I'm new to 3D... so please try to tolerate my simple questions! I'm wondering if there is a way to make clothing items that have been "conformed" to a figure independent again. I.e. regain the ability to move them about the scene while leaving the figure's body in place (but move the clothing item from a staring position identical to when it was attached to the body). I want to do this because it is taking me forever to move non-conformed clothing items into position. Basically I want to do this in situations where, for example, a figure is sitting down and has pulled his or her foot partly out of a backless sandal. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

What you can do is conforming the clothing item to "None". The cloth will resume its default position. No problem: select the BODY of your figure, choose the Pose library, and add the pose of your figure to the library (use the + sign) When Poser asks if you also want to save morph settings, choose Yes. Then select your cloth, and apply the pose you just made. The cloth will assume the right position. Now select the BODY of your figure, choose Edit->Copy, then select the BODY of your clothing item, and choose Edit->Paste. This will copy the figure location to the cloth. If everything went right, your clothing item now LOOKS as if it is conformed again. But it is not; you can easily move that shoe from the foot. There is a possible problem in your example: if you have conforming shoes, chances are that both shoes are part of the same figure. In that case, load the shoes figure twice, set all LEFT shoe body parts of one of the pairs to invisible and rename the figure to RightShoe. Make a LeftShoe the same way. Then you can conform one of the shoe figures as usual, and apply the pose trick to the other one. Hope this helps, Steven.

Steven, First off, I've used some of your dynamic clothing. I'm not even close to that advanced yet but it looks great! Anyway, I tried the technique you suggested. Some items worked, others didn't. Things like the active wear briefs worked with the method, however I haven't gotten it to work with the V3 morphing sandals which is actually what started me on this tangent in the first place. I'm going to try it again in a little while, and if I still can't get it to work I'll post some screen caps. Thanks, Christopher

Ok, back again. I've tried the pose/copy/paste method a few times. I finally got it to work with several types of clothing (V3 active wear, morphing bikini, etc.) as well as a pair of backless shoes which is what I actually wanted to do for a series of scenes. So I'm going to attach a few screen shots so that someone doing a search on this topic some time in the future can see SVDL's method in action. The first two images are the morphing bikini, first conformed to V3's body, then non-conformed and slid down her thighs a bit. The next three pictures deal with the shoes. In #3 I've added a pair of shoes, conformed them, and posed everything where I want it. I'm using Billy T's canvas shoes with a custom transparency map to make them into slides. In #4 I have conformed the shoes to "none" and applied the V3 body pose. In #5 I have copied "body" from V3 and pasted it to the shoes bodies. For some reason I had to tweak the 'bend' transform a bit. Anyway, the end result is V3's feet partly slid out of the shoes and one of them (more or less) hanging on her big toe (with some pretty heinous poke through that I'd have to work on some more if this were a real project). Anyway, thanks again to SVDL!

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Hi Whoopy2k, I attached a pic of what I think you are trying to attempt. The V3 flipflops are a pair when loaded. I conformed them to V3. I then made the left sandal(green straps) invisible. I then loaded the same set of sandals, except I made the strap blue for a comparison. I then rotated and adjusted the set of sandals, so that it appears that V3 is pulling her foot out of the sandal. I hid the other sandal by clicking on it, and hiding the appropriate body parts. I hope this helps you. -The Starkdog