Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: V3 and Daz's Dial Cleaner Question

EdW opened this issue on Feb 08, 2003 ยท 12 posts


rbtwhiz posted Sat, 08 February 2003 at 4:05 AM

The empty dials are place holders for delta injection. The way delta injection works, each and every morph Victoria 3 has must first have a dedicated channel stored in the cr2 before the delta information can be sent to it via INJ/REM poses. Think of it more as delta replacement... INJ poses replace an empty list of deltas with a list of actual deltas, REM poses do the opposite... replacing an actual list with an empty one.

The dials are labeled "-" to signify that there is currently no usable information stored within them (in the event that they become visible, which they do when saved). It isn't for lack of trying to hide them, really... we would have rather done so, and tried to. Problem is, Poser didn't like anything we tried. Manual editing of the code worked fine, but when Poser saves a file [cr2/pz3], it writes code into the files that force visibility when the file is read again... regardless of what is done with the 'hidden' flag. DialCleaner's sole reason for existence is to parse a file [cr2/pz3] and remove the offending code, that Poser adds.

Each time you save a file [cr2/pz3] from Poser... Poser will write the code, again. Each time you run it through DialCleaner(v095), DC will strip the code, again. We can't change the way Poser writes files, but we can try and work around it... which is what we're doing with DC.

DialCleaner v090 parsed files a little differently than v095. A particular sequence of actions within Poser, when saving files, would cause a portion of the code that DC090 looked for to change... causing DC090 to ignore channels that it would otherwise clean. DC095 doesn't bother with the problem code and as a result cleans like it was intended. If the version you are using isn't 095, update and try it again. If you still have problems, let us [DAZ] know... we are more than willing to make sure our products work the way we intended.

-Rob