Shadownet, as you say crosstalk is still there, it's just that the slaves will do nothing in responce to the master. I have only done a quick test of your method myself, but I can't think of any reason it would fail to "turn off" the ERC for purposes of avoiding crosstalk.

Well actually there is one situation where it would fail, not all ERC slaving uses a deltaAddDelta line. There are some special types of slaving that use things like "valueOpMinus" and "valueOpTimes" etc, these do not use a deltaAddDelta statement, but you are unlikly to run into them in normal circumstances. VK, has a thread about them somewhere in the Poser Technical Forum.

A more serious problem for the method is if you want to restor the ERC functionallity. I had a look in the Victoria2 cr2, and some of the deltaAddDelta lines have diffrent values, they are not all "1.000000", so to make a restore pose could be quite a lot of work extracting all the values and puting them into a pz2, but for anyone willing to do that work this seems like the ideal method for turning ERC off and on. In any case if someone wants to turn ERC off in a document it is unlikly they would change their mind and want to turn it back on again in the same document, so a pose to turn ERC off should be all that's required in most cases, and that's easy to make.

I have attached the text of a no ERC pz2, for the standard Victoria2, to this post for anyone who wants to try it.

Message edited on: 07/04/2004 08:35