zandalari threesome cancelled (for now)
Added 2021-08-28 11:33:40 +0000 UTCSo I just shared this on Twitter, but I'll give an expanded story of what's going on here.
This problem manifested itself with my older projects with Zandalari actually, and I always wondered why it only affected Zandalari but nobody else. And now I know precisely why that is. The model has a few technical flaws that are my fault.
To put it simply, the scaling of the model is awkward. I've made certain body parts much wider than others, and doing so is making my life much more difficult when I'm trying to do precise, complicated poses. It actually breaks the model as I'm posing it, permanently (undo won't revert the changes).
Zandalari are also basically the only race that I apply different scaling to each body part. I do the same with NEs too, but you barely see anything from me with NEs nowadays anyways so they're irrelevant. I also scale Draenei heads to be slightly larger, but this problem doesn't affect Draenei because I pose heads in such a way that wouldn't trigger this issue.
There is no quick and easy solution to this problem, only a change in mindset will be helpful here. I can either keep my existing scaling and morphs and pose in a very slow and frustrating manner, or revert all of my scaling and work with a Zandalari that's way too damn thin for my tastes. I'm not satisfied with either of those "solutions", so I'm going to have to think of something different when I approach Zandalari again in the future.
Sorry if you've been looking forward to that.
