I've finally got round to releasing these two scripts as part of my 'S.E.Asian Duel' freebie - it didn't make sense to release them alone since they include hard-coded parameters for hand poses, designed to grip a specific prop. Downloads via the freebie links in my siggy. Many thanks to everybody on this (and other) forums who's been patient enough to answer my (sometimes, often?, stupid) questions.

The scripts basically turn a prop into a smartprop (i.e. position, orient and parent it correctly in the selected hand of the selected figure), and automatically apply the hand pose to grasp the prop (that's the 'plus' part). The 'PropGoto+' script is for use on a prop already in the scene, whereas the ' Smart+' version loads the prop first (it's identical to the 'PropGoto+' script except that there's an additional 'LoadLibraryProp()' called right at the start).

 There are two main areas I know of where the scripts won't/may not work:

• I forgot to make the filename/path corrections so they'd work on a MAC.

• I used the Poser 6 UI so they may not work on Poser 7+ (I can only test on Poser 6 at present), but I included versions with the UI stripped out in the hope that they may work

 The scripts are in plain text format, so you can examine, modify, laugh, or whatever. Personally I'm really pleased, because the scripts do exactly what I wanted. I can see plenty of room for tidying/improvement/adaption, and was hoping to open a discussion on how to improve these scripts if anybody's interested...

(N.B. the scripts are 'do-whatever-you-want-with-them' type licence/copyright, so you're more than welcome to adapt them on your own and use them as you see fit)

I was just reading through my PMs and noticed one saying that the previous (and first) PoserPython script I did (the 'Set Tiling' script in the FreeStuff) worked fine in Poser 9! I'm a bit puzzled because that script used the Poser 6 UI, which I thought caused problems in Poser 7+?

Still hoping for feedback on whether my 'PropGoto+' and 'Dha Smart+' scripts work:

a) in Poser 7+ / PoserPro

b) on a MAC

Okay, i've got a mac and only just saw this thread.  I'll try it if you like.

Love esther

have u got some links please.

love esther

Apologies for the delay in responding Esther - I've had very little opportunity to access the internet over the past month.

The link's via the 'My Renderosity Freebies' link in my signature. The script is part of the 'S.E.Asian Duel' freebie, for reasons explained in the original post.

Direct link to the S.E. Asian Duel freebie - http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/details.php?item_id=68397

TIA

It's okay.  actually this week has been a real life nightmare as far as work goes (and I am working next 3/7 too somewhat unexpectedly) and then working rest of next week, so I wouldn't have time anyway. I iwll try and check it out soon.

Love esther

No worries

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

P.S. The scripts work fine in Poser 8 (tested that myself, since I now have a copy)

Just grabbed a copy of Poser 9 for the bargain price of $69.99, and the scripts work fine in that to (on a PC).

Next set of props to use these scripts is almost ready - a set of three S.E.Asian style shields...

I've added one extra bit to the scripts for these shields - the hands of The Freak and Behemoth are too big, so each shield has a 'Fit Freak-Behemoth Hand' morph. When using the 'Smart+' script to load the shield into The Freak's/Behemoth's hand the script automagically sets the morph as well.

Just doing some final tidying up and testing - it may still be a couple of weeks though...

Advice Please!

I'm planning to move the data for figure matching, positioning/orienting the prop, and hand posing into an external file. Here's three code snippets from the relevant parts of my current PropGoto+ script showing how the data is currently hard-coded in the script:

Figure recognition:

# Simple list (tuple) of options for figure selection drop-down   
optlist = ("Aiko 3","Antonia")   
# Expanded list (tuple of tuples) for figure name matching   
# The second,third, etc parameters in each inner tuple are the alternative CR2 filenames and figure names from within the CR2 - that's what I use to match figure.   
optlist2 = (("Aiko 3","blAiko3"),("Antonia","Antonia"))   

Prop translation/orientation parameters:

# Tuple of x,y,z rotations and translations to position the prop correctly in the right hand of the zeroed figure   
elif action == optlist[0]: # Aiko 3 RH values   
(yR,xR,zR,xT,yT,zT) = (-5.90536,0.929067,-102.083,-0.278811,0.544785,0.0365292)   
elif action == optlist[1]: # Antonia RH values   
(yR,xR,zR,xT,yT,zT) = (-47.868999,-8.78641,-97.023598,-0.267093,0.614172,0.045245)   

Handgrip:

# aHR is a tuple of hand rotations, aKR is a tuple of tuples of knuckle rotations (five fingers, three knuckles per finger, three rotations per knuckle)   
if action == optlist[0]: # Aiko 3 DhaGrip RH values   
aHR = (0.647785,-8.1833,0.823158)   
aKR = (((48,6.09101,1),(54.9843,-18.9889,-0.0454721),(-0.00697216,-38.0285,-0.40209)),((-15.1137,-11.0771,47.2888),(0,0,84),(0,0,29)),((-15.1075,0.0805138,65.969),(-0.0826297,0.0885081,61.9591),(-0.0392733,-0.0291215,47.426)),((-10.0911,5.37818,76.9863),(0,0.0285995,55),(-0.0134865,0.220874,48)),((-11.0294,3.9855,89.9653),(-0.0317562,-0.0216579,36.8822),(-0.0353459,-0.104162,33.2371)))   
elif action == optlist[1]: # Antonia DhaGrip RH values   

The source data for these arrays/tuples is currently in a spreadsheet. I have formulae in the spreadsheet to create the lines of code, and I cut-and-paste these into my scripts.

When I only had the PropGoto+ script and a single Smart+ prop (the original S.E.Asian sword), updating two files to add new figure support/improve the hand poses didn't seem to difficult. But I now have an additional three Smart+ props (S.E.Asian shields) and plans to create a lot more. Manually updating each file is less and less attractive!

An obvious solution is to put the data into an external file and to have the scripts populate the tuples from that file. I have my own thoughts about the file format and file parsing, but I'd really appreciate suggestions/recommendations/cautions before I start...

TIA!