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Find and erase similar poses

daybirddaybird Posts: 675
in Product Suggestions

Over the years, I bought hundreds of pose sets.

When I scroll through them, I realise that many of them have the same pose settings, especially when they come from the same artist.

That's not bad at all: to recycle them and use them as an example of hand poses for each pose set I sell.

My question: Would it be possible to create a script that finds the exact same pose setting for a figure and erases it to the amount I like?

As an example: When I select a pose, I start the script, and it searches the poses I have...and shows me....  found in 12 pose sets.

Now I get a list of them and can decide which one I will keep and which one I will erase. 

So I can free space on my hard disc and avoid endless scrolling through pose settings with the same pose.

Comments

  • garrett_3dgarrett_3d Posts: 383

    If poses are a storage space concern, I think you have major issues. Pose files are tiny (kb, not Mb) compared to other assets.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 110,274

    I'm sure a script could do this, but it would probably be fairly slow (and might not work, or be nenormously slower if it tried to handle, cases were pose controls were used, though Daz Store poses should be baked down to  transforms). I can see that weeding out the poses that were the same would  reduce the amount to look through, though it is true that they won't save a lot of space.

  • jmucchiellojmucchiello Posts: 1,402

    Richard Haseltine said:

    I'm sure a script could do this, but it would probably be fairly slow (and might not work, or be nenormously slower if it tried to handle, cases were pose controls were used, though Daz Store poses should be baked down to  transforms). I can see that weeding out the poses that were the same would  reduce the amount to look through, though it is true that they won't save a lot of space.

    It probably would be easier to do the comparisons on the ABC.PNG or ABC.TIP.PNG files, in the case of similar images from the same PA.

  • daybirddaybird Posts: 675

    Richard Haseltine said:

    I'm sure a script could do this, but it would probably be fairly slow (and might not work, or be nenormously slower if it tried to handle, cases were pose controls were used, though Daz Store poses should be baked down to  transforms). I can see that weeding out the poses that were the same would  reduce the amount to look through, though it is true that they won't save a lot of space.

    Yeah, you all may be right about the free space, but today I saw that I reached over 10k hits while searching for LH poses. I think nearly 20-25% were the same pose again and again. Reducing them would be a big step toward a faster workflow. Even if they just did not show up again when the pose was posted, would make a big difference.

  • RuthvenRuthven Posts: 690

    daybird said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    I'm sure a script could do this, but it would probably be fairly slow (and might not work, or be nenormously slower if it tried to handle, cases were pose controls were used, though Daz Store poses should be baked down to  transforms). I can see that weeding out the poses that were the same would  reduce the amount to look through, though it is true that they won't save a lot of space.

    Yeah, you all may be right about the free space, but today I saw that I reached over 10k hits while searching for LH poses. I think nearly 20-25% were the same pose again and again. Reducing them would be a big step toward a faster workflow. Even if they just did not show up again when the pose was posted, would make a big difference.

    A first way to check could look at your smart content in the "files" section, go to poses, select them the various "function" or "region" sub-menus too look at what are quite similar, then uninstall them. It's long to do it one-by-one, but I cant't by now think of something better

  • jmucchiellojmucchiello Posts: 1,402

    Ruthven said:

    daybird said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    I'm sure a script could do this, but it would probably be fairly slow (and might not work, or be nenormously slower if it tried to handle, cases were pose controls were used, though Daz Store poses should be baked down to  transforms). I can see that weeding out the poses that were the same would  reduce the amount to look through, though it is true that they won't save a lot of space.

    Yeah, you all may be right about the free space, but today I saw that I reached over 10k hits while searching for LH poses. I think nearly 20-25% were the same pose again and again. Reducing them would be a big step toward a faster workflow. Even if they just did not show up again when the pose was posted, would make a big difference.

    A first way to check could look at your smart content in the "files" section, go to poses, select them the various "function" or "region" sub-menus too look at what are quite similar, then uninstall them. It's long to do it one-by-one, but I cant't by now think of something better

    The flaw here is you probably won't find an entire product's poses that are duplicates and the installers don't really allow for piecemeal removal.

    I use Turbo Loader, for the most part, for Expressions. I almost never need the Upper Face/Lower Face dials. But they take up time when loading a figure. If the installer separated the full expressions from the partials, I'd uninstall the partials permanently.

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