Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: 2d-JCMs again

colorcurvature opened this issue on Jan 04, 2013 · 44 posts


Paloth posted Fri, 11 January 2013 at 4:11 AM

The legs have the problems that they come very close together. There is a zone were the bends interfere. I guess its because of the smoothing zone. That makes it difficult to create really independent JCMs for each leg.

To deal with this sort of thing one must abandon strict symmetry and true independence. There will be morph overlap and the quality will need to hold up when both limb JCMs are at 1.

When I'm working on JCMS for limbs, I pose both sides of the Poser figure symmetrically, export with CO_Exporter_2012_UV and load this into Zbrush where the JCM is created. Then I open the morphed figure in Modo and load a default-posed export in another layer. I use the Zbrush sculpt as a background morph. Then I split the morph by selecting half of the figure and activating the background morph to the respective sides in turn. The end result is tested by activating the two new morphs at the same time. If the JCM is extreme, there may be unacceptible distortions near the center of the mesh. I use Modo's sculpt tools to smooth the problem areas when both morphs are active, and also in the seperate morphs. Eventually, something will be produced that works adequately both in the seperate and the combined states.

Perfect symmetry at this point is a distant memory, but it's close enough and looks adequate.

It will be interesting to test this cr2 on another system once the work is done. I’m using a poor man’s 64-bit "supercomputer" and things are working flawlessly but will there be lag on an older system? Time will tell.

 There may be a few drawbacks to this JCM-heavy approach. One, of course, is the large cr2 or PDM load. Another issue may be clothing creation since it will not strictly conform to the morphed surface, but I am of the opinion that a sparer grid of correction morphs may be used in this instance. Then there is the issue of IK. Using IK overrides JCMs. I’m not sure why this need be the case, but it’s the way it is. It could prove too laborious to create clothing that will perform adequately in both the IK and the JCM versions of the figure, (too laborious for others, and not for me, of course. “Laborious” is my middle name.)

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