New to 3d, with experience in povray. Learning other 3d programs. Searched for answers here, but no one has asked. I'm buying two books to get me started. Now for my questions.

1. When P5 starts, it loads the default P5 man figure. Is there anyway to change what it loads? The edit preferences menu item is sparse. I want to load the P5 woman as a default.

2. What are the UI buttons for?

Thanks for bearing with such an embryonic newbie! :-)

Delete the figure you don't want. Then load the figure you do want to load as default. Then Edit->General Preferences and in the dialog box click the 'Set Preferred State' button, and enable 'Launch to preferred state' and 'Launch to previous state'. Poser should now load the figure you want at start-up. You can set your document window the size you want, drag the toolbars all around the screen, and by clicking on a UI dot the screen layout will be memorised. Then in the event your display goes askew, you can click the UI dot to return it. It's worth setting your display up to your taste and clicking a UI dot before setting that as your preferred state.

You might find some helpful information in ...

THIS TUTORIAL.

cheers,
dr geep
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Message edited on: 08/01/2004 18:33

Mine is configured to launch with an empty scene and four (white) lights by default.

not to put too fine a point on it, but this info is covered by the user manual, as bad as it is, and not too shabbily. The UI Dots (and the other dots there in the drop down for it) are a sort of "clipboard" for your user interface. I have several fairly standard layouts for doing different types of images (I have one for a 4 by 6 image and one for video, for example). They let you change your interface in a single click. The one you might find really useful down the road is the Pose button set. That let's you save a pose. Pretty handy...

Thanks for all your help. The UI Buttons still remain an arcane concept, though. Pushing them simply reverted the work window to the original size. Right clicking any one of them failed to delete anything.

Thanks especially to Raven. My chosen default figure now loads like a charm.

S

To clear a UI dot (or camera or pose dot) alt-click on it. Set your window, tool bars etc as you want them, and then click an empty UI dot. That will store your layout. Then every time you then click on that UI dot your display will revert to your chosen layout. Try resizing your window after and then clicking the newly created UI dot to restore your display.

:-) Thanks again Raven. ALT + Click. S