Leave limits on?

Sassanik

Okay stupid user question here, I get that message about "leave limits on?" dialogue box. Should I leave them on and if so why? Or should I turn them off? if so why?

Amy

Lissa_xyz

I turn them off, because if it's asking you then chances are the pose was created with limits off and won't look right with limits on.

Jaderail

FYI: Limits On sets the Joint rotations to the Defaults and locks them so a user can not Exceed the natural bends in the joint.
Limits OFF will allow the Joints to go beyond the natural limits as seen by whomever created the limits. Many poses need OFF.

And just for another tip: Leave it on, you can turn the limits ON and OFF as needed. With it set to OFF you can twist parts and NEVER notice until you Render.

Richard Haseltine

I tend to leave the limits on, then look at the result and either try to adjust it so it works within limits, or adjust the limits, and reapply, or turn limits off as an absolute last resort. I do have to admit, however, that some of the limits on the joints are unreasonably tight - even I can get into positions that Genesis can't.

Jaderail

Richard Haseltine said:

I tend to leave the limits on, then look at the result and either try to adjust it so it works within limits, or adjust the limits, and reapply, or turn limits off as an absolute last resort. I do have to admit, however, that some of the limits on the joints are unreasonably tight - even I can get into positions that Genesis can't.

LOL!! Yes, I'm double jointed due to EDS, genetic thing, I can touch the back of my left ear with my left hand from behind my back on the left side. Try that on genesis even with limits off.

pauljacob11

I wish there is a function to disable a group of items. Yesterday I was working on a hand and posing the fingers one by one, and I had to go into the parameters and uncheck the limits button for each fingers (thank God we have only five!). Time consuming and tedious work. If I could simply uncheck limits for an entire hand it would really be a useful feature -- which I hope it's already there and I don't know about it because I'm still a noob.

Richard Haseltine

Paste this into a text file and save as LimitsOffSelected.dsa in a DAZ Studio content directory such as My Library\Scripts\Utilities, make sure it works (I haven't tested it much), and if it does right-click on it in the Content Library pane and select Create Custom Action - that will add it to your Scripts menu (and create the Scripts menu if needed) so that you can use it without having to find the file.

// Limits On Selected
// (c) Richard Haseltine, September 2013
// Turn rotation limits off for selected nodes

var bones = Scene.getSelectedNodeList();
for ( var n = 0 ; n < bones.length ; n++ ) {
 if ( bones[ n ].getXRotControl() ) {
  bones[ n ].getXRotControl().setIsClamped( false );
 }
 if ( bones[ n ].getYRotControl() ) {
  bones[ n ].getYRotControl().setIsClamped( false );
 }
 if ( bones[ n ].getZRotControl() ) {
  bones[ n ].getZRotControl().setIsClamped( false );
 }
}

and to turn limits back on save this as LimitsOnSeelcted and do the same

// Limits Off Selected
// (c) Richard Haseltine, September 2013
// Turn rotation limits on for selected nodes

var bones = Scene.getSelectedNodeList();
for ( var n = 0 ; n < bones.length ; n++ ) {
 if ( bones[ n ].getXRotControl() ) {
  bones[ n ].getXRotControl().setIsClamped( true );
 }
 if ( bones[ n ].getYRotControl() ) {
  bones[ n ].getYRotControl().setIsClamped( true );
 }
 if ( bones[ n ].getZRotControl() ) {
  bones[ n ].getZRotControl().setIsClamped( true );
 }
}

pauljacob11

Thank you Richard, I will implement and report. You're the Man. By the way are you the creator of Studio, or one of many wizards?

Richard Haseltine

No, I can muddle through with scripting but actual binary coding I haven't touched for ages - a couple of decades, give-or-take. (Did I want to think about that?)

pauljacob11

OK, I pasted the first script into notepad and saved it in scripts/utilities. In Win explorer it has the green D icon but in file type it says "DAZ Script 2 (ascii), and it doesn't show up when I open the script pane. How to save this script properly?

Richard Haseltine

It should show if you go to the folder in the Content Library pane. You can open it into the Script pane using the pane's own File>Open Script menu (or paste it straight in) and then click the Execute button to run it, but that's a fiddle other than as a way of checking that it does what you want.

pauljacob11

That worked, thank you very much. Have a great week.