I figured out how to hide body parts wirh a pose file, as a part of a utility pose set I am going to post for free. What body parts do you find need to be hidden most often (so I can build those poses ;) Also part of the set, poses to turn IK on and off, White MAT poses for the 4 main figures, + a few others I am working on :) Let me know. -Trav

For me it's Thighs and shins-- haven't tried boots yet, probably foot and toe then. You're an angel. you know that, huh? I still don't understand IK enough to know if it's off or on.:-)

most often i hide the feet/toes/sometimes shin for shoes/boots this sounds like a COOOOOOL utitility to have, thanks for making it available! tam ;o)

feets __ because most of the boots/shoes never exactly fit because they would look too wide if they did hips __ cause sometimes I forget to turn off the genitals :)) Warm fuzzies to ya sir... Diana

Make that THREE for the lower extremities.

Ok, I have ones for feet, lower legs (feet and shins), Legs (feet to thighs), Hip. Any call for the arms/chest or buttocks (for vickie/mike figures)? -Trav

The hips, thighs, shins, feet, toes, right collar, and finally the left collar. I occasionally have a need to hide the shoulders and forearms....depending on the pose and clothing item I use. Great idea Eric! =OD

might just go ahead and do the rest of the torso Trav... they would be useful at one time or another anyhows.. Thanks for thinking of this.. very good idea! Did you see the hooded robe message thread below? I am shamelessly plugging them for ya! Hugs!

foot and toe usually :) and with Michael his genitals :P

Petunia: Yes I did, Thanks :) Eowyn: I will have to see about the genital switch, it should be do-able with a pose.

Traveler!! You are a jewel! Hmmm... well... seeing as almost nothing fits Michael 2 when he's all beef up almost everything! LOL... but really, for me it thighs, shins, feet and toes.

Does that mean that you will think about my vicky boots message I sent ya? :)

For the LOVE OF GOD please make one that will hide the hands and all the finger parts!!!!!!!!!! Do you KNOW how many times I've had to hide fingers for gloves? I hate having to do that by hand... I promise to set up an altar and worship you as a god if you do that... okay, well maybe not... but I'd be really grateful.

Ooooh! Ooooh! Yes!! I forgot about the hands and finger parts! I've had the same aggravations. I vote for that too!

Oh gosh yesh... how could i have forgotten the dreaded "this little pinky went wee wee weeeee out of the glove" syndrome! Good thinking Cin!!

Petunia: I got your email, I am slow to reply these days, Today is my first day to play for almost a week and a half ;) The boots shoulden't be too hard to convert, I will give it a shot. Cin, Nikita, all: Ok, more for the list ;)

PS. Yes I am that sick of an individual that considers cutting and pasting poser code as play.... man I need help, LOL

ty trav.. not to worry and have fun playing.. I can wait on that.. just teasing you a bit since you are in here to tease.

LOL @ Eric! =OD

I've had to hide everything except the head at some point. Legs and feet are 'worst'. And the breasts for Vickie...though I generally morph them out of the way if necessary. Sounds like one heck of a useful set!

there have been some cases where the only things I didn't hide were the head, neck and hands. It all depends on what clothing is used.

Actually I'd say, if possible, make the set so that it hides every body part, and then you just click each pose as you need to hide it... and then do a few in groups... for example "Lower Body" hides hips down, "Hands" hides the hands and fingers. "Feet" hides the feet and toes... shrug At one point or another I've hidden every body part except for the head...

All: Ok, the hands are done. These should be at Morph World by tonight. I wasn't able to find a way to switch off the genital hip with a pose yet, gotta keep looking for that one ;) Cin: The poese are very simple. Here is a piece of code to hide a body part: actor rPinky1:1 { on } (on shows, off hides) If someone wants to build individual sets from these they are more then welcome to. I have done them in groups and mahor body sections, basically because I am getting lazy ;)

Thanks for the great work. You wouldn't happen to know how to automaticaly conform an article of clothing using a pose file, would you?

