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. Now with version 1.5, AnyPose animator is included at no additional charge! Try your hand at making animations!
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 available on the Marketplace.
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.
Animation creators: Create animations! AnyPose BVH now includes AnyPose Animator! Although it was designed for simple animations, your creativity is the limit!
Features:
- Position each joint via HUD or keyboard control.
- Force the eyes into specific positions.
- 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)
- 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.
For an excellent in-world manual from my friends at TAMA, search the marketplace for: TAMA AnyPose
Check out the Flickr AnyPose group for examples of what is possible.
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.
- Avatar posing
- Animation creation
- Live posing
- Facial expressions including eyes
- Hand posing
The concept behind this product just ROCKS! It was (and is!) a boon to in-world animators. Kudos for the idea, and robust execution! :-)
Having said that, there is, in my view, room for improvement:
- the ability to import BVH-style pose frames is at the top. Ideally, just pasting them into chat (on some channel).
- lack of twist on *both* stomach *and* chest greatly reduces the range of possible *realistic* poses, and that's a shame given how much work was put into this. Just twisting one of those two parts will often result in ... well, odd looking poses, when twisting both by half (to simplify) looks so much better.
- for those of us used to working in X/Y/Z for years, the method here is kinda hard to adjust to. I am not sure I understand why this different approach was chosen... it isn't necessarily worse, but does introduce an unnecessary (?) learning curve for those used to dealing with established methods (eg Poser, DAZ, U-Poser, etc).
None of the above are major obstacles for most, and once again, the concept and execution here is great. I will be watching to see how this product develops. :-)
This tool works exactly as advertised, very well thought, easy and fun to use. It doesn't allow for the same level of control as U-poser, but depending on what you're trying to do the ability to use your own avatar can beautifully make up for these limitations - anyway I'm not dumping one for the other!
5 stars, well deserved :)
Very easy to use, few minutes to make a perfect pose.
This one is different from others becouse you move your avatar (not a prim mannequin).
Works great for making precise poses for your avatar,also great for couple poses if you can run two instances of SL on your computer.
Couples poses not fitting properly or not fitting properly to any object are pet peeves of mine,ruins the immersion for me.This tool takes care of that.
