I understand that during creation of a new, weight mapped base figure, consideration is given for where helper bones will be needed to drive weight mapped joint deformations, in place of a swathe of JCMs. Given that JCMs are just morphs and are well supported by Poser in terms of transference to conformed clothing being adapted for a new figure, how well is weight mapping transfer to clothing supported?

If I take a clothing figure designed for a similar, but non-weight-mapped base figure, and, say, shrink wrap it to closely match the weight mapped base figure, then export the modified clothing mesh and use that as the basis for a new piece of clothing, then I can easily transfer morphs from the weight mapped base figure. But will the weight maps also be transferred just by copying the joint zones to the new clothing?

It seems to me, that without matching helper bones to drive the weight map deformations on the clothing, no weight maps can be transferred. Is that correct? Should I add approriately corresponding helper bones to the clothing before attempting the joint zone transfer? Does Poser have any facility for transferring weight maps to non-identical figures at all, or will I have to paint every weight map again from scratch?

Help, please?

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