I am making a poser figure. I have done almost everything except the hip. The hip has different parameters from all the other joints. Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem. It seems to be a joint parameter problem just to clarify...

Here is another picture of the problem...

The figure doesnt bend forward properly either. If it was any other joint I would just make the amount it can bend smaller and that would probably fix it but the hip doesn`t have the usual bend settings in the joint editor.

Can you give a side view screen shot with the joint editor open so that we can see the red and green parameters? At first glance I think you need to set the abdomen's bend red lines to more horizontal. If they are still at the default 45/135 then they are including too much of the hip. Spherical fall off zones is another option, but lets start there.

Thanks phil, here is the abdomen pic.

I tried making the red lines near horizontal and it did improve it but it didn`t completely fix it. What difference is there with spherical fall off zones? This is a picture from the front, the bit in between the legs is part of the backside distorted and hanging down.

And here is a picture from the back. Yamato made a jp converter that is a pose that fixes the bending in posette, maybe something like that could be used for this (at least the backside)? The backside is almost perfect this is bent about 100 degrees to show the faults better but bending it up to about 90 degrees is near perfect.

Currently the area that is blended is defined by four flat planes. By adding spherical fall off zones you can further refine the blend zone to be the intersected volume between the two spheres. Look and see how an existing Poser figure handles it. Not sure if the P4 figures have spherical fall off zones at the abdomen bend, but the DAZ millenium ones certainly do.

Thanks phil you have been a great help.

Phil I was going to try the spherical fall off zones but that option was greyed out in the joint editor. What causes it to be greyed out and more importantly, how do I change it back so i can use the spherical fall off zones?

Yeah I get that too sometimes. Don't really know why. If closing/opening the joint editor will not do it I then file/save and reopen the scene. After that its file/save and close Poser and reopen.

The spherical fall off zones are centred at the feet, how do I change them? P4 figures do have spherical fall off zones for the abdomen I just checked.

Select them then either drag them in the Poser window or use the dials.

I meant how do I change them, do I make them bigger or move them some way?

Use the P4 figures as a guide. The spherical fall off zones can be positioned/scaled/rotated by using their dials.