Hi all,

does anyone have a simple example for an .INJ that contains ERC and that would target the currently selected figure in Poser, avoiding crosstalk issues? I had received tips for leaving out the : qualifier when refering to the master body part, but somehow that wasnt enough. But I saw injections that worked, however they were using subscripts and lots complicated things, so I wondered, mayone someone has a simple plain INJ to do the trick?

Thank you lots

Quote - I had received tips for leaving out the : qualifier when refering to the master body part, but somehow that wasnt enough.

AFAIK (and lesbentley will correct me if I'm wrong) but that's the only way. What may have happened when you thought something worked otherwise, is that you tried on the first figure loaded in a new scene.

Yes, I think you either need to strip the figure numbers from the INJ or involve a Python script in the process.

The attached delta injection should put a point on the nose of the currently selected instance of V4, no matter how many other V4's, or other figures are in the scene. The morph will be injected into the PBMCC_01 channel. There will be a dial in the BODY "PointNose" that can be used to express the morph via ERC. The dial in the BODY is set to 1.0 by default, so the morph will be fully expressed as soon as it is injected. The INJ file was made with svdl's "[SpawnCharacterP6 update](http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/index.php?user_id=99327)" py script (not sure if the script works in the latest versions of Poser).

Please let me know whether the file works for you or not.

Hmmmm.... in a way this works.

But: This is the code that I believed to be superconforming code. It refers to FIGURE and Body, without any qualifiers.

And indeed this setup slaves to the master dial of the current figure - unless I use it on a conformed item. Then it would be slaved to the morph dial in the conform target (e.g. v4), not the cloth figure itself. However, this only if a corresponding dial exists in the conform target. If it doesnt, the slaving goes the currently selected cloth.

So this code seems to work very well for human figures, but for cloths its unclear what actually happens.

Is there maybe more control possible?

Or is my view on things updated and one would always want that (possible) superconform thing?

Quote - Then it would be slaved to the morph dial in the conform target (e.g. v4), not the cloth figure itself.

No, that is not correct. With this method (no ":#") the slaving will always point to the figure that was selected at the time the pose was applied (providing the figure contains the target channel in the correct actor).

However, that is not always what you want to happen when applying a pose to a conformer. E.g. in the case of a JCM the slaving needs to point to the conform target, not the conformer.

The method works perfectly in any situation (at least in P6-P5, I doubt it changed) to do what you asked for, "target the currently selected figure in Poser, avoiding crosstalk issues". It's just that in the case of a conformer, the currently selected figure (the conformer) is not always the appropriate target for the slaving.

Quote - Is there maybe more control possible?

In a way, but not a very useful way IMO. Slaving code in a pose can target a specific figure, eg "head:3" or "hip:1", and Poser will respect that number, providing that it exists in the scene. But then, whether or not your slaving works as desired will depend on the loading order of the figures (first figure loaded = :1, second = :2, etc), and that is not a very satisfactory situation in my view.  

That was the problem with DAZ injections, their slaving targeted figure 1, so if you injected into figure 2, the morphs responded to FBM dials in the wrong BODY actor.

You are stuck with either targeting the currently selected figure, or targeting a figure with a specific figure number.

mmmh? I will retest this then. I had the impression the presence of the body dial in the conform tagret matters. Thx

Quote - I had the impression the presence of the body dial in the conform target matters.

Everything I said above assumes that the the target channel exists in the appropriate location. In the case where it does not exist in the appropriate location, I'm not sure what happens. It's possible that Poser will use the first instance of the channel name that it finds, and even if the figure number does not match. So in that sense the presence of a "body [master] dial" may be significant. But all this is outside of my sphere of certainty, and needs testing in praxis.

Perhaps it might help here if you could give some specific example of what you want to achieve. Sometimes talking in generalities can miss an important point that would achieve a goal.