BodyStudio seamlessly integrates Poser 3D character animation technology into Alias|Wavefront’s Maya. This innovative plug-in allows Maya users to render and playback Poser animations.

Playback of Poser Animations from within Maya
Create your own animations in Poser, or use Poser’s automatic walk designer! The geometry will animate and playback in Maya.

Maya Construction History
Make Changes Easy! Reading the Poser file is handled as a Maya History node.
After adjusting shaders or making additional deformers in Maya, you can still go back into Poser to change the figures position, and have the changes automatically update in Maya!

Playback of Poser dynamic cloth

Reload Poser files from within Maya
Instead of reloading your entire Maya file, you can just load the updated changes from Poser.

Shader Translation!
The Maya Poser plug-in translates your shaders to Maya Shading Networks, and assigns them to the correct polygons on your characters. For easy transition, all of the base Poser shading parameters are translated into an equivalent Maya Shader Network. including:

• Object Color


• Highlight Color


• Ambient Color


• Reflective Color


• Color Maps


• Transparency Maps


• Transparency Min, Max, and Exponent


• Bump Maps


• Reflection Maps


• and More!

Real World Scaling Presets
Presets for converting Poser characters from Poser’s internal scaling to Maya’s Feet. You can also use Centimeters as Feet, or enter your own custom scale values.

Camera Pose Export
Export a camera pose from Maya to Poser, and position your characters easily!

Support for Poser multiple runtime directories