Quote - As for distribution, they would need multiple encoding and if I'd give them away I'd become immensly popular with lots of fanboys/girls begging for more and if I sell them I'd have to spend my time making them fool-proof, testing, and being friendly to customers and giving constant tech-support.

You hit the nail on the head. Once you do one thing, people want more.

The biggest pain is when people want you do do more for free, and don't offer to help at all. All they do is complain because you have a real life with other priorities. Anyone that has Poser Pro can weight map a character, but very few people in the community actually worked together to make it happen to a character. Once they do, people just want more....

On another note, the same script used to convert V4 to V4WM can be used on any Poser character. The script support file can be setup to only strip out what needs to go, and only insert what needs inserted/changed in the modified cr2.

Quote - One advantage of W-Mapping is to get rid of JCM's, magnets, hidden bones and other pollution.

With correct W-Mapping you do not need those.

What you said is not entirely true.

Topology can make adding bones a requirement. And since a weight map can only move vertices on one axis, JCMs can be used on certain joints. You are better off using bones than JCMs, simply because any Poser user can convert the clothing to work with it. JCMs require another program outside of Poser to insert the JCMs into the clothing.

That was why V4WM does not have any JCMs added to it and uses bones to correct the thigh bend. So any Poser user can use it.

Adding bones can drastically reduce the size of a CR2 as well. For instance you can bone rig a face using sphere zones/capsules and eliminate a huge amount of morph data in the process. Morphs are what makes a CR2 huge, not bone and/or magnet information.

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