The elbows in Poser Place V4wm can easily be fixed without a jcm. It just needs the main and bulge maps tweaked. Obviously that poses a problem if rigging isn't your thing or the edition of Poser you have wont let you edit the maps.

At the time it was done, Poser did not properly support the best way to do it and there were other issues that needed attention in the mapping that took precedence in the update. (There is still something missing in Poser that would drastically improve rigging, and no, it isn't in Studio either...)

The elbow probably should have been made a tad beter when it was updated, but having a ton of updates would not be a good idea either. (Doing tons of updates will kill a characters usage in a hurry) So, in the end it was left alone for someone to release a jcm to fix it. There were a few of them being done at Poser Place, but all of that is lost now that the site is gone.

Every character has issues, Poser Place V4wm has the elbows to deal with. No big deal for the most part.

Lots of people were quick to criticize PPV4wm, but only a few actually made it happen. There will never be a one size fits all character with the technology we currently use. Compared to other WM versions of V4, the Poser Place one bends the best with the acception of the elbows. (Biased opinion , lol)

As far as which character is best, well that depends on how you look at it. (literally, how YOU look at it.)

Usually the best one is the one that works for what you are doing at the time. For me that is still usually a highly modified version of V3. But it is obviously not the only character I use or work with.

Having a Runtime with lots of characters is probably the best option to have. And there are a lot of characters that you don't have to spend a dime on to get, or find clothes for.

So in a nutshell, the best one to use is the one you want too.

Not what someone else says is the best.

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