I work as a multi-media developer for a company that produces on-line training courses for petroleum, chemical, and corporate businesses. Been incorporating Poser people in my content and my bosses just loves them. However recently I was asked to create animated gifs of all forms of people walking for a company's diversity course. Most of them turned out okay. I got people of all body shapes and height walking. However whenever I use any other height than the ideal one in the walk designer I sometimes get some freaky walks. I will probably be using this feature for future diversity content. Do any of you have any suggestions on some of the settings to make the walks more realistic on Poser people of different body shapes and height? I will be tweaking around with too. BTW, using Poser 5 at work is FUN!

You could try, once you get the walk designer animation to work with a standard sized figure, save the walk as a pose file and then load that in to use with the non-standard height figures. I haven`t tested this out so I am not sure that it will work.

When you mentioned this, it gave me an idea I have not tried before. I loaded the little girl (Jenny) and use the default settings of the Walk Designer. The little girl ended up walking with big jerky strides, seems like she is matching the strides of the adult walker. I recalled using a tall Amazon like woman in the designer for the diversity course and she was walking more hunched over. I need to experiment some more on this feature I guess.

Nerd3d has made add ons so that the walk designer works with the daz figures michael 3 and victoria 3 i hope this helps ya. I know its not exactily what you want but if nerd can do this for michael and victoria maybe he can help you with your problem. he has a forum on his site as well that you can maybe post this at he regularly answers it he has even helped me in the passed. and as far as i am conserned he is the master of poser animation.

Message edited on: 08/05/2004 14:27

Well! I may end up buying both those figures. Did someone have add-ons for the Poser 5 figures in the marketplace? I never know what request I will be doing in creating content for courses using Poser. A few months ago I created a robot in TrueSpace and imported into Poser and have him walked up and wave hello. Then I used the Poser 5 kids in a "Safety in School" course. I really wanted realistic looking school clothes for them and not the stock clothes provide in the core program but could not find any in the marketplace. May have to create my own. I suspect my next assignment will involve office locations with the Poser people in office situation. Will be going to the marketplace for props on that one.

Have your boss get you a PoserWorld membership - everyday clothes for all the figures, plus lots of other useful stuff. I often use props from the scenes for other things.

The Walk designer will work with the Poser 5 figures, and xantor is absolutely correct -- the walk designer is specifically intended to be used with an adult figure to design the walk, which is then saved as a pose file. That pose file can then be applied to the other figures (children, dogs, cats, raindrop monsters, psychos, and assorted acron people that suddenly pop out of your monitor and hold long conversations with you...)

I will try what Zantor suggests, Thanks! If I hold long conversations with Poser figures, I definitely need a vacation. Except talking to a Vickie figure. No fault in doing that! ;-)