Jin_Yindao posted at 4:04 PM Sat, 21 December 2024 - #2990414

I cannot find the keyboard or mouse shortcuts for panning the camera.  Can someone tell me what they are?  I have all the rest set.

idk if animation is your thing, but in my experience here are a few tips on how to speed up your navigation in general:

- disabled middle mouse scroll in Preferences (its too easy to mess up the camera on accident when enabled, which is a big sad for animators)
- recommend sticking to Dolly Cam (its the best for film stuff as its the only cam with itself as the center point"
- disabled undo and animation in Properties for all cams except for Dolly Cam so you can use them as your work/eding views without getting unwanted keyframes and undo steps
- Rotate: Alt + Left Click
- Pan: Spacebar + Left Click
- Roll: Ctrl + Alt + Left Click
- Zoom: Ctrl + Spacebar

Note: You can switch Spacebar's function between Zoom and Pan by pressing T or Z to switch between the Editing Tools.
- Press Z for the Translate In/Out tool to Cause Spacebar to Zoom instead of Pan.
- Press T for the Translate Pull tool to cause Spacebar to Pan
(sometimes its quicker if you want to do it that way)

It helps to memorize the hotkeys to switch to your most used cameras:
Main Cam: Ctrl+M
Dolly Cam: Ctrl+/
Pose Cam: Ctrl+,
Left Cam: Ctrl+;
Right Cam: Ctrl+'
Face Cam: Ctrl+=
Right Hand Cam: Ctrl+[
Left Hand: Ctrl+]
(these and others are all shown in the Display Sub menu)

You can quickly select your camera to make it the active object by press 3 (above the letter keys, not on the NumPad)
Note: There is a life-long bug that exists where pressing 3 sometimes wont work, but if you quickly press 1 or 2, then 3, it usually works.

Also, if using Dolly Cam, I highly recommend adjusting the sensitivity for the Pan, Pitch and Roll dials (double click them) and set it to 0.1, because the default 1.0 is a bit extreme.

Would also recommend setting the Yon to maximum (i think its 10000, but if you just activate the value text field and hold 9 (till is shows like 9999999999999999) and hit enter it will automatically change it to the max value so you don't have to type it)

Also after making all of the above changes to cameras I would recommend pressing Ctrl+Alt+H on each Camera object in order to save that as the new default.  And save your preferences so you don't have to do this every time. 

Being able to navigate fast in Poser is crucial.  Again, these are just preferences, but when we worked on RWBY and Red vs Blue in Poser we would set it up this way for the entire team so they could work muck quicker as animators.  It can save a lot of frustration.

drages posted at 5:48 AM Thu, 7 November 2024 - #2989846

Hey people.

I am animating with preview renders, so it's important to have clear textures. 

I am good mostly over everything but the ground or flat surfaces gets blurry with the camera angle and distance. 

I tried every option at Poser 11, all camera, preview render or preferences but I could not solve this problem.

Here you can see what I mean. There is a line and after that it gets blurry. It gets worse with the camera angle and distance. All the characters and objects do not have this problem as you see the walls and pillars are perfectly clear. 

I repeat that I use preview renders and this is from a preview. I need the solution for preview.

Anyone got any solution? 

Thank you!

Mipmapping has always looked like blurry terds since N64. Usually keep that off...100% of the time

BVHacker is amazing little tool id recommend anyone to keep on hand.
What format does Deepmotion give you?  in most cases you can import into Blender (free) and export a bvh file.
But the tricky part is bone naming.  Poser will discard bones that are not use.  For the many years ive used Poser the naming convention has pretty much stayed the same so it usually works on anything.  I haven't tried so much with newer figures myself, but i am under the impression there may be some changes to that?  (don't quote me though I have to look myself still).  But there is no reason you can't stick to the widely use naming conversion. 

I think i looked into it a little before (the results looked lika terd) but I'd still be curious to try and see how it goes.

nerd posted at 5:45 PM Tue, 15 October 2024 - #4490364

When you drop an OBJ file you should see an import options dialog. If that's not happening something is definitely not right. This is what you should see ...

It seems more likely the OBJ is either too big or too small to see in the preview. First try setting the scale to ...

"100% " and "of standard figure" Set the option "Centered" and "Place on floor". Uncheck all the other options.

You should see the object appear after clicking [OK].

If that allows you to see the imported OBJ it's now just a matter of figuring it's real scale. Poser's scale is very small compared to most other apps. So try scaling to 10% or 1% "of original size". Once you find the right scale just import all the objects at an appropriate scale.

For example Blender scale is 0.382 compared to Poser scale.

Woe! didn't know we could do that.  ive been importing individually this whole time.

JimTS posted at 3:32 PM Thu, 22 August 2024 - #4488640

Does that $39.95 usb stick do the license check w/o internet?

I was just wondering about that myself,

blackbonner posted at 6:03 AM Sat, 24 August 2024 - #2988980

I know that many of you are looking over the fence at the Daz Store with the a feeling of envy and hopelessness.

lol this part got me.  But no to DAZ

Afrodite-Ohki posted at 4:31 PM Fri, 27 September 2024 - #4489805

pierremeu posted at 9:03 AM Fri, 27 September 2024 - #4489791

Adobe trained their AI with the consent of artists as I read. So it can be done the right way. 

