Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Mirroring Parameter Dials

cainbrogan opened this issue on Feb 05, 2003 ยท 6 posts


cainbrogan posted Wed, 05 February 2003 at 6:36 PM

I'm working on M2, V2 and Stephanie, nudging each parameter dial a bit at a time. This is fun, but I ca'nt understand why, after I've spent an hour on a body part, I ca'nt set the opposite body part to just mirror the new settings? = )


gryffnn posted Wed, 05 February 2003 at 9:33 PM

Assuming that the morphs have the same internal (not just dial) names, you can copy/paste the values from one to the other. Select the body part, Edit/Copy or Control/Command-C, then select the opposite body part and paste. You may have to change the sign of some values positive to negative or vice-versa, and some degrees of rotation might need to be mirrored. HTH, Elisa/gryffnn


ronstuff posted Wed, 05 February 2003 at 10:23 PM

Poser does have some limited symmetry tools in the >Figure>Symmetry drop list. You can also use the keyboard Ctrl C and Ctrl V to copy and past from one panel to another, but when reversing sides like mirroring, you need to apply negative values. Also if you use copy/paste from one figure to another be sure your PARAMETER DIAL LIST is selected before doing it.

_dodger posted Thu, 06 February 2003 at 8:46 AM

Seems easiet for mirroring one figure from another just to copy the pose, apply it to the new figure, and use Symetry to swap the sides.


cainbrogan posted Thu, 06 February 2003 at 2:14 PM

Thanks for the help, but its not posing I'm trying to do. I'm using MTs to shape the mesh. I was aware of the Symetry option, I just wish it had more functions, like working with MTs and not just the Transorm parameters. = )


gryffnn posted Thu, 06 February 2003 at 4:45 PM

Copy/paste works with morph dial values. I've also pasted them into a text file, then copied all or part in later. Some folks have used it with a database and manipulated the values variously - Elisa/gryffnn