odf opened this issue on Oct 27, 2008 · 13933 posts
wdupre posted Sat, 29 August 2009 at 12:13 AM
I applaud your work, its great that someone is tackling an independent figure, but I have some serious reservations about one of the directions you are going.
I took a look at this figure for the first time today, with a mind to how easy it would be to create conforming clothing for, and no offense but it's going to be a nightmare. The JCM work hides a lot of the bending flaws but that's the major problem, you relied heavily on morphs to optimize the joints, and the amount of sculpting you used in those jcms is massive. for clothing to work it needs to share the skeleton, so it's going to share those same bending flaws, and is going to need the same amount of massive resculpting to get it to work on the figure and look smooth. Than when you get into matching full body morphs it becomes even more of a nightmare, because calculating the directions those deltas go with both the JCM and the full body morph and getting the clothing to bend in the same way with the FBMs will be torturous. It's doable I'm sure with MLP and reverse deformations and a lot of patience but it won't be easy.