Objaction Scaler is a Windows tool which facilitates the transfer of .obj files between Poser and other 3D packages such as Studio Max and RDS5. Objects within Poser are much smaller than in other 3D packages, by a factor of around a thousand or so. This can lead to problems either with minuscule objects in Max and RDS5, or brobdingnagian objects in Poser. In either case bizarre results can arise when editing or manipulating the objects. The use of Objaction to either reduce or enlarge the object prior to transfer eliminates these problems.
This utility was written in Inprise Delphi 3. Delphi is a powerful rapid application development tool - Visual Basic on steroids!
Objaction Mover is a Windows tool which allows the transfer of .obj files based on other copyright figures, for example the individual figures sold by Zygote. Mover extracts the differences between the original file and new modified file and it is only the differences that get sent. That way you can modify a figure, send the alterations to your friends, or indeed anyone else on the web, and the recipients will only be able to reconstruct the new figure if they already have the original 'seed' figure. This gets round all the copyright problems as you are not sending the copyright mesh, just the differences that you have created yourself. The difference file is in .pcf format and Mover can decode this back into .obj format. Version 1.01 was released on 1st March 1999 and now incorporates a progress bar for the benefit of those with relatively slow computers and those working with very large files.
This utility was also written in Inprise Delphi 3. Full instructions are included in a lavish readme file that runs to nearly a whole page, and the program features pop-up help. It runs more than 1,000 times as fast as Scaler. I'll be updating Scaler to a high speed version soon.
MartinC has written a Mac utility called Maconverter which incorporates Mover functionality
