lululee opened this issue on Dec 10, 2006 · 12 posts
4blueyes posted Sun, 10 December 2006 at 8:49 AM
Quote - "D-Formers are the equivalent of Magnets in Poser, and are built into V4’s rigging, or system of joints. These D-Formers are used primarily as a replacement for many of the joint-controlled morphs (JCMs for short) that we have seen in past Millennium figures. (They also have another use, but we will get to that a bit later.) The second new feature is a set of dials that control transform channels in multiple body parts at the same time; these are called Morphforms. (Morphform controls are not available in the V4 Base package; you need to upgrade to the V4 Morphs + product to get this functionality.) Let’s start with the D-Formers. As I mentioned, these have been added to V4 primarily to replace a great number of the JCMs that have been used in the past, as well as adding functionality that might have previously been handled by morphs. The purpose of JCMs, and the new D-Formers which replace many of them, is to add more realism and anatomically-correct joint movement than might otherwise be possible within the constraints of the Poser rigging system. One of the primary benefits of using D-Formers in a figure like Victoria is that clothing need not contain these D-Formers to work with them. (JCMs, on the other hand, require clothing to contain analogous morphs.) A simple Magnetize pose allows the D-Formers to work not only on the figure but on the clothing as well."
While indeed some of the D-Formers are there to add more functionality and fit to morphs, like the breast gravity stuff, their PRIMARY job is to replace JCMs that are a killer to model into a clothing item. You cannot add a, say, Voluptuous morph from the V4 using her d-formers to a clothing item that does not have the appropriate deltas to form an externally created Voluptuous morph. ... that's be too awesomely easy and most of the clothing creators could just retire XD Michal 4blueyes