Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Does anyone know what the CR2 really says?

FireMonkey opened this issue on Oct 19, 2006 · 19 posts


ropeypopey posted Thu, 19 October 2006 at 9:48 PM

Quote - ....so I though that directly manipulating the CR2 might be the answer...... the CR2 seems the most preceise tool available.

I'm quite sure that you are right, the CR2 is the best (only) way to acheive total control over the parameters.

If you change a value of a parameter dial, say, yRotate to 27 degrees. It doesn't actually use that value but comes back at you with 26.92189 degrees.

This means that all this Rotate and Scale stuff is just for us poor humans who can't seem to think in terms of a three by three matrix (shame on us) and have to be spoon-fed by Poser breaking it up into separate chunks.

This also indicates that Poser's runtime internal representation is (probably) exactly the same matrix that is written in the CR2. If that is so (and I'm not sure that it is) then yes tweaking the values in the CR2 would help you acheive total control (..tomorrow, the world! :sneaky: ).

My favourite question is "Why?", my second favourite is "Why not?"