Pret-a-3D opened this issue on May 14, 2012 · 8453 posts
Amethst25 posted Sat, 08 December 2012 at 10:19 AM
Quote - > Quote - Trying to figure out how to use Poser and feel totally stupid. I hate not knowing how move around the UI.
I think I understand a bit of your feeling. When I started working on R34P I felt a bit lost too.
The secret, IMHO, is to understand the different philosophy of the basic tools. In Studio you select a limb and use a tool, like the Universal Tool (UT). When the UT is activated on the limb you click ont he widget to move/rotate/scale the selected object.
That's NOT how you work in Poser so you should avoid trying that approach. Poser's workflow is based more on a touch-like interface, and the keyboard shortcuts play an important role. Its toosl are actually pretty cool.
In Poser if you need to move a leg in V4 you click on V4, presse the R key to enable the Rotate Tool and start clicking and dragging on the limb that you want to move. Sometimes you want to switch to the Twist Tool using the W key. Of course you can grab and move objects using the T (Translate) Tool. If you want to act on the whole figure, for example rotate V4, use the same technique but act on the red ring around the figure.
Using this workflow you can actually pose a character with an immediacy that is somewhat missing in Studio.
Regarding the dynamic cloth, I found that one of the best descriptions on how to use it is in the Angeloi outfit. After repeating that a couple of times I grokked it pretty well.
Hope this helps.
Oh that does help. Do you know where I could get a list of the keyboard shortcuts? that might make this journey so much easier.