Forum: Poser Technical


Subject: Poser Magnet Discussion and Tutorial

insomniaworks opened this issue on Jul 04, 2005 ยท 31 posts


insomniaworks posted Tue, 05 July 2005 at 2:41 PM

The first thing I did was selected the base and scaled it all down to a workable size. note: when you shrink your base you also shrink the magnet's size along with it and the magnet's power along with it. You will be using using higher parameter settings on the magent than in its formal larger state. This hardly needs mentioning, but you should be happy with the magent and base size right now before you begin adjusting it. I then rotated the magent in the direction I wanted to bend the scooter's handle bars. I increased the size of the zone really large so to keep the bending distortions as low as possible. Then I adjusted the mag zone falloffs so they were high on the outside of the zone and then adjusted the zone where it worked best. Now most important and really what I am trying to teach with this lesson is this. Look at the location of the base and where the bending is occuring. I was careful that the magnet base was selected and highlighted for this image. Note the crosshairs in the middle of the magnet base,...this is the exact fulcrum of the bend.