Georgous opened this issue on Jul 17, 2003 ยท 5 posts
Georgous posted Thu, 17 July 2003 at 12:48 PM
If i parent a prop to something and save it will it still be parented when i reload it?
Lawndart posted Thu, 17 July 2003 at 12:54 PM
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Hi there, When you save the parented prop you will be prompted to save it as a smart prop. Save it as a smart prop and the parenting information is saved with the prop. Cheers, Joe www.3-AXIS.com
PhilC posted Thu, 17 July 2003 at 12:57 PM
Yes, if you have parented the prop you will get a prompt upon saving to the library to save it as a smart prop. Selecting this option will ensure that when you reload it, it will be parented as before.
A rider to this is that if you save a group of props by using the "Select Subset" option they unfortunately loose their smartness and become dumb. Its a feature of Poser. The only work around is to edit the smartness back in manually in a text editor.
Georgous posted Thu, 17 July 2003 at 1:04 PM
Right on Phil...thanks
lesbentley posted Thu, 17 July 2003 at 6:09 PM
To follow on from PhilC's post, the diffrence between a parented item and smart prop is just one word, "smartparent" as oposed to "parent". You can parent a number of items (say to the head of a figure), save them to a compound pp2, then just open the pp2 in a text editor and replace each instance of the word "parent" with "smartparent".