Noggin has a really cool idea of making a script that would go through a crosstalk suffering figure in a scene and adjust all of it's ERC dial names to kill the crosstalk. Does anybody know a way to change the internal names of valueParm dials (or any othe dial for that matter)?

It's easy enough. Do you want an entry blank to specify a new name for each, or an automatic change that adds a standard set of letters to each valueParm?

Attached Link: http://ockhamsbungalow.com/Python/SetInternalNames.zip

Aha! So the command is "SetInternalName". That's very useful. Thanks ockham! I don't have Poser on this machine to try the script but I'll give it a go later on. Glancing through the code it looks exactly like what I was after. Thanks again.

One clarification: in the Readme I gave some stepwise instructions, concluding with "save the new CR2". Obviously you don't really need to do that.... the most likely use for this script would be for -transitory- modifications in a figure.

Hi Ockham_ Ajax alerted me to the fact that you'd come up with this_ I'll download and play with it shortly. Your absolutely right_what I'd wanted was a script that would do it on the fly so, for example, I could load in repeat copies of a bird model_ and change the cross-talk pre-fixes that Ajax's Underground allows you to add, so that each bird would have a different prefix (eg NP1,NP2,NP3)for the various easi-pose dials. I'm off to see if thats what you achieved!! Thanks eversomuch! Nigel/noggin

hhhmmm! Maybe I'm doing something wrong (bear in mind that python=voodoo to me)_ but when I applied the script and added letters in the dialogue box_all that seemed to happen was that all the easi-pose was disabled in the second figure. Help!!!

Hmmm.....Now I stop to think about it for a(nother) moment, if the dial names are changed without the slave references also being changed the ERC links will be broken. The script would need to hunt down the slave dials and change the fourth of the "five magic lines" in the ERC code. I can't see that happening anywhere in the script and I can't off the top of my head think of a way to do it without saving the figure, processing it as text, deleting the copy in the scene and opening the new one. Are you sure this is working, Noggin? I don't have Pro Pack to test with. I have a feeling the time it seemed to work is the one off and your original finding that it destroyed the ERC relationships is what's going to happen normally.

Matching refs: I wondered about that, but wasn't really thinking, just following the original instructions. Fixing the refs would indeed require saving the new figure as CR2 then editing. Python can certainly do that, and it would probably be faster and more reliable than hand-editing.

I've done a more thorough test on your script Okham and can confirm that it DOES work but ONLY when the script is applied BEFORE the next identical figure is imported to the scene. So: If you import Figure(F)1, F2,F3 and then apply the script to each figure, Easi-pose works for F1 but F2 and F3 crosstalk (inspite of having the script applied). If you import F1, apply the script and then import F2 & F3 and then apply the script to F2&F3: F2 functions independently but F3 crosstalks with F2. Finally if you import F1, run script, import F2, run script on it and then import F3 and run script they all work independently. Hope that helps.

Ack. Not owning Pro Pack, there's nothing I can do to test this out myself. Maybe if you save the cr2s back to the library and send them to me I'll be able to work out what's going on. Tell you what though, this is getting interesting. Are you rememebering to change the new text sequence in between figures? I'm guessing maybe the SetInternalName method is smarter than I would have expected (ie it is actually tracking down the slave references) and also there's some small error in the script that results in the dial names being changed the same way when you load multiple figures before applying the script.

ok Ajax_ I'll send you the Cr2's_ I'll e-mail you.

Attached Link: http://ockhamsbungalow.com/python/internalnames2.zip

The four birds in the picture above (rendered in ProPack) all had different three letter sequences added into the prompt line of the script. As you can see they all have different poses (only using master-slave dials). I'll IM you Ockham with a link to my model and you can try and re-produce my success. Nigel

Ok, thanks. This is an unusual reversal..... Most of the time, scripts work fine for me but fail totally when others try them!