The AnyPose pose stand is unique in SL as the first pose stand that lets you pose your avatar in nearly unlimited positions. Using HUD or keyboard control, you can adjust each joint of your avatar. The AnyPose BVH version can export the final pose to a .BVH file that can be uploaded to SL as a single frame animation and used without the stand.
If you want to save .bvh files that can be uploaded into SL (or loaded into programs like Poser) please take a look at AnyPose BVH.
If you do not need to save .BVH files, and just want the ability to pose your avatar in-world, try the feature limited AnyPose Basic
Photographers/machinimists: Build your own library of poses that can be easily played back, and adjusted on the fly to fix "Hand stuck in leg" and all the other problems associated with fixed poses and various avatar sizes. Control up to 9 stands at once from the HUD. Use the Live! feature to correct poses made by others.
Furniture & Vehicle Builders: Create poses in minutes that fit YOUR designs. (AnyPose BVH)
Animation creators: Create animation key frames for building longer animations by importing the bvh files created by AnyPose BVH into programs like DAZ Studio and Poser. (AnyPose BVH)
Demo Limitations:
- The left arm and left leg can not be moved.
- The Live! posing feature is disabled.
- BVH Export (WWW BVH and Save BVH) send an example pose BVH.
- Copy and Mirror joint features are disabled.
- A floating watermark surrounds your avatar.
Features (Full Version):
- Position each joint via HUD or keyboard control.
- Force eyes into predefined positions for photographs.
- Rez a pose stand from the HUD for even more control of your avatar.
- Move and rotate avatars seated on the AnyPose stand using HUD control.
- Live! posing without a pose stand. The Live! feature can also puppet another avatar.
- Make poses as a team. The AnyPose HUD can control pose stands owned by others.
- Tiny avatar mode to make poses for the most common tiny avatar body crusher.
- Use any of SL's 13 hand animations and 20 facial animations while on the stand.
- Combine facial expressions to uniquely express yourself.
- A simple "pose string" can be spoken by the pose stand that can be traded with others, or added to the included AnyPose Player for easy recall.
- Control up to 9 stands from the HUD.
- Mirror Right Arm<->Left Arm / Right Leg<->Left Leg / Whole Body.
- Send poses to U-Poser for additional adjustments, or inclusion into U-Posers animation builder.
- Each joint has roughly 256 positions (Some more, some less) in the normal range of human motion. This give surprising flexibility in pose creation.
- Free updates. AnyPose has a built-in update checker.
AnyPose BVH Features:
- Disable joints so they are not animated in uploaded .BVH files. (For example: Disable the Head/Neck for seating poses)
- Download the .BVH via the stand's http services with your web browser (Not compatible with Internet Explorer)
- Build multi-frame animations.
- Save a .BVH using my external server to simplify the saving of .BVH files. (Not compatible with SL's internal browser)
- Sit position helper built in. Includes script to drop into your seating prims.
- Import individual .BVH frames. Works for .BVH files created by AnyPose, may work for frames from .BVH files created by other programs.
Take a look at the AnyPose Flickr group for examples.
Join the AnyPose Announcements group, and search the SL forums for additional info.
Disclosure:
- You can NOT copy poses made by other creators with AnyPose. However, you can use Live! to adjust poses made by others.
- There are sure to be some joint positions that are humanly possible that you can not recreate in AnyPose. That is an unfortunate trade-off of being able to adjust your own joints in-world.
- The AnyPose "WWW BVH" feature does not use any outside servers. The "Save BVH" feature does use an outside server to simplify the process of saving .BVH files so they can be uploaded into SL.
- Linden Labs had considered adding a feature similar to this to SL, but its status is on hold, and it may or may not show up anytime soon. This features was known as Avatar Puppeteering.
- No refunds will be made, if you are unsure of this purchase, try the demo for free.
- Replacements can be provided with proof of purchase.
- Pose creation
- Animation creation (BVH version)
- BVH Export (BVH version)
- Live posing (Basic or BVH version)
- Facial and hand posing
Rez a stand!!!
The creator needs to make it clear that to use this you need to rez a stand. The hud will not work without it. Im sure thats why people are giving just 1*
Im still working my way through it so I cant say its perfect or not but as a demo it seems to be doing ok and I may buy once Ive gone through it
Ive given it 5* as there are no obvious problem but time will tell .
Its a demo, its free. Get it
waste my time
whats the point of having a demo with no features! waste my time. make a video dude.
Fiddly but smooth
It is a bit fiddly using a demo you can only access a third of the features for. I'm lazy and didn't bother looking up what all the non-labelled buttons do, but honestly, I don't need to. I can tell that this HUD system works smoothly and will do what I need.
You should probably work using this with a frame rate of over 25FPS to get smoother results whilst moving things into place. But that goes the same for most everything anywhere on a computer. I just put my graphics settings low for posing then bumped them back up for pictures.
Demo isn't useful
The demo is rather useless but I can understand why, it would be nice if there was an official video demoing how it works instead.
No demo of Live
The only reason I wanted this is for the live tool to be able to fix poses that don't work wen I sit on furniture. wanted to see it 1st before spending all that money. sadly the demo has it disabled making it useless to try.
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This is a wonderful demo as it really helps you learn about the product and about posing in general.
