Creating Pose Presets for Minotaur 6

Quixotry

Hello everyone,

I've run into an interesting puzzle while trying to make full-figure pose presets for Minotaur 6 and was hoping that someone could help me figure out what's going on.

Once I have created the pose that I want, I do what I would do for any other figure to save the pose: Go to Save As > Pose Preset. I haven't unchecked any of the selection boxes in the window that appears because I want the entire pose saved, not just a piece of it.

The interesting thing is that when I apply my new pose to the Minotaur figure, only the main body takes the pose. The legs and tail remain, as far as I can tell, in their default positions. I know that they are technically separate parts of the figure, so I recreated the full pose and saved pose presets for the main body, the legs, and the tail. That kind of works for the tail, but the leg and main body poses seem to conflict when they are both applied, and don't end up looking like the original pose. I tried to do a full-figure pose for Reptile 6, which also has the separate tail and legs for the figure, and I get the same results.

I have the poses that came with the figures and they don't work in sections, they're just full-figure pose presets. That's what I want to create, but I seem to be missing some important information about working with these two figures when they've got their tails and legs "on."

Any thoughts?

Here is the thumbnail of a preset I made that shows both the Reptile and the Minotaur, (this one is the preset for the Reptile) and here is the result when I apply each pose to the corresponding figure. You'll notice that the legs and tails are all out of whack with the rest of the bodies.

Design Anvil - Razor42

You will need to save as a hierarchical pose preset to include pose data for the geografted child pieces as well as the main figure.

Quixotry

Oh, marvelous! I hadn't even noticed that option before. Thank you, thank you, Razor 42!

Quixotry

Hmm. Maybe I've gone crazy, but I thought there were more posts here with some useful advice. Perhaps my absence from the thread made it look as if you had all overwhelmed me with helpfulness? If so, it wasn't that. It's finals week and I got buried under a mountain of homework and end-of-term papers. XD I hadn't had time to do much with Daz the last couple of days, so I don't yet have any results and/or problems to report.

But seriously, the posts (assuming I'm not thinking of something I was reading elsewhere) were helpful. Thanks all. Was there something about being careful how the content's path is defined, and whether or not including the 'My Daz Library' was problematic? I am working on a Mac, so I know things are slightly different from Windows. From what I've seen of things on sharecg.com, the zip file usually includes a series of folders, sometimes with sub-folders depending on the content. I've installed downloaded content from there manually just by matching sub-folders with the stuff in them to the main folders that they belong in - those being, for example, Runtime, Libraries, Materials, etc. I assume this arrangement is what I'm duplicating when defining content for poses.

Something like: People > Genesis 2 Male > Poses > [Name of pose set]

Have I got the right idea?

Design Anvil - Razor42

Maybe you were thinking of this thread http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/55460/

Sounds like your on the right track though :)