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Stuff blowing up in Poser
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I just said that because of how Pixologic went crazy naming things in ZBrush. They have a compulsion to name everything in exotic ways, even things that are well known in other programs. In a way, that must make sense considering how wild they went when designing the interface anyway. And of course, no 3D mouse support. That would be too conventional. LOL
LOL, yeah their UI does take time getting used to. It's funny when folks complain about finding anything in Blender, but they've probably never seen the ZBrush UI, so they've nothing to compare it to.
Then again, Maya's UI isn't exactly simple either, BUT everything's arranged according to what you're doing, modeling, rendering, UV Mapping, etc. The menus change depending on what type of work you're doing.
Then again, Maya's UI isn't exactly simple either, BUT everything's arranged according to what you're doing, modeling, rendering, UV Mapping, etc. The menus change depending on what type of work you're doing.
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Adventurous
I've had it with poses I've created in Poser, when loading them in Carrara to render a scene the pose would go mental, like the feet would grow 6ft long, or flip 180 degrees! The weird thing is that it's only with some poses, not all of them.
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Sounds like issues with the IK settings.
Nod
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I'll try again. Do you think that would that apply to a pose where the mirrored one works, but the original messes up?
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yes. It is very likely the non-mirrored pose has IK data stored. The mirror function in poser produces undesirable results if IK is on as do many scripts - so it was likely disabled prior to mirroring and not re-enabled. Easy way to know, compare the 2 file sizes - if one is larger by more than a few kb it has IK or morph data embedded.
Like KageRyu said. Here goes a few suggestions. If you must pose the figure with IK on, just make sure you disable it completely before saving the pose. I often use IK to place the feet on the ground, since Poser/DS don't detect or enforce feet contact. The only thing is that saving the pose with IK on will save the feet translations instead of the joint rotations. This is normal and correct behavior, but it requires IK to be on when you use the pose, which is something you don't want. It creates an undesired dependency.
In some cases, when the joint rotations are more extreme and you have IK on, the body may "explode" if you disable IK. This is also normal, but definitely not desirable. What happens is that IK will try to keep the feet still no matter the knees and thigh rotations, which can build up a spring effect when the feet are released. For this reason, IK is ideal for small feet or hands adjustments. If you need larger adjustments on the pose, it's best to disable IK to keep the body from "exploding".
Hope it helps.
