primorge posted at 3:26 PM Tue, 28 February 2023 - #4457245

I was more interested in what he was using prior to getting into Poser, if my theory and memory serves correct.

You know though, now that you mention it, if you were to start a thread about single skin (if we're on the same page or I'm even in the right chapter) it would be interesting to not only me I'd wager, and might actually be helpful to clearing up the confusion maybe. I don't have much experience with it other than some export tests that were a bit confusing... the topic is very vague to me, other than collecting xps dae and Blender figures, naturally I'm interested. If that's even related, hence some of the question.

If not maybe it wouldn't trouble him too much. He seems a forthcoming and talkative fellow. It's his thread. Who knows?

I don't know much about the simple bone single skin skinning method, other than what the poser manual states (which is a whole lotta not much).

But if you can rig a face with ghost bones and control props then you can rig a whole single mesh figure. The down side - which I just discovered - is that scaling seems to be screwed. Everything else appears to work just fine from jcms to fbms, etc., can even rig conforming clothing for it. But if you want to scale anything then that would require a semi-elaborate morph system to accomplish. And smooth translations also seem to be bork'd. I'm not sure about match centers for FBMs cause I didn't get that far.

btw, I use P11 and P12. Mostly 12, cause it seems much more polished with the various features and rendering is light years faster, even on my cpu (cause my gpu is ancient so I don't even bother).