I'm finally getting around to installing Miki into Poser 6.  I've gotten it installed all right. Loads fine.   I've also installed some Miki-specific poses that either came with the promo set, or I picked up somewhere at about that time.

Problem I'm having is - most of the Miki poses have absolute location data in them.  When I apply the pose, the characters all jump to a specific location and orientation, instead of staying where I've placed them.

It's been a while since I've encountered this, and I'm trying to remember if there's a technique or Poser utility that'll strip such data from the files, or will I have to try loading and re-saving all the poses myself? 

Thanks for any suggestions!

leather-guy

Jerry

Apparently you are placing the figure by using the hip XYZ trans.  Try placing the figure by using the BODY actor instead.

You can strip out the XYZ translation info from the hip portion of the pose with a text editor.  If you need an example, let me know.

--Rebekah--

lowpoly - "Apparently you are placing the figure by using the hip XYZ trans.  Try placing the figure by using the BODY actor instead."   -    Erm - Thanks for the thought, but no, I always place figures using the BODY and the dials.  As I said above, it's the commercial pose files that are causing the figure to jump to a  specific location when applied. then I have to move it back via the BODY trans dials.  Frustrating, when the figure jumps into or behind a piece of scenery, and I have to "loft" it high to find it.

Rebekah, thanks for the tip, and I'll probably end up doing that. - I was hoping there was a python script or a Poser Utility that I could run against a library of pose files to strip the XYZ  translations from the Pose Files.  Seems to me I've seen such a thing, but can't recall what was the utility.

I'm "way 'Way 'WAY behind on installing purchases and downloads, and I wanted to clean up all the pose files I'm catching up installing without having to go thru them all trial-and-error or just wait until one of them blindsides me when assembling a scene.

Thanks again.

That would be a great Python Utility! I like stittching animation poses together and it's a royal pain for the figures to jump back to 0,0,0 at frame whatever when you apply a new pose at frame 30+!

As long as you never plan on using her hip translation dials to move her around the scene, you could always edit the CR2 itself and set the limits on those dials to 0, then make the uselImits setting something high like 10. Poses wouldn't be able to budge her.

BTW, I recommend the freeware utility CR2Builder for working with Poser files.