Success (thus far)
Added 2018-01-09 19:12:21 +0000 UTCThe operation was a success! Maria's shoulders have been re-rigged. Her armpit area and where her lats meet her arms have been re-modeled and re-rigged. I don't know if I mentioned this before, her shoulders had to be manually re-shaped every step of the way in the last animation. I've learned some new tricks and it's all automated now. Such a relief! The lats and armpits look better too.
The last step is to transfer the displacements from the original model to this new model. While time consuming, it's far less complex than what I just did in the above paragraph.
I'm loving this software update. This would not have been possible before. There was a bug in the old version where if my rigging nodes were too complex, it would (without warning) delete portions of what I set up until the chunk file size was within a certain limit. So I had to be very judicious in my rigging mechanisms. Now I can rig any and all elements I want with no problems. The shackles are off! :)
