Low distance is good - at least for those users who have experience. For the others ... you have to find a middle ground with which they somehow get along. Dynamic clothes demand more from users than clumsy, unrealistic conforming clothes. There's no way around it. Not with Poser.

I have to say that I haven't done anything for typical Poser users for a long time and don't really know what is needed today to not overwhelm people.

Maybe "hybrid" is a way. At least for some things. This can also be automated with Python scripts. But not in two days :) (I have a few beginnings for it, but stopped some time ago).

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