therealpackman opened this issue on Apr 29, 2003 ยท 5 posts
Kelderek posted Tue, 29 April 2003 at 3:01 PM
DAZ (www.daz3d.com) also has some good tutorials in the Arcana section of their site (just follow the links to Arcana from the main page). To get clothing to follow the figures, you need to conform them to the figure that wears them. With the clothing item selected, select "Figure" and "Conform to..." from the menu bar. In the drop down menu that appears, select the figure you want the clothes to conform to and they will follow the movements. Also, be sure to use clothing intended for the figure in question. To get props to follow the figure, parent them to the body part in question (e.g. a gun to the right hand). You can parent by selecting "Set figure parent..." from the figure menu and then select the appropriate body part in the list that appears. Some props will parent automatically when loaded (so called "smart props") if the creator has made them in such a way. To install new conent, you canusually just unzip the zip file into the Poser4runtime folder. Most content creators include the path in the zip file, so all file should drop into the right places and you will find the items in the library in Poser. But... Some creators might use a file structure different from yours (or not to your liking). I usually move the files manually into the runtime folder to get my own structure on things. That requires knowledge about the Poser file conventions: which file types that go where. But it's not hard to grasp once you looked into it, there is a good tutorial about it in DAZ's Arcana site ("Understanding Poser files"). Adding a second figure (The most common question around here... Poser is not user friendly in this department!): Select the figure you want to add in the library and click the "double check" icon further down. This means "add figure". Clicking the "single check" icon means "replace figure". As does (and this is the weird part) double clicking on the figure. Welcome to Poser and happy posing :-)