Angelouscuitry opened this issue on May 11, 2007 ยท 21 posts
svdl posted Fri, 11 May 2007 at 4:15 PM
An EasyPose figure has dials that affect a chain of body parts, making it easier for the user to pose a rope in coils, make natural looking bends and twists in clothing flaps, pose a chain consisting of dozens of links and so on.
A good example of an EasyPose enabled clothing item is Aery Soul's free V3 Hipcloth. My own V4 Warrior outfit also makes extensive use of EasyPose. All the links of the chains are individual bones and can be posed by themselves, but the fact that the EasyPose parameters have been put in means that the end user can have those chains twist and bend by using a single set of dials on a root body part.
The EasyPose Underground utility sold by Ajax is a program that will help a figure creator to add EasyPose functionality to his/her figure. While it can be done by hand, using a text editor, it means writing lots and lots of entries in a CR2 file. The EasyPose utility will write those for you, which saves many hours of hand editing CR2 files.
The primary target audience of the EasyPose Underground utility is content creators. An end user could use EasyPose Underground to add EasyPose functionality to existing figures too, but in my opinion a figure that could benefit from EasyPose functionality should have EasyPose built in by the creator, not added after the fact by the end user.
I bought EasyPose Underground a couple of weeks ago, and it saved me many hours of work when creating the V4 Warrior set.
So EasyPose Underground is a timesaver - for content creators. Not for end users.
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