Lo or Hi resolution mesh.

A good mesh is build by a creator who knows human anatomy and who puts the edgelines where they are needed.

The rest can be done with careful management of crease angle and SubD.

My current is as follows.
Knowing that:

• Smoothed meshes grow and expand.
• SubD meshes shrink in size.

I always set crease angle at 180° on all figure groups, render with Smoothing enabled in the render settings, and at SubD level 1.

No shrinking or expanding any more, and Smooth figures that maintain size.

Poser 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, P8 and PPro2010, P9 and PP2012, P10 and PP2014 Game Dev
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