Quote - Opera - I have NOT really tried direct manipulation in Poser in at least two years. The most I ever do is select the hand (using dials half the time) and pull an IK chain into place.

For this thread I DID try the direct manipulation tool and found it not as good is the tools I am experiencing in Carrara. However, I now see that was too swift a judgement.

Thank you for you tips on the tool and the viewport right-click. I will invest some time in Poser direct manipulation later today. 

 

Sometimes it's hard to remember all the tools avaialabe, especialy when we get into a workflow that doesn't include them.

Quote - Now.....can you direct me to the animation graph-editing page I am overlooking where you can select all keyframes and turn on their bezier tangent controls?

 

uhhh.... you lost me at animation. :-) if it is possible i wouldn't know what it was if i was looking at it.

Quote - tyger, many props to you for bringing that into the realm of the obvious, if it wasn't before.
Duh...the direct selection tool! 
Shoot, here I was just assuming I was actually in that mode...not without the big clown-faced handlebars and pretty primary colors, I wasn't!
Jeez, I feel so silly, downright stupid even. Here Poser was already capable of doing exactly what i thought (as pointed out... passionately) that it should.

 

It's not always so obvious. after reading the descriptions in this thread, i thought 'hey theres a tool kinda like that' but i didnt remember what it was called.... I poped open Poser, saw what it was called and was a little reluctant to post about it. I didn't want anyone to feel stupid when i posted about the command that was called "direct manipulation". so i tried to word my post carefully.

Quote - I guess I shoulda spend more time reading the manual than I did, dya think?

 

manual? theres a manual?  ;-)

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