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Poser Python Scripting F.A.Q (Last Updated: 2025 Feb 05 6:41 am)

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Check out the new Poser Python Wish List thread. If you have an idea for a script, jot it down and maybe someone can write it. If you're looking to write a script, check out this thread for useful suggestions.

Also, check out the official Python site for interpreters, sample code, applications, cool links and debuggers. This is THE central site for Python.

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Subject: Toon-er script

jkm opened this issue on Nov 01, 2002 ยท 10 posts
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jkm ( ) posted Fri, 01 November 2002 at 4:58 PM ยท edited Wed, 08 January 2025 at 11:23 PM

Has anybody looked into creating a Python script that will take a scene and insert the Toon node into all of the material channels where it needs to be? I've got a character I've been working on and I'd like to see how it looks Toon rendered but having to insert the Toon node into each material for each object seems like a huge amount of work.

ockham ( ) posted Sat, 02 November 2002 at 8:49 AM

As I answered a similar question about new features in the Lights: This is definitely the -type- of action that a Python script can do easily and conveniently. But CL hasn't yet inserted the new P5 features into the Python function set. We'll have to wait till they do.

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jkm ( ) posted Sat, 02 November 2002 at 10:25 AM

I'm not sure I understand. (I didn't follow the thread about the Lights that you mention.) Are you saying that Python lacks access to the Material Room node structure?

ockham ( ) posted Sat, 02 November 2002 at 3:34 PM

Python can only act on the parts of Poser that have "functions" or "interfaces" provided for it. Even in P4, some of the important actions (such as changing the number of animation frames) are unavailable to Python, which limits the range of things that can be done this way. I haven't been following the beta releases, but Poser 5 as first released had no new "interfaces" at all, which means that the new features are still not available to Python.

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jkm ( ) posted Sat, 02 November 2002 at 5:51 PM

That sems to make Python scripting somewhat pointless then doesn't it? Most frustrating.

ockham ( ) posted Sat, 02 November 2002 at 6:05 PM

No, it's far from pointless, though the limits are frustrating. Almost everything that falls into the category of "movement" is available to Python. Every parameter of every character or prop can be moved, including parameters that are -not- available to the regular user. It's in the realm of materials where the Python connection is weakest.

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stewer ( ) posted Wed, 06 November 2002 at 3:13 AM

CL is focussing on the non-Python features first since most customers aren't interested in Python. For Poser Pro Pack, the Service Releases added a lot of new Python functions.

jkm ( ) posted Wed, 06 November 2002 at 7:44 AM

Do the service released include documentation of the new Python functions?

stewer ( ) posted Wed, 06 November 2002 at 8:39 PM

There is a Python script (documentation.py) included with the service release that will create the documentation for you. Just run it and it'll create a file called PoserPython.txt inlcuding the docs. I think there should also be a txt2html file that will convert it to HTML.

jkm ( ) posted Thu, 07 November 2002 at 11:10 AM

Thanks. I'll check the updated documentation out once I peice my computer back together. (The boot drive died.)

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