Poser Custom Physics Test

Click on download to see the animation. I will get around to improving the quality someday. Sorry about the large file size. I need to figure out how to get poser to make smaller flash files.

The simple answer is that this turned out to be a whole lot more effort than I would have ever imagined.

The animation was done in poser. I decided to try to add some physics modeling to the tool via pyhton scripts as a side project. The idea was to add "springs" to control motion in the scene.

I got this to work... but wow! Doing the math for the springs was the easy part. Interfacing and understanding Poser's world coordinate system was a completely different matter all together.

Translating coordinate systems so that morph targets could be used to control motion was even more difficult still.

The rubber stick tracks the blue ball in the scene while the characters hair tracks the red ball. The motion of the stick has been exagerated to show the springs in action.

I'm not sure I am going to release the script just yet. I, very badly, need to add the ability to select which morph targets motion gets applied to.