Forum: Poser Technical


Subject: Antonia & Walk Designer

lesbentley opened this issue on Feb 18, 2011 · 176 posts


Cage posted Sun, 20 February 2011 at 2:33 PM

Interesting.  The feetDistance value seems to help the Walk Designer determine... how far apart to place the walking feet.  It delivers what it promises.  :lol:

I'm working with poses converted from Posette to Antonia.  For these, Antonia basically is posed to match Posette's default pose and this is mixed in with the Posette walk cycle.  So we're using the distance between Posette's feet for the purpose of this cycle, not Antonia's.  If we change the feetDistance value to an Antonia estimate (0.1332 PNU), the Walk Designer actually undoes the pose corrections for the legs, giving her that wide stance of which I've read in the news.  Erm.  :unsure:

The hipHeight is hard to understand as a precise value.  It doesn't match the hip joint center for Posette or P4 Dork.  It doesn't correspond with the top or bottom of the hip geometry for either.  It isn't an average of their two centers.  It doesn't look like the center of the hip geometry for either figure.  It's pretty close to being Antonia's hip center, though, so I assumed that was the intent and plugged Antonia's hip center into the hipHeight line.  I'm not sure whether it helps or not, but it doesn't hurt anything.

Here are the values I tested:

feetDistance 0.1332
hipHeight  0.381689

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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.