I'm trying to create a pose file that includes visibility settings. Can anyone tell me what code to manually enter into a pose to set the poised parts INVISIBLE?

Hi basic, how about a mat pose, with the visibility dependant on the materials? The only way I could think of to do it. Don't think I've ever heard of a body part toggle visibility pose. convert your mc6 to a pz2 by changing mtlCollection to figure, saving, and changing extension to pz2.

Edit_ if there is a toggle body part pose, also interested to know.

In the .cr2 there's a value "on", which can be changed to "off", for each body part.  It's the second entry in each body part listing, directly below the body part name.  I guess you could write a pose to change this value but I haven't tried it meself.  It certainly works if you edit the cr2 directly but beyond that I couldn't say what to do.

Wonder if some variation on an inj pose would work? Riffing on what Sam suggested...

I'm trying to figure out the same thing for an arm. I know it's possible as I've seen it done before.

You need to make the material of the body part invisible.  If you have any Parrotdolphin shaders, she usually includes an "Invisible" material.

Use the invisible and save as a pz2 or mc6 file.

From Secrets of Figure Creation with Poser 5:

"Another item of note for the version section is a pz2 trick. If you set a pz2 file to version 3, you can use the code "on" and "off" for each body part to show/hide the part. In later versions, it is impossible to create a Pose file to turn parts invisible or visible."

Hide/Show pose files, example shoulder hide...

{

version 

             {

              number 3.0

              }

actor lShldr : 1

             {

              off

              }

Use .pz2 extension, just tested on v4, poser 8, works. 

Just to clarify, this pose file has nothing to do with material transparency. It toggles body part existence as you would in the hierarchy. It's a pre poser 4 hack that can be utilized in later versions, as explained above.

Warning though, don't use the above pose by copying and pasting from my post, the indenting is probably wrong as it was Typed on my phone. The test pose I used was done in a proper text editor, on my workstation which is offline at the moment. Look at a pose file for proper indenting conventions.

It was exactly what I was looking for DMD!

Thanks to all who offered help!

If you own anything by Xurge, he usually provides pose files for turning off body parts to eliminate appearance of poke-thru. Other vendors also do it. But Xurge comes to mind immediately. Then you can just look at the pose file to see what he did and how it was formatted. :)