I have used min fig for quite a few diffrent things, you will find some of them in the MinFig.txt included in the zip.

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In P4, if you understand ERC, it's relitivly easy to add ERC control to your light set so that all the lights can be controled from master dials in the BODY. In P5 the following will NOT work, the situation in P5 is much more complicated because of the nodes P5 adds to lights. ERC for lights is posible in P5, but I don't have time to explain it at the moment.

P4 Example. Parent 3 white spotlights to MinFig, and save it to a pallet as "3 Spots"

Open "3 Spots.cr2" in a text editor. Add this channel to the BODY:

             valueParm RED<br></br>                       {<br></br>                   name RED<br></br>                    initValue 0<br></br>                 hidden 0<br></br>                    forceLimits 0<br></br>                       min -100000<br></br>                 max 100000<br></br>                  trackingScale 0.004<br></br>                 keys<br></br>                                {<br></br>                           static  0<br></br>                           k  0  0<br></br>                             }<br></br>                   interpStyleLocked 0<br></br>                 }

Add this slaving code to the "kdRed" channel in each light, under the "interpStyleLocked" line:

                 valueOpDeltaAdd<br></br>                             Figure 1<br></br>                            BODY:1<br></br>                              RED<br></br>                 deltaAddDelta 1.000000

Test the file in Poser 4, positive values for the RED channel will not show untill you render, but negative values will show in preview. Values below -1.000 will result in solerization type effects, for this reason you may want to force the limits of the master channel to between 1 and -1.

You can repeat the above process for green, blue, and intensity. In fact any of the channels in the lights can be slaved, so you can slave things like Angle Start, Dist End, Map Size, etc.

Perhaps I will write a tutorial on ERC and lights in P5 some day, for now this is just for P4.

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You can even use MinFig as a basis for building a figure out of props. In some circumstances this can have great advantages over using "Create New Figure" in Posers Hierachy editor. The "Create New Figure" option will change a lot of things that you might not want changing, eg origins (joint centers). There are many diffrent ways you can proceed, the simplest is to parent the props to MinFig (or to each other, with the base element parented to MinFig), save MinFig. Then in a text editor Search and Replace the string "prop " (note the blank space) with "actor ". For more info on this see this thread at Poser Pros.