***Quote - Very few 3rd-party proggies support the .cr2 format fully in the first place. ***

But very few programs are seeking from scratch to emulate Poser to the extent Studio has.

Quote - Because of this, how exactly Poser handles the morph/dial and translates the results is largely a secret - at least programmatically.

*** ***Not really. They already cracked everything else in the cr2 and duplicated it's fuction and performance. I doubt there is anything dubious about "taper".

***Quote - Unless you call it directly in Poser.exe/.app (say, via Python), you won't replicate the results perfectly, if at all. ***

*** ***
Tom think about it. If that was true, none of these pose packs and character packs would work. Of course the tracking is plottable. Once you know what off and what 100% is, it is easy to define all the percentages in between.

Quote - Unless the function is vital, it is far easier/safer to leave a feature out than to throw a ton of time and cash at emulating it - especially if the results are at best not going to be perfect

Well techically "Scale" can be achieved with x.y.z scale so it is even less vital than taper, being it is completely reduntant. After 5 years and what I am sure is over a million in expense, I don;t think supporting "taper" is going to bring the company down financially.

They already have an example of how it works so ditching it's emulation, while choosing the emulate the rest of the cr2 makes it likely they either forgot or foolishly have dismissed it's use.  I can't see anything "unsafe" or baffling about "Taper".

There is no reason the results can't be emulated just as well as they did with Scale, Xscale, Yscale, Zscale, PointAt, Joints, etc, etc, etc.

-Anton, creator of Apollo Maximus
"Conviction without truth is denial; Denial in the face of truth is concealment."

Over 100,000 Downloads....