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OK, I finally managed to install it. Nice work A'kin. It works very well. Since bloodsong asked, I'll address the question of whether it's EasyPose. Nope. It's not. Not quite, though it's a similar idea and very close. The reason I don't class it as EasyPose is that there are no cascading dials. EasyPose uses a system where each dial feeds into the next so you can grab any body part and use it to control all of the ones before or after it. This allows you to start posing wherever you want on the chain, while isolating parts of the chain that you don't want to pose. Check the link and download the EasyPose Tube to see what I mean. Since I know bloodsong has been compiling a history of Poser tech, I'll go into a bit of history (the rest of you will probably find this really boring). The concept of using ERC to control multiple body parts has been around for quite a while, although most of us didn't really notice it. Both full body morphs and the grip dials found in the Poser 4 hands use that idea. In the past, I may have said something about me being the first to use ERC to control multiple body parts but if I did, that was because I was a newbie when I came up with EasyPose and I simply didn't know that full body morphs or grip dials existed. In fact, I only found out about them late last year. The code syntax behind them is actually a little different but the software is clearly handling it the same way. I came along in March 2001 and read Nerd's ERC tute and a few days later I got started on EasyPose. It wasn't until August 2001 that the EasyPose Tentacle hit the stores and EasyPose went public. A lot of the delay was due to me taking time to sort out the details of having a store and find beta testers and get things beta tested etc. Outside of grip dials and full body morphs, I'm pretty sure the EasyPose Tentacle was the first example of using ERC to control multiple body parts, but the real innovation of it was to cascade the dials up and down the chain. When I first read Rob Whisenant's tute on ERC it had no info on how to make a single slave dial be controlled by more than one master and nothing about cascading dials. I went back to have another look recently and I notice that he now has both of those. I haven't talked to Rob about it so I couldn't say whether he discovered those on his own or whether he added them to the tute after seeing what I was doing. Either one seems just as likely. You'll have to ask him if you want to know, bloodsong. In November 2001 dcort came out with Melusine, the first of his figures to feature QuickPose TM (ie the word "QuickPose" is trademarked so you can't use that word on your own stuff without dcort's permission). I don't own any of those so I don't know too much about them but it's my understanding that they work in a similar way to A'kin's tentacle, only a little simpler. There's one body part at the top that controls everything below it, but no way to refine the pose beyond that point except posing each segment individualy. So, as far as I know A'kin is only the third person to release a figure that uses ERC to pose multiple body parts this way (excluding figures with grip dials and full body morphs of course). And he came up with it by himself and came at it a slightly different way, using null morph dials as the masters instead of valueParms, which is something I've never seen before. That's pretty good going, A'kin. Now A'kin, the question is, what are you going to call it? It's not quite EasyPose and you can't call it "QuickPose" because of the trademark so you'll have to come up with a name of your own ;-) Of course it wouldn't take much extra work to get the cascading dials set up and turn what you have into EasyPose if you want to. Starting on Friday and lasting for a month, I'll be moderating an EasyPose forum at RuntimeDNA for anybody that's interested in learning how to make EasyPose figures. Hello? Is anyone still awake?

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