kimbersue opened this issue on Jan 13, 2013 · 208 posts
Male_M3dia posted Tue, 22 January 2013 at 7:07 AM
The bolded line is partly why M4WM will probably never happen. Male figures have always gotten the lower priority, so even when M4WM was being worked on, I doubted that it would see the light of day. And I doubt even then no one will ever take it up, but no need for me repeating it. ;) I see no value in having it weightmapped if it's not going to be properly supported.
And I'm not worried, because I have M5. I think a lot of people misunderstand the reasons behind weightmapping figures. Sure it's to help bending, but it's actual value is to help the morphs in a figure. That way you can throw a custom morph at it and the mesh doesn't serious deform. There's different reasons behind weightmapping males and female characters; women, you may want to do all the poses, but the guys have much more detailed bodies and sizes, so that's where the weightmapping has it's value and M4WM would most likely fall flat. I couldn't do this shape for M4 (or even M4WM) without having the morph added to any piece of clothing I wanted to use... and forget asking vendors to add certain male morphs to clothing... that is when you can find clothing for them.