Hi, Bonni.

This may sound bizarre, but how important are clothes? As everybody knows, S1 has more than a couple bending problems in the joints. I solved some of it with JCM in the shoulders and knees. I did the JCM as injections, so the JCM could be removed or never injected if you didnt like what the JCM was doing, but also so old S1 clothing could be compatible. In other words, if she were wearing shorts or a short skirt, injecting the knee JCM was a good idea, because the bare knees would be showing. However, if she were wearing full length pants, the knee JCM would be a bad idea, because the knees wouldnt crumple with the old S1 pants, and the fixed knees would poke through. So, the JCM was optional, making old clothes still good with her.

The thing is, S1s worst joint problem is in the hips. At default load pose, the mesh is tearing where the front of her thigh meets her buttock actors, and it only gets worse with bending. I was able to solve some of this with about six months of difficult JCM work. Then I got a wild hair and tried something else. I simply gave her hips Joint Parameters very similar to V3s, and got better results than I had with JCM. However, the Joint Parameters arent injectable, so that version would never be compatible with old S1 clothes in the hip area, unless a Joint Pose was made for the clothes. Would you rather have the version with the better hips, or the version with maximum clothing compatibility?