Anthony Appleyard opened this issue on May 11, 2001 ยท 9 posts
Anthony Appleyard posted Fri, 11 May 2001 at 5:29 PM
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This model is a diver with an old type of UK industrial and short dive oxygen rebreather called a Salvus (made by Siebe Gorman; it is real). My interest in "historical diving" (see this link for the Historical Diving Society) led me to make a Poser model of it. Its straps are currently "tails" of parts with the curve property. Its root segment is "sidepack" with the cylinder etc on; it is parented to his abdomen. But, as you will see, the set's straps cross several joint zones in his trunk, and thus when posing him I must keep his backbone 100% rigid, which clashes with the agility that such a light set gives to the diver. The bag strap goes under his crotch. Thus I had a start at making this model into a conforming garment. But the model is an untidy mixture of conforming and non-conforming parts, and the presence of joints with non-conforming parts such as `sidepack' and `bag' upset the conforming mechanism and make lengths of the straps embed themselves in the diver's body, even well away from the joints between the straps and the nonconforming parts. Note also that most of the diagonal strap should conform, but the part that goes away from the diver's side and goes over to the top corners of the sidepack, should not conform but behave as an IK-chain. The breathing bag has to remain a separate part called "bag" so I can apply to it a morph to inflate and deflate it. But the straps (with the exception as above) should confopm, including with any morphs that the man may have to make him breathe or get big chest muscles. So, please let the people who are writing Poser 5 check up on how to make conforming parts in a conforming "garment" conform if the "garment" has parts whose names are not names of parts in the conformee.