Results for the newest .pyd, using the same uphill test conditions I've been using for the past couple of days.

On the left, the new .pyd results.  Looking very good indeed, in most areas.  The upper eyebrows are much improved.  The lips have one bad vertex which spikes up, as it did with the last .pyd, but they otherwise look quite good.  There are a few spots in the ears which are a bit ragged, but they're not bad.  The forehead looks like it's having some lumpy-jaggy problems, and the lumpies noted on the sides of the brow yesterday are still present.  These are excellent results, particularly when compared to the middle image.

In the middle, a comparison run using the same settings for Distance Cutoff and Number of Influences as the one on the left, but the raycasting step was omitted.  With only five weights for most of the vertices, the results are jagged, with much piggybacking.  The raycasting was able to adapt the data which created these results and achieve the much cleaner results seen on the left.  Excellent!  :woot:

On the right, the same comparison, this time run with the max Number of Influences code in use  and still without raycasting.  Most of the vertices here have ended up with 12 weights, which was the max value.  There's still under-sampling in some areas and over-sampling in others.

The results are looking much better than I would have anticipated.  Excellent work, Spanki-sir!  :woot:

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.