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Please report back to this thread any difficulties/anomalies that you encounter. Also, Is this stuff working ok in Pro-Pack? tia, TromNek

Konan, any chance of getting a glimpse at your python code?
I wanted to get 'point at' angles for a script I have for making eye adjustments. I gave up when I hit the quadrant problems. In truth I didn't really understand the transformations needed. The web link you gave is a great help, some python code would really bring it together.

tia,
ken

Got it. Thanks.

The poser python plugin will only work if Poser 5 or ProPack is currently running and is running the 'Receiver' python script that comes with the plugin.

So you can run what ever installation of Poser 5 or ProPack you want, run the 'Receiver' script and p3do will 'Open with Poser' in that one.

If you currently have a cr2 loaded in poser and you p3do->'Open with Poser' another cr2, it will add it to the scene.

The .cr2 will open geometries and materials from anywhere if they have full path names specified in the cr2. If not it will look in the current Runtime active in Poser. This has nothing to do with the plugin, it's all cr2 stuff.

Message edited on: 01/13/2005 13:54

oh well. I just started serious on the python recently also. It has some really good stuff. Unfortunately some of my favorites are not supported under Poser Pro-Pack which is running python 1.5.2 . There is some other minor yet annoying differences also, so you might want to pick up a 1.5.2 distribution for testing compatibility if you only have Poser 5. Let us know how it turns out.

Perfect, thanks. for tk use 'TkVersion' but they must be 8.3. Are there any major differences in Curious Lab's PoserPython methods? Anything to watch out for? thanks again, ken

Thanks, I got it all working now. I even got an initial seek using gzip to get towards the end of a large compressed file (grab the materials section).

I wrote something like that for external apps to pass data into Poser. I have a server running on a tcp/ip socket bound to the loopback (lo) interface.
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Currently it accepts filenames, then it loads (or executes .py files) them. Seno Software (P3dO) has a plug in comming out for it soon.

Next step is for it to accept a input stream so we can do RPC or accept arbitrary data (need to define a protocol).

My main problem is how to run my server daemon in the background, Poser's python doesn't have threads. I have to run a Tkinter instance.
Did you find a way around this using the python that ships with Poser?

Yes, intellisense is useful for beginners (and veterans). Yes, like you, I'm learning python specifically for poser. Although now I have come to appreciate many of it's features as a general purpose programming language. Curious Labs probably decided on python (instead of vb, vba and .net) because they wanted one solution for both the windows and macintosh environments.

These classes are very basic and only locate parameters in a poser file and give your script an opportunity to do what ever you wish with that parameter. I'll clean up the script that I'm currently using to filter .pz2 files and post it later this week. Maybe a real example will help illustrate their use.

Python is a language not a programming appliance. Just like VB and C++ are languages (Visual Studio is the programming appliance or IDE). I the standard python distribution ships with a basic editor and IDE (called idle). The editor should work fine in poser-python, but I don't know about the rest (and it's 'intellesense' is somewhat limited). I think there also are some object browsers around, again I don't know if they will work in poser-python. I'm very partial to my programming editor so I'm not looking for another programming environment. I use this programming editor for most of my work when programming any language. I burned it on to a credit-card CD-rom and carry it around with me in my wallet everywhere. Most often I use an IDE just for compiling and debugging.

I run python.dll instead of py standalone. The poser code references are not available. I think the poser object model that we get when we: import poser comes from the 'running' poser environment. Even if you could import the methods somehow (write a dummy class that mimics poser's), you wouldn't have a valid 'poser.Scene' to deliver anything of use. It's just not really worth it to write a 'dummy' class since it really won't help much. That's why we will comment out the poser specific code when we debug outside of poser. I take it that you don't have Poser 5 or Poser Pro Pack. Are you developing scripts for someone else?

These classes assist in parsing poser files (probably any type) so that you can find specific parameters and values, then execute a user defined function each time they are found in a file.
Since it is very generic, they can be used in a variety of situations. Currently, I'm using them to filter a pose file (.pz2) so that my user defined function can set rotation and translation parameters on only selected body parts in a figure.

I'll start another thread to try and address your other more generic poser-python question.

Message edited on: 01/09/2005 12:08

Thanks. I've been sending pathnames for loading poser files over a network socket. It would take me more time to decode the file than it would to just switch back to poser and open it directly.