Question Possible to fix nodes to their joints? And tips for hand posing?

[Deleted member 66183]

2 weeks desktop user here.
While I had my problems in the beginning, thanks to this great community and their plugins and forums Im very happy with my progress and am able to get the things I want to work pretty quick now.

But I can also spend 30mins+ to get the hand on the dick or just on the table or ass whatever because
1. sometimes rotating just doenst seems to work right for me. I try every axys several times, try the arm, the elbow, it just wont go in the direction i want… any tips on hand posing? Like always having elbow on parent link or whatever?

2. sometimes nodes are so far away from the actual joint, it frustrates me especially when I have walls constantly clipping into my FOV in a room. Or is this a beginners mistake of trying to force poses and pulling nodes to far?
I wish the nodes would jump back to the joint after I relocated. I only found the option for the root node of the person to manually fix it…

bonus question: any must have plugins to help with clothing clipping and physics?Sometimes I have to micromanage very long time to get clothing right in different situations.

cheers for reading!

 

[atani]

Keep it simple, that's the best course of action when messing with joints:

Wiki Article - 02. Control & Physics 2

Control & Physics 2 “Name Space” By default this will say “Person”. This will display the name of the currently selected Person Atom. You can rename it here as well. Please see Person Atom Basics for general information regarding the Person Atom. Setting a joint to “Control” means that the...

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Normally you don't want the nodes to be too far from the joints, this will cause all sorts of issues. Mostly sticking to key joints will help you keep a good pose, then add others if the key joints weren't enough.
Hands are particularly difficult, and I have little experience, so no tips on that.

Joint control options:

Wiki Article - 01. Atom Control

Atom Control “Isolate Edit This Atom” Opens an Isolated Atom Edit window with options for disabling other atoms in game to make it easier to edit the selected atom. "Name Space" in the corner of "Isolated Atom Edit" displays the name of your selected Atom “Freeze Physics: Freezes...

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[AWWalker]

Try this out.

2 weeks desktop user here.
While I had my problems in the beginning, thanks to this great community and their plugins and forums Im very happy with my progress and am able to get the things I want to work pretty quick now.

But I can also spend 30mins+ to get the hand on the dick or just on the table or ass whatever because
1. sometimes rotating just doenst seems to work right for me. I try every axys several times, try the arm, the elbow, it just wont go in the direction i want… any tips on hand posing? Like always having elbow on parent link or whatever?

2. sometimes nodes are so far away from the actual joint, it frustrates me especially when I have walls constantly clipping into my FOV in a room. Or is this a beginners mistake of trying to force poses and pulling nodes to far?
I wish the nodes would jump back to the joint after I relocated. I only found the option for the root node of the person to manually fix it…

bonus question: any must have plugins to help with clothing clipping and physics?Sometimes I have to micromanage very long time to get clothing right in different situations.

cheers for reading!

Try this one, good for fingers.
Plugins - [Experimental] Tongue and Finger Controllers | Virt-A-Mate Hub (virtamate.com)