That's a shame :-(  Is Firefly something that can be tweaked to take advantage of GPU by the poser software team? Just curious, I know nothing about rendering engines.

Thank you Nerd! 

I have been trying to figure it out, I wouldn't even know where to begin to try and hack the pz2 files to cut/paste one into the other.   I wound up doing what you mentioned, pose for each, which is what I do standard anyway.  It would be nice to streamline the process to one pose.

It would be cool of Poser just sent them to the recycle bin. Oh well, no biggie, just had to do about 10 minutes of re-work.  It's always faster the second time around, lol.

Thirdeded!

I think what I'm after is something more akin to a GLB or USDZ file but without an actual mesh in it, just the ability to view the 3d model, but not be able to extract it. Does that make sense?

OH WOW!  That is very cool.  I wish I could do organic modeling, I'm used to doing more mechanical/environmental models. Very nice work!

I once installed a poser product/character and for some reason it crashed poser over and over, and the funny thing it, it wasn't even being loaded when poser crashed.  I deleted that character folder and reinstalled it, ran fine after that. It's weird what can cause poser to crash sometimes.

Glad you're up and running again.

Did you also get these files deleted?

C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Poser Pro\11

I see the ini file is in there on my system

Great program, easypose underground. I have it too, very useful for a host of things besides cascading ERC. 👍

"The closes I've come is rigging a figure right to left then rotating it's base 90 degrees along the y axis. This is okay, but not ideal if  front to back symmetry was just available."

Looks like you are correct here in rigging and rotating to get the proper result with symmetry front to back. I just tested my example and can see the problem. That's what I get for questioning the practice of an artist that's probably rigged a thousand tentacles, ropes, chains, and tubes ;)

Thanks for teaching me a new trick Davo :)

LOL, no worries :-)  Admittedly I was quite excited to try your rigging because I thought "aha! maybe I missed something" and I'm always open to finding new tidbits of knowledge.  It's refreshing to see responses to threads about technical issues.  I've been using Poser a long time, but have only surface knowledge of a few aspects of it, enough to rig a non-human figure without joint falloff zones and the like.  Ask me questions about lighting, weight mapping, injection morphs, fbm's, texturing and all you'll get is a dumb stare and "uhhhhhh...... weiggggght maaapppinnnng?.  I think Ajax's easypose underground program saved my life cause I could never figure that stuff out on my own.  I miss you Ajax!

Hi primorge,

I did download your file, thank you very much:-).  I was able to get the red balls to be symmetrically posed to the green balls but in a top down view only. If I viewed the figure from the side and moved the green balls up and down, then did a left to right mirror, the red balls went a different direction.  With naming the links rLink1, rLink2 rLink2 and lLink1, etc, then they would have mirrored in all axis correctly.  I believe that poser software uses the r and l prefix as a means to mirror body parts down the Y axis (top to bottom) along the x axis, (side to side)  If they had a f and b prefix (Front and Back), then it could mirror down the y axis (top to bottom) along the z axis, front to back.

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Hi guys,

I completely understand the rigging and and construction of a chain set, that's not a problem at all.  The problem is that currently only right and left side pose symmetry is allowed in poser.  This was to make rigging a figure easier so that the pose symmetry, including joint parameters could be mirrored to the other side of a human figure.  However, when you move away from humans and say into robots, or equipment with cords and chains, having symmetry mirrored from front to back is not possible, or not that I know of.  The closes I've come is rigging a figure right to left then rotating it's base 90 degrees along the y axis. This is okay, but not ideal if  front to back symmetry was just available.

There is much discussion on this topic in this thread:

https://www.renderosity.com/forums/threads/2964244/how-to-add-custom-or-entire-folders-to-favorites

I'm not sure if things have changed since then. There is also a discussion on this top in the poser 12 forum with more information.

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Also, if the tube is uvmapped and you had a template of the cylinder, you could make a transmap for half the tube.  If you want more info on this, let me know.

Davo