I'm betting this has been discovered already but, if not, if you ever want to lock a morph target dial to one value and prevent pose files from changing the value (have character with a slight smile all the time for example), just set the dials min and max values to the value you want. Setting them both to 1 will lock that dial to 1 for example.

And don't forget to set Force Limits to 4, too. ;-)

Or set the attribute hidden 1, then you can modify the dials with other morhs but not manually

It would be hndy though if they just included a checkbox by the dial for locking a morph or scale or bend, twist, etc. Maybe that could be a new feature of Poser 7. smile KTHUD! Oh...I'm sorry. Did I drop that hint?smile

Thanks Mason, those kinds of tips are always very welcome I think. Now if you knew how I could manage the mess I get when trying to work with a haf dozen or more magnets on a head... :)

momodot- What mess? And why so many magnets? Can't you just make the head into a morph target after you're done setting it up?

I still use the P4 figures and the morphs are limited... if I try to sculpt a new head incrementally I end up with all sorts problems with morphs canceling out or adding up so instead I end up with a bunch of overlapping magnets I have to play with until I spawn a complete morph of the full changes. I wish I could have a magnet whose zone and base were just part of it, chanels rather than seperate props... then it would be more like a tool... I had misunderstood the putty tool to be a mesh manipulating tool rather than just a channel spin interface that depends on existing morphs. I wish I could have a "figure" that had magnets as it's body parts since keeping track of magnet 1, 2, 3 etc. and their parts is agrivating and naming them a drag - the naming is a hassle with work on the full body too. I wish I could use an outside modeling program but I just have no ability... the ones that come closest to the magnet work method I can understand do not run on my video card. It seems I can only sculpt with Poser primatives and magnets since I understand the Poser interface but have tried at least a half dozen moders without being able to understand any of them. I was sorely disapointed to buy Metaforms python only to find the edge artifact makes it pretty useless for building props. But this post makes me wonder... could I make a bunch of mesh deform morphs with magnets area by area specifically to use with the Putty tool? Would this work even with high density mesh primatives? On a head it might be worth the work. This has never occured to me. Well, these are my problems, sorry for hijacking the thread.