randym77 posted at 12:39 PM Sun, 26 February 2023 - #4457000

vopehov506 posted at 2:48 PM Sat, 25 February 2023 - #4456927

Further to know is if you use a unimesh based on single skin rigging any edge needs to be merged cut edges cause breaks on bending, the figure will bend very smooth, using for example a scale armor for your figure also based on single skin but the scale armor is not unimesh but cut, it will allow a realistic bending without distorting and bending the scales when conformed to your unimesh single skin model.

All this naturally will take you further away from DS as DS does absolutely not support single skin and probably will not allow this support in the near future ( Locked feature ) so with unimesh single skin, compatibility to DS will totally be dropped.

That's interesting, and sounds like something end users would like, even if they don't make any content themselves. Something worth paying for.

Curious that DS doesn't support it. It's a locked feature? Does that mean they could do it, but don't allow it?

My guess is that it is locked because Daz does not want simplified Import of rigged models, It would mean to be a game changer for DS and  creators would not be depending on the genesis bases for standalone models anymore. Meaning that DS Models would be less unique and allot of independent stores could pop up all over the internet that sell DS supported standalones ( Non Genesiss Based ) this might cut there revenue big time. DS does have the support but it is locked on Import, export works as you also get all kinds of exporters for Unreal Maya Blender etc so that the genesiss can be exported and unique offered by Daz. Actually a understandable business method.