I haven't tried this feature before, but now I need to learn.

I have Mimic 1 and have made a dialog for a DAZ character. Just for testing out, I made three audio files for a Poser animation render which I going to put in to a compositing later.

I begun with making the duration of the animation where I was thinking about spreading the three audio files using Mimic.

First, I tried to go to a specific frame and then insert the first Mimiced poser file, and it altered the duration to its own frame count. Huh?

OK, I then went to the last frame to insert the second Mimiced poser file and it exchanged the first file I inserted.

How should I make a character to talk on specific times during a timeline?

I have Poser 5 on Mac and Poser 4 on PC and none of the manuals actually explains this? Neither do my Mimic 1 help files either.

Thanks,

Snekkis

Attached Link: http://ockhamsbungalow.com/Python/PZ2Frameup.zip

Here's a Python solution, strictly PC only. Fill in the frame where you want the Mimic pose to start, and hit the Pick button. This brings up a file dialog; open the desired PZ2. The script will make an altered version of the PZ2, with all the keyframes moved upward; and will then load the altered version. Note 1: This will actually work for any PZ2, not just the ones generated by Mimic. Note 2: If you have both P4 and P5 on the same computer, install the ZIP into both Runtimes. The installation ZIP puts a couple of files into Python/Lib, which are the real "workhorses".

Note 3. The altered PZ2 is still around after the script runs; it will have a name like "Thanks-76.pz2". You can delete it or reuse it....

You can only load ONE .wav file into Poser at a time. If you want multiple .wav files, splice them together outside of Poser to make one .wav file and then import it into Poser. -OR- Make multiple animations in Poser with different .wav files and put the animations together outside of Poser. cheers, dr geep ;=]

Thanks to both of you!

This teach me that Poser's lack of function is inevitable which I just have to deal with right away. No two characters dialog in the same shot. Great!

To bad I don't have Poser 5 on PC to run your app., though I have planned to crossgrade P5 to PC, this seems to be highly needed then for other things.

Snekkis