Hi all! Right, here's a wee question... For the sake of arguement, pretend I've been using Poser for a coupla years now, have a fair idea how to use it, but am NOT a programmer... I'm currently learning British Sign Language, and recently heard that someone had written a Python Script to make "signs". Now, I've no idea what Python Scripts are, what they do, or how to make them myself. Would it be possible for someone to explain this to me without making me feel like a chimp? I've already used Poser to make one sign language animation, but I did the whole thing by hand (pardon the pun), frame by frame. Does Python scripting somehow speed this process up, or am I thinking along the wrong lines...? Thanks loads! :-) - Hairy

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Warning: general but opinionated runon sentences next If you found the means by which you implemented your project from within the running application to be satisfactory, but tedious, due to the fact you merely repeated the same actions, with only slight changes to specific values, then it would appear that the process is open to some form of "templating" or automation. If such is the case, from my understanding, the purpose of python "scripting" is to assist you in speeding up and/or reducing required effort for the process. Then again, you may consider the possibility, that the application itself, which is designed with a specific solution in mind (+- gimmicks), may not necessarily provide the best means by which to complete a required task, and alternates should be explored. Note: *dated experience limited to two day span of python experimentation, and four month poser usage *dated experience of sign language and relevant models of, limited to above python experience less two day span -smokingbevel

Thanks for the illuminating explanation ... ockham There may be a way to make it easier but takes some effort to set up . First break up the different Poses for keyframing in ASL/BSL by body sections ... eg rUpperLimb, lUpperLimb, torso, head, hands, and so on ... Then pose and save into the Pose library ... using save subselection and selecting only the relevant body parts (save as single pose or animation). You'll have to devise a meaningful system of labelling ... eg lArmSwingFront, rArmThrustUp, lHandOpen and so on . The poses can be adjusted, eg to use pose/animation with interpolation or relabeled and evolved over time . At some point, python can be used to combine and sequence these actions by its loadlibrary function, and drive the animation thru a 'meaning' based interface . That would be comparatively easy as most of the work would have been done in the library .