imax24 opened this issue on Sep 14, 2010 · 41 posts
imax24 posted Tue, 14 September 2010 at 11:07 AM
Based on V3's shelf life, it probably won't be too much longer before V4 is updated to V5. I hope it is not a revision from the ground up, because we all have so much invested in V4. But there's no denying Vicky has her flaws, which could be addressed in V5 or even V4 point X.
My favorite Vicky peeves:
• She is proportioned at 6'2" tall. I don't want to have to use Stephanie to get a more realistic female figure.
• Her armpits are way too high when her arms are in a normal down position. Did her designers never work with her except in default zero position?
• Why is her zero position like a scarecrow, anyway? Why not make her arms' zero position in the down position, like a real person?
• Her toes have been called monkey toes for the way they look when bent.
• Some of her joints behave oddly when moved into perfectly normal active positions that are nonetheless a wide variance from zero. Vicky could never be a cheerleader or a gymnast.
• When limits are imposed, they are not real-world limits at all in some cases. Thigh bending, for example. Young females without a disabling condition can bring their thighs up much closer to their bodies than Vicky can with limits imposed. I think the limits are more to minimize the design flaws in her joints than to reflect realistic limits. Fix the flaws, I say. Don't hide them by creating a false limit at a point before they become evident.