I have a prop attached to V4, but I need the props world position.

I have python shell open right now. I need to do something like this:

Print actor.attachedProp.worldXYZPosition

Unfortunately Poser won't show the world position if the prop is attached to something, it only shows it's XYZ in relation to it's parent.

This may be simple and not what you are looking for ... but have you tried selecting the prop and then using the pose camera?

Unfortunately changing camera's does not reveal an attached props world position. It still shows it's xyz in relation to it's parent.

Looking back at my old stuff, it seems that I always used WorldDisplacement. As I recall, this worked for all objects regardless of parenting or body-part-ness.

(X,Y,Z)=actor.WorldDisplacement()

I didn't try this, but who knows:

If (in Poser's Hierarchy Editor) you parent a prop (manually) to UNIVERSE (i.e. unparent it from the figure), it's real coordinates are shown in the prop's parameters.

Maybe unparenting the prop in Python, then reading it's (hopefully) RW-coordinates and finally reparenting it to it's original parent could do the trick?

Karina

ockham posted at 4:55PM Thu, 15 February 2018 - #4324374

Looking back at my old stuff, it seems that I always used WorldDisplacement. As I recall, this worked for all objects regardless of parenting or body-part-ness.

(X,Y,Z)=actor.WorldDisplacement()

Would you happen to know how to print that out in the python shell?

No, I haven't used the python shell. I suppose you could do something like

(X,Y,Z)=actor.WorldDisplacement()

print "X = %f, Y = %f, Z = %f" % (X,Y,Z)

ockham posted at 7:44PM Fri, 16 February 2018 - #4324447

No, I haven't used the python shell. I suppose you could do something like

(X,Y,Z)=actor.WorldDisplacement()

print "X = %f, Y = %f, Z = %f" % (X,Y,Z)

Thank you.