Quote - Hi Dale B,

Hey,  remember Steve Torino's freebie Eve.  I wonder where daz got the idea for Victoria's rigging?

Cheers,
Patorak

 

Interesting that you should mention that... it ironically helps illustrate a point, which is that 'some things work and some things are red-herrings'.  If you notice, V4 (and Sydney, for that matter) no longer has buttocks 'buffer' joints (first done in Eve).  Buffer joints, as it turns out, don't really give you anything that good fall-off zones can't give you.

They can be of some use as alternate/additional rotational centers or behaiviors (unfortunately, almost noone uses them this way), but if used just to keep some mesh from being deformed, you can tidy up your falloff zones instead.

Daz has always been good about uhm... incorporating other's ideas, but they've also come up with at least a few and tried out things on thier own.  I don't recall if it was V1 or V2 (or both) that had 2 neck joints... but those went away too.  The old tri-split chest (ala V3) reverted back to the mono-chest of Posette in V4 as well.  Now we have a new chest/neck/head grouping being tried out (mostly to accomodate a new uv-mapping layout).  Etc.

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