Ziggie joins class... trys to sit down, but... for some reason his feet are stuck to the floor and he can't bend his knees properly. mmmm.... perhaps this class is just what he needs...

You don't want to know my definitions for "IK". They'd chill the marrow of the photons inside your monitor, and I have no desire to kill the messengers. :evil grin: IIRC, the Ik are a tribe in Africa who are the least helpful of any bipedal group on this planet. Carolly

IK (inverse kinematics, not the tribe in africa) is invaluable for animation.

Keyframe animating someone sitting down, for instance, or two people dancing a waltz. would be damn near impossible without it.

:-)

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Inverse kinematics Younverse kinematics We all nverse kinematics For geepnverse kinematics!

:compliance:

okay i'm here too! love esther

he's back, he's back hourrah!

As opposed to inverse Barbiematics, which is what the younger set does with Vickie on first loading, for awhile..;)

Um, ... hey pak ... that's KIN ... not Ken. ... ;=]
(but, it was a nice try)

I went to an Inverse Kinema once. The film ran backwards. I think I left before I arrived...:-) Cheers, Diolma

diolma, wasn't there a Seinfeld episode about a wedding in India that was like this?

Not Present!!

actually, Kin-ematics is what they practice up in the hills..flatlanders don't take much of a shine to it none..;) just don't approve of a family bush..;) but play on, dear Geep, play on..;)

:-)

It's a wonder that he is so patient with us!

What good's a Doctor without patients? ;=]

Oo Oo! Please, sir. I gots a question. When I save a pose with IK turned on, the pz2 contain both 'channels' and 'ikchannels' for each actor (body part). But I've found the pose works fine (on the model with IK on or off) if I remove all the ikchannels info. So .. why all the extra info in the pose file, doubling its size? Fanks sniff moochie

Hi moochie,

That is a very good question.

However, the answer is somewhat complex and rather than try to answer it here using text only, please stay tuned and see if your question is not answered on some of the subsequent pages.

Ok?

cheers,
dr geep
;=]

You bet. Thanks!

hmm... We can't remove IK and save a character worth beans, because the next time we load it, the IK is back. What if we smashed the chains and saved it... would THAT disable the IK? Carolly

Hi Carolly,

Stay tuned ... Doc'll show you how to utterly destroy any or all IK chains so that they will never ever darken your Poser doorways ever again !!!

**Are you sure you want to do this?

[ ] YES ...... [ ] NO**

cheers,
dr geep
;=]

Yirh, I'm in! :-)

I've just worked it out.
NSG has IK for brain->mouth turned off (so mouth moves, but brain doesn't)...

Essential info for all NSG's: "Please engage brain before opening mouth" :-))

Cheers,
Diolma

(Just to let all and sundry know I'm watching this thread. Well, OK, Sundry doesn't have to know, but...)
Edityd cors of stupiyd spelign mistayks...

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Ah, nice tutorial (as always!), but you aren't saying above you can turn IK off so it will still be off after the figure is saved and reopened, I trust?

Hi Jim,

Thank you for the compliment. ;=]

re: " ... but you aren't saying above you can turn IK off so it will still be off after the figure is saved and reopened, I trust?"

Is my statement in post #25 (above) the one to which you refer?

cheers,
dr geep
;=]

Okies .. I bin doing my homework and discovered the following. If you add another figure and parent it to the figure you want to save with IK off, turn IK off, then save the result, it loads with IK still off. This works with a Null object, conforming clothing, or any other character. I've tried this with all Daz's figures and a variety of parented figures, and it works fine every time, in P4 and P5. So, from the top: Load character (say V3) Turn IK off Load Null object (I used a null mushroom character) Parent Null figure to V3 Save Or load and conform a clothing character, and it works too. V3's IK stays OFF. No need to tinker with the CR2 or anything. This doesn't work with a Hair (HR2) model or a Prop .. it seems you need to take the BODY count above one for this to work. Oh, and to remove an IK chain permanently, just delete it from the Hierarchy editor and save the character.

Good show moochie! .......... You get an A+ !!! Now, ........... I don't have to do the rest of the tut, ha ha. ;=]

I'm not really a creep. Another boy wrote that stuff then ran off.

dr geep- yep! I thought maybe you figured a E-Z way to turn it off or something! I LOVE editing CR2s myself, BTW! (only half kidding on that!) ;-)

A null mushroom? An enchanted magic mushroom????? hmmm.....

I aughta mention that if you REALY hate to edit the CR2 you can just load all your figures by using a PZ3 saved with it off. ;-) You can even import them to have mutiple figures.

Hi Folks, CLICK HERE for Page 11. cheers, dr geep ;=]