randym77 posted at 4:53PM Thu, 03 December 2020 - #4406312

They're not running it on a tablet. The question is about using Poser with a Wacom tablet.

Yes, I'm using a Wacom tablet with my MacBook Pro running Mojave. The graph window that pops up with a double click was a "feature" introduced by Smith Micro, but they didn't make it optional despite the fact that you always have to click on a frame twice to move it: once to select it, then click and drag to move it. Unless you pause briefly after the initial click, Poser interprets a double click and up pops a graph window. It's a constant nuisance that limits how fast you can work, and with my Wacom a single click is often interpreted as a double, so I'm getting graph windows when all I want to do is select a keyframe and adjust a slider. As mentioned above, none of my other apps have this problem with the tablet.

Hey akura_, the layer system isn’t complicated but like Richard said, it’s buggy. You can option/drag frames in a layer to duplicate them, but not copy and paste (try it and Poser will probably crash). Using layers slows down Poser considerably on my computer, so I only use them to accomplish a task then collapse layers when I’m happy with the result. For instance, I might make a character breath in the base layer (keyframe a single breathe then copy and paste every 100 to 200 frames) and then create a separate layer (set to add mode) and add a few spline keyframes to modulate the base layer, making each breath a different intensity.

Use the Animation Palette to keyframe any parameter. Also, open up a Graph window for the parameter you're editing and you'll have a visual display of the keyframes and the tweening between them.

I just tried your script "sparsifier-mac.py" on my Mac (Poser 11.3.818) and it worked perfectly. The ability to remove all unneeded/unwanted keyframes has been on my wish list a long time...if only I'd known! I'll be testing the others I downloaded but they don't have "mac" indicated in the names–are they PC only?

Here's an update: I received a suggestion from Bondware to check permissions. Changing permissions for "everyone" from "Read only" to "Read and Write" did the trick and now everything works as it should. For some reason it had defaulted to "Read only" after updating to Bondware's version.

jennblake posted at 11:53AM Mon, 31 August 2020 - #4398233

Anytime anyone needs a previous serial number they can contact the admin@posersoftware.com address or the store@posersoftware.com address and we can help locate those for you. We do have those records.

If you are having technical issues as described above, please submit a support ticket HERE and they can help you with that.

Thank you, Jenn. I've submitted another ticket describing the technical issues. Hope I have better luck than I did submitting a ticket to ask for my serial number and being told to ask Smith Micro.

Rhia474 posted at 12:36PM Sat, 30 November 2019 - #4371782

Forgive the question of the ignorant. What is MMD?

I think it's a Japanese animation app.

I'd really like to not have a graph window open up because I didn't wait long enough to drag a keyframe after selecting it and it's interpreted as a double-click. Why isn't the double-click "feature" optional? Having to hesitate after selecting a keyframe slows me down considerably, and having to close graph windows slows me down even more.

In the Hierarchy Editor it's way too easy to accidentally parent something when I'm just turning things on and off. Why not require a modifier key to parent? Or make parenting objects that way optional?

I don't care nearly as much about new features as I do improving the usability of existing ones. For instance, if I don't wait long enough to start typing a file name after clicking Make Movie, and the name includes a letter used as a keyboard shortcut, it actually cancels the export and applies the keyboard shortcut instead!

It works the other way around, obviously (selecting a parameter in the Animation Palette also selects it in the Parameters Palette) so at the very least it should be an option in preferences. It's actually a bit ridiculous to select a parameter to edit, and then have to track it down again in the Animation Palette to keyframe it.

As a non-programmer, non-3D expert, I'm curious why clothes not designed for specific figures (or in my experience, sometimes even clothes that are designed for specific figures) have to be adjusted with morphs at all. Is it technically not possible to automate this so that conforming clothing will never intersect the underlying mesh, whether it's the figure or another item of clothing?

Richard60: We appear to have hijacked this thread, but you should definitely cc all this information to Bondware.

