HKHan99 posted at 10:04AM Tue, 10 September 2019 - #4361566

RedPhantom posted at 7:47PM Mon, 09 September 2019 - #4361542

You would think that, yes, but this way can help with selecting a body part inside clothing without having to hide the clothes. There have been lots of complaints and suggestions over the years. None seem to be a one size fits all solution. The situation you describe isn't as borked as when you have to have your cursor 2 inches from your object before you can select it. Your other option is to use your hierarchy editor.

I can kinda sorta see your reasoning, but it seems like it would be a lot easier to hide the clothes and do all the posing on the body than to keep going through these lists and menus for every single movement. Not only that, but it doesn't seem that difficult to have a simple toggle to make grabbing the nearest body part switch on and off, or to have an 'ignore clothes' toggle so that you'd grab the closest body part, but not select clothes. A different layout to the hierarchy editor would make it much more useful, too- having to go body parts-chest parts- head parts-jaw and then body parts-chest parts-head parts- lower lip etc over and over again to adjust an expression is a pain. The tags on LaFemme are easier to grab than the body parts, so that's something, but a lot of parts don't have them.

I do see both reasonings. I tried some free software from another company that emulates Poser (but has no Joie de vivre.) Now that was a nightmare to use for me. Poser 7 was so intuitive right out of the box, I have very few issues with it, but does other software that does the same thing have this issue? My statistical sample size is two.