Anthony Appleyard opened this issue on Sep 30, 1999 ยท 7 posts
Anthony Appleyard posted Thu, 30 September 1999 at 6:13 AM
Much of the bulk of a Poser model seems to consist of redundant or duplicated matter in his CR2 file. Can the need for this be removed in any future version? and thus CR2 files be made much shorter:- - (1) Remove the need for the very frequent 5-line feature "keys { static 0 k 0 0 }", which seems to serve only to repeat a value which is also specified in the initValue line. - (2) Remove the need for all lines which explicitly set quantities to values which are their defaults anyway, e.g. "min -10000" and "max 10000". - (3) If part X articulates on part Y, why do we need to duplicate so many joint parameters between both actors? E.g. in the Nude Man "actor Hip" has a 30-line channel section "twistY genital_twisty" whose parameter info is duplicated exactly in "actor genital"'s channel section "twistY twisty", and likewise for just about every rotation and translation in the figure, adding massively to cr2 file bulk. - (4) Do we need such lines as "name GetStringRes(1028,1)"? Why not put the part's name directly literally in these "name" lines? All the above complications serve to get me deeper into "a maze of twistY little passages, all alike", when I must text-edit a cr2 file to put a new feature in!