Forum: Poser Technical


Subject: Smart parenting and posing involving both hands

kuroyume0161 opened this issue on Mar 12, 2004 ยท 14 posts


kuroyume0161 posted Sun, 21 March 2004 at 8:54 PM

Okay, this isn't pretty, but it does work!! :) Here's a procedure to use both hands with a sword FIGURE, in this case using the right hand as the 'goal'. Put Saya (sheath) in Obi (belt) and Sword in hands Procedure: 1. Load "Michael 3" Figure 2. Load "Sword" Figure 3. Apply sword type Pose 4. Unparent Sword from Saya 5. Apply "Sword in Obi - M3" Pose to Saya 6. Apply "Sword M3 Seigan" Pose to Michael 3 7. Apply "Sword Seigan - M3" Pose to Sword 8. Turn on IK for LeftHand 9. Select Left Hand 10. Select Object->Change Parent and set to Sword 11. Position sword using Right Hand and make 'aesthetic' adjustments to Left Collar Basically, Sword is parented to Right Hand and Left Hand is parented to Sword, creating a loop. IK guarantees that the Left Hand adjusts for Right Hand repositioning. There is no foreseeable means to do steps 8,9,10 using Poses since the targets are all 'BODY' and differentiating the numbering (i.e. :1, :2, etc) has no effect. In other words, the M3 figure must be selected to apply the pose, but the BODY of Sword must be the target. Poser can't do this. It is still possible to parent both hands to the sword, but this is still not possible using poses. Must be done manually. Kuroyume0161

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