Weight Mapping has been around for at least a decade as far as I know...I started using it in Lightwave 7 and it probably existed before that...It's pretty old technology... I'm actually a little surprised that it hasn't been integrated into Poser long ago.

Essentially it allows you to modify the area of influence a bone has on a mesh and furthermore allows you to set the fall-off of that influence...

I think it was Lightwave 8 that introduced a "Weight Brush" which allowed even more control over the influence.

I've only got up to Version 8 in Lightwave but I suspect that it's been even further refined in later versions.

As for Giving up Poser...meh...I only open it every couple of months as it is...so I have no real investment in it either way.

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