basicwiz opened this issue on Feb 26, 2015 · 11 posts
basicwiz posted Thu, 26 February 2015 at 4:46 PM
I'm trying to create a pose file that includes visibility settings. Can anyone tell me what code to manually enter into a pose to set the poised parts INVISIBLE?
DeathMetalDesk posted Thu, 26 February 2015 at 5:25 PM
Hi basic, how about a mat pose, with the visibility dependant on the materials? The only way I could think of to do it. Don't think I've ever heard of a body part toggle visibility pose. convert your mc6 to a pz2 by changing mtlCollection to figure, saving, and changing extension to pz2.
Edit_ if there is a toggle body part pose, also interested to know.
SamTherapy posted Thu, 26 February 2015 at 5:48 PM
In the .cr2 there's a value "on", which can be changed to "off", for each body part. It's the second entry in each body part listing, directly below the body part name. I guess you could write a pose to change this value but I haven't tried it meself. It certainly works if you edit the cr2 directly but beyond that I couldn't say what to do.
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DeathMetalDesk posted Thu, 26 February 2015 at 5:56 PM
Wonder if some variation on an inj pose would work? Riffing on what Sam suggested...
AmbientShade posted Thu, 26 February 2015 at 7:49 PM
I'm trying to figure out the same thing for an arm. I know it's possible as I've seen it done before.
Glitterati3D posted Thu, 26 February 2015 at 8:24 PM
You need to make the material of the body part invisible. If you have any Parrotdolphin shaders, she usually includes an "Invisible" material.
Use the invisible and save as a pz2 or mc6 file.
DeathMetalDesk posted Thu, 26 February 2015 at 8:40 PM
From Secrets of Figure Creation with Poser 5:
"Another item of note for the version section is a pz2 trick. If you set a pz2 file to version 3, you can use the code "on" and "off" for each body part to show/hide the part. In later versions, it is impossible to create a Pose file to turn parts invisible or visible."
Hide/Show pose files, example shoulder hide...
{
version
{
number 3.0
}
actor lShldr : 1
{
off
}
Use .pz2 extension, just tested on v4, poser 8, works.
DeathMetalDesk posted Thu, 26 February 2015 at 8:54 PM
Just to clarify, this pose file has nothing to do with material transparency. It toggles body part existence as you would in the hierarchy. It's a pre poser 4 hack that can be utilized in later versions, as explained above.
DeathMetalDesk posted Thu, 26 February 2015 at 9:15 PM
Warning though, don't use the above pose by copying and pasting from my post, the indenting is probably wrong as it was Typed on my phone. The test pose I used was done in a proper text editor, on my workstation which is offline at the moment. Look at a pose file for proper indenting conventions.
basicwiz posted Fri, 27 February 2015 at 9:19 AM
It was exactly what I was looking for DMD!
Thanks to all who offered help!
moriador posted Fri, 27 February 2015 at 2:09 PM
If you own anything by Xurge, he usually provides pose files for turning off body parts to eliminate appearance of poke-thru. Other vendors also do it. But Xurge comes to mind immediately. Then you can just look at the pose file to see what he did and how it was formatted. :)
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