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Subject: Surrogate Masters; Text or Symbol in Numeric Field.


primorge ( ) posted Mon, 15 May 2023 at 1:00 PM · edited Fri, 31 January 2025 at 5:46 PM

I've been working on a figure with a lot of scaling stuff going on. I'd like to have additional surrogate masters located in the body that drive the set ups in the specific actors. It's easy enough to set up such masters but I can't seem to figure out how to change the numeric field reading from say 100.00 to 100% for the master.

For example a head scaling dial located in the body that drives the parm in the head. I have the dial in the body and I want it to read 150% matching the driven 150% value field tag in the head. How do I switch the reading to 150% rather than some arbitrary number with a decimal (150.00) in the settings of the parm?

Additionally I've seen dials that read OFF/ON in the numeric field in certain figures, how is that set up rather than a display number?

To clarify, I'm not asking how to set up the dependencies but how the numeric field displays.

Thanks.



nerd ( ) posted Mon, 15 May 2023 at 3:22 PM
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Yeah I wish it worked that way too. Dials get numbers. No percent, no degrees or on-off or any other decorations. The best you can do is change the dial descriptions so the numbers make sense. Name the dial "Some Setting  Off <==> ON". Then set it's limits to 0-1 and the sensitivity to 1. An example of this is the "Hide <- Control Handles -> Show" for the control handles on LaFemme. That's about as fancy as it gets. And yes it's been requested. Maybe someday.



primorge ( ) posted Mon, 15 May 2023 at 3:48 PM · edited Mon, 15 May 2023 at 3:48 PM

Bummer. Was hoping for the percentages. Not a big deal.

That doesn't explain these text visibility parm fields in Sasha16 though...

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Thanks for the response btw




primorge ( ) posted Mon, 15 May 2023 at 4:13 PM

I went through the cr2 to that specific actor with the parameter and everything appears like a typical dial. There's no indication in the setting dialogue within Poser itself for that parameter either...

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If there's no indication anywhere that I can find and yet the text exists in the number field...

Well I'm stumped...


Richard60 ( ) posted Mon, 15 May 2023 at 4:49 PM

Maybe because the dial has the name scale in it?

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primorge ( ) posted Mon, 15 May 2023 at 5:01 PM
Richard60 posted at 4:49 PM Mon, 15 May 2023 - #4465423

Maybe because the dial has the name scale in it?

Do you mean adding scale to the dials internal name will make Poser generate percentage indicator in the field?


primorge ( ) posted Mon, 15 May 2023 at 5:17 PM

Nope. Just tested that. Still typical numbers without percentage. If adding the name scale, internally or externally and in varying combinations, were enough to make a dial start using percentage indicators I'm sure a lot of morphs named scale throughout history would start showing percentages. Morphs and scales behave differently. Never seen it.

I think scale dials are something explicitly wired into and generated by Poser and aren't open to being created on the fly.

I'm also not seeing any On or Off in relation to those visibility dials stated anywhere in the cr2...

I think maybe there's some readscript or python thing going on with Sasha that's making this opaque.

Would be interesting to find out how Karina did it...


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