Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: in PP2 files, etc, what does "index" refer to?

dorkmcgork opened this issue on Feb 09, 2012 · 39 posts


Cage posted Fri, 10 February 2012 at 12:53 PM

Quote - That is the problem, the key value do nothing, but why do they exist?
Imagine if it would be possible to control the center of rotation !!!

It just seems to be a peculiarity of the .cr2 format that all internal features of an actor are represented as dials, whether those dials have any user-level functionality or not.  We'd have to ask Larry W or someone from way back, developers of the cr2 format, why it works that way.  But based on how you can hack a cr2 using the OffsetA and OffsetB channels, these listings are necessary and the values do something.  These are really instructions for Poser on how to handle the math behind any modifications to the actor in question.  Check out some of the posts by VK, in the Poser Technical forum, from several years ago.  People really did some digging into these things back then, but the posts are now buried deeply (they should be stickied, IMO :laugh:).

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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.