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To make it work with current rigging system, one would have to anticipate Z Scaling and make a whole array of ERC'd JP adjustments and JCM's for each joint. That would be a humongous undertaking. Not to mention very cost prohibitive to make a figure like that, and especially clothing for it.

And ahem allow me to channel Joe public and quote myself(LOL)  from the previous page of this thread (See above).
The joint smoothing parameters that phantom showed in his video are just a part of JP's that have been a part of the rigging all the time.

A figure will bend different ways, depending on how those JP's are set. Also those may needs a different setting depending on whether a bone is bending forward, back or sideways, and whether the neighboring bones are bent and/or rotated or not.

One would have to be a real entry level rigger to not be aware of those.

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