Pinning - How do you tell if something is pinned?

AncientWire

I watched the DAZ video on Pinning, Posing and the Active Pose Tool -
I set up my spacebar to do the pinning. 
I am using 7 of the STRING props - https://www.daz3d.com/strings
Which are doing all kinds of nice bendy things.  I like them.

My problem is since I am using 7 of them and they have 40+ bones each, I don't always remember when I pressed the space bar to pin one of the bones  The button in the interface says Toggle Pins - it always looks the same in the interface, so I can't tell if I am turning a pin on or off.  Sometimes the pins show as red push pins in the viewport when I select the whole string (but never when I select just a bone), sometimes they don't. 

Even when I am positive that I have pinned something, the pose dial in the upper left of the viewport will say that it is not pinned.  When I pin using the dial, and choose to pin both rotation and translation, when I target that specific bone in the scene, the pin on the dial turns purple, so I know that one is done.  Pinning this way is much more of a pain than just hitting the space bar!

I also read some forum entries that seem to say that pinning these two different ways are different and some stay with a save and some go.  They were older posts, so I am not sure what is true now. 

Is there a way to see in the scene tree what is pinned and what is not?  or is there somewhere else that will show all of the pins?  And what type of pinning stays with a save?  This project is going to take quite some time to set up, so I am saving my steps and I will go back and render everything later.  I would hate to lose my pins if I have to change something later. 

Thanks!
Helene
 

 

 

DrNewcenstein

Is it imperative that you pin the individual bones of the Strings, or can you get by with pinning only specific segments? 

AncientWire

I think I am going to need to pin about every other bone in each of the strings.