low enough you can't just rig to the pelvis, i take it? :/

waist should be 100% pelvis bone unless it's high waisted

it's a high waisted pair of shorts. I'm using Blender and I seem to get the smoothest result when I use auto weighting (from "bone heat")

and it usually it looks great except when the av's legs swing to a certain height the waistband cuts into the body

I tried manually removing some of the pelvis bone weights near the waistband but it never looks quite as smooth

yeah the bones of the thighs weight too high mostly, you need to go into weight paint mode and subtract the heat from the upper legs on both

sides until it's smooth

So basically subtract 100% of both thighs on the waist area, then blur the remaining weight so you get a smooth transition

and ensure the pelvis influence over the waistband is red

awesome, thank you so much!!! that really helps

slightly off topic, but I'm curious how many verts you typically use. I saw your mesh feet and they looked really pretty and smooth

the feet are 6k triangles each including nails which is higher than usual, normally I try and stay between 1-4k quads depending on how]

complicated the item is. Like, the thongs are around 600 quads each

ok thank you, I wasn't sure what the standard quad count is in SL. I've been making low-poly meshes for another project and got into the

habit of over-economizing. Good to know that I can up the quad count for SL