odf opened this issue on Oct 27, 2008 · 13933 posts
Cage posted Sun, 28 November 2010 at 2:40 PM
Quote - Not sure what you mean by "a chain of body handles". It is certainly possible to have a number of body handles all affecting the same actor, though there may be asymmetries where the influence of two body handles overlap. But what do you mean by "chain" in this context?
I guess I didn't state that very well. It's been discussed a couple of times in this forum in the past. The "chain" would be a sequence of body handles which are parented to one another, able to be posed as a chain, but deforming a common actor. With body handles A through F, F would be parented to E, E to D, D to C, and so on, to A. I think the conclusion in the past was that this could hypothetically be arranged by parenting all body handles to the common actor, as in your example, then using ERC to force them to move as though parented to one another, in chain fashion. I don't think anyone has tried it and (at least in my current sleepy-headed state) I can imagine problems cropping up somewhere with the joint setup. :unsure:
Quote - I may be wrong, but in terms of emulating muscles, I doubt that body handles, or ghost actors, would be a very practical proposition in Poser. Magnets sound more promising, and there is no reason I can think of why they can't be driven by ERC, in much the same way as JCM works.
I might have misunderstood what I was seeing when I tried the figure, but I think this is what Daz has V4 doing. It's been awhile since I even loaded V4, but I have the recollection that all of the magnets ended up being unwieldy somehow.
Quote - Yes, a joint parameter channel can react to rotation and scaling in a sibling actor. It is the "otherActor" line that tells the JP channel which actor to respond to, and the presence or absence of a "flipped" line in the channel determins the sense of the reaction. I can't really give you much detail about this, because I don't know a lot about it.
In the cr2 attached above, the lThigh will respond to scaling and rotation of the rThigh, but the rThigh will not respond to these in the lThigh. The diffrence is that the joint channels in the lThigh point to "otherActor rThigh".
Interesting! :thumbupboth:
Isn't this approach still limited to one otherActor, and wouldn't it sacrifice any influence on the parent in exchange for influencing the sibling? I guess I should try the example, huh? :lol:
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