JoePublic posted at 3:25 PM Sun, 10 April 2022 - #4437015

But in the end, you can only do so much with weightmapping, as it only works in 2 directions.

For complicated joints, especially when the mesh is very detailed, you simply need to add a JCM to achieve the correct deformation.

It's more like 1 direction for me at the moment, because I really don't get how Poser's bulging works. :-)

I've noticed that phantom3d's weight-mapped Antonia works much better in the fitting room than the JCM-heavy version. But since I have slightly different priorities when it comes to how a figure should bend, I'm now trying to create my own weight-maps based on the original rigging. My hope is that when most of the heavy lifting is done by the weight-maps, there won't be much of a problem transferring some small JCMs on top.

-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.