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Published: 2019-08-31 00:30:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 5128; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 20
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This is my first test render of the hinges for the new braces I'm working on...Related content
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I really appreciate your work with the braces! Some of your earliest work really got my attention, especially the girl with the cross strap heels. That whole concept is a real turn on!
Is Lori still with us?
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Glad you're enjoying it. Which Lori are you referring to? I think I've done several.
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Not for quite some time now... getting a little old to look really good in a short skirt!
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I can CERTAINLY appreciate that! Gave up on other than long skirts several years ago.
Thank you for sharing those photos as well. You are and were appreciated!
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There are times I miss it. Now that I have all the time and privacy in the world to do it, I'd love to find someone to cast for real, but for the moment I have to be content casting in DAZ!
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This is brill, I presume done in blender, correct me if I'm wrong.
I have long been interested in leg irons. but, the ankle mechanism has also been a mystery to me. In my mind these should be a solid feature, not moving and keeping the foot straight. However, as I look around DA, there are several examples of a flexible ankle connection. What is the difference, medically. A modern thermoplastic device does not flex, and some older ones appear not to, but this leaves me confused.
If you feel unable or willing to answer, OK. But I feel you may be able to enlighten me.
Lovely work anyway!
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Glad you liked them. Still have a lot of work to do on them, but I always enjoy (constructive!) feedback as I'm working on a project. No - I have Blender, but it's so complex that I haven't figured it out yet. This was all done within DAZ Studio using primitives (cube, cylinder, etc) and working up from there. I like to use Hexagon because you can go back and forth between it and DAZ so easily, but, as with Blender, I haven't mastered it yet! As far as the different ankle types...
I've seen the thermoplastic braces both with and without a hinge at the ankle, but the ones with hinges don't allow very much movement. I suppose the plastic braces have their purposes... first of all they're cheap compared to manufacturing metal and leather braces, although judging by prices I've seen that doesn't stop the medical establishment from charging whatever the market will tolerate! I personally don't like them... to me they are hot, clunky and uncomfortable.
Then we have what are often thought of as "American" style braces, made of steel or aluminum uprights and cuffs with leather straps and buckles to hold them to the leg. This is my favorite type, and I had a nice pair for quite a few years. Perhaps I was influenced by the fact that as a kid there were still quite a few people around town using this type of brace for polio. The foot/ankle assembly on these braces is pretty flexible in how it can be made... the shoe can either have a mounted socket that the lower ends of the braces can slip into, which makes changing shoes very easy, or it can have a fixed caliper plate which joins that shoe to a brace. If you want to change shoes with that type, you have to unscrew the ankle pivot screw, remove the entire shoe/plate assembly and put another one on. Either type can still use the hinged ankle joint, which may have one or two spring loaded adjustment screws to limit upward or downward flexing of the foot. With an ankle that can't bend, every time your feet land you are really hitting pretty hard if you are using a swing through gait, so the moveable ankle joint allows the foot the flex as it lifts up and then again when you come down on it, making for a much more comfortable landing in my opinion. The final type I am aware of is often referred to as the "British" style. There is no ankle joint at all... at the lower end of the uprights a rod goes down and curves in, where it is inserted into the sole mounting on the shoe. This allows free rotation of the foot, but I don't like it, since instead of the pivot point being at your natural ankle joint, the movement is under the heel of your foot! Not sure how that could be comfortable at all, but I've never tried that type of brace.
As far as joints and movement goes, my biggest problem is I still haven't figured out how to make props conform to the shape of the figure and adjust automatically, as happens when you add clothing, shoes and so on, so every brace I put on a figure, and every change in pose has to be manually "tweaked", which is tedious and why you don't see me doing more braces. I know it involves something about "Bone" and "Rigging", but for the life of me I can't figure it out! If anyone can enlighten me I'd be only to happy to share the braces and make them available for anyone to use, as RizzoCast has been generous enough to do with his cast props.
Hope this helped... if you think of something else, just ask! I'm a motormouth at heart and would be happy to answer if I know the answer to give!
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Well, thanks for your thorough reply.
Yes, I sympathise with how difiicult blender is to use, but I did try DAZ several years ago and found that tricky too. Just a learning curve I guess and I've never been interested enough to invest the time to learn. I understand what you mean about getting your items to move and conform to the model, but I couldn't even be bothered to work out how to do that with clothes in DAZ, let alone complex additions. I am aware of Rizzo's cast pieces, but I wouldn't know how to use them.
As for the braces, thanks for your info. Yes, I'm British, so most of my real life encounters have been with the British kind of brace, but you see less of any type today. I wasn't really aware the British type flexed much, but I can see how they would on the 'sole' fitting. I also didn't realise that the ankle joints I have seen have spring loaded limiters, that's useful info. Being of a certain age myself, I also prefer the more old fashioned type rather than modern ones, though any is still better than none!
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