The control prop zone "Apply Rules" determines which figures and props it applies to.

There is no "exclude" rule, so there's no way to say all figures but this one figure. Pro can do that, but I don't have the GUI ready.

Which gets to your second question.

There are changes coming that would make a complex GUI more achievable with less work on my part and less work on the user's part. Can't say more.

As it stands right now, I have a Python plugin that sets up an application server inside Poser and then I can talk to it from a browser, with a Flex/Flash application in the browser. It is called PASer (Poser Application Server). This is a kludgy approach but it works. The downside is you have to install my app server, and while you run it, you can't run any other Python scripts. I'm not happy about that. So installing VSS would require installing this app server first, because if I use it, I don't want to bundle them. I want to maintain the app server independently because if I distribute it I'd want to use it in freebies and other potential products. So now it's like you have to have this extra plugin before you can use VSS. I could bundle the two in one zip, but suppose I release Version 2 of PASer and somebody installs some apps that use it, but they also install Version 1 from the VSS distro and trash PASer. Now I have a support headache. This is a big deal and not the scenario I want.

I want to distribute VSS as a standalone plugin, which needs no other components to be installed first. That means I need Poser to have a proper GUI SDK in it. Which means not doing a GUI for the current versions of Poser.

Combined with how busy I am with paid work, and the uncertainty that VSS Pro would ever generate enough income to justify the time put into it (remember its not just development - it's also testing, distribution, accounting, customer service) it doesn't look good.

On the other hand, I'd actually not mind releasing a limited GUI using PASer as a freebie, because you can't complain when freebies don't work, eh?

I'll think about it.

If you had the GUI, the junk you want to do to control what gets applied where is so easy. You just drag figures and materials into buckets - so easy you can't believe it.

(Edit: What a lot of incoherent typos - sorry. Tried to correct some. Not thinking very clearly today - way overworked and undersleeped.)

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