Hi RV.

Sorry I didn't see this thread till now.

Hmmm. Lots of questions. Will have to do some tests myself, because I don't remember so much about Parmatic and Poser parameter dial behavior. I don't use it anymore - I just use VSS.

One thing I do remember clearly. The dials will not work unless you have run Parmatic at least once. So, yes, end users cannot take advantage of your parameter dials unless they have Parmatic.

When you run Parmatic it leaves behind a function in Poser that is watching dial changes. When it sees any that begin with PM:, it copies the new setting to nodes on the same figure.

When I built Parmatic (way back in the stone age) I kind of thought this behavior would be highly desirable, the community would embrace it and demand that Poser implement it natively, and that by now we'd see this as a built-in feature of Poser 8. It didn't actually go that way. For the most part, the community as a whole doesn't understand what this does and why they should care.

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