face_off opened this issue on Sep 29, 2004 ยท 10 posts
an0malaus posted Mon, 13 December 2004 at 1:03 PM
AntoniaTiger, I have no doubt that is anatomically correct, but in the Poser realm bent knee shin side-side is better (less mesh break up at the knee) represented by thigh twist IMHO. For example, if the shin bend is 90, the side-side bend zones don't affect enough of the parent thigh to avoid strange mesh effects. Whereas twisting the thigh rotates the bent shin child without any distortion while distributing the twist along the length of the thigh smoothly. Anyway, (pp.) "They're more guidelines than rules" and YMMV, but I've seen enough extreme knee bend poses with large shin side-side components leaving the calf muscle in impossible positions to want to try for something better :-).
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