If that's all the code it is....I can make up a few. ;o)

Hey I will pipe in, one for the entire lower body, from buttocks down for Antons Popstar pants. The hands and fingers, the feet and toes and feet, toes and shins. Wow, what a great idea, can't wait to see how it is done :)

In case you wanted it right now Dave! LOL! Just copy and paste into a text editor and save it as a PZ2. I alreay tested it...it works. ;o)

{

version
{
number 4.01
}

thighLength 0.177885

actor hip:1
{
off
}

actor rButtock:1
{
off
}

actor rThigh:1
{
off
}

actor rShin:1
{
off
}

actor rFoot:1
{
off
}

actor rToe:1
{
off
}

actor lButtock:1
{
off
}

actor lThigh:1
{
off
}

actor lShin:1
{
off
}

actor lFoot:1
{
off
}

actor lToe:1
{
off
}

figure
{
}
}
{

version
{
number 4.01
}

thighLength 0.177885

figure
{
}
}

This is so cool Eric! I love shortcuts! ;o)

You don't need the thigh length sections or the figure block at the end :)Or the second version block at the bottom.

So you could cut it down to:

{
version
{
number 4.01
}

actor hip:1
{
off
}

actor rButtock:1
{
off
}

actor rThigh:1
{
off
}

actor rShin:1
{
off
}

actor rFoot:1
{
off
}

actor rToe:1
{
off
}

actor lButtock:1
{
off
}

actor lThigh:1
{
off
}

actor lShin:1
{
off
}

actor lFoot:1
{
off
}

actor lToe:1
{
off
}
}

Ahhhhhhh....Thanks Eric! =OD

well i must say that looks easy enough even for bumble-heads like me to understand! cool

The only real trick to it is remebering to use the internal names for the body parts and not the ones poser uses. Like Right Collar in Poser is rCollar internally. Those can be found by looking at the top of a .cr2 file for your figure.

hide and seek pose files? seek being the ones to make 'em all come back on...

How about one for gloves? Turns the hands and all fingers off, one of the most time-consuming things... grrr...

Turning them back on would be easy... open the pose file in a text editor and do a global find and replace... replace ever instance of off with on. :)

I DID figure that one out -all by myself even- but was trying to figure out a name for the type of pose file (like a mor - for morph) these would be.. goes to show that I ought to be more specific in my ponderings -yes?

Oh... sorry, I misread your post Petunia...

lol I put a grin in there but in the >< things so it didn't get posted.. That's ok Cin.. I misread me too most of the time.

I am calling them HS Poses for Hide and Show :)

Trav, once again you make life a little easier (and man am I slow on reading the forums today!) Thank you :) PS .. I adore the rose :)

Attached Link: http://www.morphworld30.com/dlotw.html

Thank ye kindly Trav. Much appreciated here I can tell ya s

Most certainly! And are they Mike and Vicky only, or for the Dork and Posette, too?

They will work for any figure that has standard poser set up for mike and vickie set up (Mil Kids, Baby, all P3 & P4 people, mike, vickie, etc)

Sigh..... first the virtual mystery model... now the infamous no-see-um Hide and Show poses... It might be this dummy ie explorer that doesn't like to update new html files until 3 weeks from post.

Attached Link: http://www.morphworld30.com/assets/files/UtilityPoses01.zip

heehee thankyou that worked!

Your so cool Traveler, you are always doing such great things and creating such awesome tools. Your a Poser hero! :)

Darn it, I missed all the fun! Eric, your genius strikes again, thank you so much! I can see these are going to get used often! ~j~

Congrats, Trav. I've been making occasional attems to find a way to do this for ages. Now I'll finally be able to make that hide-tentacle-tip pose I've been wanting to make. I'll be able to replace the subdividing transparency poses in the chains too. This is excellent. Thanks for posting the info.