diolma opened this issue on Jan 19, 2008 ยท 7 posts
diolma posted Sat, 19 January 2008 at 6:34 PM
When you are making your poses (for which I am grateful), please, please, please do NOT rotate the character in the Y axis. (Except in the rather rare circumstances where the pose is part of a multi-character set-up).
I recently downloaded some (admittedly free) poses for V4, from several different providers. Even more recently I removed the lot of them, because they were more trouble than they were worth.
If the character is rotated in Y (via the hip) it becomes very difficult to rotate it back, except by using the Body rotate. Which then can cause difficulties later when trying to work with animation, or using the Cloth/Hair rooms.
I am quite capable of rotating a character myself to get the correct orientation - it's not exactly rocket science.
Also - don't include mirrored poses. What's the point? That's what "Symmetry->Swap Left and Right" is for...
And, yes, I appreciate the the poses were free, and that the provider went to some trouble to make the poses. However, the end result for me was a waste of time...
Sorry, rant over.
At least I've freed up some valuable disc space..
Cheers,
Diolma
(Feel free to differ with my opinion - I'm just a little on edge at the moment, so I'm not in a "forgiving" frame of mind. Maybe by tomorrow I'll feel differently.)