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Hope you're all doing good, and so far I've gotten tons of help here in these forums, so I'll ask another question -- my new question for the night is:

I'm working on a new scene in Poser, using some free downloads here, and RPublishing's Tycoon office -- I'm making a liquor tray to place on the conference table, and a circle of glasses around the tray. I've done the tray and glasses in another work space, and open up my "Tycoon Office" is there any way to import that tray as a set so I don't have to move each and every indiividual prop to its proper place? I don't mind moving the whole set, but to move a tray, 8 glasses, 5 bottles, 2 ash trays is a little time consuming, LOL.

The link shows the glasses and tray I have from a free prop set I found in the library, hoping someone can help me out here....

Thanks for your input, I appreciate it in advance --

What you could do is parent all those things you mentioned to the tray. When you grab and move the tray, everything else goes with it ;). To parent something, select each thing in turn, go to the items properties panel, and on the second tab (Properties), there is a button to parent the object. Press that button and find the tray in the list. Do that to each item in turn and from then on, just grab the tray and move it and all the rest will follow. If you move one of the other items, they will still move on their own if you select them should you need to adjust them.

Laurie

Thanks Laurie!  I appreciate it -- kinda late, so I'll try it first thing in the morning and let you know how it goes -- I knew the function had to be there some where, just couldn't find it :-)

Hi, if you get advanced figure manager for runtimedna you can easily parent everything eg to the drinks tray or to a ball which you can later make invisible.  No matter how many things you have in your scene this usually only takes me less than a minute (usually only a few seconds) using this python script.

Then open your conference rooms scene and import the first poser scene, then move the drink stuff into position by  moving the item that you have parented everything to.  sometimes it is easy to do this by moving in the top camera view first.

sometimes you can do this by seeing what position the table is in and copy and paste it's parameters to the thing that you parented everything to (doesn't always work because sometimes things aren't really zero when all the dials say they are etc.)

love esther

Would "Collect Scene Inventory" do something similar? I believe it saves the select objects out as a PZ3 - textures and all - which could then import into a scene any old time you want. Is that right? Admitedly, I don't have cause to use the feature so I may be remembering incorrectly but that may be an alternative worth looking at.

Collect Scene Inventory wouldn't really be useful for this. It collects everything in a scene into one directory for packaging into a zip file. It has nothing to do with saving a PZ3 itself.

As everyone has said, Use the tray as your parent and parent the rest of the props to the tray for easy group movement. I suggest deleting all the lights or they will get added to your next scene when you import the props.pz3 file. Then Save the PZ3 with the tray, bottles and glasses. Now you're ready to open your office scene. Open it and then go to File>Import>Poser Document and import the PZ3 of the tray and glasses that you just saved. Since they're all parented to the tray now you simply move the tray to the tabletop or location of your choice and all the rest of the props will follow.

Some tips on parenting multiple objects. Learn to use the Heirarchy Editor Window. You can click on an object name and drag it to another object name to parent via drag and drop. The only thing quicker is the python script method already mentioned.

Quote - Hey everybody -- Hope you're all doing good, and so far I've gotten tons of help here in these forums, so I'll ask another question -- my new question for the night is:

I'm working on a new scene in Poser, using some free downloads here, and RPublishing's Tycoon office -- I'm making a liquor tray to place on the conference table, and a circle of glasses around the tray. I've done the tray and glasses in another work space, and open up my "Tycoon Office" is there any way to import that tray as a set so I don't have to move each and every indiividual prop to its proper place? I don't mind moving the whole set, but to move a tray, 8 glasses, 5 bottles, 2 ash trays is a little time consuming, LOL.

The link shows the glasses and tray I have from a free prop set I found in the library, hoping someone can help me out here....

Thanks for your input, I appreciate it in advance --

This is a bit different to grouping things for importing to a new scene. You can do all the parenting that the above posters suggested, but for importing them together as one item, I would make a scene with just those items in it, no lights, other actors (figures) or anything else - and of course grouped as you wish them to be - and save as pz3.

Then, to use the whole set in another scene, just do a:

File -> Import -> Poser Document/Prop and import this pz3.

Another solution...

Parent all items to the tray using the Hierarchy Editor as described by SteveJax,
select the tray and add to your Props library.
In the save dialog click the subset button and select all items you want to save in this group.
Now you can add the whole set to your scene like any other prop from the library without worrying about importing lights or any other elements that may be included when saving a pz3.

or,  :idea:   

an untested idea-

assign them all to a bone in the setup room.  and then use D3D's figure to prop pythie on it.

Thanks everyone for these ideas -- I'm trying this out now, will let you know how everything works. Hoping I'll accomplish an easy move -- It's just a hassle to have to move all those small items in place individually, trying to avoid that if I can.....:-).

I'm open to ideas as to where this scene can take me as well -- I call it "The Hit" based off a 1930s mob style film (Stills right now, no animating yet), where I downloaded a free bakery shoppe for it to be the target of the scheme.

Will keep you all posted on how I make out....;-)

I would be really unhappy with poser i I didn't have advanced figure management.  It is really easy with this utility.  It loads instantly and a whole room full of things can be instantly parented to something, then when you save the scene and import it into another scene you can move it to where you want it all to be.

There is also grouping in advanced figure manager so you can actually put everything in your scene then move stuff around later if you want.

Love esther

parent everything to the tray, then save the prop to the library, using the subset button to select the entire set. When you load it all the props will load parented to the tray.

well, my idea was silly.  can't port more than one object at a time to the Setup room.

wasn't there a way to create a figure by importing a text file, ph something?  there was something about it in the P5 secrets book

The DAZ V/M4 figures use readScript lines to hierarchically import all of the morph addon components into a .cr2 file.

It actually makes a very neat system for propagating changes to a base figure, such as new morphforms into a library of variously clothed characters. If each of the figure library files just consists of readScript lines pointing to each character to be included, changes to that character automatically propagate to each file that includes (readScripts) it, without having to manually load the changed figure, load and conform all the clothing then re-save it to the library. The readScript files are also very small (1-5kb) compared to several Mb when saved back to the library by Poser.