As some of you know, you can click on the parameter dials box and hit ctrl-c or select edit/copy from the menu and copy the dial settings. You can then paste these dial setting into another selected item. But did you know the information copied is just text info which can be pasted into a text file. Here's a ctrl-c copy of the parameter dials for a light MYLIGHT3 0 shadowStrength Spline 1.0000 41 MYLIGHT3 0 depthMapSize Spline 256.0000 40 MYLIGHT3 0 xrot Spline -37.9151 1 MYLIGHT3 0 yrot Spline -58.0635 2 MYLIGHT3 0 zrot Spline 21.5845 3 MYLIGHT3 0 scale Spline 0.5500 10 MYLIGHT3 0 KdRed Spline 0.4000 23 MYLIGHT3 0 KdGreen Spline 0.4000 24 MYLIGHT3 0 KdBlue Spline 0.4000 25 MYLIGHT3 0 KdIntensity Spline 1.0000 29 MYLIGHT3 0 Preview_Light_0_R Spline 0.4000 102 MYLIGHT3 0 Preview_Light_0_G Spline 0.4000 102 MYLIGHT3 0 Preview_Light_0_B Spline 0.4000 102 MYLIGHT3 0 Preview_Light_1 Spline 1.0000 102 Now what's so cool about that? Well imagine vendors wishing to sell dial settings. All they have to do is sell a text file with the settings in them. Then the buyer simply selects the text from the text file, copies and pastes it right into the parameter dial box. Of course a pose file would also do this so it maybe a moot point. It does not appear to work with the material node copy however. Hoepfully this might be useful to someone.

good tip!

This also works in P4. I think it was meant to produce a pattern that could be copied and manipulated in a spreadsheet.....

great tip thank you very much

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You can also apply the parameter info for multiple lights, body parts, or props simultaneously by highlighting entire keyframe columns, (or any range really) in Poser's Animation Palette/Keyframe Editor (P4).

Also works for saving multiple figures, but because duplicate dial names will confuse Poser, you can save multiple figures together, but youd have to re-paste the dial info back to only one figure at a time.

But bigger is not always better:

One of the handy advantages of this text copy&paste method is that it permits applying a set of multiple dial parameter info, but one that is less than that for an entire body part, (HUH?) Sort of like configuring and applying Partial Poses on the fly, such as re-pasting all the dial info affecting just the Mouth or Nose, but only those dials, and not overwriting entire set for the Head.

In addition to CR2s, I started saving these spreadsheets for many of the figures I use as "Base" figures for morph settings. While Poser offers numerous other ways to do all this stuff already, this method simply proves to be much faster, with more flexibility and controllability in many instances, but really just too handy when setting up a new figure in a scene.

One of the earliest threads (AFAIK) on this topic linked above. (just re-read that and saw I forgot to mention that it also works for copying & pasting across multiple frames.)

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Dont ya just hate it when you go to Preview a longish post and that sucker just disappears into cyberspace? DOOH!

"Dont ya just hate it when you go to Preview a longish post and that sucker just disappears into cyberspace? DOOH!" Actually, I may have stumbled onto a trick that defeats this (aside from copying the message into a text editor before hitting 'send'): if your post has been 'eaten', hit back and then forward (browser buttons). I had a post disappear once and did this, and was delighted to see that my text had reappeared. Fortunately, I haven't had a chance to try it again yet.

It's on me actually. I let that one sit for a while after hitting SEND, and I didn't notice the disappearing act until after buffer had cleared.

For distribution, isn't this related to the whole MAT file idea? So you could set up a texture/colour combo for a light -- the virtual equivalent of what can be done with stage lighting to get the effect of sunlight through trees -- and the MAT file could be applied to any light you wished.

This also happens in Poser 4.

Whether or not you keep your text on backing up depends on your browser. FWIW the problem at hand is a cookie Renderosity sets with an absurdly low expiration time (something like five minutes) before the form processor barfs and sends you directly to the forums general page. Thumbs down to the programmers unless there's some really neat reason for this behavior I haven't seen replicated elsewhere in other forum webware.

I posted a message a few days ago that seemed to disappear, but it actually went into a completely different thread.

If you are preparing a long message, prepare it in Windows Notepad. Then: click "send a message" in Renderosity; go back to Notepad; click menu "edit, select all, edit, copy"; go back to Renderosity edit; click in the Renderosity edit box, press ctrl-V

Better yet, keep reminding the admins here that Bondware thinks of the .ezboard software like we think of Ray Dream.

Or, before you click "send message", do this: Drag the mouse across all of your message. Press ctrl-C That will save your message in the clipboard. Thren, if you must re-make the message, pull it back into the new edit box by ctrl-V

Does anyone know of a way to do the same thing with material settings?