Hi. I'm pretty much a complete novice at Poser, so please treat me like an idiot when replying :)

What I want to do, basically, is to make a Poser 2 figure with the proportions of a poser 5 figure. I think...

Why? I want to export BVH's for use with software that can only read the poser 2 hierarchies and import them to its own figure type, which are far more similar in proportion to poser 5 figures than to the ape-like poser 2 figures.

I tried posing a P5 figure then swapping to a P2 figure, but because they are so physically different in proportions, the resulting animations are completely wrong.

Surely there is a way to copy the hierarchy from one to the other, or to 'switch off' bits from a poser 5 figure until it matches that of a poser 2 figure?

Like I said.. complete novice. If you even understand what I'm talking about you're one up on me. :p

Message edited on: 07/17/2004 12:44

Message edited on: 07/17/2004 12:44

If you have both P5 figures and P2 figures available just overlap the positioning so you can see both figures and start scaling the P2 figure so that shoulders, elbows, wrists, waist ,thigh,knee and ankle joints match up. Then save the new scaled P2 figure. It may look grotesque but should work ok. However since BVH stores the joint positioning by angle you need to hope that the joints bend in the same direction. You can test this by applying bends to each joint in order and check they match.