Attached Link: Camel Case

This is great information - thanks DarkEdge.

"Logical and consistent, the people who coded Poser are not."

In this case, I'd say they were, though programmer’s logic can be odd - heh, heh, gotta defend my peeps :-)

Programmers often use "Camel Case," in naming program variables and Poser's body part names seem to follow that scheme, using alternating lower-upper casing for words. Thus, the non-symmetrical parts have no caps because they are usually one word e.g. hip. Symmetrical parts get a cap for the second word, e.g. r(ight)Collar. There are non-symmetrical parts with caps, e.g. Vicky’s tongueTip, if they are composed of two or more words. On the forearm, I think the coder felt that “forearm” looked/seemed better thought of as two words. I often do the same with compound words, so I might do rEyeBall instead of rEyeball .

On the shoulder, it appears that there may have been an eight character limit on the body part names – at least for the original Poser figures. Doing a quick check on Posette’s .cr2, that seems to be the case. Spelling out shoulder would have yielded nine characters. I’m just guessing here. If there was a limit, it was lifted by the time Vicky 4 came out with her aforementioned tongueTip (and tongueBase) parts.

 

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