Boni posted at 12:39PM Sat, 21 September 2019 - #4363060

Most older figures have a "core" rotation with the hip. Antonia overcame this feature by having a secondary hip where you can rotate the hip and the feet stay planted. It is a feature that I really like in her. I'd like to see future figures ONLY rotate on the body and rotate like Antonia's second hip with the primary hip. Don't know why this has been all these years. Actually, because most figures come into the scene with the hip as the first part selected automatically ... for the first several years I didn't even know that I could pick the whole "body" and used the hip to move the figure in the scene and rotate. Caused all sorts of issues.

Karina's S-16 version of V4 solves these issues with the "Movement Control" feature, which (when enabled) limits which trans and rotate dials work on the hip and which on the body, to prevent gimbal lock and various other issues. (The manual that comes with S-16 explains it in depth.)

He also set up some Easy Pose dials so you can rotate the hip by itself (under the Torso section) and do various kinds of bends and twists that weren't easily accomplished in a standard V4. I'm attaching a screenshot of the Easy Pose dials I just made to show someone the options available, but that's just one of the many things I love about using S-16!

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