Ian Porter,

Quote - Les,

That is very clever indeed, I'm not sure I understand it fully yet though...

I read that it would control a morph which only is activated if both xrot and zrot are both non zero, so for that difficult pose which comes with Antonia which is both a kick and spread it would be active since both xrot and zrot are non zero. I'm not sure though, if I have morphs for kick and spread, as seperate entities, would these also be active?
What I'm asking is if I used the above, and have a rThigh joint at -45 kick and -60 spread, will I then have either

a)

a mixture of:-
-45 kick morph
-60 spread morph

• the effect of your new combined morph

or b)

just the effect of the new combined morph?

First of all let me say that I may have been a bit premature. Whilst it works well in the two files I posted, those two files were not conformers. I just assumed that the method would transfer smoothly to a conformer. Actually I am struggling to get it working correctly in a conformer. Whether this is just some silly mistake I am making, or a deeper problem is yet to be seen.

Assuming that it will work in a conformer, then I think your scenario "a)" applies. What I think you would have to do in praxis, and what I have done so far, is to build the new morph on top of any existing JCM morphs. That is to say, for example, that you would start with Antonia with the "LegUp" pose applied and the clothing conformed with the Spread and Kick JCM working. You would than build the new "X times Z" morph to add any desired correction to that already morphed shape.

How you would actually do that will depend on what method you use to make morphs. Personally I am using magnets in Poser. Once I have achieved the desired shape on the posed figure with the existing JCM active, I unconform and zero the conformer, before spawning the morph.

Like I said though, I may have been a bit premature here. The above may sound like I know what I am talking about, but in fact I am still trying to get this working on amy_aimei's Volleyball Set. If I ever do, I may be able to give a better (and perhaps different) answer.