God I've encountered that a few too many times

THIS!

I found this lost media. sadly I was unable to rip them with default T-pose.
now I will need to find time to edit each model polygon by polygons, piece by piece.

When I asked in Torque3D forum why I can't export model with skeleton, they said they did this to combat licensing issues... So they hinted me to recompile the editor... I had no knowledge on that, so I had to use brute force. Also, game is abandonware in total form, cuz both developer and publisher are gone.

First of all, all potential models were in .dat file, so any .dat file could be a script, or something else, not a model. After arduous trial and error of thousands of files, after many crashes, I found all DTX files.

now I need find time to fix them all. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55336176/

in that area i understand. ripping models from games isn't a perfect science yet. especially for older more niche/unknown games. in that instance i understand and can look past that. but this is about those that make their own models and upload them pre-posed in a way to where you can't reset the pose yourself.

Sounds cumbersome when the default pose isn't a standard T or A pose @w@

In case it helps anyone using Blender, what I usually do in order to adjust a model that doesn't have a proper T-pose as its rest pose is:

1. Pose the armature into a proper T-Pose position
2. For each mesh linked to the Armature, go to the armature Modifier and Save as Shape Key (so it will save a new shape key called "Armature")
3. For each mesh, go to Edit mode, unhide all vertices, select all vertices, and Blend from Shape (untick "add") using the Armature shape key
4. For each mesh in the Data tab in Object mode, delete the temporary Armature shape key
5. In Pose mode select all bones in the armature and Apply Selected as Rest Pose
6. U might need to re-scale some body parts if the previous pose changed the scale of body parts via posing
7. Now the default pose is an actual T-Pose, and if u Clear All User Transforms it'll set everything back to your new proper T-Pose

Relatable, thankfully it's easy to fix in Blender, but still annoying

Is there a way to make the t or a pose the new default (not that it should fall to us)