odf opened this issue on Oct 27, 2008 · 13933 posts
odf posted Thu, 02 April 2009 at 6:15 AM
So, I tried the latest version of Daz Studio, and I still can't get it to work properly on my machine. Which unfortunately means I won't be able to use the Daz Setup Tools either. Now most of the rigging is done, but I'd really like to spend some more time on JCMs.
So my question is this: Is there any other tool that would enable me to make JCMs on the posed figure?
If not, I'd like some input on how to write one. Basically, given the original figure, the posed figure before the morph, the posed figure after the morph, the pose and the joint setup - particularly the center and the axis rotations - I should be able to reconstruct the weights that were applied to each vertex. From that, I should be able to determine the morph to apply to the unposed figure in order to get the correct result for the posed figure.
With me so far? If there's sufficient interest in this question, we can move it to Poser Technical. But since the technical forums tend to be a bit slow and Spanki is already reading here, I thought I'd start right here with the thinking out loud.
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