Jim Burton opened this issue on May 31, 2001 ยท 8 posts
Jim Burton posted Fri, 01 June 2001 at 7:47 AM
I planned the morphs around the full bend, the effect at 90 degrees isn't to bad. The big breakthrough on the knees and butt was turning off the "apply bulges", that is what really screws the joint on Vickie, especially the knees. Poser wants to bend the joint like one of those corrugated drinking straws, and make the outside on a radius. A real joint doesn't work like that, it kinks around the bend, and Vickie (and non-JCM SMV) uses "apply bulges" to pull the outside of the joint in, I in effect turned that off and pulled the outside in with the morphs. The other big part was trying to tuck the folds in on the inside of the joint, so the edges don't show so badly. Anyway, neither of these morphs work too badly at 50%, so the 90 degree bend isn't too effected. I think what Poser 5 really needs is better controls on bending joints, not more options for ERC. Most of the joint problems are caused by not having enough control of the mesh at the bend point. I'm looking at JCM as a tool to improve the looks of the bended joints here, of course.