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It's pretty much my job to open up applications and see if I can break them. And trust me, I do it all the time. Sometimes by mistake, even in my own applications. So let me show you how you can get back to the way things were just in case things go a little wonky. Let's say, for example, that you are zooming in on your figure like this and you keep zooming and all of a sudden that figure's gone, so you're rotating around and you're like uh oh, where is my figure? Well, you'd figure - that's pretty funny actually - that you'd go to the Camera Controls here, let me just go ahead and go to the Camera and I'm going to choose Auxiliary Camera and there he is, he's all bent up. I can also right-click and choose Main Camera, but that didn't do anything, even though I select the Main Camera the figure is gone. The same thing can happen when you're moving anything. You could be using lights around and you could be doing all kinds of things and accidentally completely and utterly lose or twist your figure beyond control. By the way, let's take a look at that figure again. You see that he's really a mess. So I'm going to go to the Edit Menu, I'm going to choose Restore, Figure. And there he is. It's like chiropractic - his back is all good now. But what about that Camera? Same thing. Edit, Restore and I'm going to choose Camera. And I can go back to that Camera and I can go there again and now the Camera's back to normal as well. This is extremely important because people who are new to Poser oftentimes will grab a tool like Twist and they're clicking on it and next thing you know the figure is, well, it looks like this - just a complete disaster. So, instead of undoing and trying to get back to the way it was what you could do is go to Edit, Restore and then choose what you messed up. So you could choose something like Figure - ah! He's back. Or you can choose something like Element as well. So, you have to choose what's going to work for you. So you could choose Element, you could choose Figure, if you move the lights around or you mess the lights up somehow you can also go to Edit, Restore, those Lights as well. So, hopefully this little tip will help you guys out. When I first started using Poser a while ago I found that I had a difficult time using these tools and I would completely twist the figure or the scene beyond control. This is also very useful for people who are going from a traditional mouse to something like a Wacom Tablet. Now, I'm using a Wacom Tablet and as I mentioned I'm not used to using a Wacom with Poser because until this version it really wasn't fully supported, even though you could get away with it, so when you do things like move things around you notice that all of a sudden the slightest move gets that figure out of control. So, Edit, Restore, Camera. So, keep that in mind and it's just a nice way to not have to go to the Undo and Redo Menu options when you have to restore things.

Tutorial Information

Course: Poser 8
Author: Dwayne Ferguson
SKU: 34076
ISBN: 1-935320-92-0
Release Date: 2010-01-07
Duration: 7.5 hrs / 117 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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