odf opened this issue on Oct 27, 2008 · 13933 posts
odf posted Wed, 18 February 2009 at 8:26 PM Online Now!
Quote - Could you make the toecaps conforming? I don't really see any reason why not to but I guess there is one.
I think bagginsbill explained it nicely near the middle of page 24. If the toecaps are part of the mesh and share its grouping, then they inherit all the bending automatically. Also, it's much more likely that morph makers will support them than if they were a separate conforming figure.
The one drawback of course is that now the toecap is neither a figure nor an actor, only a material zone. So Poser doesn't just give us a neat box to check for invisibility. I think for the final figure I'll just support both ways, transparency and morphing, to hide them.
Any opinions so far on that genital cap I suggested? Who'd use it, who'd hate it? It seems logical to do the same thing there as with the toecaps, but if everyone will just ignore it, I might as well not bother.
-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.