Ajax opened this issue on Aug 26, 2002 ยท 47 posts
Ajax posted Mon, 26 August 2002 at 6:43 PM
Judith, Hiya! Didn't see you burried up there between my posts before. Atom, Nope, it won't build cr2s. You have to have one already. This is for EasyPose and general ERC setup in an existing cr2. Check out the EasyPose Tube in post no 2 to get a handle on what EasyPose is. Or take a look at the EasyPose tentacle in my store to see a diagram and description. Phillip, There are some big differences between Underground and the Wizard. The first difference is about $15 to $20 (Wizard = $20, Underground =about $35 to $40 depending on how much more work I wind up doing on it before I send it to market). The Wizard - Gives you your most useful basic dials: *TwistAll, BendAll, Side-SideAll and the Bef and Aft equivalents of all three are always installed and you have the option of also installing Spiral dials and S-Bend/S-SideSide dials. You don't get any control over how sensitive the dials are and only Spiral and the Ss are optional. * The interface is simple and easy and the tool will do what most people will want it for. Depending on how well it sells and what people ask for, I'll certainly consider adding extra features (like wave dials) into a version 2 with a free upgrade. Underground - All of the features of the Wizard, plus: *All dials are optional and you can change the name and sensitivity of every dial. *Wave dials with adjustable links per cycle for short or long waves. *Up to 5 Catenary dials (previously only found on my chains) with end angles specified by you. *The all new, never seen before, multi-scale dials which I imagine will rarely be used, but could get some very interesting effects on occasion. *Ability to decide between using valueParm masters, or targetGeom masters (valueParms are the standard for ERC but can't be saved in poses in P4, targetGeoms are null morphs and can be saved in poses if you tick the appropriate box in Poser). *Ability to add curve dials to each segment or to individual segments as you wish, independantly or with EasyPose. *Ability to use a central node. For example if your figure is a worm with parts worm1 to worm 25 and with the "hip" at worm15, you can put the node in worm15. You can't do that with the Wizard. *Dial management including the ability to create new valueParm/targetGeom dials or delete any type of dial and to change the internal name of any type of dial. *Full ERC editing capability, including the ability to set up an ERC relationship between one master and one or more slave body parts, with your choice of control ratio, the ability to delete a master dial and all of it's slave references, the ability to delete individual slave references or edit their control ratios one at a time, the ability to remove all ERC from a file in one go and probably some other things I haven't though of yet. *Some basic Cr2 editing functions, such as the ability to change the internal names of body parts, turn bending or shadows on or off for a selected group of body parts and probably some others depending on how much time I get and what I think of. *Ability to save your own personal settings and restore them at any time as well as restore factory settings or one of a couple of presets. Settings are also remembered between sessions. *Selectable multi-level warning and confirmation system to cater to everybody from temerous beginner to know-it-all expert. *Separate history page, just so you can check up on what exactly you've done to the file this session. *As with the Wizard, there will be a number of free upgrades, adding extra features as I think of them or as people request them. This is going to be my own personal main cr2 editing tool, so I'll be very interested in adding any feature I think I could use as well as ones that I get multiple requests for from customers. In a nutshell, the Wizard is cheap, easy to use and will do what most people are likely to want. Underground is much more powerful and will cater to experts or people who really want to do some heavy ERC work.
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