Saving Poses
Once you’ve finished creating a pose, you may want to save it for future use. The problem is that saving poses in SimPose isn’t a matter of clicking “save pose;” it’s actually a two-step process. If you have no idea what that means, read the tutorial below to learn more.
Here is a pose I just made. I’d like to save it.
However, I can’t save the pose the way you would a regular file. (For example, click “save as”, then just name it.) I have to first create a “pose library.”
POSE LIBRARY, OR .PSL FILE
What is a “pose library?” A POSE LIBRARY is a file that holds a collection of poses. Think of a pose library as a “folder” that you put sets of poses in.
For example, let’s say want to save 7 different types of sitting poses. Instead of having 7 different files named “sitting1, sitting 2, sitting 3, etc…” what you do is first create a pose library called “sitting”, then save each new pose to this one pose library. Next time you want to access these poses, you can just choose to load the Pose Library called “Sitting.” When you load it, you will then be able to select from this library which one of the 7 poses you want to use.
This is a great feature in SimPose. However, it confuses a lot of people new to the concept, so let’s do a run through to show you how saving poses is all done.
Now let’s say I have a brand new sim on stage who I want to use this pose for? Here is how I can do that:
ONE LAST TIP
You do not always have to create a pose library whenever you want to save a pose; you only do this when you’ve got a pose, but don’t have a pose library for it. For example, if yesterday you created a pose library called “Sitting.psl” and today you want to add new poses to it, all you have to do is first load it into SimPose, then choose “Save Pose to Library” for every new pose you want to save to it.
Additional tutorials in the Ultimate SimPose Guide: