Copy Textures to Scene Folder".
• Convert BUM maps during scene import, optional. "Convert BUM maps" action for later conversion added. If you abort conversion, you will not be asked again for the same BUM map.
• Update Scene Object(s) added. This feature basically replaces objects in the scene with those that match in the chosen Wavefront OBJ file. Animation updates not supported. You can select Scene Null objects to update entire scenes or any of the contained Polygon objects for partial updates. If you select more than one Scene to be updated, you will be prompted for a Wavefront OBJ file for each.
• French documentation added.

1.2.0 (2005.02.09)

• When merging Poser scenes, the camera will no longer adjust to frame all objects.
• Poser BUM maps are converted into JPG bump maps. Special thanks must go to Anthony Appleyard for providing source to perform the conversion.
• Crashes and other odd behaviors reported in latest 1.1.0 build have hopefully been mitigated by complete rebuild and testing.

1.1.0 (2005.01.31)

• Runtime List added: This list will be used to determine texture image file resolution during Poser Scene file application. Poser Runtimes within Runtime Explorer no longer contribute to texture image file resolution during Poser Scene file application; only to Poser library files. This List was added to conserve memory during larger scene/animation loads as well as reduce response time when opening Cinema 4D, interPoser, and Poser Scenes.
• Updated and fixed Undo to work properly when merging scene into another document.

1.0.4 (2005.01.25)

• German language support and documentation added.
• Horizontal scrolling added to interPoser dialog.
• Minor changes to PathFinder.

1.0.3 (2005.01.24)

• If "Use Reflection with Environment" is checked, the Reflection channel will only be enabled if the Environment channel is enabled by the material reconstruction.
• You can now apply a Poser scene file (PZ3 or PZZ) to a document that has been saved, even if the location is not the same as the Poser scene or obj files. The same applies for copying textures.
• Due to users having issues with material reconstruction, all code relevant to path resolution, finding textures, setting texture images in the material, and copying textures has been carefully checked and updated. PathFinder now checks both the local folder of the Cinema 4D document, if saved, and that of the Poser scene file being imported before resorting to other methods of finding the texture image file.
• Proper checking of foreign-language Poser folders has been added to help in further resolving texture image file paths.
• If a request for a missing texture image is cancelled, no more requests for that same image will be issued.
• Since MacOS's Finder does not always show the missing texture image file's name being requested, the name has been added to the dialog title.
• No changes to documentation or license key.

1.0.2 (2005.01.23)

• French and Spanish language support added.
• MacOS version now supports Poser library thumbnails from resources.

1.0.1 (2005.01.20)

• Added Scrolling capability when interPoser dialog extends beyond bounds.
• (Demo Only) Fixed a bug in the demo limit when the number of frames was less than limit.

1.0.0 (2005.01.18)

• This is the first commercial release of interPoser Limited Edition.
• Windows and MacOS Demo and Commercial versions created.
• Added Global Materials preferences.
• Minor changes: PathFinder has been modified to perform a more thorough search as well as to remove a potential crash caused by a Null-pointer reference.

0.7.0.b

• Added support for multiple Preference files. Any existing obsolete preference file will not be usable. Sorry for that inconvenience. Future versions will have backward compatibility to this version.
• Added dialogs to verify the removal of Runtimes in Runtime Explorer.
• Added Poser animation support with frame range, every Nth frame, backwards, and single frame import features. New Scene Configuration dialog for configuring animation import settings.
• Now you can merge the imported Poser scene with the active document.
• Updated preferences to include new settings.

0.6.1.b

• Fixed the problem wherein missing closing brackets at the file end caused an "Unexpected End of File" error. So much for adhering to standards and format specifications (like Poser does, eh hem). :)
• Fixed the specular channel so that it isn't quite so powerful.
• Fixed the transparency channel to the correct factor.
• Increased the number of RSR files that can be successfully loaded as thumbnails : any information or code for parsing Mac Resource Fork files (RSR) besides that at Apple's site would be appreciated.
• Fixed an indexing error that would crash C4D when referencing Poser's snakelo.tif texture, being last in the GetStringRes[] array.
• Definitely fixed (see first fix 0.6.0.b) an R8.012 problem where, when you click in an open area in the Runtime Explorer tree, it displayed all of the subfolders consecutively : the Plugin SDK needs more examples and docs. ;)

0.6.0.b

• Fixed an odd problem where Runtime Explorer would spontaneous display every subfolder when used with R8.012 and then crash Cinema 4D. I suspect that this is a difference of implementation of TreeView functionality between R8.012 and R8.503.
• You asked for and it has been done. Multiple Runtime support has been added to interPoser! interPoser no longer requires you to select "Poser.exe", but only requires a folder "Runtime" be selected in order to be added. Please read the updated documentation for details of this new feature.

0.5.2.b

• Fixed a problem with saved Preferences and either missing paths or paths without files causing unnecessary error messages during preferences file load.
• Added support for German and French Runtime folder names.

0.5.1.b

• Ported from R8.503 SDK to R8.012 SDK for extended usability.

0.5.0.b

• This is the first beta release of interPoser Limited Edition.