templargfx opened this issue on Dec 30, 2006 ยท 10 posts
templargfx posted Sat, 30 December 2006 at 7:12 AM
I thought it would be nice if we could all share 1 tip/process that we use everyday in poser that makes your poser life just that little bit better.
Obviously the number 1 obvious tip would be to save often, Poser is a tempermental beast at the best of times, but this is not the type of tip I mean, more of those things that may or may not be simple but something that others might not know, like my number 1 tip below!
Templars Number One tip
The Hierarchy Editor. Most people probably dont use this (or even know its there LOL) I really use the hierarchy editor for one purpose alone, to hide entire groups of objects at once (and to unhide them!)
Take this for example :
You have just spent hours posing V3 adding and tweaking clothes, hair, jewelry, shoes and whatnot when you realise theres a problem with your background. Problem is, V3 and all her livelry take an inordanitely long time to render, making testing any background changes a long and ardous task. Its not really feasible to select and hide every single V3 object (body, legs, fingers, toes, eyes etc).
Jump into the Hierarchy Editor (found under the View Menu) and hold ALT and click on Victoria 3. TADA all of V3 is now hidden, a few more ALT-Clicks to hide the clothes and other bits and bobs on the list, and all you have left is the background.
This saves me no measure of time just in the test rendering phase, as I can hide and unhide different parts of the scene to test them by themselves!
so, theres mine, a simple tip, but one I cannot live without, what is yours?
TemplarGFX
3D Hobbyist since 1996
I use poser native units