DCArt posted at 9:10 AM Sun, 26 February 2023 - #4456980

vopehov506 posted at 1:26 PM Sat, 25 February 2023 - #4456912

peter_wade posted at 10:43 AM Sat, 25 February 2023 - #4456883

I'm not an expert on this but I think that Victoria and Michael 4 are Unimesh figures. Does this mean we won't be able to use Victoria and Michael 4 and all the morphs, textures, clothes and hair we bought for them in Poser 13? If that's the case I*'ll be staying with Poser 12.

V4 M4 are not unimesh they are cut. A unimesh figure can't be taken apart on the joints. A unimesh figure would only stretch, meaning that there are no double edges, the edges are merged and there are no Doubles. Rigging on a real unimesh is "single" and not Tris there are no capsules or spheres, Painted influences on bendings can influence the whole mesh not only the bodypart. So in theory the left shoulder can as well influence the right thigh, that depends un how you paint. Advantage is that you can mix Hard shell bending and stretch bending, witch is not possible using the Poser traditional mode.

V4 sample ( Not Unimesh )

By any chance did you save V4 under a new filename, which could have split the mesh apart?

V4 and M4 are, indeed, unified meshes. They do contain groups, but the groups are welded in the OBJ file that is in the Geometries folder. If you load Victoria 4.2 it should not be split apart as you show. Here's a file with the abdomen moved along the Y and Z axes, and with hidden parameters shown in P12 so that the abdomen can be translated. As you can see, the groups are welded together, not split apart as you show above.

you notice if it is a unimesh or a cut when disabling the bend feature in the individual bodypart, for instance if you disable the bend in V4 it will show that it is cut, doing so on La Femme will not cut but the parts still will stretch, La femme has no double Edges like V4 is having on the joints . Leaving bend "ON" on a cut will glue the parts together but still they are cut. This is what this feature actually is for and would be of no use on Unimesh single skin rigging it simulates a unimesh. So No I did not save V4 under a new name or made a change that would cut her she comes cut out of the package.