Hi, just trying to get the links to the different Cloth Room tutorials all rounded up in one place. If you have a link or know of a link to a tutorial on using the Poser 5 Cloth Room, please post it here. Thanks. :O)

Attached Link: http://www.poserfashion.net/tutorials.htm

Attached Link: http://www.philc.net/tutorialsIndex.htm

Those are the 2 good ones that should get you going. Might I also suggest to folks to use Compose http://www.tir.com/~johnwind/Compose11.zip to use conforming clothes in the cloth room, then turn them back into figures. Very effective technique.

Will Compose work on Windows XP and Poser 5?

Attached Link: http://www.nerd3d.com/Tutorial/Tutorials.htm

Compose will work on XP Pro. I haven't tried it with Poser 5 CR2s etc., there may be things in there it knows nothing of - it definitely doesn't know about CRZs and the like. But for OBJ hacking, it works fine, I use it regularly in both 2000 and XP.

So, what all does compose do. I downloaded the zip but looks like I also need to download and install the java files. Not sure I want to do that until I know what all compose does and if it will be of use to me. Thanks. :O)

What it does is it joins all duplicate vertices in an exported poser .obj mesh, allows you to manipulate the single mesh in a modeling program, or in the P5 cloth room :O) and then reconverts it to it's original form but morphed. It's pretty neat. I have P5 and xp, works like a charm. Important to remember when exporting to check the 2 boxes that regard group names and nothing else. http://www.morphworld30.com/tutorials/rhino2.html

Wow that does sound neat! Thanks a bunch. One more question, do I need the exact version of java as mentioned in the readme or will the current version work? I know sometimes with older progs things can be tempermental on version changes.

Go with the exact version, I think. Not really sure on that.

You can't get the older version of Java any more - not without effort anyway - but it works fine for me with the latest download from www.java.com. Apologies shadownet for helping to derail your thread... :(

Not a derail, a silver lining. This sounds like a really useful little program so I am glad to learn about it. :o) It also sounds like it sort of fits in with the Dynamic clothing theme too. :O)

Here's a link to a tutorial we host at Studio Verite' with information about cloth and wind parameter values and settings: http://studioverite.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7 I'm not sure if it falls specifically into cloth, hair, or wind, so I just labeled it "Dynamics." I believe the same tutorial is mirrored on Curious Labs' website, but I edited this version to provide better consistency and make it easier to follow (with the author's permission of course).

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Attached Link: http://www.render-lab.com/Dynamic_Clothes.htm

I tried the Nerd3D tutorial above last night using V2 and their Jessica dress for V2 and a pose from FBz's free Bonanza set and had the second success using the Materials room in a year. And then the comuter exploded and scrambled up the pz file...actually it locked up about half an hour later because I tried to use a RAM cleaner and it doesn't like Poser apparently. I'm going through each of these tutorials during the Thanksgiving break and looking forward to the experience.

cedarwolf, hmm I have been using rambooster since P4, which seemed to help in P4 and PP. Out of habit I use it when working in P5 too, wondering now if maybe this is hurting instead of helping based on your comment. Maybe this is why P5 blows up on me from time to time. Anyone else test this yet? Does P5 do better with out a ram cleaner? P.S. Oh, and less I seem ungrateful, thanks again to everyone posting links. Much appreciated. :O)