Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Dials. Can live without 'em, can't see them if you are over 40

operaguy opened this issue on Dec 12, 2005 ยท 27 posts


layingback posted Mon, 12 December 2005 at 7:57 PM

Also check out my dial removing trick - it's here in Tech, but much easier to find on PoserPros, under Poser 5, it's one of the stickies at the top.

What this tweak does is to remove the image of the dials completely - you know what you have to do, so why do you need a picture, or rather, dozens of pictures, to tell you ;-) Poser's UI dissociates hot spots from buttons, it's all done with coordinate hot zones (a la HTML imagemaps). So I just relocated the dial's hot zone to be over the NAME of the parameter rather than the dial. You can scroll left-right (or up-down) just like before, just do it over the name.

Advantage? Well I reduce the height assigned to each parameter now that the dial image is gone. Less vertical space required per parameter. My goal was to get more parameters on a screen, so I had less scrolling to do. But equally the extra vertical space could be used for a larger font. Ideally you'd want to change the font to a condensed one (more height, less width), but my attempts to change fonts have not been entirely successful.