odf opened this issue on Oct 27, 2008 · 13933 posts
odf posted Fri, 30 July 2010 at 9:19 PM
Quote - Regarding my last post about hip asymmetry. I can't find anything that looks wrong in the rig, so perhaps it is just one of those weird things that Poser seems so fond of doing, rather than a problem with Antonia herself.
I was half suspecting that. At any rate, I will try to come up with a script to test the symmetry of the rig and other potential problems I can think of.
At the moment, I'm half through my visual inspection of the JPs. Besides the ones already mentioned, I found a few more small problems with the falloff zones, mostly the inclusion/exclusion angles. If the influence zone for a bend reaches the boundary between the parent actor and its parent, one gets unsightly crinkles at those boundaries for large rotation values. The adjustments are usually quite small, and I didn't have to change any JCMs for them.
I made one more substantial change so far, namely at the hip2 xrot (Bend), which in Antonia 125 involves a pretty severe deformation of the buttocks that I found intolerable. As a result, that bend now gets a bit ugly at larger values, but is, I think, more usable at realistic values. A new pose I made using the improved hip2 bend can be seen in my latest Gallery submission, entitled Skating Dream.
I still have to do some more of those small fixes I mentioned above on the neck and collars, and maybe check the fingers once more. After that, it's time to get to work on that CR2 checker script. After that, many new poses...
-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.