EASYBUTTOCK GUIDES
The EasyButtock system is a zero system. It means it starts from zero and nothing happens until you move one handle.

THE CONTROLS
When you load the EasyButtock system on Victoria for the first time, you see many coloured handles showing up
It's important that you know what are those handles for, and the specific function each one has.  
The Hip Handle:

The hip handle moves the hip deformers around, affecting your V4's hip area. Any movement of this handle will have an effect on Vicky's hips. If you pull the handle down, the V4's hip move vertically, if you pull it to sides the hip expands or thins horizontally. If you scale the Hip Handle the hipgrow or shrink. The Hip Handle has some dials to control secondary functions like the height and size of the deformers zone.

  
 
The Waist Handle:

The Waist Handle moves the waist deformers around, affecting your V4's waist. Any movement of this handle will have an effect on Vicky's waist. If you pull the handle down, the waist deformers zones move vertically, if you pull it to sides the waist expands or thins. The Waist Handle has one dial to control the size of the deformers zone.

  
 
The Legs Handle:

The Legs Handle moves the legs deformers around, affecting your V4's legs. Any movement of this handle will have an effect on Vicky's legs. If you pull the handle down, the legs deformers zones move vertically, if you pull it to sides the legs expand or thin. The Legs Handle has one dial to control the size of the deformers zone.

  
 
The Glute Handle:
This is the EasyButtock's Glute Handle. The red handle moves the deformers around, affecting your V4's glute. If you pull the handle down, the V4's glutes move vertically, if you pull it to sides the glutes move horizontally. If you scale the Glute Handle the glutes grow or shrink. If you rotate the Glute Handle the glutes rotate. The Glute Handle always produce symmetrical movements. If one glute rotate to left, the other does the opposite. What if you don't want simmetry? No problem, the small Glute Handles can move both glutes independently :)  
 
The Glute Zone Handle:
The Glute Zone Handle moves the glute's deformation zones, if you were reading a book with a lens the Red Handle would be your hand but the Blue Handle would be the lens. If you pull the handle down, the deform zones move vertically, if you pull it to sides the glutes move horizontally. If you scale the Blue Handle the deform zones grow or shrink. If you rotate the Blue Handle the zones rotate. Like in the Red Handle's case, the Blue Handle always produce symmetrical movements, and again there are small Blue Handles to get non symmetrical effects if necessary :)  
The Glute Pivot Handle:
Even if this Handle won't affect your workflow much, it's important - this Handle moves the glute's deformation's pivot! What?? The origin of the deform effects start by this Handle. Extra cleavage, extra gravity, extra jump effects....can be done by the Red&Blue team, but will look better if you move this handle a bit ;)  
The Lower Glute Handles:
Also known as Real buttock System, those 2 handles can fix the V4's lower glute. Ever found it's hard to fix the V4's butt asymmetry when she raises one leg only? The Lower Handles will help you fix the V4's in many positions, like raising one leg only, or sitting  
 

THE POSES
There are some special poses we need to understand to use the EasyButtock at full potential
!Magnetize Clothing
First and most important Pose of the pack. To be applied on clothing, with V4 already loaded with the EasyButtock on her. It transfers the magnets' effect from V4 to the clothes  
Disable Duplicated
For Poser users only, this pose allows you to kill the duplicated deformers when you load to the scene a character that was previously saved to your libraries with the EasyButtock and magnetized clothes  
Deformers On/Off Poses
Useful to deactivate/activate your deformers, and their effect on the clothes. They don't alter the settings you were using, and are helpful if you are using the EasyButtock combined with morphs or other deformers  
Other Poses
The rest of poses are not so special therefore I will make only a quick remark. There are the Reset poses to reset the main Handles, the auxiliar Handles or all the Handles. We have the Hide/Show poses, to hide and show the handles by groups or all at once. The Poser users will find the Handles are invisible to render, but the DS users might need to hide them before rendering using thoses poses. Or you may simply want to hide them after making the desired look.

USING EasyButtock

So it's time to jump to Poser or DS!

 

Step1: Loading figure

Load a Victoria4 by DAZ. It's important that DS users disable the "Auto Magnetize" feature of their program before continuing, to do so click F2 and under Content Manager uncheck the "Auto Magnetize" box

 

 

Step2: Loading EasyButtock

Find your EasyButtock, DS users will find it under Characters and Poser users under Props, and load it with Victoria selected. Because it's a zero system, nothing happens until you start moving handles.
 

 

Step3: Using EasyButtock

Now we can start moving and/or scaling handles with the mouse:)

Move the HipHandle up/down/right/left or scale it. Then move the WaistHandle or LegsHandle right and left. Scale the Glute Handle or move it to the sides....the possibilities are endless
 

MAGNETIZING CLOTHES

Let's load some clothing!

 

Step1: Loading clothes

Select a clothing to use with Victoria and load it. In the image the V4 bottom from the Victoria4 basic wear pack. It doesn't conform well because we previously moved the handles

 

 

Step2: Magnetizing Clothing

Select the clothing and use the !Magnetize Clothing pose on it. That's all! Remember to use the pose on any new clothing you load, even if they are shirts they could fall into the EasyButtock area and you might need to run the pose for a good clothing fit.

Depending on the pose, you might need to run the !Magnetize to V4 pose from your V4 install package, for the clothing to magnetize to the V4's built-in magnets.
 

THE REAL BUTTOCK SYSTEM
The EasyButtock system comes, with a useful tool called Real Buttock System.

 

Step1: The Real Buttock System

Now bend only one of V4's legs....can you see the assymetry on V4's buttocks? Use the Lower Glute Handles (marked with a circle) to fix the right or left glute, moving them up or down a bit
 

 

Step2: The Real Buttock System

That is! Assymetry fixed
 

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