When you are making your poses (for which I am grateful), please, please, please do NOT rotate the character in the Y axis. (Except in the rather rare circumstances where the pose is part of a multi-character set-up).

I recently downloaded some (admittedly free) poses for V4, from several different providers. Even more recently I removed the lot of them, because they were more trouble than they were worth.

If the character is rotated in Y (via the hip) it becomes very difficult to rotate it back, except by using the Body rotate. Which then can cause difficulties later when trying to work with animation, or using the Cloth/Hair rooms.

I am quite capable of rotating a character myself to get the correct orientation - it's not exactly rocket science.

Also - don't include mirrored poses. What's the point? That's what "Symmetry->Swap Left and Right" is for...

And, yes, I appreciate the the poses were free, and that the provider went to some trouble to make the poses. However, the end result for me was a waste of time...

Sorry, rant over.
At least I've freed up some valuable disc space..

Cheers,
Diolma

(Feel free to differ with my opinion - I'm just a little on edge at the moment, so I'm not in a "forgiving" frame of mind. Maybe by tomorrow I'll feel differently.)

Ditto.  Maybe we need to compose a jingle or mnemonic to 
enforce the idea that the bodY is for Y and the hip is for X and Z.

(Any Brits old enough to remember "LSD shops have LSD prices"?
A song like that would be just right!)

I will toss couple in the mix that goes hand and hand with this (take your pick right or left) and that is expression poses that move other parts of the body not related to the face, head or eyes. Body morphs or head morphs that move dials should not change the any other dials other then those associated with the shape of the head or body. Not move the head, the neck or the body in any axis. Sometimes when poser is low on memory the undo function does not work. You spent hours setting up a scene, postioning the character perfectly and then wonder how it might look with another expression. You select that expression and all heck breaks loose and body parts move and those hours of work just went down the drain. Very very frustrating.

I've noticed the same thing.

And please,please, pretty please do not include bodymorphs (especially zeroed ones), and switch off IK before saving a pose! I lost valuable time because of this, lucky enough Poser 7 has the multiple undo function. Netherworks has a nice and not so expensive utility call posewriterpremium which is great help for making poses (and more..) and also make a nice rendered thumbnail. I really appreciate those people who spent their spare time making freebie pose, but if they keeps these rules mentioned here they make people really happy.

My €0.02

Best regards,

Bopperhijs.

*(Any Brits old enough to remember "LSD shops have LSD prices"?
A song like that would be just right!)

*I am old enough to remember when "LSD" meant pounds, shillings and pence.   You probably have to be a senior law officer (or contemporary - knight of the realm, basic minimum:  Sir M.J., Sir P McC. etc.) to remember "LSD"  in its other context.

I assume that this problem is related to the one where I make the mistake of changing my mind about the shade of a character's hair at a late stage and see the new hair colour miraculously zero out all leg and foot poses.   Upper body, head and hair poses remain bafflingly unaffected.  

Can I add a very simple request to this? Somewhere in the zip file, either in the name of the pose (or any other file either) or in the read me please put the name of who it is for, like instead of holding a sword, call it vicky holding a sword.