cocco opened this issue on Oct 09, 2004 ยท 18 posts
shadownet posted Thu, 14 October 2004 at 7:51 AM
Hi cocco, Poser will let you add in the last child (group) in a chain, (any chain) as a ghost body part, provided the joint parameter settings are set up in the cr2 for that group. For example, if I make something like a halter top, I might make the entire mesh chest, even though there are rCollar and lCollar groups on the figure. Since these are the last child in the chain that need to work (the mesh does not have sleeves), the joint parameter settings for the right and left collar groups in my cr2 will work on the mesh as if I had sectioned in the rCollar/lCollar groups. I do not beleive the Setup Room will let you do it like this, but I do not use the set up room. I find it faster/easier to set up the groups I need in the mesh. Then strip out a cr2 and use it to set up the figure manually. On things like props I want to convert to a figure, I will set up the heirarchy (parent children of parts) in the Hierarchy Editor, and use the Create New Figure command to make a figure. I can then tweak the cr2 if I want the figure to conform to another figure. Often, thought, figures made this way are meant to be stand alone articulate props and conforming is not necessary.