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synthsin75 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 5:50 pm Bone>Create smooth joint for bone pairs

Victor has an awesome tutorial for using it more than once on the same limb: https://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewto ... =9&t=27158

Greenlaw wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 6:22 pm Yes, try Smooth Joint first. It's the easiest thing to try and if it works, that's great! Smooth Joint is what I used for the Puss In Boots elbows and in other early Moho TV work. It can work well for certain textures, however, you might see issues with very detailed textures, like between your character's sleeve and forearm. Definitely give it a try though.

If it doesn't work as desired, I suggest creating a custom mesh and using a Smart Bone in the joint to correct the deformations. When set up properly, the rotation of the joint will deform the mesh exactly the way you want. Tip: it helps to divide the mesh at the joint so you can overlap elements in the drawing, like the sleeve over the arm. This also helps when you need to change the stacking order, like when the character reaches behind himself.

This command works on a pair of selected bones (for example, bones for the upper
and lower arms, or upper and lower legs). The two bones also have to have a
parent-child relationship, and start out in close to a straight line.

synthsin75 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2023 5:02 am From the user manual:

This command works on a pair of selected bones (for example, bones for the upper
and lower arms, or upper and lower legs). The two bones also have to have a
parent-child relationship, and start out in close to a straight line.