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Poser - OFFICIAL F.A.Q (Last Updated: 2024 Oct 04 4:27 pm)
How did you cut up the skirt? do you have a middle hip part going all the way down and two thighs?, if so you are likely to have splitting occur when you are bending thighs. I usually make only an abdomen and hip group and take care of the posing with 7 morphs: left thigh sideways, right thigh sideways, left and right bend forward, left and right bend backwards and a sitting morphs. That usually covers most posing situations.
Dominique Digital Cats Media
I didn't create morphs at all for the dress.. it's conforming, so it's following the character's morphs (Neftoon Gal) Sounds like you actually create morphs specifically for the dress... is that the better way to go? The middle "point" facing down is part of the hip, so it doesn't stretch. when I had it as part of the thing groups, it stretched, and no longer looked normal.
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This kind of cutting of the groups will always give you problems on a skirt, there is no ideal way of conforming skirts but only workarounds. The morph way is IMHO the best way to go, it is a little bit more work for the modeller, and you need to adjust the morphs when you pose but you can get a smooth animation from standing up to sitting that way. I leave the abdomen part as standard conforming but the hip is driven by morphs.
Dominique Digital Cats Media
hmmm Not sure I know how to do that, have the abdomen and upper parts conform but not the hip. Thanks
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Oh ok I can do that! lol Thanks ;o)
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Thanks DominiqueB :)
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Ok, guess it's time to make some dress morphs. Now a good question.. can you export a poser character posed, so you can then use that for referencing the dress's morphs? I'm thinking I'll need side left, side right and then forwards and back for each leg. Now I know why you see so many long dresses and pants, where you make the legs invisible...
Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.
Don't know Gary, but I'm gonna try exporting Alexa posed and see what happens! lol
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Make the hip group narrow as it approached the bottom. If you own any other dresses or skirts for this model take a look at it's grouping. You can edit the joint params in the main window of Poser. Select Window > Joint Param. Make sure you have lButtock or lThigh group selected (depending on how you grouped it). Change the drop-down in the window to Bend. Select the scale dial back in the params window and increase the scale. It's hard to describe this without images so please take a look at the section on this in the Poser help file.
lol Tell me about it! I am trying to get a sitting pose! Yikes! lol
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Well Now I can't get the morph to load! it tells me the target geometries has the wrong number of Vertices? I'm using rhino, anyone have a clue about this? Thanks
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If you try morphing an already posed mesh, your deltas will work in the wrong direction when it gets un-posed. Say you have a skirt exported in the sitting position and you add Y translation to it - that will remain as Y translation back at the posable garment - in other words, 90 degrees out. You can make morphs this way, but you have to keep your 3D wits about you, and a lot of trial and error is going to be involved. Another approach for a skirt is to add a ghost body part or 'body handle'. In setup room terms, I think that would be a separate 'skirt' bone. Omit the thigh bones (or rename them so they don't conform) and you have a solution which doesn't require morphs; or not as many of them, anyway.
You should plan your morphs early on in the modelling process. I don't know about other software but in LW I work in nurbs, basically a low poly cage that gets subdivided when modelling is finished. So all the morphs get done early on when I have maybe 40 polygons in the skirt area. Much easier to deal with than wrestling with 500. The beauty of it is that in LW you can add as much detailing as you want it gets transfered to all the morphs which are an integral part of the object file. When everything is finished subdivide the mesh ,freeze the object, cut out the body parts and start exporting the object and the morphs to obj.
Dominique Digital Cats Media
Stay away from booleans as much as possible when you model. If you have a kept a previous version of your work before you froze, you could try a morph on the skirt section, freeze it load it in a background layer, and hiding everything else but the part you worked on in the foreground layer try a morph to background sometimes it works.
Dominique Digital Cats Media
Hmmm guess I will work on mine later and start with the original mesh, and do morphs as I work :) Back to the drawing board! lol
Poser 9 SR3 and 8 sr3
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Processor Type: AMD Phenom II 830 Quad-Core
2.80GHz, 4000MHz System Bus, 2MB L2 Cache + 6MB Shared L3 Cache
Hard Drive Size: 1TB
Processor - Clock Speed: 2.8 GHz
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Graphics Type: ATI Radeon HD 4200
•ATI Radeon HD 4200 integrated graphics
System Ram: 8GB
Glad you have more to work with than me! lol
Poser 9 SR3 and 8 sr3
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Processor Type: AMD Phenom II 830 Quad-Core
2.80GHz, 4000MHz System Bus, 2MB L2 Cache + 6MB Shared L3 Cache
Hard Drive Size: 1TB
Processor - Clock Speed: 2.8 GHz
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Graphics Type: ATI Radeon HD 4200
•ATI Radeon HD 4200 integrated graphics
System Ram: 8GB
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Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.