Attached Link: AntonKisiel designs

Well for some reason I'm having trouble uploading an image. Oh well. What I wanted to show you was a single posable/conforming hair figure that can change into 9 different styles without morphs. The figure is composed of all my best Female hairstyles. This is how it works. The hair figure loads in with a default style. When you select the hair there is a dial that says "change_hair". There are 8 settings besides the default. Every time you turn the dial up one, a new hairstyle swaps into place. Each with it's own seperate material and maps and perfectly in place and holding the same pose. Basically "dail-a-style". It works the same way as the bed frames on my "Everybed". From now on I am going to offer this feature in everything possible from hair to clothes, design permitting. Featuring both "dial-in-variations" and "dail-in-textures". No more loading of new textures. Just dial up a new one. The term I'll use to identify these products will be "changing". Example: 'P4 Changing Hair', 'Vicki's Changing Fantasy Suit', etc I myself, am tired of loading in prop after prop, parenting, texturing, etc just to find I want to change it. We all know what a head-ache that is. I also hope that this will encourage other vendors to offer 'dial-in-variation' as well. I think this is the future of Poser products. It offers huge varienty and savings to the customer and is just more convenient and easier to use than what we all do now. This hair figure uses the chest, neck, and head areas for posing and fits Posette. Very soon I will be offering Vicki and Michael "Changing" products only at Daz because Vicki and Michael are their products. My other new products will still go to Bbay only. This product should hopefully be up at Bbay tomorrow. Bbay is down right now due to severe weather in the Notheast but will be up soon I'm sure. Regards, Anton Ps: Any bbay issues please email instead of posting

Trying upload smaller version of image.

It doesn't seem to work either. However, you may also want to try the new "PREVIEW" button that has been added. It allows you to actually see what your post will look like, and if links are working, before you officially post it...

Great idea, Anton. How does the "Dial a XXX" affect Poser performance? Does Poser run like all the parts are loaded? By the way, image upload is broken here right now.

I see, thaks for the heads up on the upload. wyrwulf, I renders only what is seen, quick and speedy. The unused styles aren't hidden. They aren't loaded at all so they don't slow anything down. Now I wish we could consolidate all the piles of Poser stuff across the web into "changing figures". The concept will work on anything Poser.

So it loads and unloads the props with the turn of the dial. Cool. It would be great to set up lots of things like that. Is this your version of the "dial a prop" work gone over in the PoserTech Yahoo Group?

My only worry with this idea is the download time. With models getting more and more sophisticated, file sizes are getting bigger and bigger, and I am having less and less success in downloading them!

Really great idea, Anton. I've been using your Everybed with great success. Love the idea and will look forward to seeing the possibilities.

Anton, sounds like a great idea. Would you be willing to tell us exactly how you accomplish this?

Hi there, Just download files will increase but The are ways to keep the down to a minimum. Also I will be breaking some zips into smaller ones. The code is old P2 cr2 code. It is at PoserTech free. Though noone seems to be putting it to use.

heyas; so, anton.... i guess that you are using like obj calls in the hr2/pp2 files (instead of embedded geometry), and the geom swapping to switch? that'd at least make the prop library files smaller. :) cool! how does it do the texture switching, though?

Anton, do you have a url for PoserTech? Couldn't find it by doing a search. Thanks,

Bloodsong, I made it a figure instead of .pp2 and .hr2 files. The hair figure shown is a .cr2 posable/conforming figure. Also with PorPacks quirky new design I don't want to use .pp2 or .hr2 files anymore. Until information on Poser software changes because more forthcoming, I don't consider these stable file formats. Damn, I lost my link for PoserTech. Bloodsong knows. What is it again.

Attached Link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoserTECH

Here's the URL to my mailing list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoserTECH You have to join to access the files section. -JH.

This would be great!!! I was hopeing you'd actually do something like this. I been wanting to get all the hair, but just couldnt afford to do so. I am assumeing that this will have a farely resonable price tag. Like the everybed. If you do this with your clothes as well, Id be in heaven. Count me in as one who will be very inerested in this item. Geart work anton. Cant wait for your stuff for vicki. I really want the 18th century dress for her. I tried scaleing it to fit her and it was a nightmare. Thats the only problem with vicki, she cant wear posettes clothes. And vicki's wardrobe it limited.

What effect does this have on the PZ3 file? Also, are the morphs fo the original hair still available with this technique?

I Like this concept. I got the bed and it works just fine.

This is all standard Poser code. Nothing new hear. Works just like the skeleton's hands. Morphs can stay attached if desires. I'm not doing it with these because the body parts take over the posaing and morphs crawl through too many joint zones. It's all give and take. Full body morph would work fine. You would just have to label what style the morph dial are for.

Did you said that it works in ProPack? As my Propack is on a portable disk not connected all times on my laptop I did not try the Everybed yet. If you do not have ProPack I can test the bed with it. I am just a little bit afraid to put Propack on my current installation yet.

Yeah, please do. I personally have mixed feeling about ProPack. If the skeleton works then this will. Let me know. Thanks