Does anyone know of a good step by step tutorial for dummies on building Poser clothing in Amapi? Or for that matter, a good online manual for V4.1? I've just started playing with it, and it has a lot of potential, but I'm flying blind. I've only found a couple of tutorials for basic stuff (I can build a bottle). The help file that came with it is pretty bad. Thanks in advance!

cant give you a complete tut, but maybe some advice. first: there is a very very good amapiforum at WWW.3dcommune.com brycetech offers a very good cd with amapi tuts that cover Amapi 4 to 6.you can get it there. Try to get amapi 5.1 somewhere, they sell it very cheap at ebay ( got mine there,50$ ,no warez ,with manual) Some magazines offered a free copy of 5.1 awhile ago. the modelling posibilities of 5.1 are much better than 4. the way i use most, i draw a couple of horizontal and vertical curves around a body( export your figure from poser as 3ds file and import in amapi) and than i use the gordons surface to modell the cloth. The top in the image was done that way. if you want something for your own use and not for selling you can use the imported figure,cut away parts you dont need,size the rest ,do some tweaking and you have some cloth for your figure.

Another good place for tutorials: www.staigerland.com/amapi/index.mv

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This link gives various options for obtaining version 5.1 for free. I agree with theigsl, 5.1 offers big improvements on version 4.

You might want to go to the Amapi Forum here on R'osity, go to archive, and make a search for "thip". If you have a look at the posts you'll find : o Amapi finger exercises - very basic, for anyone interested 1-4 o Amapi finger exercises - assist tools 1-3 o Amapi startup project 1 - 3 (jacket for Mike) o Conforming your Mike jacket 1-2 They use Amapi 4.15 and P4. All the tools used are in Amapi 5 and 6, too. If you can make it through all of them, you should be quite ready to make your own Mike clothing - at least that's what some of the nice people who've read them has said ;o) I'm trying to find the time to make some advanced tutes, too (seams, lapels/collars, belts, etc.), but I think you'll have enough to start with in the above tutes. Amapi is one hell of a tool, it's just badly under-PR'ed, IMHO.

thip : i agree to your last word! And i will lok for your tuts!

Good luck with the tutes - and I see I don't have to bother doing advanced tutes, Brycetech is gearing up for online classes, no less : http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?ForumID=12399&Form.ShowMessage=1032692 You can find plenty of Brycetech's stuff here on R'osity - great quality, great skills.