Adobe hid their "consent" as a non-advertised, no-warning-before-adding, tiny option that was on by default.

Nobody actually consented. It was just a "from now on if you're using our program you consent, but also we're not gonna warn you about that change - oh, we're gonna hide is as an option just to avoid legal trouble, but the option is on unless you know to look ant turn it off".

Go look, thousands of artists have been leaving Adobe lately because of those bad practices.

So many companies have done this too. So shady of them opting users in, and then they find out later after the fact.  Even LinkedIn did this (what do they even need it for there?).  Ive seen ClipStudioPaint has a feature that lets you connect to existing server.  Its a but complicated and takes a lot of time to learning how to get it to do what you want it to do.

Would personally not want to see Poser go that route and getting tangled in the mess.

Not sure why the image disappeared from the previous post.  Think the forum is bugging out

Uncanny_Film posted at 11:14 AM Wed, 14 August 2024 - #4488378

Thanks everyone I think I got it now.

I do have one question. It gets a little tedious if you have multiple magnets. So is there a way to have multiple zones associated with just one magnet so I can have them all have the same settings?

Thanks

Ah sorry. didnt get notification for any replies.  But yea, what primoge sald.

As far as I know there isn't any easy way to do something like that.  It def gets a little tedious to manage all the mags. 
This isn't want you asked, but one little thing i like to do just to help a tiny bit is move the Mag under the Mag base in Hierarchy just so its 1 less thing to have to move around.



If you really wanted to go through the work (which doesn't seem worth it to me...but whos to stop you :D)  you could try to setup something with dependencies (if you right click any dial) and have like 1 master magnet and make it so any time you move one of its parameters, it would also change on the other magnets.  But you would literally have to set this up for every single dial on every magnet.  In most cases its better to just get used to mags and how they work and make the best of it, even as tedious as it seems.   Its still a lot of work to set the mags up for every scene you animate, but Ive found that it often gets done faster by just doing the work instead of spending time trying to come up with work-arounds.  Work-arounds are great though if you can find one that efficient.  This is something I learned working with (and I say this without a doubt) the greatest Poser animator to ever walk the planet. 

primorge posted at 10:40 AM Wed, 14 August 2024 - #4488376

I did however see something strange in ShaneNewville's post about using magnets in your other thread, a few parameters in the Other parm group that are curious. Then again I don't use magnets very often and am only a novice Poser animator, might be relevant, might not...

Those Mag dials affect how much influence each magnet has over it.  They automatically appear on anything that has been added to a magnet.

This isn't perfect, but magnets can go a long way for this sort of thing, especially if the focus is more for cinematic type scenes rather than trying to have a perfectly functioning rig.

For this i setup a series of magnets rotated opposite directions and have the snake pass through the zones.

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nerd posted at 3:41 PM Sat, 10 August 2024 - #4488284

The old activation system was run by Nalperion and we dropped it because it was expensive and getting more expensive every year. Yes it had cool features but I don't want Poser users paying more for features they really don't want. There's also the trust issue with 3rd parties having access to user data. The current system is simpler yes but it's also entirely in-house.

It does have a grace period but it's limited and it's also silent. We can probably add a warning that it's running out of time to refresh the activation.

Oh i see.  Yea having a 3rd party does raise some security concerns.  I think the biggest problem is the surprise when its at the worst time (no internet access). Some kind of warning would be nice, esp for newcomers who are not aware of it yet.

"Umm sorry, to me that is a dumb point/argument"

Its fine to disagree and communicate that, but please do so respectfully.  The people running things have a lot on their shoulders and have to make big decisions.   We can discuss hot topics like scholars and philosophers right? 

Let me share an insane example of what I'm grateful Poser does not do:
Clip Studio Paint gives zero grace period.  No internet, no service. Instant loss of access for the perpetual license.  So even though its popular, think twice about making that your tool of choice for art or textures if you plan to get work done on vacation or while traveling.  You'll be out of luck.

But back to Poser I do have to wonder what the reason was for dropping the old activation method.   We used be able to login, see a list of machines Poser was activated on and it prevented too many activations if any attempts were made.  Did something happen?  Was it not enough?   But also if that's not something to discuss publicly for security reasons i understand.

If I had one request (while the current method is present), it would be for the default period be extended to 1 month
But additionally, if Poser has not been booting up at all within that period, may at least give 24 hours to find a spot to connect to before completely cutting it off.

MoNeart posted at 10:06 PM Wed, 31 July 2024 - #4487926

I opened a support ticket, they changed my offline duration to 1 year or something to help keep this from happening again.

nice nice.  I wonder why its not this way from the get go.  I just got the popup again when I tried to work offline in Poser 12. haha.  Its only been a few days ( maybe about a week. )

Its kind of sad that legitimate users are the ones that have to deal with it.

MoNeart posted at 1:10 PM Tue, 2 July 2024 - #2988380

And was looking forward to digging into Poser 13. Except I guess I had not opened it in a while and saw this error. No internet on Avelo airlines...

I hate software that does this, for precisely this reason. I think I will stick with Blender.

Ahh.  yea.  Wish they'd do away with that method.  Ive had this happen in times of need too.   That's why I always keep a copy of Poser 2014 or Poser Pro 7 on hand