daz studio genesis 3 loads with extra morphs

TriAx was way easier than this, but we all want to please the gaming companies, by making rigging more compatible with their game engines. Conversely, single map per joint has to rely heavily on JCMs to pose properly, but DS has no tools to edit them.

It looks like another tool is needed to stop the JCMs to interfering with your weight maps, but I don't know what it is yet. To make it even more fun, DS cannot disable these automatic JCMs. This causes the shapes to change as the legs are posed, which can fool you to think it's because of your weight map, when it's not. It couldn't be more confusing than this, but to add to the mess, DS now automatically adds figure JCMs to the outfit, even if it has none. What happened here was that I created a new map on the Thigh Twist bone, and you actually can do that, but the map still becomes tied up to the Thigh Bend map, even if they are separate maps driven by different bones. That's what TriAx was invented to resolve, but now we are back to how it was 20 years ago. That is, you fix the bend map, and it breaks the side-side and twist, because it's the same map.

You will be editing the weights for all 3 directions, bending, side-side, and twisting, all in the SAME map. Since Genesis 3 and later figures have only a single map per joint, locking is no longer an option. Although there are 2 bones there, apparently we only have ONE single map to handle all 3 axes, so the extra Twist bone is useless. The issue with Genesis 3 and later is that they gave 2 joints per group on the thighs. Coming from that, it's hard for me to look at this in a positive way. It has to heavily depend on correction morphs (JCMs) to pose properly, and consider DS doesn't have tools do edit them when things go wrong. Genesis 3 and 8 went back to, literally, Poser's pre-historic times. However, the very first Poser models had only 1 single map per joint over 20+ years ago. It's the same thing, but with a different interface. But even legacy rigging already had THREE maps per joint, just like TriAx. It's the SAME thing, where the only difference is that now we have direct access to the weight maps and can edit it with a brush. Weight painting was the natural next step. It was easier, but it had serious limitations. Hehe legacy rigging was SO much easier than weight painting, and rigging could be faithfully transferred from one clothing to another with very little work. That's why I made that dance animation in iClone using a 20K polys decimated Dawn, turning her into a real-time game model. Oh yes, DAZ also sells a couple of models at the Reallusion store, and even though they were decimated to reduce poly count, they are still too heavy for using real-time.

Daz studio genesis 3 loads with extra morphs