Forum: Poser Technical


Subject: Need a bit of help with adding duplicate trans dials

maclean opened this issue on Apr 09, 2003 ยท 5 posts


maclean posted Wed, 09 April 2003 at 2:25 PM

I need to Xtrans several figures, but leave them zeroed in poser, so I figured I'd just add a new Xtrans dial to the cr2, type in the trans value to the old one and hide it. The problem is this. I also need to affect the unhidden, zeroed trans dial with MATs (or SETs or whatever the hell you want to call them). For some reason, I can't get it to work at all. I've added/hidden new dials before with no problem, but this time it ain't working and I don't know why. Could it be because I'm working with BODY and not a body part? I have to do this with BODY in order for the SETs to work with any figure. What happens is, if I leave Xtrans2 unhidden in the cr2, I don't see it in poser. How come??? Any ideas? mac PS Please don't suggest alternatives like using 'Memorize' or anything else. I HAVE to do it this way. The alternative is to rebuild 5 figures, moving the parts one by one. Unattractive, to say the least.


lesbentley posted Thu, 10 April 2003 at 3:03 PM

I just tried adding an extra translateX channel to the body of a morph striped P4NW, both translateX channels worked fine. Perhaps you made some typo? You did remember to to give the new channel a new name on its FIRST line didnt you? e.g translateX xtran2 { name xtran2 not translateX xtran { name xtran2


lesbentley posted Thu, 10 April 2003 at 3:40 PM

I just tried hiding the new translateX channel, and moving the figure by applying a pose to the hidden channel, that worked as well. P.S. "MATs (or SETs or whatever the hell you want to call them)." I tend to call them "pose files" or "pz2's", but if I really want to impress someone I call them "code injection poses" ;)


maclean posted Fri, 11 April 2003 at 2:55 PM

Thanks les, Yes, I did rename both first and second, but I think you're right about the typo. I just re-did it and it works. Go figure. I thought it was weird that such a simple thing was giving me problems... MATs or SETs I swiped the name 'SETs' from dodger and am using it in the vain hope that it might become a standard for pose files which alter position, scale, rotation, etc, as opposed to MATerial files or Poses Of course, people keep calling them MATs anyway.... mac


maclean posted Fri, 11 April 2003 at 5:34 PM

Doh! I set the k value (in keys) to -0.349, but then set force limits to 4 and min/max to 0 (instead of -0.349). That'll teach me to double-check. mac