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Yep, and the upgrade is free, of course! It addresses the knees, butt and shoulders, as you can see here, in compairson to regular Vickie- SMV's joints, incidently, are normally no better (or worse) than Vickie's, and I do like putting her next to regular Vickie to show her off! There is also a new face in the Zip, maybe a little less manly ;-) The CR2 is fitted for the new texture ("Roma") included with her bustier set, so if you don't have that you will have to reinstall the body textures. Incidently, I've got a counter on the download page, and if it looks like I'm providing a service to warez users of SMV the next update will be by email only. This update will NOT be of any use to you if you don't own SMV, the body morphs will NOT work with regular Vickie. As a final note, if you are now thinking of starting out with SMV, there is a super combo package at www.bbay.com just for new users! And it doesn't cost anything to look!

Thank you Jim :) Going to get her now :)

Jim, how did you get the knee to work as a JCM? I don't want a fix to even start until the bend is beyond 90 degrees and then kick in fairly quickly over the last 45 drgrees. I have not figured out how to do that with a JCM. The fix looks good.

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.

great job on the joints! looks great from here! Can u share the
bikini on the right, it's sweet!! thanks for the great products!

daemonhero

Thanks! The bikini will be in Supermodel Essentials part 1, I hope to have the set out in another week or so, now that JCM is out of the way.

"apply bulges" - tell me more. How did you turn this off? Globally or with a morph control? I understand what you did with the JCM. I was hoping you had made a breakthrough and we were not stuck with linear application. [expletive of disappointment]

I turned off the check in the Joint Editor for bends. I had noticed Zygote had really cranked this up for the knees, at high setting it sort of destroys the joint, as it doesn't pull in very evenly. No breakthrough, I don't understand any of this stuff, I just plug in what others have figured out. ;-) Incidently this is what SMV's knees look like at about 90 and 120 degrees with the JCM. The dress needs more work!