Richard60: I see what you mean now. I wasn't aware there were bugs with layers in the graph editor. Working with layers slows down my system so I only use them for things like eye blinks and turns, or adding subtle random motion to a figure animated in the base layer, and I don't edit with graphs because displaying long animations is a challenge for my 2013 MacBook Pro, judging from the screen lag when I move a keyframe. I'd really like to be able to select a keyframe(s) and move it around with the arrow keys. Even changing the magnification requires excessive click and dragging. A few presets for 25, 50 and 75 percent magnification would be nice. Working with the animation palette can be tedious too, having to select a keyframe, pause to avoid a double click that opens a graph (I use a pen tablet and this happens constantly) then click and drag to move it. I'd like to at least have the option to quickly click and drag a keyframe with a modifier key. Scrolling through hundreds of parameters takes up too much time as well. Parameters can be removed, one at a time, but I think what's really needed is a filter like the Hierarchy Editor has, so you can hide figures, lights, cameras and props, and also parameters by category (translation, rotation, scale, morphs). I've had Poser for about six years and only dabbled with it until the past year when I started doing character animation. I'm happy with what it lets me do but constantly annoyed that I can't work more efficiently.

Richard60: The problem you’ve described in the first paragraph is caused by the Sensitivity value in the Parameter Settings. If you change it to zero, keyframes will be added at zero relative to the existing values, as shown on the right. The slight bump goes away when you change to linear. I'm not sure I understand the rest of your comment. The start and end keyframes are at zero, relative to what's below.

Good luck making it work with layers. Attempting to paste keyframes into a layer can make Poser crash. You can't apply "Resample Key Frames" or "Retime Animation" independently of the base either. I'd be happy with a script that just reverses the selected keyframes on the base, and Collapse All first if needed.

Trying to reverse a layer that's in add mode might be asking too much, unless there are already keyframes at the beginning and end of the selection to be reversed. For example, reversing a selection from this layered animation would require adding keyframes to the layer, and that would change the spline.

In the left screenshot, the base layer is selected. In the right screenshot, layer 1 is selected. The black line is the two layers added together.

Working with layers in the Animation Palette is super frustrating. I don't know why they hobbled it by making it impossible to copy keyframes from layer to layer, or even from one element to another within the same layer. All you can do is make new keyframes and option-drag to duplicate them. Also, the inability to collapse a single layer doesn't make sense. There is a workaround if you don't mind deleting all layers but the one you want to collapse, collapse it, copy the resulting merged keyframes and then paste them back into the base layer of the original.

I suspect problems with layers in Add mode are caused by conflicts with the Min Limit and Max Limit values in Parameter Settings. As mentioned in a comment above, the settings affect existing animation. You can fix spline overshoot by changing the values, sort of like compressing or limiting audio. For example, here's an animation with keyframes set at -5 and +5, with spline overshoot caused by moving the two middle keyframes closer together.

Changing the Min Limit to -5 and Max Limit to 5 with "Force Limits" selected flattens any value exceeding the limit and adds a representative black line, as shown below. Any keyframe with a value between 5 and -5 is unaffected. This is non-destructive, so you can always go back.

Here's the same animation with the Min and Max Limits changed to 2 and -2. This time all the keyframe values get changed and the overshoot is flattened as well. The flattening can still be removed by increasing the Min and Max Limit, but you can't Undo the change to the keyframes.

Here's another animation with keyframes set at -9, +9, -7, +7, -5, +5, -3, +3, -1 and +1.

And here's what it looks like after changing the Min and Max Limits to +4 and -4. Any keyframe values exceeding the new limits are changed. The rest are unaffected.

The graph can be confusing when working with layers, partly because the display doesn't update when you select or deselect "Include in playback" or change Composite Method (Add and Replace). To refresh the display, select a different layer and then reselect the one you're working on. The red line represents the currently selected layer. The black line represents a composite of all the layers that have "Include in playback" checked. Unlike with the base layer, changing Min and Max Limits doesn't change keyframe values, it just flattens non-destructively the same way spline overshoot is flattened.