odf opened this issue on Oct 27, 2008 · 13933 posts
odf posted Tue, 16 March 2010 at 8:16 PM
amy_aimei: I found it quite tricky to make the JCMs for Antonia's thigh movements. Basically, I made the one for the x-rotation first, then modeled the JCM for the z-rotation on a mixed pose like the one in the picture. Then I would in effect subtract the effect of the x-rot JCM in order to get the pure z-rot JCM. DAZ's MorphLoaderPro is quite good at automating that kind of thing, so I never bothered to work out how to do it in Poser or "on foot".
I also made several passes where I "fixed" a particularly ugly pose in Wings3D and then split the difference onto the existing JCMs for the individual rotations. This can get quite messy without the appropriate tools. Unfortunately, neither Poser nor D|S seem to have tools that are really appropriate, but at least there's some support for making JCMs now.
-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.