Anthony Appleyard opened this issue on Jul 02, 2021 ยท 1 posts
Anthony Appleyard posted Fri, 02 July 2021 at 6:30 PM
A suggested improvement to joint blending of a prop parented to a jointed part of a figure.
Here as an example I am considering a Poser figure which is a model of a diver / frogman, and he has a name-armband as a prop parented to his right upper-arm.
The armband (a prop) is parented to the right upper-arm (a jointed part) of the wetsuitman figure which is the root figure of the frogman / diver setup. Sometimes I want to make the armband obey the joint blending caused in the arm by movements at the joints at either end of the arm; and sometimes not. Currently that is done by Poser copying the relevant parameter text from the arm into the armband, when the user parents the prop to the arm, in the internal representation of the setup's CR2 file. That method is cumbersome and liable to bugs. Sometimes, when I change the x-y-z rotation order of the armband, the old joint blending parameters remain, as I find when I examine the saved .CR2 file with a text-editor. That way, I have known the armband's text in the .CR2 file to accumulate a large archaeology of old joint-blending parameters which are no longer needed or wanted, and they make the armband misbehave, until I take the law into my own hands with a text-editor and remove the armband's unwanted old joint-blending parameters from the setup's .CR2 file.
Please instead, let each prop have a yes/no click-box which tells Poser whether to make the armband follow the arm's joint blending. Clicking it would not affect the .CR2 file, except for setting one variable to 0 or 1. Each prop has one of that variable in the .CR2 file. The current setting of that variable would tell Poser's renderer whether to obey the arm's joint blending when rendering the armband.