I can't find anywhere where chain breaks are enumerated within the CR2 file. Of course, it's easy to miss subtle hints (Poser's favorite way) on 1MB and larger files. :) Will keep looking while awaiting a response. Thanks, Kuroyume

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I think that now I can answer my own question. :) Chain Breaks are controlled by JointMult in the twist/joint channels. You will find that comparing a non-broken actor against a chain-broken actor shows that JointMult is removed in at least one JP channel. Also, as a consequence one would imagine, so are any doBulge and related statements.

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Nope, the chain break is "dynamicsLock", to turn the chain break off (off is the default state) use "dynamicsLock 0" to turn it on use "dynamicsLock 1". I'm not sure what "JointMult" is.

Attached above is the text of a pz2 (pose) file to turn the chain break on for standard actors.

Obviously jointMult is part of it since it and doBulge DO disappear with dynamicsLock 1. I didn't look quite hard enough, so thanks for the help! :) Poser files are definitely subtle and ungangly redundant monstrosities.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

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"Ungangly"? What a beautiful word! Biggest shame with chainbreak is that you can't use it on IK chains. Wouldn't it be perfect if you could stop an IK chain say halfway along its length for a multi-jointed model? .. you could produce beautiful S curves. Just a thought.

Attached Link: http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff

There is a free file comparison utility called ExamDiff. It's very handy for figuring out what things in the Poser interface do at script level. For example save a pz3 (scene) with Chain Break off, then turn Chain Break on for one actor and save another pz3. Compair them in ExamDiff to see what changes Poser made to the code.