Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Loop-making script

Cage opened this issue on Apr 03, 2010 · 610 posts


Cage posted Tue, 27 April 2010 at 1:44 PM

Quote - No kidding. It is a Cage thread, after all - and please don't take that as any form of criticism, quite the opposite. I love this stuff you're coming out with.

I roll my eyes when I see someone post to a thread they clearly haven't read, and here I am doing it myself. I read page 1 - ooh, looper script, want it - then skipped to the last page to register my thanks. I will endeavour to read the rest of the thread in due course. Until then:


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I'm sure they will. A long time ago I actually requested something more-or-less identical to Mr. Looper on another forum, to which I am not allowed to link. :) Mr. Skinner looks interesting too, even though his name is reminiscent of a low-rent serial killer. :D
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Oh sure - you knew I was kidding, right?

I do tend to wander a bit, from one idea to the next, as I try to explore all the possibilities which occur to me.  😊  And others have suggestions, which often lead in wonderful and unexpected directions.  :thumbupboth:

I'm glad you told me why you're rolling your eyes, because that smiley tends to worry me.  :lol:  No problems, with coming into the thread with only partial information.  The thread wanders and I'm not sure how many people (possibly not myself) understand where it's been and/or where it's going.  :lol:  That's okay.  The Looper script, itself, changed a great deal from the version on page one, however.  Perhaps most notably, recent versions can now intersect effectively with edges, and I believe the new approach is faster than the initial one.

I had been requesting something like the loop script for two or three years, myself.  I know I bugged at least three people about making one.  :lol:  It's a relief to actually have it now, although I haven't used it much yet, myself.

The loop script was almost named "Mr. Roper".  :blink:  That would have been a Three's Company reference, you see.  "Mr. Looper" is a Sesame Street reference, from the days when the Mr. Hooper character was part of the cast.  "Mr. Skinner" is a Simpsons reference.  Sadly, I couldn't come up with a goofy TV name for the chain script.  :lol:  Suggestions are welcome.

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.