The Setup Room

The Setup room is one of Poser’s most powerful features. It allows you to modify existing props or figures, or even create your own for use with Poser.

The Setup room allows you to fully rig new figures by creating and setting up joints, hierarchy groups and IK chains. It allows you to create these elements in a graphical environment, rather than having to manually edit a configuration file in a text-based environment.

When the Setup room opens, it displays many of the controls that you will need to create poseable figures. Depending on the size of your workspace, you may see the Camera controls, Joint Editor, Editing tools, Parameters/Properties palette, or Hierarchy Editor in this room. Of particular importance is the Bone Tool, which allows you to graphically create a skeleton for your figures.

The number of palettes and options that you see in each room depends upon your screen resolution. At higher resolutions, the default workspaces display more palettes, while at lower resolutions you see fewer palettes.

The Setup Room.

The Setup room is an extremely powerful tool that can permanently modify your figures, including those originally included with Poser. Always save your figures to the Library palette to prevent inadvertently damaging one of your existing figures and to enable you to return to a previous figure setup if you choose to. This will also help you keep your figures organized and easy to find.

Avoid losing your work! Be sure to save your work frequently and possibly to different files in case you run into problems.

• The Setup Room
• Creating Figures for Poser
• About the Setup Room
• The Setup Room Interface
• Setting Up an Original Figure
• Troubleshooting