i am new to poser, python, forums, and the whole 3-d art world....
however, i am an experienced software developer.

i appreciate that anyone would care enough to make a response.
thank you "adp001" for what you said & what you do. i have taken it in.

poser & other programs do appear as relative
but internally, it is all mathematics and the numbers are there.

Shadowy_Mike:

i am working on a python way to understand scale and size, etc.
your communication is that you want the most simple solution.
maybe that is not python or even poser.
it would be good to understand what you wish to accomplish. please tell us.
if you have everything working in other programs, why use poser?
maybe there is a more simple solution to do what you want to do.

i have enjoyed your dialogue.

it works. thank you.

i did a basic script first. it changed the render options interface.
i put the code then into my autorender script and it works great.

after my last post, i realized that i had not tried the poser4 render machine.
it works with the code we had explored.

you (nruddock) have specifically answered two major questions that were stopping me.
in the process, i have also learned more about the syntax.
i don't know how you know this stuff but you seem to have a handle on it.

thanks again.

back again. thanks for the input.

my projects are very simple. 1 standard figure or prop & shadow rendering off.
then i have a script that renders several rotations & exports the rendered images.
my purpose is to make more clipart for my grandsons to use in an image collage program.
i wanted to have a version of each file with and without shadows.

today i investigated turning shadows off.
that works by just setting the lights to not render shadows.
in the future i will not set shadows off when i save projects.
for now, i would need to manually correct and save each poser project.
if nothing else i will do that.

i think that scene.SetRenderCastShadows() should work according to the documentation.
it starts as 1 no matter what the render setting and when i change it, it has no effect.

i also found Shadows() & SetShadows(). No idea what object uses this property.
i tried scene, figure, and actor and got syntax error.

i checked out scene.RenderAntiAliased() as a comparison;
it seems to have a value inherent in the character and it can be changed with a result.

i am using poser7. it seems to have a few rough edges. a real object model would be nice.

thanks

i tried this:

scene = poser.Scene()
scene.SetRenderCastShadows(1)
aLights= scene.Lights()
for light in aLights:
  light.SetShadow(1)
actor = scene.CurrentActor()
actor.SetCastsShadows(1)

no shadows.
how can this be so hard?

thank you

thank you.

your code is quicker and more reliable.
however, the result is still varied.
i am sending my test results as a jpg.
it shows an initial pose that is changed and changed again.
i am trying to understand poserpython but it is a challenge.
you know that better than i do.

PhilC

thank you.

i have done lots of research to understand poserpython.
you are one of the few who does.
Rotoscoper  sounds very capable and i going to check it out.
i am looking at learning more about poserpython.
it is dramatically under-doucumented.
is the python code in Rotoscoper visible?
maybe we can talk.

thank you very much
that does work

thank you

i wonder how you know that. i did try using .value().
i have looked through most of the poser code, the pdf file and lots of samples on the web.
i have a few things i want to do and have made it this far by mostly using trial and error.

after my post, i realized that i would like to know the same thing for a prop.

my project is to provide some clipart for my grandsons to play with using a program i wrote for them. i put 1 figure or prop in poser and then render it in 12 rotational positions and save the renders. not very artistic, but it is fun for kids and me too.

it is interesting that some poser figures do not rotate well.
they are not standing up straight. I also notice that the conforming clothes in some cases pops open up when approved poses are used. you can tell that i am new to all of this.

one thing i do know is that poser makes some of the best transparent png files i have seen. that's enough for me. i'll put up with the rest.