I’ve been doing a lot of renders over the past year, and not doing much work on models, textures or scripts. One very positive thing to come out of it is that I now have a much better idea of how my stuff works from a user’s perspective.

For example - I’ve realized that the manual procedure for putting a standard (non-Smart+) prop in the dummy hand is rather more tedious than I’d imagined. Even the ‘snatch the prop from V4’ approach isn’t as easy as I’d hoped.

So I think that the next step with this Smart+ stuff is to include data* for a number of popular hand-held props in the Smart+ datafile. With some small (hopefully!) modifications to the PropGoto+ scripts they should then be able to do the tedious dummy hand proxying stuff automatically. Users would of course be able to add prop datalines for their own favourite props.

No ETA, and fingers crossed that I don’t run into any problems…

*just the X/Y/Z translations/rotations required to position the prop in the zeroed dummy hand, plus the internal name and geometry filename

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The 3Dcheapskate* occasionally posts sensible stuff. Usually by accident.
And it usually uses Poser 11, with units set to inches. Except when it's using Poser 6 or PP2014, or when its units are set to PNU.

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