Any hints regarding moving / unwanted moving of figures?
chrom
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Hi,
how can I move e.g. a group of selected figures to another position with one move?
I can move only one figure.
Must they be combined by a dummy parent? I hope not.
Sometimes applying a pose to figure moves it to another position. Can this be suppressed
Thank you
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Parent them or group them, or if the figure node iss till the same for each you could just mutli-select and use the Paramaeter sliders (which is one of the reasons it's a good idea to handle relative plaement with the hip and scene placement with the figure).
how can I group? I didn't find it.
slider work but unfortunately set the values equal.
Any idea for suppressing " applying a pose to figure moves it to another position "?
Select them all, Create>New Group
That's why I said to use it if their current values were equal - if you placed the figures by the hip node then the figure node should still be zeroed, if you use the figure node the hip should eb zeroed - use the oen that iss till zeroed to move the figures.
Poses should, if they are not placement poses, work on the hip bone (if they do any translation at all).
That's what should happen, but some PAs have a nasty habit of making their poses jump the character back to the world centre.
What I do is place every figure in their own group. Then, when I move them around the scene, I always move the group and never the figure. That way the figure is always at (0,0,0) relative to the group, so they tend not to be moved around by poses when you don't want them to. This also has a fringe benefit that you can change the visibility of the figure, their hair, clothes, etc. just by chnging the visibility of the group - one click to hide/unhide them. Otherwise you have to hide/unhide each object separately.
To move multiple characters around, just put the single-character-groups into another group (you can stack them up indefinitely). Then you can move the main group around.
Groups are a super useful tool to use for keeping track of what's what (and where) in your scenes.
Thank you both very much.
Especially the one figure group is great.
I tested visibility hint. Strange that the parent do not hand down visibility. Had this problem also with environment, that parts were still visible. Now I can handle it.
I found that if I lock the figure's XY and Z translation that the poses dont reset it's position. You can lock them by pressing on the padlock next to the property you want to lock.