lesbentley opened this issue on Mar 31, 2008 ยท 137 posts
lesbentley posted Fri, 02 May 2008 at 3:12 PM
There was a problem in P4, and I think it also happens in P5, but can't remember for sure. In P6 the problem seems to have been solved.
The Problem in P4 is that, if you have an item of clothing conformed to a character, when trying to select part of the character with the mouse, you can easily end up selecting part of the clothing instead. You can apply the "Hidden 1.pz2" file attached above, to the clothing, to hide all its actors, so that only the character can be selected.
Because of "Pose Overflow" mentioned in a previous post, you will probably also need to apply the "Hidden 0.pz2" to the character, to undo any hiding that spilled over into the character. I will attach the "Hidden 0.pz2" file to my next post, it is exactly the same as the "Hidden 1.pz2", except all instances of 'hidden 1' have been replaced with 'hidden 0'.
As I said, P6 has solved this problem, the mouse will always act on the character in preference to the conformed item. However you may still find a use for the "Hidden 1.pz2" in P6 or above. In P6 you can use it on the character rather than the conformer, if you want to be able to select parts of the conformer via the mouse.
The "Hidden 1.pz2" and "Hidden 0.pz2" files should work on most figures to hide most body parts, but they assume a standard list of actor names, some figures may use different, or extra, actor names.
NOTES:
As with all my attachments to this thread, I have had to add a ".TXT" extension to the file name, so that the Rosity will accept the attachment. You will have to remove the ".TXT" part of the file extension before you can use it in Poser. Hidden actors can still be selected via the Hierarchy Editor.
