EasyPose Underground 2 has arrived.

EasyPose Underground 2 
Price: $64.95 reduced to $59.95 until the end of the month.

EasyPose Underground 2 upgrade from EasyPose Underground 1
Price: $32.95 reduced to 26.95 until the end of the month.

A free demo version is available at the bottom of either of the linked pages (under "Additional Notes")

Features:

• Comprehensive help files, including “What’s this?” help, which allows you to click on a control to find out what it does and get tips on how to use it.
• Set up dial groups however you want them, using a combination of drag and drop and right click menu operations. You can create new groups, move dials between groups, sort dials or groups alphabetically, nest groups inside each other etc. Best of all, once you have one body part how you want it, you can use the right click menu to copy the arrangement of dials or groups or both from one body part to all the other body parts. Also, when you rename a group which has counterparts in other body parts, EasyPose Underground will offer to change the names of the counterparts to match.
• Adjust body part properties in multiple body parts at one time. Supported properties include show/hide, bend on/off, selectable on/off, shadow casting on/off, polygon smoothing on/off, shading rate and crease angle.
• Choose a dial and adjust the properties of same-named dials in multiple body parts at a time. Supported properties include dial name, memorised value, show/hide, normal/forced limits, set minimum, set maximum, set dial sensitivity.
• Use the rapid renamer for even faster renaming of rotation, translation and scale dials across multiple body parts, using international resource names that will display in the same language as a user’s copy of Poser.
• Set up EasyPose in a flash, with full control of what dials are included, what names you give them and how responsive they are. Two new, Dependent Parameter only, dial types are included. Existing EasyPose set-ups can be removed or overwritten.
• Create, edit and remove master-slave relationships (both ERC and Dependent Parameter) using a range of tools, from the simple to the powerful. Relationships can be created across multiple body parts at a time. Dependent Parameter keys can be calculated using a formula, imported from a text or csv file (which could be created in most spreadsheet programs) or entered by hand.
• When you’ve set up master-slave relationships in one side of a figure, use the Symmetrical Slavery tool to copy them to the other side.
• Use the Slave Liberator to find out what master-slave relationships exist in a figure and to remove or edit them as you see fit.
• Add or delete dials and move them up or down the dial stack.
• Set up geometry switching (as found in the Dystopia City Blocks or Anton’s “Changing” figures) as simply as opening the obj files you want to add.
• A range of new ease-of-use features have been added, including autosizing of windows to fit your screen size, support for compressed files and fast body part selection tools that work on body part names or body part hierarchy. 

In case you don't notice them, those underlined product names above each price line are the links to the product pages.

Here's the EasyPose Panel.  Don't be alarmed by all those options.  Most of the time you only need to worry about the three body part dropdowns at the bottom and the GO button, but when you do want to change something, the options are there for you to do it.  And you can always get back to the default options using the "Reset Factory" item in the options menu.  You can even save your own customised options for later use first.

This is the panel for managing (i.e. creating, deleting, moving etc) dials in your figure and also for working with ERC or the new Poser 7 Dependent Parameters.  Notice the "What's This?" Help button.  Click on that and then click a control to find out what it does and get some tips on using it.

With this panel, you can adjust the properties of body parts or dials, but not just one body part at a time, like in Poser.  With EasyPose Underground you can select as many body parts as you like and change all of them at once.

Of course, just selecting all those body parts can be a pain in itself, so with EasyPose Underground you can do things like type in a few letters (eg. "tail") and select all body parts with that sequence of letters in their name.  You can also use the hierarchical selector shown above.

Managing dial groups and making them look neat and tidy can be done in a fraction of the time using the Dial Groups tool.  Drag and drop or use the right-click menu.  Once you have one group or body part how you want it, you can use it as a model for all of the other body parts, so you get a tidy, consistent group layout across the whole figure.

If you change the name of a group, EasyPose Underground will check to see if any other body parts have a group with the same name and ask you if you'd like all of them changed at once.

If you're working on a symmetrical figure, there's no need to set up your master-slave relationships on both sides.  Just set them up on one side and use the Symmetrical Slavery Tool to copy them across.  (Thanks to all the users who requested this tool - good call on your part!)

Adding switching geometries, like the city blocks in the Dystopia series, or the old "Changing" products from Anton, is very simple with the Switching Geometry Tool.

Poser 7's new Dependent Parameters have been given strong support in EasyPose Underground.  For the mathematically minded, you can create them using a forumla.  You can even use a body part's position in the sequence of body parts you are enslaving as a variable in the formula.

But you don't have to be a maths wiz.  Setting up Dependent Parameters can be as simple as entering the keys into the interface.  You can also load your keys from a text file or a csv file, which means you can prepare them in your favourite spreadsheet or word processor.

So what are these "Dependent Parameters" about anyway?  Dependent Parameters allow you to control complex motions from a single dial.  One of their best uses is going to be for joint controlled morphs, but  I like using them for motions like the one above.  That animation is done with just one dial and two key frames.  That particular motion comes as a pre-programmed option in EasyPose Underground.

Could you give us some more visual examples of what this application does?

It looks interesting, but all those screen shots are giving me mental indigestion.

:)

It's a difficult thing to illustrate visually.  Essentially, if you make Poser figures then there are all sorts of jobs you have to do before your figure is ready for distribution.  This application aims to provide a fast and easy way to do a lot of the jobs that are usually slow and very tedious.  

A lot of the features are designed to do things you would normally only be able to do by opening the figure file in a text editor and writing code yourself.   Some of those jobs are simple enough for anybody that's happy to look at a figure file in a text editor, but some are things that many people would prefer not to even know how to do, let alone have to actually do them.  A few of the jobs EasyPose Underground can do with a couple of mouse clicks are jobs that would normally involve writing literally thousands of lines of code into a figure file.

I'd call it a recommended tool for almost anybody who makes Poser figures.  For people who don't make Poser figures, there'd be no point at all in having it.

 

Nice additions to an already great application, to me the best that I have purchased here.Heading for the update page now!

Thanks, Posermatic :-)

This is an indispensible tool for content creators. I've used this utility ever since the early days and it's helped me progress my own models in terms of functionality.
Although I now count myself as an experienced modeller there is now way I could manually edited Poser files  to introduce easi-pose but also the numerous dial setting processes that have to be undertaken to get a model ready for market. 
EPU has literally saved me hundreds of hours of hand editing with a logical and reliable functionality.

With this new upgrade Ajax has added some pretty neat functionality that speeds tasks even more (check out the new symettry options) Also he's tackled some of the really cool new features of P6/P7 such as morph dial grouping and the even more exciting  non-linear morph application (dependant parameters) This is a difficult concept but basically allows morphs to behave in a non-linear way _ so for example a 'breathe' morph could go through a full cycle of inflate/deflate as the dial is turned in one direction. We are just begiining to work out ways of using this tecnique!
Be ahead of the game with this utility!

Noggin

This is a great program that I am just begining to scratch the surface of. My latest figures' movement was expanded thanks to this amazing software. Highly recommended.