Loading...
> >

Problem with Prop Pose in Poser 9

3WC3WC Posts: 1,145
edited December 1969 in The Commons

I have a simple positioning pose for a prop. I used DS 4.7 and the Poser Format Exporter to export the pose file to a pz2.

The pose works fine with the poser prop and pz2 pose file in DS.

In Poser 9, however, the pose file has no effect. My question is, why? It seems like a simple thing, but I've been unable to determine why this won't work.

Thanks for any input you can give.

Comments

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 12,873
    edited December 1969

    Not sure if it's still a true in P9, but IIRC in some earlier versions of Poser pz2 (at least MAT poses, not sure about regular poses) didn't work for props if there wan't at least one figure loaded in the scene.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    Leana said:
    Not sure if it's still a true in P9, but IIRC in some earlier versions of Poser pz2 (at least MAT poses, not sure about regular poses) didn't work for props if there wan't at least one figure loaded in the scene.

    That was mainly with smart props.

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,755
    edited December 1969

    pz2's won't work in poser unless you have a figure/rigged product in the scene.

  • 3WC3WC Posts: 1,145
    edited December 1969

    Frank0314 said:
    pz2's won't work in poser unless you have a figure/rigged product in the scene.

    Oooookay, seems really weird why that should be the case, but anyway, is there a workaround other than just turning the prop into a figure?

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,856
    edited December 1969

    wwes said:
    Frank0314 said:
    pz2's won't work in poser unless you have a figure/rigged product in the scene.

    Oooookay, seems really weird why that should be the case, but anyway, is there a workaround other than just turning the prop into a figure?

    Load a simple figure - it can be any figure, as long as there is one. I think Poser 10/PP2014 have removed this requirement

  • 3WC3WC Posts: 1,145
    edited December 1969

    Richard Haseltine said:
    wwes said:
    Frank0314 said:
    pz2's won't work in poser unless you have a figure/rigged product in the scene.

    Oooookay, seems really weird why that should be the case, but anyway, is there a workaround other than just turning the prop into a figure?

    Load a simple figure - it can be any figure, as long as there is one. I think Poser 10/PP2014 have removed this requirement

    So are you saying if I put any figure into the scene, then try to apply the pose to the prop it will work? Because I've been trying that and it still doesn't do anything.

    Or are you saying if I put a figure into the scene, then I can re-save the prop pose to my library from within poser and simply select the prop as the subset that I want the pose to affect? Because I tried that, too, and all I got in the pz2 file was gibberish. *Sigh*

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    put the figure in first, then add the prop

  • 3WC3WC Posts: 1,145
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    put the figure in first, then add the prop

    No change. :(

  • 3WC3WC Posts: 1,145
    edited December 1969

    Ok, I got this to work. In Poser 9, I basically had to reposition the prop, made sure it was parented to the figure in the scene, then with the prop selected, I hit the "plus" sign to save to the pose library. I hit the button for "Select Subset", selected only the prop, hit "OK" a couple times, then selected an option that came up for saving "Body Transformations". After all that was said and done, it worked as expected.

    Just seems like a lot of hoops to jump through for such a simple thing (grumble, grumble...).

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,755
    edited April 2015

    It should have worked just by adding the figure in first and then load the prop. I'm sure why in your case it isn't working. I've never ran into that and I have made hundreds of products that are like that. Do you have the latest SR for Poser 9. I'm running 2012. I have 2014 but haven't used it cause according to my wife there are a few issues with it that would effect my development.

    Post edited by frank0314 on
  • 3WC3WC Posts: 1,145
    edited December 1969

    Frank0314 said:
    It should have worked just by adding the figure in first and then load the prop. I'm sure why in your case it isn't working. I've never ran into that and I have made hundreds of products that are like that. Do you have the latest SR for Poser 9. I'm running 2012. I have 2014 but haven't used it cause according to my wife there are a few issues with it that would effect my development.

    Maybe something to do with Daz Studio? I made the prop and poses in DS first, then just tried to convert the poses using Poser Format Exporter script for DS. For some reason those would not work no matter what I did.

    I'm not sure I have the latest SR, I'll check into that.

    I have Poser 9.03.26132, if that tells you anything.

    And I just checked, the prop poses still won't work until I parent the prop to the figure.

Sign In or Register to comment.