or is this just for CHARACTERS?

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Yes, you can.   The result doesn't always look the way you think it
should, but it does taper in the chosen direction.

I remember the original P4.0 props actually contained taper
dials that were hidden.  Looking now at my P4PP, I don't
see any taper, so maybe I'm remembering falsely!

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Looked back on P4.0, and didn't find any of those props with built-in taper dials.  Guess those must have been non-standard.

At any rate, just to prove the point, here's a P7 cylinder with a 
TaperY paragraph pasted from a figure. 

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Thanks!
Where'd you grab the info from? Leg? Arm?

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It was from an inanimate figure.  I don't think it really matters 
where it's from ... the lines are pretty much the standard 
boilerplate for any parameter.

        taperY taperY
            {
            name taperY
            initValue 0
            hidden 0
            forceLimits 0
            min -100000
            max 100000
            trackingScale 0.04
            keys
                {
                static  0
                k  0  0
                }
            interpStyleLocked 0
            }

For the other directions, just change taperY to taperX or taperZ.

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Attached Link: Props can taper, too!

Here's an earlier thread on the same subject - starring ockham, maybe unsurprisingly. Think of it as a dire warning, if nothing else. :)

Yeah, that was when I was trying to build everything from
primitives.  I gave up that habit shortly thereafter, and bit the
Amapi bullet.

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