Loading and Saving Pose Files

Table of Contents

• Obtaining Pose Files
• Loading a Pose File
  • Advanced Loading Options
• Saving a Pose File
  • Advanced Saving Options

Obtaining Pose Files

Pose files for use with Anamnesis can be found in multiple places, including but not limited to:

• the XIV Tools Discord
• the Crystalline Means Discord
• the XIV Mod Archive

Anamnesis has full backwards compatibility with Concept Matrix pose files (.cmp). This means any pose files you downloaded for use in Concept Matrix will work with Anamnesis right out of the gates.

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Loading a Pose File

To load a pose file, first ensure you have entered GPose by either clicking the Group Pose button, or typing /gpose in the chat window and hitting enter, then enable posing by clicking the Enable button in the tool.

From here you can load a premade pose file either for Anamnesis or Concept Matrix, or use a suite of built-in static idle poses provided by Cap'n Kett.

❗️ Note: These built-in poses can act as a good starting point to making your own poses!

Simply click the Load button (1) in the bottom right of the tool in any of the pose windows (Pose GUI, Pose 3D, Posing Matrix) and you will be presented with the Load flyout. Using the drop-down at the top of the flyout, you can choose from Local files (poses in the Anamnesis Pose folder), Local Files (CMTool) (poses in the CMTool Matrix Saves folder, if it exists on your computer), or Built In Poses (static vanilla idle poses). Then use the in-tool file browser to select your pose from the desired folder, and click the 🗸 Load button.

Alternatively, you can bring up Windows Explorer to find your pose file by clicking on the ... button (2).

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Advanced Loading Options

By default, all pose elements are selected, but can be checked on or off as needed. However, as a rule of thumb, these options are usually best left on at all times, unless you know what you're doing.

To load only specific portions of a pose (for example, the hands from one pose file and the legs from another), select the bones by either clicking and dragging to select them in GUI View, or holding CTRL and clicking the bones in Matrix View, and checking the Include Selected Bones Only box before loading the pose file- the Load button will change to say Load # Bones to reflect this.

Further information on combining multiple poses together can be found here.

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Saving a Pose File

Poses made in Anamnesis will be saved in the .pose file format, and are easily saved by simply pressing the Save button to bring out the Save flyout, giving your file a name, and clicking the 🗸 Save button.

Alternatively, you can bring up Windows Explorer to save your pose file by clicking on the ... button.

❗️ Note: Anamnesis cannot save files in the .cmp format for use in Concept Matrix. You will not be able to load .pose files in Concept Matrix.

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Advanced Saving Options

Much like with loading a pose file, you have the freedom to select which elements of your pose you would like to save. This allows for creating pose assets to be reused in multiple poses, such as hand poses, leg stances, etc.

To save only specific portions of a pose (for example, the hands from one pose file and the legs from another), select the bones by either clicking and dragging to select them in GUI View, or holding CTRL and clicking the bones in Matrix View, and checking the Include Selected Bones Only box before saving the pose file- the Save button will change to say Save # Bones to reflect this.

Again, by default, all pose elements are selected, but can be checked on or off as needed. It is still advisable that you leave them all checked, however.

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