Just butting my horns against a long-term Poser problem in the latest Poser release (Pro 2012). With virtually every Poser version I've tried and failed to simulate gravity on various items (earrings, ponytails, etc.) using a deformer whose magnet prop is pointed at a dummy prop (I call it a Nadir, being the opposite of zenith) situated at a large negative Y translation.

Placing the deformer base at the origin of the desired rotation, but rotated to aim the magnet deformer at the nadir in the default position, then setting the Point at attribute of the magnet to aim at the nadir certainly results in the magnet deformer pointing at the nadir no matter what the orientation of the actor the deformer base is parented to, yet the actor is never deformed unless the relevant rotations are manually dialled into the magnet deformer.

To me, this says that the magnet deformations are only being based on the dial settings of the magnet prop, not its Point-at rotated values which seem to be completely inaccessible to the Poser interface unless extracted by using Python scripting to interrogate the actual World-Transformed attitude of the magnet deformer. If these Point-at rotations were available within the Poser interface it would then become possible, via ERC-style dependencies, to apply rotation limits in the slave rotation channels, thus preventing hair or jewelry from rotating into the head or neck of the parent figure under the influence of the Point-at rotations which notoriously ignore such limits.

I know I can achieve the desired final result by using the setup room and bone tools and turning hair & jewelry props into actors, but I'm really just looking for a quick prototyping solution to determine whether it's worth the effort. I certainly don't want to have to keyframe hundreds or thousands of deformer rotations (though I have in the past).

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