If you want to use this template to create your own custom mirror poses, and use the existing buttons, I will share some info below on how to do that.
These are the Pose Preset Settings I use on creating Mirror Poses:
How to Save a Pose Preset
After you pose your model in the position and pose you like...
1: Go to the Pose Presets Tab
2: Make sure you're on the right person you want to save the pose of. Not an issue on mirror poses unless you want to experiment with posing more than one person in front of the mirror at the same time.
2B: If you have more than one, you can click the Person icon and it will toggle to the other person.
3: Be sure Store Root Node In Pose is checked. In general you usually don't check this because it can cause the model to load far away in another scene if used again. But for something like a scene pose, you want it checked so they load at the exact same spot each time. That is why some poses load right in front of you and some load far away. It's based on if this is checked. For the mirror poses, you want it checked.
4: Name your pose. I usually put a number 1 after it because I might test out variations and numbering helps track that if I end up doing that.
5: Click the Create New Preset button to save it.
6: You can come back here and click Select Existing to load a pose preset saved.
How To Change Out Pose Buttons to Use Your Pose Presets
Click Edit Mode and you'll see a Toggle Targets (T) button at the bottom. You can click that or just use the keyboard shortcut of clicking the letter T on your keyboard. Click T to turn it on, and T to turn it back off. When you turn it on, you'll see green boxes for all the atoms in the scene that you can hover over until they turn yellow and then click on them to edit them. Below each pose button is a green box that you click on when it turns yellow after hovering over or around it.
This will pull up the Pose button Atom. Another way to get here is click on the arrow icon on your menu bar, check show hidden, and find Pose 1 and click the control tab. This way is faster. If for some reason you click the square and it doesn't open the window below, click the Toggle UI button at the bottom left. You have to have your Edit Mode window open at the same time. You then click on the Button Trigger tab, and click on the settings button.
Updating the Pose for Each Button
The settings are really easy and are the same on all 50 of them:
Receiver Atom: Person
Receiver: PosePresets
Receiver Target: LoadPresetWithPath
Choose File: you browse and find your Pose Preset you saved.
The folder path is listed in the example below it: Custom / Atom / Person / Pose folder
Select the pose you want to use on the button and click Ok.
Now every time you click the button it will load your pose. Don't close the window, you want to now update the image on the button as well.
Updating the Image on the Button
1. Click on the Image tab,
2. Click on the Browse button, and you're going to go back to Custom / Atom / Person / Pose and click the same pose again.
3. Then click the load button. This will then make that pose the image for the button.
Be sure to save the scene after you update the pose buttons with your pose presets. I recommend saving your scene as you update so many in case you forget so you don't lose all your progress.
The way VAM works is if you update the pose or overwrite it and save it again with a new screenshot to get a better button image or a better pose, it will auto update the button so you don't have to go load the same pose again here. So you can keep modifying the pose and the button will update and use whatever that pose path is last saved as for that pose name which is really nice. So you don't have to change anything on the button unless you change the pose name.
If you change your pose screenshot, the image on the button may not refresh right away though because VAM uses caching to load images. And to get it to refresh the cache, you'll need to save the scene, close it and re-open it.
If you come up with some really great mirror poses and want to share them by uploading your version to the hub, here is a guide on how to upload your scene file:
Hi peeps, is there a guide or something to explain how to upload a scene I have created to the hub. After 3 months of constant learning, I feel that my scenes are good enough to share. TIA :)
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