odf opened this issue on Oct 27, 2008 · 13981 posts
odf posted Mon, 18 May 2009 at 5:35 AM
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The big 150degree should be fun. Do you flatten the calf and thigh groups or just let it dive into the back of the thigh..? I've not seen the new DAZ tools so I'm out of the loop.
Oh, I'll definitely flatten, but I'll probably allow a little bit of intersection still. That's usually better than leaving a gap. The nice thing about the cascading JCMs is that I can start with the flatting at the point where the thigh and calf would actually start bumping into each other. If you use just one JCM for the whole range, it's either/or: flatten too much and you get weird shapes on the small angles, flatten too little and you get incontrollable interesections up to the point where the mesh breaks.
Fortunately, I have a nice edge loop were the thigh and shin meet, so it's very easy for me to hide either part in Wings3D.
-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.