No, I'm thinking about the Daz3D company which invested, what, two years or so in developing Victoria3. This was no "best at the time" - shoulders, knees, back same as all other figures (or worse). And there was 0 (zero (nil (zilch (zip)))) dependence upon any pleasing or conforming to any market for clothing. This was a fresh start where Daz controlled all of the variables - except for Poser itself. For that type of investment in time, money, people (they have quite a few), V3 should have been the quintessential Poser figure with no problems to be seen for years to come. The issues existed 'out of the box' as it were. My point is this: if a company with employees and heavy investment can't produce something fully useful - that overcomes these perpetual problems, then who's going to do it? Bill Gates and 50,000 of his employees? Look, I'm not totally disagreeing with EK here, but the same goes for setting up JPs for clothing as it does for weight mapping - except most clothing creators tweak the JPs (or not). There would be no difficulty in transfering weight mapping by proximity to the clothing in some manner. You don't have to recreate all of the JP parameters from scratch for clothes - and there are ways that it wouldn't (or shouldn't) need to be done for weight maps. If I wasn't in the middle of several concurrent plugin projects, I'd take the bet and design a figure using current Poser features that works. But would it be worth it or would it just be another sidelined figure with little community support. If you gentlemen and ladies want to put your money where your keyboard is, why is there no open project with a large group of you creating a figure that tromps on them all? If it is truly possible to create a figure that doesn't have the issues that seem to exist in the other human figures, then what are you waiting for?

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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