Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Help! I can't combine characters in Poser

clyde236 opened this issue on Aug 14, 2002 ยท 5 posts


clyde236 posted Wed, 14 August 2002 at 6:12 AM

Hi all, I hope someone has an answer to this, because the Poser 4 manual doesn't seem to provide enough information. I am trying to combine two characters (an animal head on a human body). I brought both characters into the work space, made all the animals parts invisible except the neck and head, made the human neck and head invisible and set up a parent-child relationship (neck of animal to hip of human, so when human bends, neck and head of animal follow.) As TWO characters, that works. I have a human with an animal head. I can pose the human, and the animal head and neck follow it. Except it is really easy to grab a hidden body part of the animal when trying to pose, and the body circle is way off the figure, so rotating it is very confusing! It rotates around some unknown center I can't even guess at. Anyway, according to page 303 of the Poser 4 manual, one is supposed to be able to combine multiple figures into a single new figure. This seemed ideal. After setting up the parent-child relationships (which I did), I should be able to click on the "create figure" button in the hierarcy editor. Except the button never lights up for me to use it! I tried clicking on different body parts in the editor, and sometimes the button lights up, but only briefly, or if it does light up and stay lit, when I click on it, I get nothing. Thinking it must be IK chains, or some other thing I don't understand, I tried it with two human characters, using the basic casual man and woman. I did the same relationships as in my animal attempt, with the hierarchy editor still behaving badly. I did actually get it to work when I clicked on one body, and the create figure button lit, and it let me specify a new character name. The combined character appeared in the library, but when I loaded it into the workspace, all I got was hair! I am thinking either my program is totally bugged, or the manual is wrong. Do any of you know a way to make this work? Thanks!