odf posted at 9:59 PM Wed, 21 September 2022 - #4444993

A small drawback of driving material properties with special magic dials is that as soon as a new material is loaded, those dials will just sit there useless because the parameters they were driving no longer exist. I think there's a chance to circumvent that by using well-designed materials plus a little bit of trickery, but I'll have to investigate. I'll probably put my material setup into the beta either way and see what people think.

Follow up on this: when I save a material in P12, the dependencies to the control dials are saved with it. That means changing materials actually won't be a problem as long as the new material is wired up to respond to those same dials. That is very, very neat.

(...and obviously how it should work, but one never knows with Poser, and also, I have to admit my mental model of how dependencies work may have been a bit twisted up. :blush:)

-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.