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LL wants to wait to see if there would really even be a need for this though before they commit resources to changing viewer code for this and I don't blame them. This would certainly cut down on the performanceВ hit. Wings and tail certainly should be on all levels of LOD but I think we could do away with the face and hand bones on the low and lowest LODs perhaps even on the medium LOD as well. I have also put forth that lower LODs could have fewer bones than the highest LOD. In my test they made for way more expressive eyes. I love to have two bones for each eyelid instead of one each. My hope is that the bones are not going to cause as much of a performance hit as our initialВ test has led us to believe. I suggest you move those to bones and add one to the upper lip in the middle and one to the lower lip in the middle. Personally I wonder if we really need forehead bones.

You might want to try moving them deeper into the head so you get less distortion.

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The nose bones are a lot closer to the surface of the skin than all the rest.

The second reason I believe is that their just wasn't enough time to modify the code to allow for all the face bones to be able to be animated with translations at least not for the initial release. If you can show the same animation that use translations works well with two more head meshes who have significant different face bone positionsВ I think LL would really consider making it so translations work with the face bones. Rotating just the joints only should work well over a larger varietyВ of bone positions or at least that's the theory. One was a concern that if someone did upload their own mesh with different joint positions then the default animations with translations would not work. The reasons translationsВ were not included were two fold. I also think animating scales of the face bones would also be just as useful. I agree translationsВ of for the face bones would be wonderful. LL wants feedback and if you can find significantlyВ better positions I am sure LL will adopt them as the standard. If you can find better joint positions please do and let us know their new locations. Remember you can move the face bones around and upload your DAE with Include Joint Position. I think it is a pretty fair assessmentВ of the situation with the face bones.

maybe it related to some issues with the appearance sliders. Nobody could tell me so far the reasoning behind this decision. I am not sure why bone translation is forbidden. But of course you are right, the mesh still gets distorted in an odd way when you rotate too far. The rig was constructed such that the issues with rotation get minimised: You see the joints are all placed deep inside the head. Something like mFaceLipCenterUpper mFaceLipCenterLower would be awesome improvement here. I also miss a bone at the center of the lips. We will get into this in the next few days. We shipped the 'Bento Angel' with these not at all satisfying initial face weights to get something out as quickly as possible and we are working on enhancements alreadyДЇor the face we are about to test an idea which could possibly generate by far better suited initial weights for the face.

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In fact the automatic weight from bones only works properly for 'limb like bones', you can see that on the character's fingers and tail which have also been auto weighted with no manual tweaks at all but work properly out of the box. What you see in this character's weight maps is just the result of a simple Automatic weight from bones which does not at all work for this sort of rig.

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