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Subject: Proportion Library?

ockham opened this issue on Dec 16, 2010 · 7 posts
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ockham ( ) posted Thu, 16 December 2010 at 7:36 AM · edited Sat, 30 November 2024 at 4:23 AM

While scanning through the code of P4, looking for a keyword, I noticed something interesting.  Along with the strings for other Library titles (Prop, Character, Pose, etc) there was a Proportion Library.

This might help to explain why Poses don't include scaling.  The original idea was to have a separate set of files to control scaling.

I know some folks around here still have an active Poser 1, or at least remember P1.  Was there a Proportion Library, or was this idea never implemented at all?

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kyhighlander59 ( ) posted Thu, 16 December 2010 at 8:09 AM

Poser 1 was Mac only I believe. Poser 2 was the first windows version to the best of my memory.

dlfurman ( ) posted Thu, 16 December 2010 at 9:33 AM · edited Thu, 16 December 2010 at 9:34 AM
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I have Win/PC Poser 1 floppies.

The program was known just as Poser.

Let me see if the manual is around here. Ok!

Checking out the manual, I don't see anything on Proportion Library.

I do see the stuff we still do now, where you scale/taper individual parts and the body to create new characters that are saved to the library, but not mention of a separate Proportions Library.

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kyhighlander59 ( ) posted Thu, 16 December 2010 at 9:36 AM

Ok I guess they came out with the windows version much later. I remember looking at it for a couple of years and lusting after it but it was Mac only.

ockham ( ) posted Thu, 16 December 2010 at 9:51 AM

Thanks, dlf.  Guess the idea never made it into the executable!

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JoePublic ( ) posted Thu, 16 December 2010 at 2:04 PM

Maybe it was ditched in favour of the "Figure Height" settings.

ockham ( ) posted Thu, 16 December 2010 at 2:40 PM

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.   The Figure Height is pretty much obsolete too.  It belonged to the original idea where a few standard meshes were built-in, and you modified the standard meshes in many ways (Characters, Poses, Proportions) to make your figures.

We've come full circle now, with V4 being the standard mesh...............

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