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Subject: Testers wanted for V3 to SP3 Clothing Conversion Kit

insomniaworks opened this issue on May 25, 2005 ยท 46 posts


insomniaworks posted Fri, 27 May 2005 at 12:10 AM

Thank you everyone for such fast testing. I am getting some results back already. Some things I would like to cover, that I have not mentioned before. 1) The user instructions in the readme.txt are accurate. That may not be illustrative enough for beginners, this is why I have a tutorial at http://market.renderosity.com/softgood.ez?ViewSoftgood=36577 The tutorial covers some things that don't apply to this product, but the readme.txt is very accurate about what is and what is not included in this package and what are or what are not inharrent problems. 2) This product handles shoes of all types very well, with one exception. It is common for artists to change the pose of the skeleton in the shoe with in the cr2 - this is often done in high heeled shoes. This set of magnets are made for the default pose to the skeleton. Its my guess that less than 20% of shoes would fall into this other catigory. I must also point out in these cases, there would be an infinite variation of skeletal poses outside the default. 3)The magnets are seperated in three sets in the control room, Upper, Middle, and Lower. Always choose Middle first. This set contains magnets that I call "global", or effect the entire figure, and they are needed for all deforming. The other two sets are in a sense optional. Use the middle only if that is all you need, as when you are doing a short skirt. Use Upper magnets when they are needed, these effect clothing above the abdomen. The same applies to the bottom magnets. When doing long gowns for instance, you may choose not to use the bottom set of magnets, for these are designed for fitting clothing to the legs and that is not desired for gowns. 4) These magnets were designed first to move the facets in V3, very close to where they are in SP3. Then they were fine tweaked for fitting the Ultra Catsuit for V3 snugly. These magnets are designed with the theory, and it is only theory, that the V3 Ultra Catsuit by DAZ 3D, made specificaly for this character by their team of experts, is the most accurate fitting item of clothing that covers 90 percent of the character. The reason I mention this is because this product was designed to make that particular artical of clothing fit very snug and natural. It is of course, tested on an array of clothing before I sent this out for testing. There is an inconsistancy,.....this is not always the best fit for the figure, but you will find it very very very close. What I mean by inconsistancy is, there will be sometimes places where the clothing looks like it needs to be tightened or pokethrus occuring in the clothing. I have done much study on how to deal with the inconsistancy, and have come to no solid conclusion on way to make it work perfect all the time, except for using the UltraCatsuit for V3 as my control and my acid test. I am going to publish easy to understand tutorials on magnets and teach you to do tweaks to the figure after you do the intitial deformation. I did not intend for you to try to adjust the magnets while there are so many loaded at one time. My computer suffers a serious lag when I have 90 or so magents loaded at one time,....how about you? I will be covering easier methods by product release. Thats all I can think of tonight marty