Typically when I create a pose controller I first create the Pose by hand and write down all of the rotations and body transforms that comprise the pose. I then manually create the dependencies for the pose dial by meticulously teaching each rotation and transform step by step into the dependency at 1 and then manually zeroing out each rotation at zero. For complex full body Poses this can be a rather long tedious process, in particular all the finger hand rotations. Mind numbing stuff.

I was always under the impression that simply saving my Pose to the library, creating an empty master, start teaching, and applying said pose via pz2 would be too easy or would introduce problems of one type or another.

Recently, as an experiment, I created a master, started teaching, and applied a rather complex Pose file I had saved to the library (just rotations and a body transform) to the figure. I expected Poser to crash honestly. The dependency editor started rapidly cycling through all of the rotations, recording them into the dependency stack in an alarming manner. This went on for a bit. Poser didn't crash but I figured I would have to force quit Poser as the DE flickered with the cycling/recording of the rotations. It suddenly stopped cycling through and the dependency stack had recorded everything that comprised the Pose.

I didn't experiment further by zeroing everything out but it seems like you can create a Pose controller this way.

I did notice however that rotations of the goal center of mass props were recorded.

My questions are as follows:

Is this a workable method of creating a controller?

Is the recording of the goal center of mass props rotations simply indicating the body transforms contained in the Pose?

Is this going to somehow adversely telescope or screw up JCMs that are in action involuntarily, that is operating automatically through the recorded rotations... or will it work as expected? I haven't noticed any JCM problems occuring when creating manually but better safe than sorry.

If this is a valid approach, will a Pose dot work also?

Any caveats?

Thanks.