I hadn't done anything different with the weights. I think I may have just simply made them too short. I'm going to use a different number for the median height, rather than 6' or 5'10" (180 or so cm)

you're gonna have to edit that puppy in Milkshape or something using a slim BB mesh as a guide.

Talking about assignments sparked my thinking. I thought I'd kept things close to Maxis meshes however I can guess a couple of places where I could have created the problem. Thanks.

I used the cheat on a special mesh I'd worked on and the sims developed flaps at the knees like a robot.

This is exactly the problem I was trying to tell you about Warlokk. Thanks for the solution.

Is this the RIO shape? If so, how did you get the smooth curves on the calves? Mine get sharp corners at the muscle area.

Thanks Wes, I'll give it a try after the holiday.

I've been trying Wes' tool and the fact it drove me nuts inspired me to try something else. I tried copying all the normals (select all --> wes' tool) and the new mesh turned completely black as if all the normals turned inward or somphin. Selecting more than two verts yields similar results. So I went to try pairs of verts with mixed results, some shadows disappeared, some didn't. Guess I can try again (again).

Does that mesh turning entirely black part sound like I might have forgotten a step . . . importing objx file? Something?

Brilliant, bloom. a man (woman?) after my own heart.

About the import and export options in Poser when working with sims meshes: I was having the same shadowing problems everyone else seemed to be having. It is is a pain trying to correct the normals changes that seem to be happening with the program when there are shared seams (or edges). I decided to try turning on the commands that reference welding on import and export. When I import back into milkshape, I don't have visible seams, but the shading problems remain in some spots.

Before, I would apply demon's align normals tool, however, with a couple of meshes, that just made things worse overall, as shadows would pop up everywhere. Now that I'm turning on the welding options on import, the shading problems are fewer, and much easier to correct (A pain nonetheless, but easier).:smt120

Anyone see any problems with turning on weld identical verts? I'm going to use the unimesh importer to create the new mesh rather than meshtool.

Yeah!!! Thanks yet again Warlokk! Finally I was able to edit a custom bottom mesh! WooHoo!

How do you get the morphs to split into different obj files? Is it done in Milkshape or Poser? When I use the hide command in groups and export the morph, I end up with an obj with both morphs (I'm working on a two morph mesh)

EDIT: I think I got it sorted. I deleted a group, exported, undelete, delete, export again. Hope it works.

Thanks Warlokk, you must have been posting as I was. I'll keep trying with the Rio set. The other sets are working great! Thanks for your hard work. And thanks TMO for the tutorial.

Another question while I'm getting used to this (the process is easy once you get going, getting the results are another matter : When working on a dress with added high heels, the end product is a dress with default Maxis heels. Is there a step you have to add while working with Simpe to get the heels that came with the mesh? Do you have to add heels with another program?

Sorry to be an annoyance.

I think it might have been the magnet set. I tried a couple of other sets and didn't have the distortion. I'll reproduce the error and get up a screenshot. Maybe this is something for Warlokk to look at.