Phantast opened this issue on Aug 25, 2004 ยท 48 posts
svdl posted Thu, 26 August 2004 at 10:14 AM
I believe Curious Labs has more interest in dynamic clothing than in those crosstalk/JCM issues. At least, I've seen no changes in JCM behavior and functionality over the different service packs, while the cloth room functionality has been greatly improved. With dynamic cloth, you don't have to worry about crosstalk and morph adjustments. I believe conforming clothing using ERC is a deprecated feature. What I consider a major flaw in the Poser CR2 structure is the lack of a "thisFigure" keyword. There is a "conformingTarget" keyword, which is useful when creating ERC stuff, but a "thisFigure" would effectively eliminate all crosstalk problems without losing crosstalk functionality. Another major flaw in the internal workings of Poser: it isn't really designed to work with multiple figures. The figure/prop list is not maintained in a hashtable or dictionary, it's based on the order of addition to the scene. This is a major cause of the crosstalk problems. I'm rather disappointed at DAZ since none of their stuff uses P5 features. While I fully understand their wish to make P4 compatible stuff, it isn't too hard to add P5 features (better materials, Face Room compatibility, grouped dials, hierarchic folder structure) without breaking P4 compatibility. A few of the merchants here support both P4 and P5, it can be done!
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