I've got these prop spikes and am trying to save them as a group and then be able to load them back in and have them appear in the correct place at the end of the fingers. I aligned them with each finger and then parented them to each finger. I selected the thumb spike and hit the + to save them in the prop library. It asks for a name and I did that, then hit subset and selected each spike. It doesn't ask me about making a smart prop after that. When I load the prop, they appear below the hand, not aligned. What do I need to do to get them to load properly??

Poser can only save one thing at a time as a
smart prop. There is a way to do this, but
you'll have to edit the PP2 file so it contains
a 'package' of all the props.

For each claw:
Select the claw.
Hit the plus sign to save prop.
Do not click Subset.
When Poser asks if you want to save smart, say Yes.

You'll then have 5 separate smart prop files,
one for each claw.

Then take all 5 of the pp2 files and throw them
together. Copy and paste each one after the
previous into one big pp2.

Then the critical part:

At the bottom, find the doc section.
It will look like this

doc {
addActor claw:3
}

Make it look like this, so that it includes
all 5 claws in the 'package':

doc
{
addActor claw:1
addActor claw:2
addActor claw:3
addActor claw:4
addActor claw:5
}

Then go back into the upper part and
revise the internal names for each claw
so that the thumb is claw:1, the first
finger is claw:2, and so on.

The lines to change are the ones starting
with 'prop':

prop claw:3

Finally, remove the 4 upper doc sections, leaving only the one you've
assembled at the bottom of the file.

Message edited on: 11/25/2005 13:24

Wow, thanks!

I've been through the modified file 6 times looking for errors and it still only loads the first claw. I'll have to start over and see what I goofed up.