{"id":11696,"date":"2019-10-07T11:16:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T11:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=11696"},"modified":"2019-10-07T11:16:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T11:16:56","slug":"freebie-props-in-a-container-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2019\/10\/07\/freebie-props-in-a-container-script\/","title":{"rendered":"Freebie: ‘Props in a container’ script"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found an Ockham Python script for Poser, that doesn’t appear to be on his usual page<\/a>, but is on Renderosity freestuff: “Swarms, leaf piles, etc”<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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What it does:<\/strong> Select a container, then have the script fill it with your selected Particle props. A container such as a jam-jar, and a filling such as fire-flies. Of the container it’s said that “Where it’s denser, more Particles will tend to concentrate.”<\/p>\n

What it used to be:<\/strong> It’s a 2006 script “descended from Swarm”. It still works fine in Poser 11.2.<\/p>\n

How to install:<\/strong> I had success with the following in Poser 11.2…<\/p>\n

1) Unzip and find “libraries” then its “props” sub-folder. Merge this folder with your main ..\\content\\runtime\\props folder.<\/p>\n

Make sure you get the proper Props folder, as those with large runtimes will have acquired half a dozen over the years. The correct one is…<\/p>\n

..\\content\\Runtime\\Libraries\\props<\/em><\/p>\n

NOT<\/p>\n

..\\content\\Runtime\\Props<\/em> or ..\\content\\Props<\/em><\/p>\n

Remember that Poser may need to re-index (“Refresh” icon, starts the “yellow CD” icon pulsing) to see the new folder in its Library.<\/p>\n

2) For top-menu Scripts access in Poser, place the .PY script in…<\/p>\n

C:\\Program Files\\Smith Micro\\Poser 11\\Runtime\\Python\\poserScripts\\ScriptsMenu\\<\/em><\/p>\n

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Operation:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Load a suitable container from the Props folder. “Leafpile container” and “Jar” seem the most useful provided containers here.<\/p>\n

Use your library software to find your target prop (e.g. a firefly insect with a Superfly glow material applied) in Windows Explorer, and copy the path to it to your clipboard.<\/p>\n

Run the script, paste in the path to the prop (this saves a huge amount of time ferreting through your various Props folders at this stage).<\/p>\n

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You can run the script again on the same container, to add more. Here I have 75 glow-enabled Fireflies, with a further 25 smaller ones. They appear to have escaped the container somewhat, but they’re going to go in a more ornate steampunk jar for this demo, so no matter. Now it’s done the job, select the container and make it invisible.<\/p>\n

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Placing 100 of them by hand would have taken ages, but the script did it in seconds. <\/p>\n

Load a better container and size it up to your fireflies. <\/p>\n

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I found an Ockham Python script for Poser, that doesn’t appear to be on his usual page, but is on Renderosity freestuff: “Swarms, leaf piles, etc”. What it does: Select a container, then have the script fill it with your selected Particle props. A container such as a jam-jar, and a filling such as fire-flies. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freebies","category-poser","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}