well just to ask , can you make a mesh avatar from poser 9 -2012 convert it to blender then to sl?

[yoobiach]

:O

[Rahkis Andel]

No.

Asides from the liscensing nightmare what you want would cause, the Poser models are not optimized for a real time online simulated environment. Honestly, they aren't optimized for anything at all.

Sorry to dash your hopes.

[Kwakkelde Kwak]

Look up MakeHuman instead, that will get rid of the license issues.

Even though it's not quite as polygon heavy as the poser models, you'll still need to reduce the geometry to make it fit for SL.

[Rahkis Andel]

That said, he wanted "easy".

Reducing polycount and adjusting weights is not easy if you don't already know how to do it...or even if you do know how to do it, for that matter.

[Kwakkelde Kwak]

If you only reduce geometry you do not have to reweight, you can project the old weights onto the new shape. At least in 3ds max you can, I bet Blender has some equivalent function.

I didn't look recently, but I'm sure the MakeHuman av has a subdivision, so it should be relatively easy to reduce the weight. As I recall it's about 20k tris without the teeth and eyes. That's not a bad start.

The question is what the OP means by "easy". If easy means downloading a model somewhere and uploading it to SL, expecting it to be a finished item, the answer is simple: impossible. It doesn't take a pro to adjust a reaonable avatar (like the MH one) though.

[Rahkis Andel]

Blender does have that capability (In the most recent version). That said, I think we're both on the same page here.

You said it best. The answer is simple: No.