Well P8 added all the new joint tools but in Pro 2010 they added the ability to display the effected vertices themselves and how strongly they are effected by the brightness of the color. So instead of having to use the wireframe mesh view of the falloff zones and watch how they effect the mesh in the smooth shaded lined display mode, I can now watch how the vertices themselves are effected. And how strongly they are effected as I move the fallof zone around. It is so much better.

It has in the past been so hard to get those falloff zones just the right size, angle and placement to grab just the vertices you want, in the right strength to get smooth bends. Most of the time you were just making an edjucated guess and fiddling with it for hours, into days, into months, into years, to finally get them just right. Now that I can actually see the vertices, while I work with the falloff zones, I can get optimum placement in just minutes. Not long anyway. All these past years of fiddling with falloff zones has taught me to know what vertices I want to grab and how strongly. But it was still a tedious long protracted process of actually getting there using the old tools.

So I guess its not really a new tool, they just gave me the ability to see what I am doing.

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