Diogenes opened this issue on Jan 06, 2010 · 722 posts
Diogenes posted Tue, 02 March 2010 at 1:54 AM
Yes I definitely noticed the new morph transfer tools by Cage :) I'm all over it, believe me. :) Super idea to be able to borrow morphs from figure to figure.
Well, at a fork in the road right now. I basically have three different rigs, that are the same except for the thigh and hip joints. The first two I should make a decision and choose one to run with. They both bend great for the thighs, but one is better over all except for the drawback.
In the rig you have seen above, the thigh center is aligned half way between alignment for the body and alignment for the leg. This allows the leg to swing forward and backward in a relatively straight line. It does not move to the inside and so no adjustment is necessary.
In the second rig the thigh centers are aligned solely with the leg. This is best for scaling of the thighs and hip, and also it is better in the thigh hip muscle deformation. However the thigh-leg will move to the inside with a slight twist on extreme movements of the thigh bend. This is easy to adjust for with side to side and twist of the joint. I would personally choose this joint over the former because of the better performance of muscle deformation in both the bend and side to side. But you do have to compensate as I have mentioned, which means a little more work in posing.
What will others prefer? I dont know. Would some of you mind if I post an unfinished trial of both for testing, discussion and comment?
The third rigg will be the same as whichever of the former two is chosen, except I am adding my double hip variation. (Antonia style hip)
Michael might be envious for a little while till M5 comes out, then I'm sure Daz will have trumped me. Or perhaps Anton will do a new Apollo. But C'est la vie, I shall have to come up with something better. :)